Cliftoria was in a survey
Recently a document was discovered and scanned for the mighty Trove project at the National Library of Australian. It was “An architectural survey of Goulburn and District, New South Wales, […]
Locksmithing 101
Cliftoria is missing many doors. Many, many doors. But what is annoying is having a door that doesn’t work properly. The bathroom leading from the back sun room from the […]
Final bathroom installation
The final bits of the bathroom installed and it all works. Here are all the bits in their boxes. Here is the basin. The shop managed to find something a […]
On the Tiles
Choosing the tiles was fairly simple. I went for white wall tiles and a slight sandy coloured floor tile. The wall tiles are quite large to reduce the amount of […]
There is more to this bathroom
The plumbers returned and installed an instantaneous hot water system. This replaces the old tank hot water system and should save a lot of energy. Especially as this isn’t the […]
Let there be light… in the laundry.
Continuing the story of the bathroom renovation after a break. The concrete dried and the electrician came to do the wiring. Previously the wiring had come in from the long […]
Damp pervades all
Or at least pervades the ground floor. We haven’t heated the ground floor at all during this winter. So it has got quite cold. Descending the stairs becomes a slow […]
Not a glass ceiling but a concrete floor
The excitement grows as the concrete arrived for the new bathroom floor. I had not expected a concrete truck of this size for our simple bathroom floor. There were also […]
Iron
The roofers had ordered the metal, fasteners, and new metal rubber fittings for what we hope will be the final roof repairs. That iron has now been delivered. This is […]
It’s electrifying!
Things are moving ahead. The electrician arrived and spent six hours ferreting around under the floor, drilling holes, stringing wires. Alas he is waiting for a special cover and ran […]
