Category Archives: Builder
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Gotcha – Stopped that leak!
13Sunday 31 January, 2016 by Uncle Spike
Ok, hands up who’s ever owned a house and had a leaky ceiling at some point or other? Most of …
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Between floors…
1Saturday 26 September, 2015 by Uncle Spike
In between the floors of the farmhouse are these huge air bricks. Encased within steel cages and covered in concrete, …
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Drilling for water
17Tuesday 09 June, 2015 by Uncle Spike
Twenty-four hours a day, for seven days… that’s how long it took to drill our artesian well. Before that, we …
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Stumped
10Tuesday 02 June, 2015 by Uncle Spike
Seem a long nine or so years since we first moved village, and took on the land that later became the farm …
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Working a Coal Furnace
17Tuesday 20 January, 2015 by Uncle Spike
Unless the family is at home all day and/or it’s also darned cold outside, the heating is only run at …
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Having a Dirty Old Day ! (part two)
10Saturday 17 January, 2015 by Uncle Spike
This is the second of a very strange couple of posts to share some of the less salubrious aspects of rural life; which on balance …
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Having a Dirty Old Day ! (part one)
19Wednesday 14 January, 2015 by Uncle Spike
Having introduced you to our dear friend,”Terrance the Termodinamik“, our lovely big coal furnace, I also mentioned my monthly ‘dirty …
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Home Heat
13Sunday 11 January, 2015 by Uncle Spike
When it comes to heating our home, we are slightly off the beaten track. There is no mains piped natural …
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Autumn chores time
14Tuesday 30 September, 2014 by Uncle Spike
In the few days before our first rains hit this week, I was busy outside preparing the house to successfully …
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A Door To Nowhere
14Tuesday 06 May, 2014 by Uncle Spike
You know how it is, some jobs stay firmly sat ‘on a to-do list’ for eternity and beyond. Well, no …
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The Big Eucalyptus
14Saturday 19 April, 2014 by Uncle Spike
The old olive tree was not the only tree to be made a ‘feature’ of; we also had a large …
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Slap It On
14Saturday 15 March, 2014 by Uncle Spike
Decent workmanship is hard to come by, we all know that; whether by first hand experience at cash wasted on …
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The Old Olive Tree
18Monday 10 March, 2014 by Uncle Spike
When we first acquired the land it was like a jungle. Not much had been done for years and the …
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Roofing Spike
14Thursday 13 February, 2014 by Uncle Spike
Following on from Spike The Welder, we now have Roofing Spike, lol.. 🙂 Once the roofing support had been constructed, …
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Spike The Welder
19Thursday 06 February, 2014 by Uncle Spike
Over the years I’ve had a go at many building type jobs around the house and here on the farm – …
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Man Cave
20Thursday 09 January, 2014 by Uncle Spike
Every guy needs a Man Cave! I put this out there as a statement, not a question, in order to …
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My Coffee Lounge
23Friday 06 December, 2013 by Uncle Spike
This is where I have my morning mug of coffee. After felling some big fir trees, Aunty Spike ordered a …
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DIY Greenhouse: Spikey Style
23Thursday 05 December, 2013 by Uncle Spike
Like most things in life, I find if you scratch your head and think about something long enough, you can …
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Buy An Old House: Brilliant Idea!
Leave a commentWednesday 27 November, 2013 by Uncle Spike
I was Googleerizing a bit this morning, on that Google Maps thingymajig, you know, looking up old places I’ve lived …
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And The Answer Is…
5Sunday 24 November, 2013 by Uncle Spike
Yes, yes… the ANSWER to yesterday’s teaser… A few good guesses guys; some of which got pretty close to working …
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Mosaic Moments
2Thursday 05 September, 2013 by Uncle Spike
Just because I love it… This is the mosaic marble circle we used for our main lower floor balcony. It was a …
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Bygone Days of Failed DIY
1Wednesday 17 July, 2013 by Uncle Spike
This episode also takes place in that old heap of a house already the subject of a couple of other …
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Brain Reversal
13Tuesday 09 July, 2013 by Uncle Spike
Over the past 30 years, I have had a go at quite a diverse pile of handyman jobs. Now whether …
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Rocks… 150 tonnes of them!
6Monday 24 June, 2013 by Uncle Spike
We all seek utopia in some form or another, all searching for that little slice of heaven on earth. In …
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“Oh, do drop in”
9Friday 21 June, 2013 by Uncle Spike
The first house that I ‘bought’ was in February 1993. Having completed my worldly wanderings, having got married, having landed …
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