Central Heating Installed (19/Nov/2004)
The house didn’t have a boiler (only an old immersion tank) and it used ancient storage heaters. This meant the shower was cold, there was only ever five minutes hot water and it was impossible to heat the house with any flexibility. We dismantled the storage heaters (which were full of tonnes of heavy bricks) […]
TV aerial installed (25/Aug/2004)
Unbelievable that our shiny new house didn’t come with a TV aerial. It was obviously an urgent requirement :-). We had a company install an aerial suitable for digital TV (freeview).
Got Keys to Great Knollys Street (16/Jul/2004)
In July 2004, we bought a small Victorian terraced starter home 12 minutes walk from Reading railway station. It has easy parking, a park out the back and plenty of potential (i.e. needs lots of work). Owning my own house has been a dream for a long time! This is a loose representation of the […]
