Fuse board change

This is what happened to our dishwasher socket!  It looks like it was  a loose wire that got very hot and melted the insulation.

So it was decided that perhaps we should change the old fuse board and replace it with a newer RCBO type board that was donated by Carey. 

New board fitted (without cover), I am also missing earth sleeve which I ran out of and still need to fit.

 

TV Shelf

I knocked together a shelf in the corner for the TV and PVR (video machine), as we were struggling to find a place to put it.  It is made of MDF that I rescued from a skip in Coventry a few months ago.  It now needs filling, sanding & painting.

Taking down chimeny 2

My free labourer from Surrey.  We put planks on the ladder to make a slide for the bricks to slide down, it was a lot faster than the method used on the first chimeny.

Wayne and I took it down to ceiling height inside the loft. This is a picture of the last few rows of bicks, the chair is on top of them as I was still climbing through the hole in the roof to get access to the loft.

Then on another weekend when Wayne and family were visiting us we took down the rest of the chimeny all the way to the ground. This is early morning as we are about to start.

Before picture

After picture, the only thing that is the same in both pictures is the window on the far left (night time above, daylight below) 

 

Chicken enclosure

These little girls have now grown big and need a place to live and make eggs, so we built an enclosure that needs to be very fox proof.
 

Trench to bury fence.

Root, and more roots!

I dug down 70cm for the bottom of the fence so hopefully no fox will dig that deep to get the chickens.