Home Remodeling

Lawn Mowing - The Never Ending Story Continues

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Our roof works were still in the middle, and I noticed that grass have grown again. It was just recently when I trimmed backyard territory, but this time I decided it's time to completely trim…


Roof Works, Part 4 - Metal Roofing Arrives

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I'm continuing one of the most epic my life experiences I agreed to do - Replacing roof for an old and very bad managed rural house.  It was about one week since previous roof works were done,…


Replacing Roof - Part 3: Removing the old roofing (Losing Chimney)

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Now, when you are familiar with part 1 and part 2, it's time to tell the third part on home remodeling series replacing roofing.  Today's roof replacing adventures were about the most dangerous…


Replacing Roof - Part 2: Beam Leveling & Crosswind sheet

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It was second day morning when we re-started works on roof replacing. If you haven't already red, read Part 1: Removing Old Roof. The idea was simple - if we are going to replace roofing,…


Replacing Roof - Part 1: Removing the old roofing

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In today's home remodeling series I'll share some epic experience on roof replacement works. If you have been following my blog for a while, you probably have noticed that in Spring 2015 we inherited…


Loft cleaning - Preparation works for replacing that leaky roof

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It was already last weeks of July, and we had bought already our return tickets back to Tbilisi, Georgia, and there was still one urgent task to complete if we wanted our rural house to survive…


How to open a bottle of wine with a hand drill

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There are many options to open a bottle of wine without using a cork screwer, last summer I tried a new method - using an old school hand drill. f you have been following my blog and especially home…


Lawn mowing in the backyard territory

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If you have been following home remodeling series on my blog you might tell I'm starting to repeat - another article on lawn mowing? Yes, another article on that.  After trying mowing grass…


Fixing holes in the floor with plaster mixture + second layer of paint

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Welcome back to the home remodeling series, in today's article I'll show how I patched a holes in a hard wood floor using ... a plaster mixture. But before that, please take a look on More Paint Job…


More Paint Job - Base layer for Kitchen's Floor

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Those of you following my blog have noticed I'm featuring home remodeling series here, it all started back in the Spring/Summer of 2015, when we inherited a lovely but very badly managed country…


Painting Floor - Final Touch For Maximum Effect (Second Paint Layer)

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Right, we have arrived to the second post in my painting floor adventures from home remodeling series. Today I will show you how after adding second paint layer to our rural house's paint we…


Painting Floor - Adding Base Layer of Paint

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After we cleaned up our space from junk, I painted walls and ceilings in white using just a water based paint. Both our future temporary bedroom and kitchen started look decent. Then my father helped…


My Outdoor Working Place During Last Summer (2015)

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Owning an old rural house is nice, and it's even nicer if you can both live and work from there. Since I'm into a thing called a digital nomad (place doesn't matter as long as there is an internet…


Replacing Electrical Wiring and Installing Outlets

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On June 25th electricity was connected to our old rural house, and that was the next big issue to fix soon. The old electrical wiring was done like some 30-40 years ago and it just wasn't safe.…


Our First Veggie Garden: Planting Plants in Boxes

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What would be a real country house without a garden? Right it would be a garden less country house. Although we have some old apple orchard and a few cherry trees there was one thing missing -…