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Garden Renovation Journey

Weekend 8 – Demolishing stone retaining wall and garden drainage fail

Welcome back! If you live in Europe then you are surely aware of the weather conditions we were experiencing over the past week. England was no different with frequent showers of snow, negative temperatures and storm “Emma”. Given that this weekend the temperature reached a high of 2 degrees on Read more…

By TheGardenRenovation, 5 yearsMarch 11, 2018 ago
Garden Renovation Journey

Weekend 7 – Installing garden drainage and removing some brickwork

Welcome back! We started this weekend of the garden renovation by hoovering some water. To be more specific, we hoovered away our pond. We are calling it pond for a reason. You know the moment when the evening is approaching and you are somewhere close by to a water and you Read more…

By TheGardenRenovation, 5 yearsMarch 3, 2018 ago
Garden Renovation Journey

Weekend 6 – Fixing concrete fence post and more digging

Welcome back to another weekend of the garden renovation! This weekend we continued digging the hillside to make room for our future retaining wall and we also undertook a side project of fixing a fence. First, let me tell you how we have tried to fix our problem of standing Read more…

By TheGardenRenovation, 5 yearsFebruary 25, 2018 ago
Garden Renovation Journey

Weekend 5 – Digging for the first retaining wall

Welcome back! This is the 5th weekend of the works in the garden (and 6th since we started), its still winter, the weather changes from freezing to cold to rain, and occasionally we get some snow. We did get some dry time over the weekend, or very light snow, which Read more…

By TheGardenRenovation, 5 yearsFebruary 18, 2018 ago
Garden Renovation Journey

Weekend 4 – Digging to lay paving near the house

Welcome back! On Saturday it was raining again. That being said, this time we did not miss the whole weekend because on Sunday the weather was OK (except from 3 seconds of hail where R ran to put away the camera to then realise that the hail was over). The Read more…

By TheGardenRenovation, 5 yearsFebruary 11, 2018 ago
Garden Renovation Journey

Weekend 3 – Digging into the platform

Welcome back! The weather in the UK in the winter is truly monotonous, it rains and then it rains some more and then it rains a bit more to make sure everything constantly stays nice and moist. The result of all this is that we do not always manage to get Read more…

By TheGardenRenovation, 5 yearsFebruary 3, 2018 ago
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Weekend 2 – Dismantling the platform and decking

Welcome back! This week at the garden renovation we did not do any renovation and instead we continued to clean up, remove and undo parts of the old garden we really want to change. We continued removing the main decking and made a start on demolishing the wooden platform at the Read more…

By TheGardenRenovation, 5 yearsJanuary 28, 2018 ago
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Garden Renovation Journey

Weekend 1 – Demolishing metal shed and partially removing decking

Welcome back! If today you do not feel like reading, feel free to watch the video below! 🙂   The rule for this weekend was – before we start any renovation, we need to clear up the area. Since last week, we have decided that the metal shed had to Read more…

By TheGardenRenovation, 5 yearsJanuary 20, 2018 ago
Garden Renovation Journey

The intro to the current state of the garden

We thought we would start our journey together by showing you and explaining in detail the current state of our garden. For this purpose, we have prepared an introduction video including a tour through all elements in our garden stressing the issues we are facing. Also, given the character of Read more…

By TheGardenRenovation, 5 yearsJanuary 8, 2018 ago

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