It's what dreams are made of and nightmares kindled: Most home owners aspire to it; some take a few tentative steps and fewer still are crazy enough to go the full hog! This blog shares some of the trials and tribulations of a major redevelopment of a 1950s home through a cataclysmic transformation which retains the best of the last Century while metamorposing the property into a design classic fit for today's living.

Tuesday, May 09, 2006

A builder's best friend?


It may be a builder's best friend, enabling brickies to cut through stone like a knife through butter. But the petrol-powered Stihl saw is noisier than a chainsaw; has the advanced combustion properties of a Citroen 2CV; and creates as much dust as a bag of cement which has just lost its battle with a lump of Semtex. The dust covering neighbours' washing, cars and houses is pretty horrendous. Let's hope we're coming to an end with the trigger-happy cutting practices...