Redwood Renovation

Here is the first episode of Redwood Renovation, a quick look over the fire damage and what four rooms knocked into one looks like!
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It seemed like a good idea at the time….
Take the chimney out, remove it altogether. Not just a chimney breast, or the stack, I mean all of it. From the chimney pot down to the ground. This would affect four rooms, as there are four fireplaces to take out, two on the ground floor and [...]

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Why pay a professional to do it, when you can destroy it yourself…??
At the same part of the house where we discovered the hidden doorway (and the fifty year old hidden message) is a downstairs toilet.
It was put in around the early seventies and is looking very tired indeed!
We are going to put a downstairs [...]

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Or perhaps two…
We’ve discovered a safe!
It’s hidden in one of the bottom cupboards, in what we call the Major’s study. It’s probably been there for around 100 years. Problem is, we don’t have a key and I was looking in the built-in cupboard (some might call it a closet), in the hallway, at the back [...]

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Well, this week it’s time to get the chimney sorted and cleaned in the room that we are temporarily using as the lounge, originally it was called the morning room.
There are loads of newspapers stuffed up into the chimney space and I’ve already pulled one or two small bits out, but as I’ve done so, [...]

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