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Jason Orme

NEC Show This Week!

Posted by Jason Orme on 15th March 2010
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We're all looking forward to meeting users of the site and readers of Homebuilding & Renovating magazine at the NEC H&R Show this Thurs-Sun. It promises to be a great event. One of the highlights for us on the magazine is to meet self-builders in the middle of projects. We've got the usual army of experts ready to answer your questions so come armed with your plans and we'll do our best to help you out. See you Thursday. Read More
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Kevin Clark

Back at Last

Posted by Kevin Clark on 15th March 2010
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It has been a long time since I updated the blog and a lot has happened in that time, including finishing the build and moving in. Hence tha lack of blogs as I had no time

Over the next couple of weeks I will go through the last 14 months to bring the blog upto date

 Kev

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