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Work-In-Progress

Category: Site Announcements March 23rd, 2011 by mbc

I’m carrying out some work on the site at the moment – so any oddities, errors or omissions are probably due to that. Back to the usual (ir)regular service soon…

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Maintenance [really does] matter
I discovered a great source of information on the maintenance and restoration of old buildings on the new Maintenance Matters website.

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Planning and control tools - Remember the milk
I don't really talk about project management on this blog.

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300th Post on MyBarnConversion

Category: Site Announcements November 30th, 2010 by mbc

I’ve made 299 posts before this one on MyBarnConversion.com, so I thought I’d take some time out and see how I got here while writing the 300th…

The first post was made on the 28th June 2006.

Since I started monitoring traffic to the site on the 6th April 2007 there have been 113,473 Visits and 281,796 Pageviews from 96,717 unique visitors. The average time on site is 2 minutes and 3 seconds (that’s a total of over 157 days that people have spent on this site).

The 10 most popular search terms that bring people to this site are these – barn conversions, barn conversion, barn conversions pictures, barn conversion costs, air source heat pump, air source heat pumps reviews, vat on barn conversions, super insulation, barn conversions uk, barn conversion designs. Not surprisingly, the most popular pages are these:
Heat Pumps: Air Source and Ground Source
Super Insulation and Insulation
VAT 1 and 2
Underfloor heating

…and my recent series on How Much Does a Barn Conversion Cost? has recently caught up with the total number views of much older posts.

So what’s coming next?

More articles on architects and architecture, a starter for 10 series on lime pointing, more book reviews and details of my cabin bed and garden design projects.

Please keep checking back…

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Mini-sites on MBC

Category: Site Announcements October 13th, 2010 by mbc

I sometimes feel that there are certain topics that run through this site but remain somewhat hidden – hidden because of the chronological sequential nature of a WordPress site. Even with tags (like design) and categories (like Barn Conversion Journal), the information related to these topics, for example, lime pointing, or managing woodland for fuel remain squirreled away – isolated items only occasionally brought together if someone happens to press a tag or category link.

To address this I thought I’d start to put together some mini-sites, sitting within the overall structure of MyBarnConversion.com but focussing on one specific topic.

The first of these is the Woodland Management mini-site … get there while it’s hot…

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Welsh Slate
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Woodworking Plans
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MBC goes Twitter

Category: Site Announcements March 30th, 2009 by mbc

Seems everyone is doing it so why not MyBarnConversion…?

I’ve created a Twitter account for mbc – barnconversion

I’ll use it to post the latest thoughts, progress and decisions made regarding the development of the barn. As well as a chronological view of what’s happening and when, I hope it’ll act as a to-do list for me – let’s see how it goes.

A list of most recent twits can be found toward the bottom of the right-hand sidebar ( that’s over there >>>>> )

Keep twitting…

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MBC Photos now on Flickr

Category: Site Announcements November 2nd, 2008 by mbc

With the somewhat baffling success of our YouTube videos now playing on Channel MBC …

(Serving over 1,000 discerning TV viewers to date!)

I thought I should turn my attention to still photographs and using the best of the web to make them available to you.

Please join our new My Barn Conversion flickr group

My intention is to use this feed for pictures of progress and key stages and developments. Keep checking back!

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bochgoch's my barn conversion - progress photoset bochgoch’s my barn conversion – progress photoset

You might also like to view my more arty photographs under the name of bochgoch.

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bochgoch's bochgoch photoset bochgoch’s bochgoch photoset

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