What "man jobs" have you done today?

Does anyone know when insulating the loft in a 1930s house with sections of bedrooms with sloping ceilings (the roof eaves), whether you're supposed to insulate the eaves and if so, the best method to do so. Can't find much online about it.
 
Macky said:
Does anyone know when insulating the loft in a 1930s house with sections of bedrooms with sloping ceilings (the roof eaves), whether you're supposed to insulate the eaves and if so, the best method to do so. Can't find much online about it.
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You can, but you need to ensure there is still airflow in your loft otherwise you'll get condensation issues. If you block all the eaves = no airflow.
 
ci_newman said:
You can, but you need to ensure there is still airflow in your loft otherwise you'll get condensation issues. If you block all the eaves = no airflow.
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This was my conclusion. The undesired effect of that is that condensation can form on the sloping eaves ceilings as it's colder than the rest of the ceiling. Perhaps I will try and carefully roll some insulation down them ensuring there is a reasonable gap above still.
 
Being cold and bored I decided to have a clear out of a drawer under the bed.
Got it all out -found things I thought I had lost - put them all back tidy and found I have a Zelman key board to throw out.

Well it wasn't in vain.

I am sitting here still cold so put dressing gown on as it's too early to turn heat up or light wood burner. :)
 
Put up 2500 Christmas lights along with the anti trip strips and smart plugs. The final 2000 or so go up tomorrow. The 50m runs of lights are going to be a nightmare to put away.
 
cheesefest said:
Dismantled my bed base, stacked the two halves on top of another in order to vacuum area where bed sits and behind the headboard.

All the dust and fluff filled up the dust container completely.
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I did this recently just before we moved house, the dust under the bed was unbelievable. We run an air purifier in the bedroom every night too which collects a lot of dust. It's insane.
 
Trimmed my bush, well I didn't, I paid a nice man to do it for me. £40 well spent, he was out there for hours in the freezing windy cold while I was having a cuppa and watching TV.
 
ripped out old utility room sink and work tops, broke the feet on one of the cabinets (new ones on order). cut down the existing pipe work to fit new couplers and flexis for the tap, fitted new work top over 80% of what i needed to do today fitted new sink and taps, maybe tuesday after work i may finish the 20% left of the worktop as that has to be a seperate piece that can be removeable to service the oil boiler will need a new piece of butt joint for the worktop though as the new worktop is wider than the last..
 
adwol48 said:
ripped out old utility room sink and work tops, broke the feet on one of the cabinets (new ones on order). cut down the existing pipe work to fit new couplers and flexis for the tap, fitted new work top over 80% of what i needed to do today fitted new sink and taps, maybe tuesday after work i may finish the 20% left of the worktop as that has to be a seperate piece that can be removeable to service the oil boiler will need a new piece of butt joint for the worktop though as the new worktop is wider than the last..
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Busy day. I paid someone to fit some stuff in our utility, but I'm finding more and more I should have just done it myself as it would have been a better job. Wish I'd gone solid wood over crappy chipboard too.
 
Took apart the washing machine as this morning it decided the spin cycle button was being constantly clicked about 5 minutes into a 2 hour cycle, so beeped every second for 2 hours! No other button would function whilst it was like this so could not turn off, and the mains plug is behind the machine so couldn't move whilst working to turn it off...thank god for noise cancelling headphones so I could still work!

Got the PCB out, no visible signs of damage and gave all the buttons an air blast just in case but no change. New PCB ordered which should arrive tomorrow for me to then put it all back together. Also took the opportunity whilst partially apart to give every accessible a good clean cause apparently no body has every thought to do it in the 2.5 years we've owned it.....
 
Liquid_Entity said:
Trimmed my bush, well I didn't, I paid a nice man to do it for me. £40 well spent, he was out there for hours in the freezing windy cold while I was having a cuppa and watching TV.
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I paid a gardener £180 to sort the trees, weeds and lawn in the garden. Money well spent, he was there for about 4 hours.
 
Yesterday I got the Karcher out to do the patio for the last time before next spring. There was sooo much green algae and dried in flower petals even the jet was struggling to remove it.
 
Final straw on having the TV aerial removed after the high winds last night was sick of it banging and echoing down the chimney, cost me £80 which I wasn't particularly pleased about considering it took less than half an hour but it's done now and the guy turned up 15 mins after a text on a Sunday morning

Also put the Christmas lights up outside this morning with my son
 
Finally retired the coat stand (required hangers) for coat hooks. I was inclined to make my own out of some reclaimed wood instead of this contiboard crap, but Homebase suckered me in with something that looked reasonable for about as much as a decent set of hooks cost on their own.

I'll replace with solid wood in due course... There's also a hidden mini one for my daughter's coats.

Shoe rack was reclaimed from a flat I lived in about 7 years ago; won't be there for long tho. Maybe a shoe bench or something.

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