What "man jobs" have you done today?

[deviation]

As long as it isn't a candidate for /r/TVTooHigh

Ha, how ironic... So I did it last night. It was too high, I planned to redrill the 4 bottom holes, and use the top 4 as the new bottom - easy...
Then late last night whilst watching a film craning my neck... I remembered the part that bolts to the TV itself, has multiple holes, now some might assume that's for the different VESA sizes, anyway, I remembered there was some adjustment.
Cue early morning removing it and adjusting it, now it's perfection, and I didn't have to redrill the holes/touch the wall bracket!
I'm calling that a win!

 

[deviation]

Just changed the front door's lock cylinder, I dread to think how much a locksmith would rip someone off for that, despite it taking seconds!

 

[TBirdUK]

Converted my motorhome from a main double bed to bunk beds for the kids now they are getting older - not an easy job, had to lower the main bed, re-make the supports, then cut down a wooden bunk bed to fit. Few hours work but really pleased with the result - and I have made sure I can return it to a main bed when the kids grow up and dont want to go on holiday with me anymore!!

Edited as spelling was awful!!

 

[Participant]

Installed down lights on my landing (to replace a pendant) as part of my hall stairs and landing renovation.

 

[AyeAyeAhoy!]

Installed down lights on my landing (to replace a pendant) as part of my hall stairs and landing renovation.

Looks great - much bigger job than many would take on

 

[BennyC]

A reasonably productive long-weekend.

Dry-fitted the engineered hardwood floor in the kitchen and family room so I could fit the TRV & Lockshields to 3 radiators. This involved working round a corner to establish the width of the last board so I could then mark where the pipes needed to protrude through. It can now be taken up and re-laid & glued, except for the pieces that are now trapped by the valves.

Moved pipes in two bedrooms for rads, opting for bends over fittings where I could. Managed to bend the piece on the right perfectly with two bends, so just the one coupling pictured. Annoyingly I didn't quite get it right for the 45 bend on left so had to cut and use another coupling.

Typically one tail just on the joist so just drove the spade bit in to clear a path.

When adding another socket to the ring in the other bedroom, I uncovered this rather meaty joist. 5 way wago for scale.

 

[marinersfan]

Caulked around the loft hatch. Had a chimney sweep in to remove the log burner and sweep the chimney.

Now I've got the excitement of cleaning the hearth tiles and repainting the chimney boards

 

[tonys]

Went to print off a returns label for the wife(no I'm not sending her back) printer no printing properly so sitting here with some IPA in a shallow dish giving the print head a clean. Easier than other printers I've had. While waiting carrying on with scanning the old photo's that the kids mixed all up

 

[Mason-]

A reasonably productive long-weekend.

Dry-fitted the engineered hardwood floor in the kitchen and family room so I could fit the TRV & Lockshields to 3 radiators. This involved working round a corner to establish the width of the last board so I could then mark where the pipes needed to protrude through. It can now be taken up and re-laid & glued, except for the pieces that are now trapped by the valves.

Moved pipes in two bedrooms for rads, opting for bends over fittings where I could. Managed to bend the piece on the right perfectly with two bends, so just the one coupling pictured. Annoyingly I didn't quite get it right for the 45 bend on left so had to cut and use another coupling.

Typically one tail just on the joist so just drove the spade bit in to clear a path.

When adding another socket to the ring in the other bedroom, I uncovered this rather meaty joist. 5 way wago for scale.

Is it straddling a chimney breast? I have similar, 7x2s for most of my floor joists, and then two that go either side of the chimney breast are 7x2.5, because they take the load of the joists in between them where the chimney breast is.

 

[tonys]

Is spending 2hrs on my knees washing and drying the dog (after he rolled in something smelly) count as a man job

Also forgot to say cleaned the print head on my printer yesterday and when I put it back together it failed to initiate the power on sequence. Went and bought another one for way less than a full pack of inks, how ridiculous.

 

[BennyC]

Is it straddling a chimney breast? I have similar, 7x2s for most of my floor joists, and then two that go either side of the chimney breast are 7x2.5, because they take the load of the joists in between them where the chimney breast is.

Sort of, there is a chimney breast in this room though this is the penultimate joist but that might be what you mean. So load is spread to supporting walls only rather than on to the stack?

 

[The Angry Welshman]

Started putting down the compost, so i can seed the new front lawn

 

[Richie]

Started putting down the compost, so i can seed the new front lawn

If this is for grass, you want to put down a good loamy topsoil, not compost.

 

[The Angry Welshman]

If this is for grass, you want to put down a good loamy topsoil, not compost.

topsoil will be added too, dont worry its not my first rodeo. This is my back garden, the top section with my puppy LuLu was built two years ago nearly 10 tonne of gravel, sharp sand, compost and top soil to bring the levels up

 

[alexakasloth]

I built a workshop shed on top of my decking a couple of years back, work has changed so I've started making it into a garden room for my wife to WFH.
This morning I'm cladding the outside in feather edge, it already has pallet strips on the outside for cladding but this will make it look nicer and add a bit more weather proofing.

 

[China Man]

Fixing some bodged job with more bodge job of my own...

No more leak inside and now drain drip to the back of the down pipe and down to the roof gutter

 

[BennyC]

Made ladder for the CW and F&E platform in the loft from scrap and offcuts. Much better position for working on either vs balancing on a stepladder and saves me lugging steps up two flights of stairs!

Most satisfying thing was to put it in to perfect place first time with no adjustments necessary having eyeballed almost all of it

Don't ask about the previous owners plumbing to the bathroom up there...

 

[HoneyBadger]

I’m using all my new Ryobi tools (Apart from the chain saw) and we’re building a summer house for the cats, it will connect onto the conservatory which is to the right.

Mostly finished.

 

[BennyC]

Also assembled the sections I refurbished from this 10 and 8 section radiator (that cost £40 for the pair) in to one 13 section for the boot room.

Initially it was curved slightly as the stretcher I'd used to assemble sagged in the middle under the weight Pressure tested to 3 bar overnight which is plenty, g ravity fed with about 1 bar on the ground floor.

 

[RedMogg]

Installed the new camera (Reolink RLC-823S2) on the external corner of our end of terrace - gives us a 270° view of the front, side and rear alley, with the option to zoom in on anything exciting that inevitably happens during the summer holidays (but it'll mostly be left watching the car).





Lots of features I'll likely never use (floodlights, alarm, 2-way Comms) - I prefer our CCTV to be discrete, but there's been a few occasions where moving the camera would have been useful.

One immediate perk is that the nasty bint who encourages her dog to squat right outside my front gate (then "forgets" to pick up the dog-egg) has decided to use the other side of the street...