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At least the rain means we don’t need to water as much (other than pots). Which is great, because this years watering combined with price increases has doubled our water bill 
What "man jobs" have you done today?
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Just built a 10 brick (total not high) wall to hold back a little soil. Slight curve to it and although it's flat it's not level. Still, I'm pretty happy with the outcome. First time on my 45 years I've laid a brick.
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I think he's about 10 bricks inLooked out the window to see how the bricky is getting on rebuilding a wall.
The ladder came with the bunk bed is of very narrow tube which is not the best for footing, got some 3x2 and made my own. It is for my boy but we are tall family so I went all out with screws, notch on sides, Wood glue, screw down to the frame and floor boards lol
Nice work on th different steps for that bed above
When I was a kid I had similar ones, fine for me, but my pal was mega tall and always slipping off.
Today I adjusted some guttering that the guttering guys did wrong, while on the flat roof resealed some of the windows at the sides.
Oh and recaulked some skirting, some it had cracked in one of the rooms.
TLD an afternoon using the caulking gun doing various things.
When I was a kid I had similar ones, fine for me, but my pal was mega tall and always slipping off.
Today I adjusted some guttering that the guttering guys did wrong, while on the flat roof resealed some of the windows at the sides.
Oh and recaulked some skirting, some it had cracked in one of the rooms.
TLD an afternoon using the caulking gun doing various things.
What is your trick to finishing the caulk line? lick finger? spray bottle?
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Potted up a couple of Cordylines, some Violas and Pansies. Tidied up and watered the tomatoes.
Hah! I find silicone tools don't get it right, or at least I'm hopeless with the..
My orange hd pro gloves combined with a small pot of water.
Biggest help I found is using less of it in the first place. I find people use way more than actually needed, so there is a lot of seepage when trying to get a nice finish on it.
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Managed half a man job today. Got the old kitchen tap out with some effort as super tight in space as it’s over a join in the cupboard below.
Realised new tap had female connections as did the pipe work so grabbed some 3/8 couplers from screwfix and a 1/2 reducer as the new tap said it was 3/8.
Get home and nope, taps also 1/2 despite what the manual says it is. Screw fix didn’t have the 1/2 so will be picking it up tomorrow at some point.
Still got the new tap into the sink, also a ball ache as the new one had a screw on coupler for the mount which in this tight spot took about 30 mins to get it tightened on.
Realised new tap had female connections as did the pipe work so grabbed some 3/8 couplers from screwfix and a 1/2 reducer as the new tap said it was 3/8.
Get home and nope, taps also 1/2 despite what the manual says it is. Screw fix didn’t have the 1/2 so will be picking it up tomorrow at some point.
Still got the new tap into the sink, also a ball ache as the new one had a screw on coupler for the mount which in this tight spot took about 30 mins to get it tightened on.
New ptz camera died after the exceptionally heavy rain we had - had to wait for my Dad to come back round with his ladders to inspect it.
Reolink's "weatherproof connector" may as well have been made out of cucumber:
Took the camera down and arranged it's return (Amazon). Will ask if they'll honour the price I paid during the Prime sale to replace it.
Ordered this to use instead of the piddly Reolink seals, along with a roll of self-amalgamating tape:
Reolink's "weatherproof connector" may as well have been made out of cucumber:
Took the camera down and arranged it's return (Amazon). Will ask if they'll honour the price I paid during the Prime sale to replace it.
Ordered this to use instead of the piddly Reolink seals, along with a roll of self-amalgamating tape:
Sorted the internal doors. A combination of shoddy fitting an warp/movement over time. However I don't think the bedroom door ever latched as there's a 2mm of metal blocking the latch. Now they all latch after doing some woodworking and repositioning the plates. They don't rattle either in the wind. Mrs happy. Trimmed back the hedges and random bushes etc, removed the dying water cress growth etc from the pond.
So will it be changing constantly?Fitted a COB strip to the rear of our new beds headboard.
Might set it up to change colours and directions when the OH snores
I paid someone to change a tap a while ago, felt like I lost some "man" points until they started doing it, it was a right ball ache and thankfully they were doing some other work so there were two of them, it would have taken me weeks! Even had to use a multi tool as a last resort.
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I certainly do approve, seems like just the right amount of man job work for a day
On a Sunday too! Madness!I certainly do approve, seems like just the right amount of man job work for a day