What "man jobs" have you done today?

A small bag of fittings has appeared on the outside table somewhere between Friday and Saturday breakfast. I have sworn to my wife i have never seen them before. She insists i obviously have since it's only the two of us living here.

She had assumed it would come to me at some point, but i have absolutely no recollection of them. It's a weird bag too. A mixed bag of some bolts, some nuts (with a square outer which usually fit into a square cutout), and then some black plastic push clips like the kind you get with car trim. All in the same bag and equal numbers of each!
 
Dropped the first beam. Literally dropped. It was a lot heavier that I thought so I will have to hire a small scaffold. The bolts were fine to remove so at least that part was ok.
 
My tag comes from my email address. When I joined my squad it was suggested, although my online flying wasnt that bad. When I was running Win98 it my computer crashed and did something to my hard drive. I got a new drive and installed XP and ms wanted to know the name of my computer so I called it Crashxp. Maybe it should have been crash98.
 
Got the roof finished, and started with the skylights. Made up some insulated upstands and will fit the membrane probably this weekend.

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A LOT of rain due this week so just keeping things dry:
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Yes before anyone says it, the noggins will be going in shortly. I had to get some longer screws as I'd ran out.
 
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DD_Crash said:
My tag comes from my email address. When I joined my squad it was suggested, although my online flying wasnt that bad. When I was running Win98 it my computer crashed and did something to my hard drive. I got a new drive and installed XP and ms wanted to know the name of my computer so I called it Crashxp. Maybe it should have been crash98.
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I used the name 'I die a lot' for an obvious reason:)
 
Fence post is rotten, it's the neighbours side and they've already arrange for someone to come and dig it all out and replace at the end of the month. However it's been hanging on for dear life so used some spare CLS to prop it up for now.

Bit of a bodge, but it will do for now.



 
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Been putting some decking in last few weekends. Anyone think it's a big issue if its a couple mm out on the short section where it meets the long board? (angles must be off very slightly but they all read 45degrees on my mitre and digital angle finder)


Think I'm gonna live with it as cba redoing it.


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Buffman said:
Been putting some decking in last few weekends. Anyone think it's a big issue if its a couple mm out on the short section where it meets the long board? (angles must be off very slightly but they all read 45degrees on my mitre and digital angle finder)


Think I'm gonna live with it as cba redoing it.


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Looks fine to me, just call it an expansion gap.
 
Fitted a ceiling light in the kitchen and removed a fused switch spur, the latter I was a bit nervous about, more so because taking the wires out of the plug socket on the main ring circuit was so fiddly.

The wires are so old and stiff, I don’t do much electrical jobs, are main wires more flexible now days?
 
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Fitted a ceiling light in the kitchen and removed a fused switch spur, the latter I was a bit nervous about, more so because taking the wires out of the plug socket on the main ring circuit was so fiddly.

The wires are so old and stiff, I don’t do much electrical jobs, are main wires more flexible now days?
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The wire in the light will probably be 1/1.5mm stranded, the plug socket wires 2.5mm solid core, so they'll be harder to bend
 
beachBOYken said:
Fitted a ceiling light in the kitchen and removed a fused switch spur, the latter I was a bit nervous about, more so because taking the wires out of the plug socket on the main ring circuit was so fiddly.

The wires are so old and stiff, I don’t do much electrical jobs, are main wires more flexible now days?
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You'll find new cable less stiff. Over time old cables can go brittle and hard especially any cores that have been exposed around light fittings etc.
 
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Took the gazebo down, folded the all sheets and vacuum sealed them for the winter months.
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Did the same yesterday, see that the weather is a bit windy next few days and rain on and off so decided take down, just letting it air a bit before I pack it in its case.
Still need to do the garden sofa but will leave that for a week or two.
 
beachBOYken said:
Did the same yesterday, see that the weather is a bit windy next few days and rain on and off so decided take down, just letting it air a bit before I pack it in its case.
Still need to do the garden sofa but will leave that for a week or two.
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Was lucky with some wind and dry weather previously, so used that as the perfect time to remove, check and pack.

Judging by the expected forecast, it may have been, as you, done at the right time.

I've built a pub style table in mine and will cover that in a tarp at the end of the month.
 
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