What "man jobs" have you done today?

marinersfan said:
It can be frustrating in an older house with wonky walls. Our is a 30s house and literally none of the walls are straight. I find, depending on budget obviously, that a more expensive wallpaper is easier. They tend to be thicker and can take more sliding and stretching.

Our living room is *very* patterned.

This kind of gives you an idea. The bay window was the worst bit, I almost went on a murder spree at one point. It's not a round bay, but a 3 sided one, and none of the 3 sides are actually straight.

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Put the new light up in the dinning room( brought it probably 10yrs ago) fitted it fairly easily then went to clean the three glass light shades which had what looks like smoke or the muck you get on the inside of your windscreen and guess what, managed to break one of the shades. I will be in the dog house no doubt but they were very mucky and it wasn't easy to get to every part of the inside.:(
 
matgsi said:
Do you recommend the kindling cracker? Using an axe at the moment and trying to avoid loosing a finger or two.

I have seen wall mounted slicers advertised on FB, not sure which would be better.
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Yeah, they're expensive (it's the original one) but a great bit of kit. I looked at the wall mounted ones and wasn't convinced, especially when wanting to use log splits !
 
Yes, the wall mounted ones don't seem substantial enough for my liking.

I think I'll pick up a cracker in the new year. Thanks.
 
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Going to put in a new outdoor socket

If I'm putting an external socket in, is there any advantage to putting it through some pipe /conduit like this video?



Id have thought just silicone means an 8 to 10mm hole vs 16mm+ hole. I've got the pipe spare but seems OTT
 
I'm applying for retrospective man-job points for spending over two hours on Christmas Day, bodging a temporary fix (with several stakes, thin rope and a bucket-load of wishful thinking) for my girlfriend's snapped fence post, then trimming off a lot of the darned vine on its topping trellis that will have vastly accelerated the post's demise.

There I was in the kitchen, wrist deep in a turkey, when I glanced out and watched a gust of wind wave the back fence about in a most alarming fashion. :eek: I had to decide whether to cross my fingers and not spoil Christmas Day, or put my big boy pants on after stuffing the turkey. #NotAEuphemism. Definitely a stitch in time job though, so the pants won... reluctantly.

Still, it was marginally more interesting than Christmas Day TV. A slightly less bodgy not-fix will be applied next weekend. For the post. There's no saving Christmas TV. :D
 
InkZ said:
Dismantled the tumble dryer and hoovered all the fluff out and replaced the bearing. Machine repaired for £5!
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Did the same thing other day! 3rd time I disassembled and reassembled in a month. First time did the rear shaft/drum bearing for £25. Improved but the main issue was then clearly the idler pulley which is not replaceable without an entire motor assembly. Got a new one second hand for a ton. Replaced that. Noise went down by about 80%. No more screeching. Still made some noise though so final fix were two new drum roller bearings for a tenner nearly new. Now sounds like factory new and very quiet. I'd forgotten how quiet it could be. Nearly 10 year old Samsung heat pump.

Only issue I had was slicing open my hand on the sharp rear panel!
 
Started to build a shed yesterday....

Obtained some plastic pallets and levelled the ground underneath them, filled the voids inside with Scoria for good drainage, and then placed a double layer of weed barrier down.

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Made the base frame out of treated 4x2

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Made the floor out of deck boards rather than ply just because it was cheaper lol

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And finally, made one of the rear wall frames, it will be braced with a diagonal but I ran out of wood so far, and the weather (for summer which is usually predictably good here this time of year), if forecast rain for at least the next week!

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The shed is going to be 3m x 2m with a double door on the longer side. I'm winging the design as I go really lol.
 
Andrew_McP said:
I'm applying for retrospective man-job points for spending over two hours on Christmas Day, bodging a temporary fix (with several stakes, thin rope and a bucket-load of wishful thinking) for my girlfriend's snapped fence post, then trimming off a lot of the darned vine on its topping trellis that will have vastly accelerated the post's demise.

There I was in the kitchen, wrist deep in a turkey, when I glanced out and watched a gust of wind wave the back fence about in a most alarming fashion. :eek: I had to decide whether to cross my fingers and not spoil Christmas Day, or put my big boy pants on after stuffing the turkey. #NotAEuphemism. Definitely a stitch in time job though, so the pants won... reluctantly.

Still, it was marginally more interesting than Christmas Day TV. A slightly less bodgy not-fix will be applied next weekend. For the post. There's no saving Christmas TV. :D
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I can picture the scene actually... you side eye the fence post out the window whilst fisting the turkey, then this song starts playing in your head...

 
Buffman said:
Going to put in a new outdoor socket

If I'm putting an external socket in, is there any advantage to putting it through some pipe /conduit like this video?



Id have thought just silicone means an 8 to 10mm hole vs 16mm+ hole. I've got the pipe spare but seems OTT
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I suppose it makes it easier to remove the wire, but I’ve always just siliconed it.

I would get one of these instead of the BG socket, the clips are so much easier to use.

https://www.screwfix.com/p/knightsb...dp-weatherproof-outdoor-switched-socket/841vf
 
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