What "man jobs" have you done today?
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I actually only needed to remove 2 joists out of 6 you just can't see the others in the pic. The projector is actually resting on top of the other ones.
Some productive weekends I see.
I fixed our shower which involved 90% of the time complaining about how whoever installed it, installed it in the way they did. I find most of my jobs work out like that tbh. Nobody seems to do anything properly in all the houses I ever lived in.
I fixed our shower which involved 90% of the time complaining about how whoever installed it, installed it in the way they did. I find most of my jobs work out like that tbh. Nobody seems to do anything properly in all the houses I ever lived in.
Garage golf sim before and after!
What's a rough ball park figure for the golf sim cost. So for the sim equipment and the screen?
Not today, but plenty done this weekend:
- Finished our garden storage box (with my Son's help) - finished cladding the back and lid, lined the inside, felted the roof, and then painted with some Tiger Shed burnt orange stain.
- Turned compost in my bin, and then used some to top up my vegetable boxes ready for planting
- Trimmed my Bush/Tree thing (Buddleia?) that was very overgrown using my new extendable lopper, and surrounded it with some fresh compost to try and help it recover.
- Took a load of garden waste and the old plastic storage box down to the tip
- Quick weed of the front flower beds so that I can actually see the Daffodils that are coming through
- Planted 1st lot of New Potatoes
- Properly Washed my car (and even did all the black plastic trim with some trim gel)
- Gave the patio a quick scrub with some Jeyes fluid, and then a quick pressure wash
- Finished our garden storage box (with my Son's help) - finished cladding the back and lid, lined the inside, felted the roof, and then painted with some Tiger Shed burnt orange stain.
- Turned compost in my bin, and then used some to top up my vegetable boxes ready for planting
- Trimmed my Bush/Tree thing (Buddleia?) that was very overgrown using my new extendable lopper, and surrounded it with some fresh compost to try and help it recover.
- Took a load of garden waste and the old plastic storage box down to the tip
- Quick weed of the front flower beds so that I can actually see the Daffodils that are coming through
- Planted 1st lot of New Potatoes
- Properly Washed my car (and even did all the black plastic trim with some trim gel)
- Gave the patio a quick scrub with some Jeyes fluid, and then a quick pressure wash
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Ok so here is a rough list:
- 4k Gaming Projector (BenQ Tk700sti) - £1000
- Impact screen - £550
- Rubber flooring from amazon - £300
- Hitting mat and t40 strip - £400
- Various clips and hardware - £50
- Launch monitor - £1200 (I've now upgraded to a better one however that cost 2.5k)
- Laptop - £1500 (could prob get away with cheaper though)
Total - £5000
You could do it cheaper if you went for slightly cheaper parts, for example a 1080p projector, a less expensive launch monitor and a lower powered laptop.
Washed then painted the windows and the bathroom ceiling first coat. Tomorrow will be a second coat and do walls of the bathroom.
I will also start looking at making a mess for the landing/stairs. I'll need to remove some bits and pieces, do a little more filling and sanding then Wednesday I'll probably start painting it. Reason this will take a bit more effort is that this is the first time I've got around to it and that means cleaning up the previous mess of holes we've simply ignored. I say start painting but I'll put a couple of coats of Polycell Basecoat 3-in-1 down (4 hours between) and that will provide a smooth surface to paint on. In short it will probably have 5-6 coats (2-3 base coat, then 2-3 dulux). From experience the basecoat sucks up the first coat of paint really quickly. AkzoNobel own both Polycell and Dulux, so it seems that Polycell basecoat 3-in-1 is now offered as Dulux Basecoat 3-in-1.
Yeah, you could at the minimum do it with a blunt knife.
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I feel your pain. The thermostatic cartridge of our shower broke recently. I only found out because my wife called saying she couldn't turn the shower off. In their great wisdom, the developer didn't put in isolation valves, so the only way to stop it going was to turn the water off to the whole house.
Eventually, I managed to fix the cartridge enough that I could turn the shower off and turn the water off until I got hold of a new cartridge.
Idiots.
So, I feel your pain.
In my house I've replaced the downstairs toilet tap, bathroom tap, en-suite tap, kitchen tap. Guess how many had isolation valves on them? Yep.
At least I have a stop **** I can use right? Right!? Yeah that weeps even when turned off.
Same around here. I always be sure to fit one for the next person... As lets be honest it's unlikely to be me that gets to use them!
When I fitted our shower, I ended up having to cut the the existing 22mm pipes and fit full bore 22mm isolation valves, and the flex pipe to the barth taps. Same when I replaced the cistern with a 15mm valve.
Well today I did two coats of paint in the bathroom, then removed mounted stuff and sugar soaped the engire stretch upstairs, stairwell and front hall.
I know we steamed a lot of the place when we moved in (rank with little fingerprints and cooking grease) but this was one stretch that had some out of reach. Rank. Anyways it’s done now so tomorrow is claulking corners, smoothing, applying base coats and painting the ceiling.
I know we steamed a lot of the place when we moved in (rank with little fingerprints and cooking grease) but this was one stretch that had some out of reach. Rank. Anyways it’s done now so tomorrow is claulking corners, smoothing, applying base coats and painting the ceiling.
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So.. removed the stair rail, the stair shelves etc, masked off, caulked the corners and other gaps caused after removing the loose old paint. Then did 3 of the ceilings but not the highest one, rolled on an entire 5L of 3-in-1 base coat on the walls. Front hall, stairwell and landing. I am absolutely mullered. So much area I'll be using a second 5L tub tomorrow. That should remove any trace of the old colour too (willow/appleish green I suspect) ready for the cornflower white.
I ache. More tomorrow.
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