What "man jobs" have you done today?

bloodiedathame · 24 Oct 2015 at 17:55

Put up a woodpecker shaped door knocker on the boys' shed and a motion sensitive led battery light inside.

BigBoy · 24 Oct 2015 at 19:16

Put up a blind in the nursery, painted the ceiling in the bathroom and touched up the hall ceiling. The wife decided to touch up the hallways walls, only to discover its the wrong paint!

bloodiedathame · 24 Oct 2015 at 19:30

BigBoy said:
Put up a blind in the nursery, painted the ceiling in the bathroom and touched up the hall ceiling. The wife decided to touch up the hallways walls, only to discover its the wrong paint!

Sounds scarily familiar.

dasBOT · 24 Oct 2015 at 19:59

i drunk a beer

SickAsAParrot · 24 Oct 2015 at 20:02

Built a couple of PAX wardrobes including a corner one but they needed the backs cutting off so a fair bit of extra measuring and powertooling.

joelk2 · 25 Oct 2015 at 07:29

Knocked down a wall
Re bricked part of a wall
Removed wood cladding and polystyrene tiles from ceiling
Re plasterboarded ceiling

Gilly · 25 Oct 2015 at 10:50

robj20 said:
Only a pain in the bum if you don't know Unibond Silicone Sealant Remover exists.

I was going to be using a blade this afternoon to remove the sealant and reseal the shower. Is the Unibond stuff that good?

Jokester · 25 Oct 2015 at 10:52

It makes a massive difference, not necessarily straight forward, but way way easier than trying it without.

Gilly · 25 Oct 2015 at 10:56

For £4 it's worth a punt

Reviews are not good for sealant removers. I thought it was a scam.

Skiddley · 25 Oct 2015 at 13:48

Re-sealed our shower today as it happens.

30mins to cut it out and re-silicone. Going to the shop to get the remover would have taken longer than that

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VaderDSL · 25 Oct 2015 at 13:53

Fitted a rubber garage door seal

http://www.weatherstop.co.uk

Very easy to do, looks a bit daft I admit, but we don't use the garage to store the car, but it will work well to keep leaves/water out

Mark A · 25 Oct 2015 at 14:59

Gilly said:
For £4 it's worth a punt

Reviews are not good for sealant removers. I thought it was a scam.

You'll still need to remove the majority with a blade. The removers are ok at removing the small amount left behind by the blade, it softens it up so you can then scrape the rest off with a blade and the wipe the goo up with more of the remover. People expect to dab a bit on and then the whole lot will just peel off, but it's not that easy unfortunately.

I'd finish off with some sort of solvent cleaner to remove the cleaner and give a nice clean surface for re-sealing.

Painted with hammerite rediator enamel. Really good stuff, but have heard the new formula is too thick from someone on here. This rad was probably a bit too far gone and I'll more than likely need to replace it in a few years, but for now this has made it look a lot better. It's usually covered with coats, so I didn't realise how bad it looked.

Next job is tearing up the laminate and painting the woodwork. Then maybe tiling the floor with a new carpet on the stairs.

Kimi · 25 Oct 2015 at 16:56

Rad looks new!

One tip for removing silicone sealant on a bath or shower is to squirt it with WD40. It worked a lot better than the silicone removers when i done my shower a few weeks back, i was actually shocked how good it was.

joelk2 · 25 Oct 2015 at 21:13

Wrapped his up with tissue and masking tape so I could carry on puttin plasterboard on the ceiling and ripping out the old kitchen.

DXP55 · 25 Oct 2015 at 21:30

Emptied old log store and pulled it down - got to clean up and get some wood to rebuild it. - Gave my new Stanley impact driver a good workout undoing all the screws

Never nail these days but use Toolstation torx screws for everything.

Iron-man · 25 Oct 2015 at 22:00

Cleaned up in the garage and layed a new mat down in there

Mark A · 26 Oct 2015 at 00:19

joelk2 said:
Wrapped his up with tissue and masking tape so I could carry on puttin plasterboard on the ceiling and ripping out the old kitchen.

Ouch, that looks deep! How did you do that?

joelk2 · 26 Oct 2015 at 09:07

Mark A said:
Ouch, that looks deep! How did you do that?

some broken tiles on the wall still, slipped and put hand on wall for stability and somehow managed to cut it.

managed to finish the ceiling after though

DXP55 · 26 Oct 2015 at 10:35

A real man doing a real job - Well done sir.

boxman2000 · 26 Oct 2015 at 11:15

Gave skirtings a paint in daughters room. Was trying to decide between using the dulux satinwood (that I'm losing favour with as it goes yellow after a couple of years), Johnstone gloss or satin in oil and also waterbased options but decided to go with Farrow and Ball estate eggshell (all white no. 2005).

Although you need to be a bit more careful with brush strokes showing I'm actually really pleased with the finish. It can also be used on radiators which I may eventually give a try.