What "man jobs" have you done today?

benhaha85 said:
Oh I do like waking up to find the felt roof hanging off the shed :mad: I went out to try and fix it and it just crumbled. I don't think the old owners believed in maintenance.
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Had the same last year. the felt was only 1 year old as well, as it came with the brand new shed. These cheap roofing felts aren't fit for purpose! :mad:

You can get better quality felts that have polyester reinforcing, plus glue it down with roofing felt adhesive should last a lot longer. I have even seen some super heavy duty mineral felts on ebay that are like 4mm thick, for not much more than the cheaper stuff in B&Q.

I just temp fixed mine (6 months ago :D) with some breathable roofing membrane while I decide what do it properly with. Thinking of lining the T&G boards with some thin ply and then using that rubber roofing material.
 
Saved £360 of plumber bills for a new diverter valve in my combi boiler (domestic hot water cycling hot and cold) by replacing this broken diaphragm in the valve:

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£8 on eBay and 3hrs cheap labour :D. Might buy myself a present to congratulate myself.

First ever job on a boiler and it was challenging but OK. The fear has gone now though.
 
Busy weekend.

Saturday morning I fitted a new lock and door handle to the bathroom door, as it's now hung the opposite way I also had to chisel out the recess in the frame which was a good laugh. Need to invest in some spade bits.

Today I spent nearly all day outside. First order of the day was to secure a rotten fence post to a concrete one I put in a few months ago with 150mm coach bolts. This was an absolute friggin nightmare. The fence post had moved about two inches away from the concrete and would not re-align near it without being held. But when I aligned it, my hands were tied so I couldn't drive the bolts in! Cue me trying all sorts of daft ways to get the damn thing to stay there. I got it close enough a few times to sink the coach bolts into the wood so it's secured now. The main problem I have now though is that the holes though the concrete post are tapered, so my hex bit only goes so far. And that means I couldn't wind the bolts in as far as I needed. There's about an inch between the concrete post and the fence post. I'll give the fencing guys a ring and see if there's something special I need... Probably a washer would have done the trick... In fact, it's definitely that, or bigger bolts. I'm an idiot.

Once I'd given up on that I put down some pea shingle ready for a sleeper. Then cut said sleeper to size with a chainsaw. Cue cries of "the goggles they do naathing". Laid the sleeper and put another on top. Bolted it all together. Lovely jubberly. Then I fitted what is essentially an arris between the sleepers and another concrete fence post to help level the area off. Have some special hangers that.

Now dinner and wine time.
 
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Put another blind up. I hate this house for mounting blinds. Done two now. One side mounted in recess. One top mounted due to length. Today I couldn't get into what must be a concrete lintel. Destroyed a few drill bits in process.

Simple jobs become a nightmare for me
 
Hedge said:
Put another blind up. I hate this house for mounting blinds. Done two now. One side mounted in recess. One top mounted due to length. Today I couldn't get into what must be a concrete lintel. Destroyed a few drill bits in process.

Simple jobs become a nightmare for me
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I've had exactly that, and for what's it's worth, I bought a cheap corded SDS drill and some decent SDS bits and it's now a breeze.

My normal cordless drill with normal masonry drill bits struggled even with standard brick.
 
Participant said:
I've had exactly that, and for what's it's worth, I bought a cheap corded SDS drill and some decent SDS bits and it's now a breeze.

My normal cordless drill with normal masonry drill bits struggled even with standard brick.
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The clutch or something on my SDS is buggered, it hammers/chisels but it doesn't spin :( Rather annoying. In the end today I managed to get it about an inch deep, so I just cut the plug down and used a shorter screw. Its up anyway!.

Rage inducing tbh.
 
chaparral said:
I said the same thing when I put my TV on the wall

I put my TV on wall the back in 2007
And I still haven't got around to sorting all the cables...



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You can never "sort the cables".

The things breed when you're not looking, you'll get them all nice, tidy, hidden away and suddenly one day you'll need to go and change something and you'll find that not only are there more of them than you ever put there, but they'll all be tangled up and none left how you remember.

I carefully sorted, tied together (with velcro), and labelled al the cabling for my TV etc when I last did them, I went to change out the HDMI switch and found everything a mess a few months back.
I'm the only one whoever touches the back of my TV!
 
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