What "man jobs" have you done today?
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Soldato
Not much help to you now, I know, but we are fortunate enough to live very close to their impressive showroom in Ludlow, where they have virtually 'taken over' a complete Georgian (?) detached house, in its own grounds, and where each room is a showcase for their products.
They also offer some quite small stoves, which we were looking at, so if anyone is thinking of going down this route it is well worth a visit... and there is plenty more to do (and see!) in Ludlow also!
Their Whitchurch showroom is just up road from us and did a search of their products - even small one was too big
Big shame but as you say - it's to late
Soldato
Wife is away, so naturally I got itchy fingers on my day off and laid this flooring in the basement
And grovy lights
And grovy lights
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Got my slabbing finished at the weekend but was not able to post last night so today will have to do sorry
Before I started.
First row of the day gone in.
Second row in
Slabbing all done. Having a gravel edge for drainage.
To get the slabs out I came up with this idea and it works a treat.
First Burn was amazing and despite been very cold we were very warm indeed.
Got some sleepers for free from the farther in law all the way from Newbury...I'm in the Midlands for the next project.....
Got to pressure wash them off sometime in the week but they are SOLID oak untreated and they are very heavy
Any guesses what they are for
Before I started.
First row of the day gone in.
Second row in
Slabbing all done. Having a gravel edge for drainage.
To get the slabs out I came up with this idea and it works a treat.
First Burn was amazing and despite been very cold we were very warm indeed.
Got some sleepers for free from the farther in law all the way from Newbury...I'm in the Midlands for the next project.....
Got to pressure wash them off sometime in the week but they are SOLID oak untreated and they are very heavy
Any guesses what they are for
Worm burner!
Soldato
Fire pit looks cool! Is the wood for rustic seating?
Today I'm ripping out 80s mdf wardrobe, tearing down coving and paper stripping. All ready for the plasterer this weekend who is covering the artex ceiling and reskimming the walls. Then the man den will be well under way
Today I'm ripping out 80s mdf wardrobe, tearing down coving and paper stripping. All ready for the plasterer this weekend who is covering the artex ceiling and reskimming the walls. Then the man den will be well under way
it was a valspar colour, ill find out the exact colour for you later when im home. we were looking for a grey and went in to our local b & q and they had a ton of this colour pre mixed at £13 a tin rather than paying £27 a tin to get it mixed in the same colour yourself.
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Thanks, id appreciate that. How did you find the valspar, I've seen it get some pretty terrible customer reviews.
i liked it. i would say it was very runny though. compared to the likes of dulux or b and q brand. but the coverage seemed really good.
i wouldnt have normally picked it due to the cost but it was on offer and the right shade of grey we were looking for.
Soldato
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Thanks for the heads up, I will get a couple of testers
Looking at doing a couple of jobs this weekend, one of which i'm after some advice on. I'm useless at diy but fitting a coat rail/hangers up in the hall way which is a plasterboard stud wall. The rail is 4 hangers on a section of wood, usual b&q jobbie. What would be the best way of putting it up, guy in the store said gravity toggles but i was wondering if these rawlplug fixings would work?
http://www.diy.com/departments/rawl...on-wall-screw-dia0mm-pack-of-12/254472_BQ.prd
http://www.diy.com/departments/rawl...on-wall-screw-dia0mm-pack-of-12/254472_BQ.prd
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Possibly but a full rack for coats can be pretty heavy, is there any chance you could get at least one of the screws into a stud? Why do you want to avoid gravity/spring toggles?
Yep i can get one side of it into a stud which i what i was planning. So could i just do this with a self-tapper?
I wasn't wanting to avoid toggles, i was just wondering what would best. Looks like i'd have to drill a fairly large hole to initially get the toggle in.
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the toggle will be a stronger fixing, but if you can get one side into a stud with a self tapper it will stop the coat hanger peeling forward so the other side will just need to resist the shearing force, almost anything would be sufficient for that.
Cool, cheers. I'll go with one side into stud and other 3 holes with the toggles. Should be sufficient for holding coats i'd have thought.
Soldato
I've just spent the evening chasing a conduit for 2.5mm cable in my wall. There is a relatively big gap on top of it, around 5-10mm, do I need to cement this over leaving a few mm before the plasterer comes, or will he fill it sufficiently with just plaster?
Sorry, perhaps a daft question but it's the first time I'm having plastering done
Sorry, perhaps a daft question but it's the first time I'm having plastering done
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I've just spent the evening chasing a conduit for 2.5mm cable in my wall. There is a relatively big gap on top of it, around 5-10mm, do I need to cement this over leaving a few mm before the plasterer comes, or will he fill it sufficiently with just plaster?
Sorry, perhaps a daft question but it's the first time I'm having plastering done
Is he plastering back to brick or is it just a skim on top of existing plaster? Generally I wouldn't expect that to be a problem at all.
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Soldato
Skim job on top. I'll post pics.
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Could have been prettier, but I only had my hammer & chisel It looks like it is sitting proud in the rubbish phone pics, but there is between 5-10mm along the length.
EDIT:
Could have been prettier, but I only had my hammer & chisel
It looks like it is sitting proud in the rubbish phone pics, but there is between 5-10mm along the length.
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