What "man jobs" have you done today?

RoboCod said:
This morning I did something I've meant to do for 2 years now....

CEMENT THE DAMN SPINNING CLOTHES LINE IN PLACE!!
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Very satisfying when those small jobs are done. Got a few outdoor jobs I need to do but first nice day and I'm stuck in the office. :mad:

I did do the shopping at lunch today, not particularly a "man job" but I WILL be carrying all 7 bags in one go from the car.
 
Quite a lot.

New sashlock and handle on the french doors.
Painting woodwork and doors.
Filler-ing and sanding frames.
Unblocked the gutter on the garage.
Found out why my garage is getting wet - I popped up the guttering to where it disappears into the ground, and the underground pipe was completely clogged with moss and silt, so water just wasn't going anywhere. Had some fun digging, removed the section of underground pipe, and decided to get a water butt instead of cleaning out the damn thing.
Then I fixed a concrete fence post to existing wooden one, gotta love postcrete.
Moved some mud around aka levelling
Moved some hardcore around.

Should post some pics of what I'm doing in the garden.
 
Does it count if you do 'man jobs' every day? :p

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So the loft is comming on,

We are in week 3, they started monday 8th Feb, they had two days away finishing another job too, so really have been in two weeks to the day in that time the sparks were here for two days too and plumbers for a few hours.

Its really taking shape now

the plasterboard is 80% up, but no pics sadly, it boxes it in a bit to be fair but still a ok size







The spare room was a kind of L shape, basicly it was tiny and had its own walk way kinda into it from the door, this has been used now for the stairs and the room will be squared off. However after comming home tonight we both really like how open plan it is, and spacious. Tempted to leave it as is as not sure what value a 7x7 room will offer the place? in resale? compared to a open plan hall way?

few pics the mrs sent today

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The cupboard is where the stairs enter.






Edited, Also i just want to say how thhere is zero mess in our hallway really, considering they knocked down a good solid single brick wall. Very good service from the builders.
 
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Got the grout on the tiles last night finally looking like im getting somewhere. Plasters ready so ill give it a mist coat later and get the toilet on

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RoboCod said:
This morning I did something I've meant to do for 2 years now....

CEMENT THE DAMN SPINNING CLOTHES LINE IN PLACE!!

I have a breeze catcher rotary line and the instructions say dig a big hole - put one of those big building concrete blocks in - put post in hole in middle then concrete the lot in.

My soil is sandy and it hasn't moved yet and it wizzes round in slightest breeze.
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Mark A said:
I'm not 100% sure on this, but those look to be untreated. They used to treat the pine sleepers, but they also used dense tropical hardwood sleepers that are naturally rot resistant and didn't require creosote treatment, which i think those are.
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Thank you. You are right, they are untreated and most defiantly hardwood. They ring when you hit the end with a hammer :D
 
been having a creak off the back of the car the last few times its been out.. so bit of investigation found a broken spring.

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so I had a set of eibach's sitting from a quattro that my mate broke so ive got them changed over.

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Ive done the rear's still to do the fronts but ordered up 2 new front shockies first.

rear shockies are about 2 years old scary thing is the rear springs were replaced at the same time as the shockies due to a broken spring.
hoping the eibach's should last a bit longer.

either that or ill need to stop putting as much weight in the back of it. :mad:
 
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Tiled a new bathroom over weekend helping a friend, only done half. Knackered but true OCD tiling joints in X, Y and Z direction (often ignored) with some mm perfect cuts that took some planning. Can't rush these things !









 
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Update 3 on the loft and end of week 3 i think from the workers.

Still going very well, very minimal disruption to the house apart from cold creeping around upstairs as we are still without windows and radiators etc etc.

The guys at the loft conversion company are courteous though and cover the windows up each night with insulation etc.

A few things we would do different so far but all livable i think

On suite is 1.8 x 1.8 so not huge but gives us a second bathroom in the house so good enough

Head height is 204cm from the floor







Its 5.2 long from end to end and 4 ish meters wide at the wide point narrowing to 3.2 ish where the en suite is.

This is a big room in our house :) Quite chuffed to be honest
 
That looks awesome.

Also done some tiling this weekend to carry on with the bathroom. It was an absolute nightmare cutting these tiles.

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With the score and snap cutter it would 90% of the time chip and end and with a wet saw it would leave small chips, got mad in the end and just got them good enough to be in the corner.

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We killed 2 tile drills and a tile hole cutter going through these for the hand shower and shower head. Ive cut a few tiles before and never had these problems, its like they're made out of meteorites and i need an oil rig crew to drill them. Not looking forward to cutting thin ones for the top tonight.
 
Changed this duct out today for 40mm

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Need to get HDMI and USB cable into loft to connect to NVR..

I am to old for this now - What should have been a morning job took most of day - Main problem was bricks - I have drilled some bricks in my time but these were hardest I have ever come across - If they had been solid bricks it wouldn't have been such a problem but these had mortar holes which threw drill off or locked up

Then kept jumping ahead of myself - put phone cable back through and connected it up only to find I had forgot to cut duct off where it came through wall - undone it all again - Tidying up and found I had used hammer/drill action instead of drill - Then found speed knob on trigger of drill - would have saved my fingers when pressing trigger.

This is my Mains Lidl SDS drill which I have only used a few times - it certainly was man enough for job drilling 40mm hole with core drill. :)

Just a few finish jobs now - like cement up hole where pipe goes through

Another tool that has paid for itself - Lidl Multitool - used cutter to cut off duct close to wall in a corner. :)

Back and knees are killing me now :(
 
Screws!

the score (out of 6) 2-4 to them

2 came out OK
2 Easy out
1 hacksawed the head and used my chisel (sorry large screwdriver)
1 Drilled the head off and then unwound the remainder with pliers (I could lift the collar at that stage)

Tried those TREND Pro Grabit Screw and Bolt Removers and they were useless

WHY do people fit screws that will rust in a bathroom near a shower?

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