What "man jobs" have you done today?
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Tonight I'm putting together some heavy duty shelving to replace some plastic shelves which will then be relocated to my little man's bedroom for toy storage.
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Pics?
Kitchen ceiling has just fallen down, apparently a leak from the toilet mains feed.
Also nice to discover that the toilet mains feed isolation valve doesn't appear to work, and that all my plumbing tools are at the other house :|
I've never liked bottom fed cisterns, they are a disaster waiting to happen. It's just such a retarded design - make something to hold water and then make a hole in it...
tip.
stick a bloo block in the cistern to work out if the leak is coming from the mains feed or the cistern
Also nice to discover that the toilet mains feed isolation valve doesn't appear to work, and that all my plumbing tools are at the other house :|
I've never liked bottom fed cisterns, they are a disaster waiting to happen. It's just such a retarded design - make something to hold water and then make a hole in it...
tip.
stick a bloo block in the cistern to work out if the leak is coming from the mains feed or the cistern
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Soldato
Nice wood work! What is the building beside the shed? It looks municipal/shop like... Or is that where the shed was bought from?
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Ah I see!
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What did you use on shed roof - looks like tiles but are they sheets looking like tiles. ??
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Please ignore im a goof
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They are the shingles that are supplied with the shed. They are made of thick felt like on a normal roof. It is a 19mm tongue and groove roof then the shingles on the top so it looks like tiles.
Painted 4 fence panels as it's forecast to be dry all day.
Using some oil based Johnstones Trade stuff, goes on nicely. Not sure about coverage quoted though as the tin says it covers 12m2 per litre and they are 5l tins.... I only managed to do 3 and half fence panels front and back with 1 tin!
Think i'll thin it for the second coat. Just need to find another good day for it, its forecast rain early tomorrow morning so hoping this coat will have dried enough by then!
Using some oil based Johnstones Trade stuff, goes on nicely. Not sure about coverage quoted though as the tin says it covers 12m2 per litre and they are 5l tins.... I only managed to do 3 and half fence panels front and back with 1 tin!
Think i'll thin it for the second coat. Just need to find another good day for it, its forecast rain early tomorrow morning so hoping this coat will have dried enough by then!
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Cut the lawn
yawn .......................
yawn .......................
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Painted a room..
My youngest, her colours and design.
My youngest, her colours and design.
Caporegime
^Looks nicely done DJ.
Soldato
NIGHTMARE DAY!
I was lifting the chipboard flooring in the bedroom. I had to cut a part out and caught a radiator pipe! Water everywhere. Cut the system off and drained the whole lot out on to the garden and decided there and then to call emergency plumber out to isolate the radiator in the bedroom and the damaged pipe.
Him being here unearthed further issues! One of the radiators downstairs is knackered; the bleed screw is cross threaded and also burst water everywhere once we refilled the system! It meant we had to empty the system again and just leave it empty today rather than isolate just the one radiator upstairs.
He then noted that my heating system has no vent in place and is therefore unsafe! I don't quite understand heating and plumbing well enough but essentially our boiler is unsafe to use as no vent comes off the cylinder tank....
So tomorrow I now need a gas engineer to put a vent in, a plumber to repair the pipe I hit and I'll go buy and fit a new radiator to replace the one that has the cross threaded bleed valve
SO STRESSED. I'm fed up and tired now. Bottle of wine and the grand prix taht I was supposed to watch hours ago now on telly.
I was lifting the chipboard flooring in the bedroom. I had to cut a part out and caught a radiator pipe! Water everywhere. Cut the system off and drained the whole lot out on to the garden and decided there and then to call emergency plumber out to isolate the radiator in the bedroom and the damaged pipe.
Him being here unearthed further issues! One of the radiators downstairs is knackered; the bleed screw is cross threaded and also burst water everywhere once we refilled the system! It meant we had to empty the system again and just leave it empty today rather than isolate just the one radiator upstairs.
He then noted that my heating system has no vent in place and is therefore unsafe! I don't quite understand heating and plumbing well enough but essentially our boiler is unsafe to use as no vent comes off the cylinder tank....
So tomorrow I now need a gas engineer to put a vent in, a plumber to repair the pipe I hit and I'll go buy and fit a new radiator to replace the one that has the cross threaded bleed valve
SO STRESSED. I'm fed up and tired now. Bottle of wine and the grand prix taht I was supposed to watch hours ago now on telly.
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Installed a CO detector in the study (the new boiler is in there) and also put a new towel rail in the downstairs loo. That should have been easy but there were no measurements for where to drill and the tiles in the loo seem to be made of the hardest substance known to man. All done though and looking good.
A couple of days ago I finally got around to replacing the drain hose on the dishwasher which wasn't exactly difficult, just very fiddly as some of the steps needed someone with small hands which I don't have. Much swearing and a few bleeding knuckles later it's done.
A couple of days ago I finally got around to replacing the drain hose on the dishwasher which wasn't exactly difficult, just very fiddly as some of the steps needed someone with small hands which I don't have. Much swearing and a few bleeding knuckles later it's done.
Been a reasonably productive couple of days. The new fridge for the kegerator arrived on Saturday so I got that set up yesterday. Put in one of the contiplas shelves and got a tie-down strap to hold the polystyrene and sensor in place, rather than duct tape. Plenty of room in there for another keg - once I get some brewed.
My kitchen is tiny so I've been stashing a lot of cooking stuff in the dining room but it's all been a bit here and there so I decided to try to get some order into it. This morning, I put up a hanging rack for my pans.
I have a lot of cast iron pans and I wasn't confident the ceiling hooks supplied were sturdy enough for close to 40kg of cookware so I got some beefier ones
Took me about half an hour to find the joists in the ceiling and another half an hour to fill the holes I made finding them
This afternoon, I have made and put up some shelves for all my Kilner jars with dry goods. I decided on a sort of rustic, industrial look so I made them out of scaffolding boards and 2x2. Sort of fits in with the workbench I'm using as a food prep surface in the dining room.
Cut, sanded, erected and the first coat of varnish applied.
Time for a beer now.
My kitchen is tiny so I've been stashing a lot of cooking stuff in the dining room but it's all been a bit here and there so I decided to try to get some order into it. This morning, I put up a hanging rack for my pans.
I have a lot of cast iron pans and I wasn't confident the ceiling hooks supplied were sturdy enough for close to 40kg of cookware so I got some beefier ones
Took me about half an hour to find the joists in the ceiling and another half an hour to fill the holes I made finding them
This afternoon, I have made and put up some shelves for all my Kilner jars with dry goods. I decided on a sort of rustic, industrial look so I made them out of scaffolding boards and 2x2. Sort of fits in with the workbench I'm using as a food prep surface in the dining room.
Cut, sanded, erected and the first coat of varnish applied.
Time for a beer now.