What "man jobs" have you done today?
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Neighbour next door hung the doors and I spent yesterday and today putting in the glass.
Took 10 weeks or there about from order to delivery. 9x8 - Have to say it's well built - timber is twice as thick as those we looked at in garden and builder merchant's - You tell them what you want and they build it.
Only got to completely wire it up for power and alarm (Duct and cable is already in)- paint it inside and out - finish guttering and things I haven't thought about yet.
To this
To this
To this
Neighbour next door hung the doors and I spent yesterday and today putting in the glass.
Took 10 weeks or there about from order to delivery. 9x8 - Have to say it's well built - timber is twice as thick as those we looked at in garden and builder merchant's - You tell them what you want and they build it.
Only got to completely wire it up for power and alarm (Duct and cable is already in)- paint it inside and out - finish guttering and things I haven't thought about yet.
Duct with power cable and alarm cable in - it is now underground and comes in under left front corner of new Wendyhouse.
Forgot to take after photos, but spent the afternoon taking down a 6x3 shed for a relative and it was a nightmare. It wasn't like no shed I've taken down before, it was nailed together all over the place. My crow bar and hammer were well used today and to top it off the base is nailed to the concrete slab!
Landscape gardener will be digging the slab up next week so left it for him.
Nasty cheap shed Bett Homes put in every garden when they built the estate.
Landscape gardener will be digging the slab up next week so left it for him.
Nasty cheap shed Bett Homes put in every garden when they built the estate.
Soldato
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Rebuilt the front garden wall after someone must have leant on it and it fell over.
Caporegime
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Me and my nephews painted the outside of my garage.
Who's stupid idea was it to paint the inside of summerhouse.
I hate painting and now I loath it.
Did you paint yourself into the corner?
Swapped the ceiling light in the living room from a standard cheap white pendant to one of these - http://www.diy.com/departments/kapsel-dome-black-pendant-ceiling-light/197914_BQ.prd
Had to extend the neutral, live and earth coming out of the ceiling as they were quite short and there was just no way to get them into the connectors on the new fitting otherwise.
Thankfully the domed housing has enough space for the spare cable to hide in.
Had to extend the neutral, live and earth coming out of the ceiling as they were quite short and there was just no way to get them into the connectors on the new fitting otherwise.
Thankfully the domed housing has enough space for the spare cable to hide in.
Associate
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Ran 17 drops through the house to the media centre hub under the stairs (few more to go into the loft for future use), installed the bracket for the ubiquiti ap in the hallway and a multitude of new back boxes put in.
Tomorrow's jobs involve nest protects, the loft, bit of chasing and probably a lot of juice.
Tomorrow's jobs involve nest protects, the loft, bit of chasing and probably a lot of juice.
Don
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last two days I have been trying to strip the wallpaper from our hall/landing/stairs in order to get it ready for painting/redecorating.
I say try, as its covering up what is possibly the worst decorating history I have ever seen. In some places, the paper is 5 layers thick, and I have counted 7 different patterns in total over the whole area.
Weird stuff i have found..
Dado rails installed ON TOP of wallpaper.
3 different types of wallpaper that was painted over
MANY holes and gounges, simply covered up by said layers of wallpaper
Filler /plaster LAID OVER wallpaper (two different places)
Skirting boards laid over wallpaper
coving stuck to ceiling some sort of white glue OVER 3-4 layers of wallpaper.
A plyboard stud wall that does not line up with the top 3 inches of the wall. Gap was COVERED with coving to hide it.
Ancient alarm system cables in cable guide stuff stuck out from the wall and WALLPAPERED OVER...
Plyboard stuck to random wall bits with plaster blobs.
What i had planned to do in a weekend is going to take at least a week to fix (only got evenings during the week) and i need to get it all finished before Sat when the Mrs and kids get back
I say try, as its covering up what is possibly the worst decorating history I have ever seen. In some places, the paper is 5 layers thick, and I have counted 7 different patterns in total over the whole area.
Weird stuff i have found..
Dado rails installed ON TOP of wallpaper.
3 different types of wallpaper that was painted over
MANY holes and gounges, simply covered up by said layers of wallpaper
Filler /plaster LAID OVER wallpaper (two different places)
Skirting boards laid over wallpaper
coving stuck to ceiling some sort of white glue OVER 3-4 layers of wallpaper.
A plyboard stud wall that does not line up with the top 3 inches of the wall. Gap was COVERED with coving to hide it.
Ancient alarm system cables in cable guide stuff stuck out from the wall and WALLPAPERED OVER...
Plyboard stuck to random wall bits with plaster blobs.
What i had planned to do in a weekend is going to take at least a week to fix (only got evenings during the week) and i need to get it all finished before Sat when the Mrs and kids get back
Soldato
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Built a 7 x 5 shed. It wasn't overly tricy but not helped by the chipboard floor being a bit warped.
The worst bit though was that I unrolled out the roof felt and it wasa bout 2 foot too short! Gah. I had to go buy some more.
Next step, get some power into the shed.
The worst bit though was that I unrolled out the roof felt and it wasa bout 2 foot too short! Gah. I had to go buy some more.
Next step, get some power into the shed.
last two days I have been trying to strip the wallpaper from our hall/landing/stairs in order to get it ready for painting/redecorating.
I say try, as its covering up what is possibly the worst decorating history I have ever seen. In some places, the paper is 5 layers thick, and I have counted 7 different patterns in total over the whole area.
Weird stuff i have found..
Dado rails installed ON TOP of wallpaper.
3 different types of wallpaper that was painted over
MANY holes and gounges, simply covered up by said layers of wallpaper
Filler /plaster LAID OVER wallpaper (two different places)
Skirting boards laid over wallpaper
coving stuck to ceiling some sort of white glue OVER 3-4 layers of wallpaper.
A plyboard stud wall that does not line up with the top 3 inches of the wall. Gap was COVERED with coving to hide it.
Ancient alarm system cables in cable guide stuff stuck out from the wall and WALLPAPERED OVER...
Plyboard stuck to random wall bits with plaster blobs.
What i had planned to do in a weekend is going to take at least a week to fix (only got evenings during the week) and i need to get it all finished before Sat when the Mrs and kids get back
SDS + Chisel, and redo from scratch..
Today:
out in the garden. Dug out some soil that had accumulated in the driveway gulley & replaced it with 10mm shingle.
Finished off the home made Wheely bin store that was in dire need of repair. I made it some years ago & it looked the worse for wear so I repaired it, made a lid for it, painted it & put castors on the bottom to make it easier to move around.
painted some garden furniture.
out in the garden. Dug out some soil that had accumulated in the driveway gulley & replaced it with 10mm shingle.
Finished off the home made Wheely bin store that was in dire need of repair. I made it some years ago & it looked the worse for wear so I repaired it, made a lid for it, painted it & put castors on the bottom to make it easier to move around.
painted some garden furniture.