What "man jobs" have you done today?

Woogie said:


I then then pushed in and turned clockwise (same way the thermostat attached to the valve turns to turn the temperature down) which SHOULD have isolated the valve... It did not.... at which point I gave up and went to McDonalds for dinner.
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Too early for me, don't make sense, you mean check valve?

Removing TVR & screwing on the supplied blanking cap will push down brass pin & isolate the water to the valve.
 
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Yeah sorry awful explanation on my part there.... The joys of late nights and early mornings.

We didn't have a blanking cap so when I spoke to my dad he advised me to push the brass pin and turn it in the same direction the termostat would have turned it to isolate the valve. It didnt matter how much we turned this pin it was not closing the valve. I'm going to the plumbers merchants tonight to get one of the blanking caps for it if possible.
 
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Woogie said:
Yeah sorry awful explanation on my part there.... The joys of late nights and early mornings.

We didn't have a blanking cap so when I spoke to my dad he advised me to push the brass pin and turn it in the same direction the termostat would have turned it to isolate the valve. It didnt matter how much we turned this pin it was not closing the valve. I'm going to the plumbers merchants tonight to get one of the blanking caps for it if possible.
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Pushing down the pin & turning it, will do nothing.
 
You need a Drayton dust cap, but the other easier way is to turn off trv & lockshield, then remove radiator.
Then get a 1/2" FI (Female Iron) brass blank cap, which will screw on to the trv valve thread. you can then remove trv head.;)

Toolstation Ref: 39682

http://www.toolstation.com/shop/Plumbing/Compression/Brass Cap/d20/sd2697/p39682

EDIT: You might need a wrap or too of ptfe tape around the thread to get a watertight seal.:)
 
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Witha makeshift fire :P
When we bashed the brickwork and the roof panels out a shedload of soot came down :(
Most of the dust went straight back up the chimney tho, good sign it still works lol
 
Few days into turning the mass of an overgrown garden back into a respectable looking one. Purchased the house last month, and from what we can gather the previous owner didn't touch any tree for 26 years, and the hedges for around 5. Although we've no pictures the bottom section of the garden was around 20ft of tangled ivy and some tangled wood that's very apt at growing into any gap.

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Still about 8 trees that need cutting or shaping, and the wood chipper arrives Friday for a weekend of chipping. If anyone in the Oswestry area wants a load of chipping, it's going to be going for a donation to charity as the rest is going to the Mrs work.
 
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Nightglow said:
That's made my day seeing those Leylandi being cutted down.:D

Bet your neighbour loves you now.
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I started cutting what I could manage safely without my mates tree surgeon expertise in the first week due to the Sun being out. Within a couple of hours the neighbours to our side and to our back both came over with some beer and duck eggs to say thank the lord.

Turns out the previous owner had a falling out with them both, due to the Leylandii becoming so overgrown, causing it to cut out a good deal of light to not only his own house, but to all the surrounding houses. 26 years without trimming the front, and we reckon a good few years on the ones in the back of the house. The neighbours had even offered to pay for a tree surgeon to come and cut them down, or to a liveable size, but the guy refused out of pure spite.

This is how overgrown they had become over the garage, and what is a part of the drive.

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Bottom of the garden is going to be covered in woodchip come the weekend, we'll then let it settle and get some Sun and air on it again, and come later Summer so chickens can roam on it.
 
Mark A said:
To be fair, i'd rather see them Leylandii than a bunch of houses. I guess it's not fair if its taking away light from the neighbours though.
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We advised them that privacy might be an issue for a year or so, but we've plans to put up a good fence this year and will plant some native trees/hedges that should gives up back privacy in a few years.

They said they would much rather have some Sun back on their grass and plants than missing a years privacy :D
 
Wow, thread has got popular. :)
The person that posted the playhouse they built. Cheers for that. Good to see. Been toying with converting our shed into one. Hmm.

How do you guys distribute cat5 throughout your houses typically? Say you want to link lounge to upstairs, do you go out and up an outside wall to the loft and then down into bedrooms, or do you go direct up a lounge wall into upstairs flooring area?
 
jaybee said:
How do you guys distribute cat5 throughout your houses typically? Say you want to link lounge to upstairs, ~
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We have a cupboard under the stairs and the central heating pipes run upstairs through it. So I've been in the crawl space underneath the house to connect the downstairs rooms up, then a few runs come up through the floor into this cupboard and follow the route of the CH pipes upstairs. I then took some of the upstairs floorboards up to run the cables into the bedrooms.

I may be adding some extra runs now though as I've decided to move my VM modem and router to the same cupboard to free up some desk space. Need to test how well the wireless works with it under there first though.

Thankfully I've left the floorboards in there loose so I can get back underneath the house fairly easily :)

Having said that, when we first moved in I ran two cat5e cables outside, up the exterior wall and back into a bedroom through a hole I drilled. The cables weren't anything special and had no extra protection like trunking, but were still doing fine ~8 years later.
 
jaybee said:
How do you guys distribute cat5 throughout your houses typically? Say you want to link lounge to upstairs, do you go out and up an outside wall to the loft and then down into bedrooms, or do you go direct up a lounge wall into upstairs flooring area?
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The old airing cupboard has a mini comms rack with patch panel and switch and from there, under the floor upstairs, channelled out the walls and into wall sockets, the CAT5 for the living room, goes down a channel in the kitchen wall then punches through into the lounge in the back of the fire place where my home theatre kit is.
 
jaybee said:
How do you guys distribute cat5 throughout your houses typically? Say you want to link lounge to upstairs, do you go out and up an outside wall to the loft and then down into bedrooms, or do you go direct up a lounge wall into upstairs flooring area?
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Trunking. If done right, can be both effective and invisible.

As for upstairs, mine goes upstairs, into every room and even into the attic where I have converted it into a LAN room and not one bit of wire is exposed anywhere ( thats a lie but Im sticking to it )

I have simply followed lines, skirting and corners. Not gone through a single wall and its unnoticeable.
 
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