What "man jobs" have you done today?

We inherited a massivly overgrown privit hedge - 20-25' tall and about 20meters long. Cut it all back to 18-24 inches and fertalised. Ungodly amounts of green waste to take to the tip.

Might have a hedge again in 2-3 years!

It was SO nice having good weather yesterday, and the extra light in the evening.
 
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Today I wired the shed up for mains electricity and put a light in there. A nice 10M run of armored cable under the patio. I've also put one of those heaters that are used for airing cupboards in there. Dew was forming on my tools causing them to go rusty so hopefully this little heater will keep the shed above the dew point. I need to insulate the walls and ceiling in there long term but that can wait.

Any recommendations for what I can use to insulate the shed?
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Oiling tools can help, too.
 
Skiddley said:
We inherited a massivly overgrown privit hedge - 20-25' tall and about 20meters long. Cut it all back to 18-24 inches and fertalised. Ungodly amounts of green waste to take to the tip.

Might have a hedge again in 2-3 years!

It was SO nice having good weather yesterday, and the extra light in the evening.
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Evening light makes me happy!! So much more time to get things done makes evening time much more pleasurable.
 
Not me, but our 10 year old Ideal iStor boiler packed up just over a week ago when it was snowing. Had British Gas round who repaired it then condemned it and capped the gas off.

They then quoted £4.2k to replace it.

Told them to do one, got several quotes and after carrying out some due diligence, we went with a company called Boxt who gave us a fixed price and had great reviews.

They arrived today at 8am and left at 6:50pm - decent chaps, done a great job and now we have a Worcester Bosh i30 with smart WiFi thermostat servicing the house. We can control it from our mobiles using the Honeywell lyric app.

Total cost was £2995.
 
Got a load of sand -gravel and cement for a Round-Tu-it job and also picked this up 10ft 6" of 3x2x 1/2" angle iron

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Getting there with flat renovation. Been a long time coming but finished the kitchen cupboards. Sanded everything down (by hand), primed and painted. Sprayed the doors with a gravity feed, really pleased with the finish considering my amateur status and using ordinary B&Q paint thinned down. Thinning was a bit hit and miss but finally got the hang of it. Recycled some old hardware for the handles, upgraded to soft close hinges (Amazon cheapos but work well), some rubber sticky dot things and all is good.

Was DEFINITELY worthwhile spending the time to make my own drilling jig for the handles, made getting them all on in the same place so much quicker and easier.

Doing it all on a pretty strict budget so the counter-top is staying, might need to change the tiles for some electrical work however.

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They resembled this before, really dark grungy stain:
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Sin_Chase said:
Getting there with flat renovation. Been a long time coming but finished the kitchen cupboards. Sanded everything down (by hand), primed and painted. Sprayed the doors with a gravity feed, really pleased with the finish considering my amateur status and using ordinary B&Q paint thinned down. Thinning was a bit hit and miss but finally got the hang of it. Recycled some old hardware for the handles, upgraded to soft close hinges (Amazon cheapos but work well), some rubber sticky dot things and all is good.

Was DEFINITELY worthwhile spending the time to make my own drilling jig for the handles, made getting them all on in the same place so much quicker and easier.

Doing it all on a pretty strict budget so the counter-top is staying, might need to change the tiles for some electrical work however.

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They resembled this before, really dark grungy stain:
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Looking really good,
 
Started this project -

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Under a tarp due to the shed being choc full of stuff from the house we've moved out while doing work. (So much junk).

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Step 1 - Routing.

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Alse yesterday re-fitted DIY bookcase to the same room. Will need some tlc to get it up to scratch after being removed, stored and refitted.

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Started my Round Tu it job -- when we bought this place there was a gap under garage door - had a new door and still a gap so today I started the fix.

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Started cutting and drilling a while back

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Today got the concrete up at door

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This is my new edge for door to close against.

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This is it for today - need to dig some more dirt out then it's time to concrete

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Finally had a dry day to put the new conservatory together. Its a self build and arrives in kit form and bolts together. I had a builder do a new base as its bigger than the previous one and allows it to come up close to the back door step height and he built the wall on the side which will be plastered along with the back wall.

Onto the roof next weekend or so hopefully.

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Jesus busy weekend for everyone.

Got around to starting the utility room today.

Wall plates, joists and noggins installed.
Garage conversion
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Got a christening tomorrow so have to go to that. Tuesday planning on putting in the water, extending a ring circuit and adding insulation.
 
Not quite up to the propertions of previous posts but I laid laminate flooring in my office today.
Got another two bedrooms to do over the coming weekends. That'll 4 of the 5 with Laminate.
The last one is the one we keep for guests so it's always closed and the dogs never go in there. It can stay carpeted.

Still to put the beading round the edges and fit the door connector thingy. That's a job for tomorrow though.
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Is the bed for when you get tired of gaming? :p

Did lots of routing, found an awesome way to make tenons using a sliding chop saw too.

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Would have got more done but my saw exploded so had to find somewhere open and buy a new one.
 
Haha I had the same issue. Had bought a cheap demolition breaker from Lidl back in July in preparation for a job at my mother laws.

Finally got to it on Friday and after less than a minute it set on fire! Very annoying. I then considered hiring one but ended up buying the Titan one from Screwfix for £150.

No pics yet but I also dug out a lot of garden and took down a concrete and asbestos prefab garage.

Annoyingly I scratched my watch face and despite being on my feet for about 8 hours today and working my ass off I only tracked 9500 steps which isn’t enough effort according to my health insurance!

Today was a day off so we took the dogs for a walk on the beach :)
 
Today's progress report, under floor plyboard and insulation foil installed, insulation between joists fitted. Floor secured permanently. Electrical/aerial and bt cables run. Door mouldings fitted and false wall constructed and used left over chipboard on exterior section.

Aim for tomorrow, complete electrical installation, cut and fit noggins for false wall and insulate false wall plus cut into wall under stairs to gain access to utilities .....
Pff I'm tired and itchy
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I put this up.

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It's from Tiger Sheds (thanks for recommendation) and is very well made. Instructions were useless so had to pretty much work it out for myself. It went up OK though. I had to do some clever balancing to get the sides on and lined up as I was doing it solo and you're supposed to have a helper. It took just under 3 hours to build it once I had the slabs laid.

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I now have space in my workshop and can actually use it as a workshop rather than a bike and general crap store.
 
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