What "man jobs" have you done today?

Put 400 glow in the dark stars onto the ceiling in my daughter (She's 3) bedroom so it looks like the night sky when she's going to bed. Looks awesome and even tried to put in all the main signs of the zodiac etc.

Not traditionally manly, but certainly time well spent :D
 
Those stars look fantastic when used on a dark blue ceiling, a mate did his son's room in a space theme.

And he also painted a small low wall with blackboard paint & some metal tiles from B&Q, so the three year old had somewhere to draw, & stick his magnetic space theme fridge magnets.
 
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I recently came across glow in the dark spray and we iz doing my CBR Motorbike in GITD paint and using little things like stars etc on the black bits.

Certainly the oipposite of manly, but I really dont give a monkeys... It has to be done.

Question is, will I man up when its done and supply pics? Watch this space!
 
Fitted some LED lights under the kitchen units. £13 each from ikea. And some beautiful person has fitted sockets above the wall units so no messing with wiring :D

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We had a new Worcester Bosch combi boiler and new radiators fitted last week.

The cupboard where the old hot water cylinder, feed tank and lots of messy piping have all been removed leaving a huge cupboard ripe for turning into a new airing cupboard. The space is approx 2.5m tall, 1.5m deep and .75m wide so a decent size.

The walls inside the cupboard are old lime plaster with lathes behind and are in right state, a couple of hours later, they'd all been removed and back to the original studwork.

Will be boarded and skimmed later this week, then lots of shelving!

This is going to score me huge brownie points with my better half too!!
 
Nantucket - I did a very similar job recently after the airing cupboard lost its hot water cylinder. Out of interest, why are you bothering to skim an airing cupboard? Surely you can just board, fill the screw holes, and paint? I used plasterboard adhesive and boarded directly onto airbricks, and covered the joins with tape and gyproc easyfill.
 
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Nantucket - I did a very similar job recently after the airing cupboard lost its hot water cylinder. Out of interest, why are you bothering to skim an airing cupboard? Surely you can just board, fill the screw holes, and paint? I used plasterboard adhesive and boarded directly onto airbricks, and covered the joins with tape and gyproc easyfill.
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Funny you should say that, I've been thinking about whether to bother skimming it or not for the very reason you mention.

I was just going to do it myself, as it's just an airing cupboard and I'm "ok" at skimming (I certainly wouldn't do a normal room myself!). It's a dusty old cupboard, I just need to make sure all the joints are properly sealed.

Think you've convinced me (and saved me a couple of hours!) :)
 
Excellent. It's just an airing cupboard after all :p. Personally if I attempted skimming, it would look a lot worse than just sorting out the joints and painting onto the board.
 
Took six black refuse bags of weeds to the tip, plus some old drain pipes, bit of broken concrete patio and a bottle of old lawnmower oil. Changed the sparkplug again in the lawnmower. Biggest job today was jetwashing my front wall. It's been a long time coming. I borrowed my brother's Karcher. It's really good!

Here's the wall before

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Here is the first section done

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and here's the whole wall done.

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I'll brush some brick acid on it tomorrow as I want to clean it up further. My neighbour saw me doing it and very kindly gave me a tub of Wickes weatherproof white paint so I'll paint the tops of the wall tomorrow.: )
(Ignore the spotted thing in the window, it's just something to cover it till I get new venetians.)
 
Gah,

I have moved our living room around and need to relocate the TV. Tomorrow will be full of drilling and measuring to put the bracket up on the wall, then the joy of getting the TV onto it...
 
Wish i'd have snapped one of them reconditioned Nilfisk pressure washers in january for £35 :(. Amazing difference on that wall.
 
Built a new gate from scratch (Good excuse to buy a circular saw and bench saw! :D) to gate off the alley down the side of the garage from an inquisitive 1.5yr old daughter! My mate reckons when I do a job I go for overkill, I can stand on the gate and it holds my weight as the post on the wall is properly secured with the correct wall bolts! :D

Was weird using powertools like the saws for the first time to create something from scratch rather than just buying and altering/fitting.

Before(ish):

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After (not sure what is going on with imageshack, the original is in the correct view!):

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Looks great! If you have any scraps of wood left over then putting a strip along the top of the gate to stop water soaking into the endgrain should make it last longer.
 
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Took six black refuse bags of weeds to the tip, plus some old drain pipes, bit of broken concrete patio and a bottle of old lawnmower oil. Changed the sparkplug again in the lawnmower. Biggest job today was jetwashing my front wall. It's been a long time coming. I borrowed my brother's Karcher. It's really good!

Here's the wall before

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Here is the first section done

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SuI4Uk9.jpg


and here's the whole wall done.

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I'll brush some brick acid on it tomorrow as I want to clean it up further. My neighbour saw me doing it and very kindly gave me a tub of Wickes weatherproof white paint so I'll paint the tops of the wall tomorrow.: )
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I hope you sweep up all the crap off the pavement that you blasted off the wall. Nothing worse walking down the pavement and getting your neighbours crap on your shoe to drag into your house.

My neighbour was washing his wheelie bins out in the road last week with a jet washer and left all the crap everywhere. Disgusting.
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Currently in the process of making a Blackboard for a huge empty space on our kitchen wall!

4ft x 3ft - has been cut out, and the edges have been riveted slightly to make it a little bit less plain. Undercoat done, will be using some of that blackboard paint tonight to give it a base coat :) ... lets see how it turns out!
 
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