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Working in the garden - weeded and dug in soil improver in the raised beds plus emptied all the old containers ready for new veggies and the like.
What "man jobs" have you done today?
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Dropped my hammer down the cavity 
Caporegime
Neodymium magnet for you then!
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Dropped my hammer down the cavity
Make a noose from string and you should be able to get it around the handle. The bulge in the shaft (fnar...fnar) should keep it held.
Soldato
So peeved.
Took my beautiful windows out whilst demolishing the old part if the house with the intention of reusing them. Seems moisture has got to them
What were they finished with? I think it's inevitable with pine, especially when using a light finish. I went to town on a gate I made a few years back with 3 in 1 preservative, 3 coats of Sikkens HLS Plus and then 3 coats of Sikkens Filter 7 plus and moisture still managed to get to it and had unsightly black mildew marks appear under the finish
. I should have used pressure treated redwood, instead of plain redwood as the posts are still looking great with no staining.
What were they finished with? I think it's inevitable with pine, especially when using a light finish. I went to town on a gate I made a few years back with 3 in 1 preservative, 3 coats of Sikkens HLS Plus and then 3 coats of Sikkens Filter 7 plus and moisture still managed to get to it and had unsightly black mildew marks appear under the finish
Danish oil, my fault really they aren't meant to be external and sweat under tarpaulin
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Been making some adjustments to the front/back doors, hinge bolts and longer screws that are set properly.
Some that are supplied are too short to do much in the way of security, around 10mm into the door, which have been replaced with longer screws.
Fitted a light above the door (solar LED so no wiring needed) as the street lights go out for several hours at night.
Also have CCTV to install later for the front and back doors.
Some that are supplied are too short to do much in the way of security, around 10mm into the door, which have been replaced with longer screws.
Fitted a light above the door (solar LED so no wiring needed) as the street lights go out for several hours at night.
Also have CCTV to install later for the front and back doors.
Soldato
This Zinsser 1-2-3 primer is useless . I wanted to switch to water based paint on the woodwork, so bought this after seeing glowing reviews online. It's supposed to adhere to even glossy surfaces and create a bonding layer between oil based and water based paint. So I sanded some skirting boards down to a matt finish with 180g sandpaper to give a good key, painted 2 coats of the primer and allowed overnight to dry, then 2 coats of the top coat and then when I pulled the masking tape away from the floor it ripped big sheets of the paint off... Utterly useless stuff.
I guess I'll have to rip the skirts off and sand back to bare wood or something.
. I wanted to switch to water based paint on the woodwork, so bought this after seeing glowing reviews online. It's supposed to adhere to even glossy surfaces and create a bonding layer between oil based and water based paint. So I sanded some skirting boards down to a matt finish with 180g sandpaper to give a good key, painted 2 coats of the primer and allowed overnight to dry, then 2 coats of the top coat and then when I pulled the masking tape away from the floor it ripped big sheets of the paint off... Utterly useless stuff. I guess I'll have to rip the skirts off and sand back to bare wood or something.
Soldato
Turned over the soil in the raised beds and sowed a load of seeds for propagation. Roll on spring!
Various small projects whilst planning for the next major work on our renno
- Making good in the kitchen - repainted walls, cleaned grout on floor and cleaned all the cupboards. Made a big difference.
- Built myself a 1m x 2.5m timber store for my garden tools.
- General garden tidy up. First mow\rake. Fed the Privit hedges I'm re-growing.
Lining up scaffolders, renders and joiners to work on the re-rending project for this year. 130m2 of pebble dash to remove, and re-render in K-Rend. $$$$
- Making good in the kitchen - repainted walls, cleaned grout on floor and cleaned all the cupboards. Made a big difference.
- Built myself a 1m x 2.5m timber store for my garden tools.
- General garden tidy up. First mow\rake. Fed the Privit hedges I'm re-growing.
Lining up scaffolders, renders and joiners to work on the re-rending project for this year. 130m2 of pebble dash to remove, and re-render in K-Rend. $$$$
Soldato
Worth it though. Pebble dash has to be the most ugly of house finishes!
Roof tiles going on. We stripped the front completely, new felt and new tiles then stripped the back completely, new felt and used the tiles from the front. would have been old tiles to the front but the front is a lot bigger than the rear so we wouldn't have had enough tiles. The old hessian and pitch felt was knackered so whilst we are here it makes sense to strip everything and start again.
Several days of cutting and leadwork to do.
Sun tunnel to go in the rear as well.
There's a nasty wobble in the ridge of the old roof which looks awful with a dry ridge so we'll see if we can pack it out a bit to take the wobble out.
Several days of cutting and leadwork to do.
Sun tunnel to go in the rear as well.
There's a nasty wobble in the ridge of the old roof which looks awful with a dry ridge so we'll see if we can pack it out a bit to take the wobble out.
That's what we're doing with it yes, problem being the main tiles also follow the wobble so it might look odd if we straighten the ridge up.
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If you are keeping the old tiles don't forget to spray them with roof moss killer while scaffold is up - I also scraped all my tiles with paint scraper and wire brush - spray with weak moss killer solution every year and they look as good as new.
Nice job there by the way.
Nice job there by the way.
We were going to spray on before we took them off but the boys would have been handling them refitting them. Spray is going on once it stops being wet
Yes, totally agree - plus it's knackered. I've wanted to do it for years - finally become the priority.
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Another day of boat maintenance getting ready to have her lifted in at the end of March.
- Prepared, primed and anti-fouled the prop
- Some engine maintenance, replaced fuel filters, reattached alternator belt and a quick test run
- Scrubbed down the topsides ready for a polish later in the week if the weather improves
- Prepared, primed and anti-fouled the prop
- Some engine maintenance, replaced fuel filters, reattached alternator belt and a quick test run
- Scrubbed down the topsides ready for a polish later in the week if the weather improves