What "man jobs" have you done today?

Fitted new underlay and carpet in the bedroom and took some off the bottom of the door so it would shut.

The owners of the old house must have **** on the old carpet and let it soak through looking at the old underlay!
 
Have a long list of jobs to do, too many to list.

Going to fit new sink unit & extend pipework tomorrow, plus put in pipework for kitchen plinth heater, & radiators in outside toilet, utility room.
Friday fit new door & frame for back porch & remodel the back porch roof, & lay a new concrete path.
 
Mark A said:
Not a good idea to drill through the frame as they are designed to let water drain out. I'd feed the wire around the frame if you can.
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You're completely right sir. Before seeing your reply I asked them to do that and they said much the same and that they would feed it behind the frame. Pics of old and new to follow. I also asked them if they could smash something big and heavy up for me while they're here with smashing tools so I can get it in the car, and they said they would. I'll pay them a bit extra for that of course. They arrived half an hour ago so will be finished within the next half hour I believe.
 
I know this isn't strictly speaking man jobs, but thought I'd post up the pics of today's window install. They were there for 3 and half hours in the end. Did a good job. Wasn't too messy either. Here's the pics, starting with the old windows, ripping them out, and installing the new. Next job will be ripping the crappy old woodchip paper off and decorating, then laminate floor.

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PVA'd and skimmed a wall for me 'nanner. Only one quick skim coat as the wall is a right old state. Will finish it off for her tomorrow!
 
Bought some power tools, Got myself a hedge cutter & a strimmer as I'm sick of doing it manual.
 
More Work in the kitchen today, and its getting closer to being finished at last!
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Rugby tots with the boy
Cut down a grape vine on a tenants house that had fallen off the wall, about a crane bag full chopped into small pieces
Finished rubbing down our bedroom
Taped up
Painted ceiling
Painted woodwork
Jump started BMW
6 tip runs each with 2 crane bags per run
Swept the drive
Covered logs with some 1200g visqueen
Sealed up the last of my windows that I have been meaning to do for 5 years
Got some logs in
Cooked steak
 
Put down laminate flooring in the lounge that replaced a beige carpet, much better for the dog! Still need to do the trim though. Looks great, so easy to do.
 
Saturday,
Dug out and fitted 2 concrete fence posts+bolted one to the wall.
Sunday dug those 2 posts back out as one was broken, and weirdly when we replaced that one and reset it the next post was now 4cm to far away.
total 7 posts dug out, as well as removed about 8 wooden posts which were all set in concrete.

Grass is looking a big worse for wear now but at least my dog can no longer escape.

Never installed a fence before, am very knackered after today working pretty much non-stop from 9am till 6:30pm.

Had a bit of help off a couple of mates as well though:)
 
Reminder Fox popped up this morning and said clean out gullies for roof downpipes - so that's what I did in the rain so I can tick complete in reminder Fox. How sad is that.

Dave
 
Not really a man job, but a new pair of steps have been on my list to get for some time.

Picked up off Ebay today a new & unused pair of Youngman Catwalk S400 fibreglass 7 treads stepladder for £35, on collection they turned out to be 8 tread version:(.

Got just 300mm clearance between top step & ceiling.:(
 
YEsterday, but finished clearing up the mess just now lol

Pulled out an old set of slidey dining room doors with 2 side panels, stripped the plasterbopard off half the kitchen.

Just disposed of 4 boxes of smashed up plaster board 3 boxes of smashed up tiles and a loada random rubble.

Not sure if this counts but I tore the dyson to pieces too last night, think hooverin up all sorts of plaster and wall proved too much for it :p gave it all a good wash in the bath and let it dry over night, the water that came out of it looked like oil :/
 
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