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My tonne of gravel finally arrived. Have been waiting for weeks. No wheel barrow, so many buckets later:
What "man jobs" have you done today?
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I fitted a new flush valve and fill valve to the toilet. This included changing the close coupling kit.
The old one was a dual flush siphon that would only do the half-flush unless you removed the cistern lid and put your finger over the hole to stop the air getting in, and the old fill valve (ballcock) was vibrating very loudly while the water was running. It's been bugging me for months and I finally snapped and had enough.
The new stuff is great. The flush is more powerful, because there's no siphon action, it just drops through the hole, and the fill valve fills from the bottom, so it's much quieter. £25 for the lot, delivered is money well spent.
The old one was a dual flush siphon that would only do the half-flush unless you removed the cistern lid and put your finger over the hole to stop the air getting in, and the old fill valve (ballcock) was vibrating very loudly while the water was running. It's been bugging me for months and I finally snapped and had enough.
The new stuff is great. The flush is more powerful, because there's no siphon action, it just drops through the hole, and the fill valve fills from the bottom, so it's much quieter. £25 for the lot, delivered is money well spent.
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The space is a little longer than it looks and was a few inches deep too, so ended up using most of the tonne that arrived.
Is that Cotswold Chippings you've used?
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Yup, 10mm.
It's off finally
I had to use a Dremel with a cutting disk on the tap thread above the nut. I tried the blowtorch, even tried cutting and splitting the nut. Twas the Devil's Nuts and screwed harder than the wailing banshee trying to undo it
I will square off the cut and repair the thread - should work. The new connector has a rubber washer at the base of it.The second - harder to get to behind it.. was easy with the tap wrench. No problems and isn't damaged.
Happy.. now to sort the taps and pumping!
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Fence sorted!
Couldn't get the 2 panels off, as a couple of the screws were just solid (always the way eh
), but luckily, the lat that was loose, was right at the top of the wall, and only about 4ft long, so i just got a lat off the spare panel ive got, and leaned over the top of the panels, and screwed it down into the ends of the lats, either side of the loose one, and then i screwed it down into the loose one too, so its solid again now.
Couldn't get the 2 panels off, as a couple of the screws were just solid (always the way eh
), but luckily, the lat that was loose, was right at the top of the wall, and only about 4ft long, so i just got a lat off the spare panel ive got, and leaned over the top of the panels, and screwed it down into the ends of the lats, either side of the loose one, and then i screwed it down into the loose one too, so its solid again now.What did you use to drill that? An Sds or proper core drill?
I need to drill a 152mm hole for an extractor fan.
That's a nice neat hole -
I had to drill one yrs ago for boiler flue and used a big drill from work - It went in so far then stopped cutting and I was cussing and blinding for 30 min till I realised the core drill was only 3" deep and it was full of brick - cleaned it out and through in minutes.
I had to drill one yrs ago for boiler flue and used a big drill from work - It went in so far then stopped cutting and I was cussing and blinding for 30 min till I realised the core drill was only 3" deep and it was full of brick - cleaned it out and through in minutes.
When I fitted our extractor, I reduced it down to 50mm. Couldn't bring myself to cutting such a gigantic hole in the brickwork. Still works adequately.
SDS and diamond core drill bit and wobbly ladders
In the end I had to get the garden table and stand on that to reach 2m height
. Wife said I looked like I'd been for a spray tan after and my beard felt like sand paperhttps://www.screwfix.com/p/erbauer-diamond-core-drill-bit-107mm/1121v
That's a nice neat hole -
I had to drill one yrs ago for boiler flue and used a big drill from work - It went in so far then stopped cutting and I was cussing and blinding for 30 min till I realised the core drill was only 3" deep and it was full of brick - cleaned it out and through in minutes.
I did the same
Halfway thru I wished I had gone smaller too
I put a 152mm coring hole in for our extractor fan. Ebauer 152mm coring bit - I have the pilot drill screw in bit and the extension too. Used an SDS drill - 780W Bosch 2Kg class. Used a long drill bit from inside -> out then followed that hole using the pilot bit from the outside in. The coring bit doesn't skip when the pilot has a hole to follow.
A standard drill works -- just leave it doing it's on work, then every so often extract and continue. Also with a SDS drill give it a 15 minute break to let it cool (and the gearbox) half way through. Once through the brick, the block is easy and the sides of the brick hole acts as a guide.
Mine's a 1920's build twin brick so it was tough going to say the least I did the pilot hole from inside out the same as you .
107mm Core hole , oh how I loathe old bricks
such a clean cut wow
my one is not that great, poor workmanship so it is covered up with a bigger square extractor thing