What "man jobs" have you done today?

[potatolord]

I spent a couple of hours yesterday chopping off tree branches from the monster laurel trees at the back of the garden. I used my chainsaw attachment for the first time, and it saves a lot of sweating.

Also spent an hour trying to get rid of the horsetail in the rose patch. Horsetail are very annoying.

 

[{SAS}TB]

Gave the dormers a second coat of oil

 

[fish]

Looks very nice

 

[{SAS}TB]

Thanks

 

[dlockers]

Bought some plastic border edging from Amazon about a year ago. Finally got around to fitting it and the pins which hold the triangle fixings in place were 0.5mm too small. Spent an hour enlarging the holes... to only find I had enough pins for every other.

Will not recommend.

 

[Delvis]

Dug more trench, yawwn.

Ridiculous amount of stones, tiles and bricks in the floor.

 

[dod]

Bought some plastic border edging from Amazon about a year ago. Finally got around to fitting it and the pins which hold the triangle fixings in place were 0.5mm too small. Spent an hour enlarging the holes... to only find I had enough pins for every other.

Will not recommend.

I was looking at exactly the same stuff. What's the edging actually like, any good? I've a long bit to do, maybe 150m in total, which is quite stony and was wondering how strong the pegs were.

 

[dlockers]

I was looking at exactly the same stuff. What's the edging actually like, any good? I've a long bit to do, maybe 150m in total, which is quite stony and was wondering how strong the pegs were.

It is different to what I had expected. It goes down 'easy enough' (wet the ground; I used a carving knife to cut the depth along the perimeter) but gets fiddlier the longer the distance you want to run. For that small area I should have done two distinct runs. The pins themselves rely on decent, level ground. The idea is then the grass grows through the triangle tabs that you have pinned down, and the grass further holds it in place.

I had half a job of it down before and caught a few tabs with the strimmer and they didn't last a second.

If I had known the triangle bits go onto the grass I may have looked for something else tbh. Picture 3 of this listing shows it, now that I am looking more closely:
https://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/B0051O7XB4/ref=ppx_yo_dt_b_search_asin_title?ie=UTF8&psc=1

 

[dod]

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Thanks. I'm actually looking at putting it in upside down to provide an edging for gravel. Maybe need to think again

 

[dlockers]

Thanks. I'm actually looking at putting it in upside down to provide an edging for gravel. Maybe need to think again

Upside down you have a totally different finish. It is jagged.

 

[dod]

Upside down you have a totally different finish. It is jagged.

ah right, defnitely need to think again then, thanks

 

[Delvis]

More digging

 

[andy_mk3]

Gave the dormers a second coat of oil

Very nice. There's a lot of houses around here with wooden panelling that's been completely neglected and really ruins the otherwise nice house.

 

[{SAS}TB]

Very nice. There's a lot of houses around here with wooden panelling that's been completely neglected and really ruins the otherwise nice house.

Thanks - it was very quick and easy once I could be bothered to get the ladder out and up there ...

 

[dlockers]

Never thought I'd get these jobs done...

Seized cold feed stop tap replaced. I can now isolate the bathroom taps without holding the ball, draining the tank, and then Wet & Dry'ing the air lock out when it is all back together


(made me think of Valve doing this)

Also managed to get my bath taps replaced. Bought this over 9 months ago IIRC. Not really happ with them but they aren't as bad as expected flow wise.



To this....



Also started to have a dabble at the plastic cladding (thanks @200sols) on the step down.

I've been doing the bathroom for ages, little one has made things 10x as hard to get the time. As with any job you take this long on you realise how differently you could have done things... I am now regretting my decision to retain some original features (i.e. the bath) as it has a few ceramic chips.

Relatively pleased with my tiling efforts too although there is always that one tile that catches your eye that isn't quite right. Anyways, I'm a pencil pusher so I couldn't have done any better! Almost there...

 

[theone8181]

Changed a waste and cleaned out a trap in the same sink (why are the wastes so found smelling. Waste leaks slightly as the pipe that attaches is too long but it's glued in so can't trim. Will have another crack today with some ptfe.

 

[b0rn2sk8]

Assuming it’s a compression joint on the waste, use plumbers putty or jointing compound.

PTFE is for sealing threaded joints like radiator tails where the threads do the sealing rather than the o-rings/olives.

 

[Delvis]

Assuming it’s a compression joint on the waste, use plumbers putty or jointing compound.

PTFE is for sealing threaded joints like radiator tails where the threads do the sealing rather than the o-rings/olives.

Yup, plumbers putty from Screwfix or whatever.

I mean, it's horrible stuff, bit does the job.

 

[lookitsjonno]

Dug down 1 meter to plumb in a new waste water gully for the garage... About killed me, feel stiff this morning lol. Will start the pipework this afternoon

 

[dlockers]

Assuming it’s a compression joint on the waste, use plumbers putty or jointing compound.

PTFE is for sealing threaded joints like radiator tails where the threads do the sealing rather than the o-rings/olives.

Useful post, thanks. I typically PTFE everything out of habit. However when I swapped my taps yesterday I didn't. They're hard lines. There wasn't any PTFE on the old taps either. However I did PTFE my inline valve replacement.

Whats the rule? I can envisage hard lines to taps hitting your rad valve rule...