What "man jobs" have you done today?

Surely with the cost of that bike, its cheaper to get separates? I am wondering whether my son needs a new bike, he's 5 but is 115cm tall and when on his bike (which I think is a 16", but might be 14") he's knees are nearly catching the handlebars, but as with all small bikes there's very little handlebar height adjustment.
 
I started to replace the hinges on my pair of wooden garage doors the other day but found that the existing 2 bottom hinges were a different thickness to the two at the top :confused:

The hinges I bought were the same thickness as the ones at the top so thankfully I only needed to take out material from 4 points at the bottom to get the doors to close properly.

Although the doors meet perfectly at the bottom now there's a bit of a gap at the top where the doors meet, which has always been there, so I might have a go at adding a shim to one of the top hinges at some point. I'm also going to add a handle and then give it a fresh coat of paint.

The only other job I did this weekend was unblock the fridge drain hole. It is usually easy to do but this time it was blocked really badly.
 
theone8181 said:
Surely with the cost of that bike, its cheaper to get separates? I am wondering whether my son needs a new bike, he's 5 but is 115cm tall and when on his bike (which I think is a 16", but might be 14") he's knees are nearly catching the handlebars, but as with all small bikes there's very little handlebar height adjustment.
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He's still riding the bike, he is on the largest setting now. He'll grow out of it within another year if he keeps growing the speed he is.

As I think i mentioned, it is an investment as my 2nd boy is now 2/3 size of eldest and he's only 19 months old so he'll take over it in a year or so.
 
Planted some chillies

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Installed new car mats

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Laid out some rodent traps

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Are those mats plastic I can't tell? If so you might want to avoid putting them in the front as they get surprisingly slippery with wet feet. I only mention it as mine came with plastic ones and I took the front ones out as I also embarrassed myself with a fall on them:p. I'm keeping the plastic ones in the back for the kids:cry:.
 
Christmas decs back in the loft and i've put an unsightly wire for the wireless access point into some trunking. Unfortunately I was 5cm short at the last turn so I need to buy another 2m just for the last little bit!

I've changed over a couple of interior door handles from gold to chrome on rose. It's a bit of a faff to be honest and I'm no chippy. It strikes me it would be easier to do this on a new door rather than trying to fit them in existing (larger) holes.

I'm also replacing the latches and trying to get it all done with through hole fittings. It didn't help that the template is 5mm out on the two holes that you have to drill. Ah well, 2 down 4 to go and then 2 bathroom mortice locks!

The strike plates are a mess as well because they have accommodated at least two other sizes over the years...hopefully some wood filler will do the job there?

I also noticed the chrome hinges I've got are slightly thicker than existing so that's hours of work in itself I imagine...
 
Put an old kitchen work top up in the utility to provide a shelf above the washing machine dishwasher and tumble.

Put 5 L shape brackets on the wall and placed the kitchen top on top. Some of the plugs for the fittings are in plasterboard only. I hope they hold. Only one wall is brick.

checked with my multi meter using NCV for wires. As a fair few switches and boiler control there!

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