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May have been Hycote clear lacquer.
The reason I spray as the wall and lacquer rather than buy a coloured metal pain is the match will not be the same.
What "man jobs" have you done today?
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May have been Hycote clear lacquer.
The reason I spray as the wall and lacquer rather than buy a coloured metal pain is the match will not be the same.
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Never thought of doing that, the only I have with water based paint is that it seems much sifter than the old oil based stuff, everything else about it is miles better though.
Soldato
The lawn care service?
I'd rather do it myself. It doesn't take too long and, unless you're going for a bowling green perfect lawn, all a lawn needs is regular cutting and some fertiliser now and again.
Soldato
Agree.
The lawns in our house were shocking when we moved in. We got GT round to take a look. Queue teeth sucking and "oooh this is a.lomg term one" followed by a ~£120 a month quote to "try and sort it out"
Raked them once. Good cut. Feed and weed twice a year and they were a lot better after a year or so. Five years in now they're no show garden but are a damn sight better than they were and now take minimal effort (feed and weed) over regular cutting
The lawns in our house were shocking when we moved in. We got GT round to take a look. Queue teeth sucking and "oooh this is a.lomg term one" followed by a ~£120 a month quote to "try and sort it out"
Raked them once. Good cut. Feed and weed twice a year and they were a lot better after a year or so. Five years in now they're no show garden but are a damn sight better than they were and now take minimal effort (feed and weed) over regular cutting
Soldato
Prepped and sprayed walls + matched radiator and added this to the wall.
Radiator to be lacquered when room finished.
Radiator to be lacquered when room finished.
Soldato
Put on my best man face and opened the email from the asbestos testing lab. No asbestos found in 2x ceiling and 1x textured wall samples. Bloody result! This means I can take down the flipping Artex ceilings whenever I fancy, cut holes for wiring, add insulation, etc etc.
Made my week really
Made my week really
Soldato
Moved socket that was fine years ago, just not right now.
Fitted new
Filled, cleaned and painted.
Few finishing touches to do.
Fitted new
Filled, cleaned and painted.
Few finishing touches to do.
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That saves on an extension lead, I'm sure you can get bigger versions too.Moved socket that was fine years ago, just not right now.
Fitted new
Filled, cleaned and painted.
Few finishing touches to do.
Soldato
The double was at one time fine, but once you add LED's, TV and Stadia all on Smart plugs it really starts to get cramped and a little warm.
Four currently gives me a spare, but you never know in the future.....
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Yea I've got an extension, but there's 4 consoles, a firestick, an amp and a tv. In hindsight I should have got an electrician to move the socket and fit an 8.
Soldato
I cut the back of the Besta unit behind the draws and added a bank of double sockets a couple of years ago due to having far too much to plug in.
Caporegime
Hung my new toys
On the tool wall
Very good. I want to do something similar.
What's the method? Just screw some ply to the garage wall? Or are there more complexities/ considerations? Presumably it needs to be thick enough for some decent screws to go in without hitting the bricks behind it?
Put on my best man face and opened the email from the asbestos testing lab. No asbestos found in 2x ceiling and 1x textured wall samples. Bloody result! This means I can take down the flipping Artex ceilings whenever I fancy, cut holes for wiring, add insulation, etc etc.
Made my week really
I have artex in my 1970 house and was meaning to do this.
Who did you use? How did you take a sample safely? What kind of sample did they want, e.g. hole saw or a tiny piece?
Soldato
Thanks and yes, pretty much.
Get some decent thinness ply so the screws get some purchase. I also stood them off the wall slightly with thick rubber washers so there is a small void behind. The screws then just screw in, get a decent hold on the ply, through the void and when they hit the brick start to bulge the ply and you know your at the required depth.
Works / worked for me
and a damn site cheaper than peg board / bespoke tool wall solutions
Soldato
So the instructions were a little unclear, my first round of samples were a bit small ar 1cm square each (still got good test results though i.e. positive for garage ceiling fire board, negative for ceiling Artex). Ideally take a square inch or so - a good chunk they can inspect visually etc.
You get instructions after payment (and can also buy a kit with gloves, mask, overalls, bags etc - I provided my own). Requires full overalls, P3 mask etc. The basic technique is to wet down the area, cut or snap off a piece right into a ziplock bag, double bag it, then wipe down your tools and gloves etc. Ideally find an already flaky bit of material IMO so you're not smashing it up and raising dust. Then gaffa tape over the damaged area to seal it. Advice I've read is to take a few pieces from around the room as Artex can have quite low/uneven distribution of asbestos fibres.
Used a company called Bradley Environmental - they've been very helpful over 2 sample packages (so 8 individual tests), I've even been on the phone with them as they're inspecting samples and explaining their conclusion
Caporegime
Assembled this garbage:
Garbage
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Edit: My mistake, I had only engaged 1 tab per cross section when there were two. Roughly OK now! Can't complain for £25 each.
I rate these shelves. I got three sets a while back from Screwfix.Get these, go through brick like cheese
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I got some of them shelves from big dug and they're solid. Cost a bit more though
Dirt cheap but as someone else said, perfectly robust enough once screwed to the wall.
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I'm failing on one of my man jobs today. I'm trying to restretch a carpet as we had a thick underlay put down, and the threshold cover was too low. I wanted to strectch the carpet as it does look like it had hooked onto to the cover (likely due to the height difference), but I can't stretch it (using a knee kicker). I've acted defeat and posted the job on a site 
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Soldato
I’m replacing a triple light switch/extractor fan/fan speed panel in my bathroom. Which wouldn’t be a problem if some utter ******* hadn’t grouted the old one into the tiles and you could still buy these all-in-one panels anymore out here.
Caporegime
How on earth did you do that?I'm almost dead boys. Send beer.
