What "man jobs" have you done today?

{SAS}TB · 9 Oct 2022 at 17:04

Very nice sir!

NickK · 9 Oct 2022 at 18:17

Mowed the lawn. For various reasons/excuses it didn't get cut since dying off during the draught. It's since bounced back and now looks reasonably decent.

IvanDobskey · 10 Oct 2022 at 11:11

Washed the cars, that's about it this weekend...

dlockers · 10 Oct 2022 at 17:26

Covered the soil that was covering the old lawn on the new drive. Plan to kill it off (and then do something proper in the spring).

Richie · 10 Oct 2022 at 18:45

dLockers said:
Covered the soil that was covering the old lawn on the new drive. Plan to kill it off (and then do something proper in the spring).

Wildflowers....

dlockers · 10 Oct 2022 at 18:53

Richie said:
Wildflowers....

Definitely part of the plan, the road is very loud though so potentially some box or red robin too.

Pigeon_Killer · 10 Oct 2022 at 19:40

Cut my lawn yesterday, front and back, and filled a 140 litre bin. Scarified the back and filled a 240 litre bin and 3/4s of a 800 kilogram gravel sack. Still warm enough in Cornwall to do it this late but the front might be a bit more of an issue if I leave it more than a few weeks.

dlockers · 10 Oct 2022 at 19:51

Had the fire place swept - all working swimmingly!

dlockers · 11 Oct 2022 at 14:21

Jasonsmith13 said:
Did the bloc blind fit easy

Yeah piece of cake. Used them a few times.

dlockers · 11 Oct 2022 at 15:24

Jasonsmith13 said:
Yes very good fast to fit! did they have the side the side channels

Yes. Those pretty much hold up the blind itself.

Measure accurately.

dlockers · 11 Oct 2022 at 22:12

Anyone have any clever ideas to get rid of scratches from expensive polarised sunglasses?

theone8181 · 12 Oct 2022 at 06:15

dLockers said:
Anyone have any clever ideas to get rid of scratches from expensive polarised sunglasses?

I think it's a film on them, so if that's the case you won't be able too. Saying that a guy I work with has raybns and says the filter is part of the glass, but I'm not sure.

PermaChanged · 12 Oct 2022 at 08:54

Far from a days work, and far from being a job solely done by me - but we've resized and steeled our gable end ready for sliding doors with triangular pitched window. Vaulted ceiling kitchen will be in this space alongside a mezzanine level set further back to overlook the whole area.

dlockers · 12 Oct 2022 at 08:56

PermaChanged · 12 Oct 2022 at 09:43

Found this timelapse of the process, and how we removed the lintel and lower section of the wall

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Of all the block walls we've taken down this was by far the most stubborn - the sand to cement ration I swear was reversed - also, having the blocks laid on the flat did not help!

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Much easier to remove

Buffman · 12 Oct 2022 at 13:16

PermaChanged said:
Far from a days work, and far from being a job solely done by me - but we've resized and steeled our gable end ready for sliding doors with triangular pitched window. Vaulted ceiling kitchen will be in this space alongside a mezzanine level set further back to overlook the whole area.

Looks good, did the roof not need any strengthening with removing the brick walls contacting the roof?

PermaChanged · 12 Oct 2022 at 14:11

We installed new 8inch rafters on the face as the old ones were starting to rot behind the soffits, the rafter one back from that we glued and screwed an additional 4x2 to to make it essentially an 8 inch rafter also. Between those we added a good row of new noggins, and faced the whole peaked area with 1" ply (which will be where the new window attaches to).

When it was re-blocked those noggins between the 2 x 8inches rafters got tied in.

There is a whole load of steelwork in there too - an A frame at the face buried 2ft in to the ground surrounded by a few tonne of concrete, a decent sized ridge beam going to a second A frame towards the back, which bolts to the top of existing walls, rather than going to ground.

dlockers · 12 Oct 2022 at 14:42

What are you building by the way? I mean it looks like a hell of lot of work for what looks like *sees fairly close and grotty dorma in background* a low cost area?

Ahleckz · 12 Oct 2022 at 15:00

dLockers said:
What are you building by the way? I mean it looks like a hell of lot of work for what looks like *sees fairly close and grotty dorma in background* a low cost area?

Yep, that low cost area in the Channel Islands where grotty houses come with swimming pools.
Do you just enjoy making a tit of yourself in every thread? :cry:

PermaChanged · 12 Oct 2022 at 15:22

It's a complete remodelling of this property - https://www.livingroom.gg/buy/property/1502

I have a thread on what was going on outside with the swimming pool, and a post of where it currently stands is here https://forums.overclockers.co.uk/t...ng-pool-removal.18930458/page-2#post-35654796