What "man jobs" have you done today?

jpaul said:
it jumped the brick height ? or something delta happened under shed ... thought you had a car pit
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The doors just have a flimsy weather strip at the bottom and a 10mm lip into the shed itself. For some reason the ramp into the shed is angled....into the shed lol.

Car pit has an inch rise around it to stop water getting in there. Not sure if that's a feature or an issue given the water made its way to my belongings!
 
dLockers said:
Car pit has an inch rise around it to stop water getting in there. Not sure if that's a feature or an issue given the water made its way to my belongings!
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sorry, yes sympathies - couldn't understand/remember from previous pics, the tiled/lino surface which suggest an albeit flawed design rigor, and wondered how the pit entrance was hidden.
 
Emergency repair somewhat working...... no idea how the chap lived like this.

I think it is pooling to the left of the shed because of some rubbish that has fallen down there. I need to go around the neighbours tomorrow and clear it out.

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Mended a broken toilet flush, but the replacement arm now has less mechanical advantage due to the pivot point I selected (there's 3 holes in the arm to choose from). You have to turn the flush handle nearly 180 degrees instead of about 100 degrees.

I'll leave it until I get enough household complaints to warrant an adjustment.
 
dLockers said:
Yeah spot on, broadly the plan. My brother has a DeWalt stone saw so was hoping to 1) borrow him, 2) borrow his saw. I need to mess with drainage as there is a giant puddle just in front of the shed too....annoying.
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If it is only a shallow base around the shed and areas that flood. You may be able to gun out and lay a new base with a slope away from the shed.
 
bainbridge said:
Mended a broken toilet flush, but the replacement arm now has less mechanical advantage due to the pivot point I selected (there's 3 holes in the arm to choose from). You have to turn the flush handle nearly 180 degrees instead of about 100 degrees.

I'll leave it until I get enough household complaints to warrant an adjustment.
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That's never getting changed then :D
 
{SAS}TB said:
As above any nearby airbricks (surprising how wet something can get from even a short spell of driving rain)

Also, "push" the wall in the damp area is it solid or is the plaster behind soft / have some give?
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Back to this - when I had the drive done I had it lowered, so theoretically there is good space between the drive and the air brick.

The wall itself feels solid - no give. Not saturated.

Mysterae_ said:
In your image there looks to be a horizontal line going across just where that mark stops and along to the other wall too. Possibly a previous repair, where they cut out the plasterboard and replaced it?

Also look at the wooden blocks of the floor where it meets the skirting board - I'm no expert but that looks like water/dampness damage to my untrained eye. Does it smell fousty or damp in that area? From it's location and spread it could be coming from a poorly sealing/bowed door/frame.

The previous owner probably gave the area a number of coats of Zinsser to hide it.
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Hmm, will investigate further as I need to take those boards up anyway.

Here is the other side for clarity. I did spot driving rain but I'm not convinced it is coming through this way:

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dLockers said:
Here is the other side for clarity. I did spot driving rain but I'm not convinced it is coming through this way:
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Yeah, that looks unlikely. Perhaps it's as simple as mould patch from moisture in the house that's condensing on the cold wall and running down to the floor. The previous owner just did a bad cover job and the paint/mould is reacting again. It's a bit of a guess until you dig deeper in to the wall I surmise.
 
Not today but a few days back I decided I'd do my own plumbing as I'm tired of paying trades people, so purchased a blowtorch, 15mm pipe and solder, flux etc...

I hung the new radiator and did a test fit of the new pipework, managed to insert it into the existing hole in the floorboard and soldered it all up to the system, piece of cake.....I thought.

Refilled the boiler to around 1bar till I heard the other half screaming from upstairs that a pipe had come off.....Lots of water coming out everywhere.

Managed to hold the pipe into the elbow to stop the leak till I'd drained the system down again. Annoyingly, all my solder joints had held up just fine, except the one I forgot to do on the elbow, which is what popped off :D

Lesson learnt! :p
 
Garage work continues, had to remove some useful but old tool hooks and got a dodgy brick Suprise.

Annoyingly this side was where a cable run was going not time to fix so will move it to right, electrican is en route. Will post more pics now excuse me while I move lots of rockwool!


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Manbatius said:
Garage work continues, had to remove some useful but old tool hooks and got a dodgy brick Suprise.

Annoyingly this side was where a cable run was going not time to fix so will move it to right, electrican is en route. Will post more pics now excuse me while I move lots of rockwool!


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Simple job... Should only take 15 mins...


...6 months later you're (I'm) sat there wondering why I started it.
 
We have just bought a new bed, mattress and topper but with things never quite that simple the spare room bed needed to be unloaded (divan) and taken out the house. Our old bed dismantling (well partially) and moving into the spare room and then our new bed building and new mattress and topper installing .....

Before (sorry not sorry for the mess)

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Bed be gone

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New bed built

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New 'Emma' mattress in place

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And topper on too

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