What "man jobs" have you done today?

[Liquid_Entity]

Found all the heat dissapearing through the bifold doors. I know they leak already but there were some small gaps around the frames too. I'm selling up so I just did a perfect bodge job with some decorators caulk (only thing I had) feels slightly less draughty now.

 

[GarethSouthgate]

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)

Bed be gone

New bed built

New 'Emma' mattress in place

And topper on too

Emma looks a bit... thin?

 

[{SAS}TB]

Emma looks a bit... thin?

It is sat in the recess of the base and is also fresh out the box. They come vacuum packed and take 2-6 hours to fully "inflate"

Can take up to 48 hours apparently

 

[GarethSouthgate]

It is sat in the recess of the base and is also fresh out the box. They come vacuum packed and take 2-6 hours to fully "inflate"

Can take up to 48 hours apparently

Is this one of those 'try it for 100 days' mattresses?

 

[{SAS}TB]

You can try / return it for up to 200 days!

 

[GarethSouthgate]

You can try / return it for up to 200 days!

That's a lot of farts!

 

[{SAS}TB]

Might help inflate the mattress

 

[ChrisD.]

Got fed up of the fan noise from the 10 Gb switch, so moved it, my NAS, and two vSphere hosts into the cupboard under the stairs. Now silent in my office, but colder!

 

[Werewolf]

Went to do a five minute job, check a thermostatic valve was working.

I forgot three things.
1: Never do anything plumbing related when the shops won't be open for at least another couple of hours.
2: Never do anything plumbing related no matter how simple if you're not feeling ok.
3: A five minute job never is.

Took the thermostatic head off the body, pushed the pin on the body down to ensure it was moving (a couple of ours tend to gum up a bit in the summer and a gentle push/pull frees them), and it started oozing water, I suspect the rubber washer had gone/got completely caked in place.

Cue a rush around as I tried to see if Screwfix was open (checked the site) and if homebase was likely to be open, then remembered we probably had a spare valve body in the garage, followed by about and hour of fiddling around getting it done.

 

[dlockers]

Roof hole

1930s Semi Refurb - Part 4 of ... (Edition: Loft Insulation)

Hi folks, Me again - given the turn in weather, the boiler man being booked for early November, and a Christmas visit from my mum planned - I am thinking I may hold off on any major progress on the bathroom until the new year. Cue the perfect opportunity for a low effort (lol), high impact...

forums.overclockers.co.uk

^ thread

 

[theone8181]

You can try / return it for up to 200 days!

How do you actually return it though, do you have to get it back in the box as I'd pay money to see someone try .

 

[{SAS}TB]

How do you actually return it though, do you have to get it back in the box as I'd pay money to see someone try .

LoL, no idea. They must be confident of people keeping them

 

[dlockers]

How do you actually return it though, do you have to get it back in the box as I'd pay money to see someone try .

It is quite a sad company tbh. Someone posted a while back a picture of their returns warehouse. The mattress (SIMBA, Emma, etc) are all dirt cheap to make hence the dirt cheap cost (relative to a John Ryan or something). He posted a picture of their returns warehouse, like floor to ceiling waste destined for the ocean.

 

[NoobCannon]

Well, ive just spent the morning fighting thru shopping centre traffic to buy some guttering, fought my way back home again theu the horrendous traffic, got absolutely fully soaked thru to the bone replacing the guttters on the front of the house. Just come in doors and had a well deserved shower, and would you ******* believe the sodding sun has just come out.

 

[aVdub]

It is quite a sad company tbh. Someone posted a while back a picture of their returns warehouse. The mattress (SIMBA, Emma, etc) are all dirt cheap to make hence the dirt cheap cost (relative to a John Ryan or something). He posted a picture of their returns warehouse, like floor to ceiling waste destined for the ocean.

OH Well no one that's kept theirs cares really

Probably returned by those who suddenly realised they could not afford it...

 

[Uhtred]

I went round my parents to help move some bits (they've just had a rewire) and, as the carpets are up and floorboards already taken up recently, I took the opportunity to install a wireless access point in the ceiling and run the ethernet into the airing cupboard and up into the loft where the switch is

 

[Freefaller]

No pics annoyingly but I added another 100mm to our second loft area on our second roof. At least there's standing room in that one. Absolutely miserable job also noticed an old wasps nest which will need sorting at some point (unless they don't reuse them?)

Also replaced a Honeywell motorised valve without electrocuting myself which is always a bonus. However the junction box is horrific - I think I'll pay someone to sort it out for me as although I could I really don't want to. 7 leads coming into it all for the various thermostats, pumps and heaters etc.... All unlabelled.

 

[{SAS}TB]

Took the old divan bed base and mattress along with the various boxes from the new bed and mattress to the tip (three runs)

Also proved the Mrs wrong about a double mattress not being able to fit in her motor

 

[Mysterae_]

Also proved the Mrs wrong about a double mattress not being able to fit in her motor

Does @Mrwong know about this?

 

[Itchytrigg]

Also proved the Mrs wrong about a double mattress not being able to fit in her motor

Sure fire way to ensure it will 100% fit, even if it was a mini, it would have fitted!