What "man jobs" have you done today?

b0rn2sk8 said:
You don’t need to worry about driving rain, it would need to get up under the slates which are 30% overlapped and the felt which is the same again.

Tile vents have a much smaller overlap space if you really think about it.

You don’t need one in every ‘space’ every other is fine and I’d vary the heights. Some high, some middle assuming you have vents at the soffits.

Edit: every other gap on each side but staggered so where there is a gap on one side, the opposing side has a vent. That should be more than enough.
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Cheers. Ordered a 10pack so could do almost all if needed but will do every other to start with and stagger as you say. Probably do higher at the mid point and middle height at the edges.

Will get some loft boards sooner rather than later too so I can reach the eves easier to just be sure the soffits are as clear as they need to be.
 
Replaced the pull cord switch for the bathroom light, which had become sticky.

Of course, after replacing the switch I did a few test pulls with the unit in my hand and it clicked on and off perfectly!

Oh well, it was on its way out and it's done now.
 
Chris Wilson said:
In the spring or summer, you are most welcome, it's going in one of the workshops this week with an exhaust extension to outside on it, to run a PTO generator should the power go off. Now, of course, knowing my luck there will be no power cuts and it will just sit there in the way, laughing at me... :)

I am more into the much faster man toys really!
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I have had a genny for a few years and had no power cuts since.
 
Installed lap vents in the loft, might turn a fan in up there to help start clearing the condensation as it’s not great and quite an amount of dripping into the loft boards and insulation…
 
Itchytrigg said:
Installed lap vents in the loft, might turn a fan in up there to help start clearing the condensation as it’s not great and quite an amount of dripping into the loft boards and insulation…
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Yes, get a fan going up there, that will be really help clear it. You want to get rid of it asap and get the timbers dry before you get any other problems.
 
b0rn2sk8 said:
Yes, get a fan going up there, that will be really help clear it. You want to get rid of it asap and get the timbers dry before you get any other problems.
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Yeah put 2 on this morning. Annoyingly no plugs in the loft so had to run an extension up there so loft hatch is now not fully closed. Gave the loft boards and felt a wipe down to hopefully get some of the worst off. Heres some before shots.


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I meant to say, those dehumidifier packs will be totally ineffective up there.

You might as well pop it in your bathroom and make some use of it.

My pro tip is to use a window vac if you have one. You’ll suck up all the big droplets really quickly off the felt. When we had issues, I filled over half a bucket of water from the felt using a window vac. The quantity of water is what really surprised me.
 
Itchytrigg said:
Yeah put 2 on this morning. Annoyingly no plugs in the loft so had to run an extension up there so loft hatch is now not fully closed. Gave the loft boards and felt a wipe down to hopefully get some of the worst off. Heres some before shots.


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That reminds me of how my old loft looked! Literally dripping from the felt so much I thought I had a leak in the roof.

It's hard to tell from the image but your loft doesn't look particularly clear - either remove some stuff or arrange it in such a way that the air can flow eave to eave between the gaps in your stuff.
 
Haha yeah I know about the dehumidifier packs, had just forgot I’d put them there before installing the felt vents.

Good idea on the window vac, I’ve got one somewhere so will give that a little go.

In terms of how clear it is, I didn’t think it was too bad but maybe it’s too much…I’ll rearrange to make sure nothing is too high or to tightly packed.
 
Drill a hole up through ceiling into loft next to hatch -take plug off extension lead -poke cable through hole -put plug back on and - power in loft.:)
 
DXP55 said:
Drill a hole up through ceiling into loft next to hatch -take plug off extension lead -poke cable through hole -put plug back on and - power in loft.:)
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Stop it with logical thinking…it’s temporary so not going that route yet. There’s power cables running through the loft wall into the extensions loft we can probably spur off of if needed in the future.

Managed to extract 600ml with the window vac, removed boxes I was keeping “just in case” and rearranged everything so nothing is more than about a foot off the floor.

Fingers crossed this’ll see it all clear up pretty quickly.
 
Thanks @b0rn2sk8 for the window vac idea. With the felt mostly clear just checked back and the boards are much much better compared to the previous image from this morning.

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Fans are off now as didn’t want the kids tripping over the cable in the night so will give it till Saturday morning before checking again so I know if the felt cents and moving of junk has improved the ventilation enough.

I miss having a garage so much! I also wonder how my parents house with the volume of crap they have in their loft never had damp issues…though I think their insulation is only about 5mm thick so that probably helps/costs a fortune.
 
I've been fighting the same fight as @Itchytrigg, although I don't think my problem is quite as bad. That said, it's one of those things where the longer you look the more you see the problem!

Anyway, I installed 10 of those lap vents so we'll see how that goes (I think i'll need more). I also got the window vac out and 2 fans but all of that was interrupted, out of nowhere, by a blue *** flying up and down the loft. That was quite a surprise.
 
Done over a long weekend...

Needed a space and plumbing for a washing machine as the kitchen has apparently never had one :confused:

Removed kitchen counter and moved one cupboard carcass to a different spot. This also let us shorten an island as where it had 120cm space under before, we now have 100cm cupboard.


This freed up 1 metre of under-counter with a convenient little nook that had the water supply pipe running past it, and the sink drain under it. So I cut into the cold supply and made a feed out, with stop valve and ¾" BSP fitting for washing machine.



Then removed all of the 1960s copper pipe wastes as they were rotten through. Needed to remove the boss on the main soil stack and replace with a bit of a bodge but... It holds and it's watertight! So then the job was to rebuild the entire waste pipework for that floor in 40mm plastic... Cue learning how to solvent weld :D



3 main sections feeding from kitchen sink -> new washing machine upstand -> bath -> soil stack. Pre-assembled as many joins as I could the evening before, so I could just slot it all together and get my utilities back on.



Oh and no power on that side of the kitchen so added a 16A MCB and temporary radial circuit, until I chase the walls out!


All in all a pretty good outcome considering I "Just wanted to fit a washing machine". We now have all-new pipework, a power socket on that counter, and a spare 45cm with plumbing for the slimline dishwasher!

And I didn't actually fit the washing machine yet because I need someone to help lift it in :o
 
LuckyBenski said:
Done over a long weekend...

Needed a space and plumbing for a washing machine as the kitchen has apparently never had one :confused:

Removed kitchen counter and moved one cupboard carcass to a different spot. This also let us shorten an island as where it had 120cm space under before, we now have 100cm cupboard.


This freed up 1 metre of under-counter with a convenient little nook that had the water supply pipe running past it, and the sink drain under it. So I cut into the cold supply and made a feed out, with stop valve and ¾" BSP fitting for washing machine.



Then removed all of the 1960s copper pipe wastes as they were rotten through. Needed to remove the boss on the main soil stack and replace with a bit of a bodge but... It holds and it's watertight! So then the job was to rebuild the entire waste pipework for that floor in 40mm plastic... Cue learning how to solvent weld :D



3 main sections feeding from kitchen sink -> new washing machine upstand -> bath -> soil stack. Pre-assembled as many joins as I could the evening before, so I could just slot it all together and get my utilities back on.



Oh and no power on that side of the kitchen so added a 16A MCB and temporary radial circuit, until I chase the walls out!


All in all a pretty good outcome considering I "Just wanted to fit a washing machine". We now have all-new pipework, a power socket on that counter, and a spare 45cm with plumbing for the slimline dishwasher!

And I didn't actually fit the washing machine yet because I need someone to help lift it in :o
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That's definitely one of those jobs that snowballs lol.
 
Builders left the O/H without a temporary tap in the kitchen when they moved the stopcock last week. Left the H/C tails capped for the island though.

So in my ever increasing plumbing crusade, fitted some 15mm isolation valves and make-shift taps...

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These move up-down secured by the pipe clips on the floor at the moment before anyone says they're not level :p

Also refilled her CH with Fernox having drained it and left it empty last week. It'll need draining again in a few weeks when we fit the radiator in here but with temps as they are at the moment for the sake of £15 its worth having heating and hot water (combi).
 
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After deciphering some less than standard switch wiring for old naff PIR lights finally finished putting up new Up/Down LED lights.

Been pretty impressed with Steinel products before and stuck with them. Configured via an app/Bluetooth and can group lights together. Setup to be always on at 10% brightness and go to 100% on movement once light levels fall below 10lux.

Need to make good the walls where the old lights were fitted ready for when we get them repainted now.

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