What "man jobs" have you done today?

Sin_Chase · 14 Dec 2022 at 13:57

Put a new PoE switch in the loft so I could migrate my Access Points and Femtocell from living areas into the loft also.

Have just found out the Femtocell causes noise on my headphones so going to have to relocate it to another part of the loft! Doh.

Cleaned out an area behind shed/workshop that was covered in ivy and all sorts of other crap. Couple of gravel boards have rotted out on the boundary fence and have let some earth slide. A job for spring or summer I reckon.

sigma · 14 Dec 2022 at 21:18

gc123 said:
he may have been self employed i never had a holiday in 30 years ,some folk are like that. doh should have read further

Yeah and some those folk end up being grumpy sods.

{SAS}TB · 16 Dec 2022 at 14:56

After having to use the kettle to defrost my boilers condenser pipe twice in the last two days, I decided to insulate it...

Before

After

Hopefully that does the trick and sees the winter out ...

dlockers · 16 Dec 2022 at 15:02

God that annoys me even more than the cables you left dangling from your kitchen TV :cry:

Cut the tangs you heathen!!!

ChrisD. · 16 Dec 2022 at 15:02

dLockers said:
Cut the tangs you heathen!!!

Exactly what I was about to say.

{SAS}TB · 16 Dec 2022 at 15:06

Ha ha I knew it would trigger someone :cry:

I may get round to it but my fingers were bloody freezing and just wanted to come back in doors

@dLockers you'll be glad to know the TV is going next month when the new log burner goes in the kitchen

b0rn2sk8 · 16 Dec 2022 at 15:08

I’m getting triggered twice, that is properly on the wonk!

{SAS}TB · 16 Dec 2022 at 16:25

@dLockers and @ChrisD.

Mickie · 16 Dec 2022 at 19:58

{SAS}TB said:
After having to use the kettle to defrost my boilers condenser pipe twice in the last two days, I decided to insulate it...

Before

After

Hopefully that does the trick and sees the winter out ...

not if snow covers the drain. one of those plastic covers would keep the snow off though.

theone8181 · 16 Dec 2022 at 21:09

I demand you swivel the tys (spelling?) Round the back so you don't see the snip, and make them all equidistant before you trigger us all :cry:

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Simon · 16 Dec 2022 at 21:17

Why not do them all the same at least ?!

vail3r · 16 Dec 2022 at 22:32

Did some tiling in the hallway. Used 6mm hardie backer board underneath.

Just need to grout and put skirting board on tomorrow then onto the oak flooring to carry on from the tiles

untitled images

{SAS}TB · 17 Dec 2022 at 09:24

Mickie said:
not if snow covers the drain. one of those plastic covers would keep the snow off though.

Yeah, I'm hoping with the warmth of the water coming out the pipe it would melt through, but good shout if we get another downfall

theone8181 said:
I demand you swivel the tys (spelling?) Round the back so you don't see the snip, and make them all equidistant before you trigger us all .

Errrr, no

Simon said:
Why not do them all the same at least ?!

Why? It's not like I sit looking at it

Chris Wilson · 17 Dec 2022 at 09:59

b0rn2sk8 said:
I’m getting triggered twice, that is properly on the wonk!

Yes, for God's sake straighten up that pipe and put a 30 or 45 degree elbow on the grid end

You could probably get more pipes on that bit if wall if you really try, then it could look like a fence.

{SAS}TB · 17 Dec 2022 at 10:07

It's really not worth the effort

Many many more priorities before pipe run OCD is addressed

Simon · 17 Dec 2022 at 10:31

#prideinwork

theone8181 · 17 Dec 2022 at 13:10

vail3r said:
Did some tiling in the hallway. Used 6mm hardie backer board underneath.

Just need to grout and put skirting board on tomorrow then onto the oak flooring to carry on from the tiles

untitled images

We put similar ones in our entranceway, the only issue is that the design emphasises the not straightness of the walls.

Participant · 17 Dec 2022 at 16:41

@Simon Interesting pics, looks good. I'd be interested in seeing updates here. I'm building up the impetus to replace our ensuite bathroom and am thinking it will be a wet room style with level shower tray.

On that note, what tray / former / drain are you using?

Simon · 17 Dec 2022 at 17:32

Thanks. It’s a marmox shower lay 800x800 x 20mm. It’s sits slightly higher than the 20mm boards due the metal drain plate on the bottom. But as ufh went down everywhere but the former it kind of worked out. Will update with pics later.

Andrew_McP · 18 Dec 2022 at 15:46

Today, aged 59 and 3/4, I became a plumber. By which, I mean I think I've fixed something rather than waiting for an indefinite post-thaw period for a plumber to be available.

And when I say "became a plumber", I mean I replaced a blown compression joint near the garage sink with a pushfit end cap on a hot pipe, and cut through a blown cold water pipe to install another pushfit end cap on that. And they seem to be doing the job.

And when I say "seem" I mean I'm checking them every ten minutes in panic mode, while hearing a million things around the house that sound like DRIPPING!

My DIY history is not great, or confident, but after two nights of baling water because the stopcock dribbles into the system (fortunately not at my expense) and 30 hours of no reply from our plumber, I thought I'd bite the bullet and pretend to be a grown up. It will end in tears... or maybe drips... or full blown rushing... or... 'scuse me, just nipping off to check... again.