Interesting point - I have plastic in hessian wrap under the PIR. Is there anything better I can do?
What "man jobs" have you done today?
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Interesting point - I have plastic in hessian wrap under the PIR. Is there anything better I can do?
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Uploaded the roof bars and roof box onto the Mrs' motor
If it's a 40' High Cube I'm interested
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Scribed this board in nice and tight. Was in two minds and took me many hours but probably worth it. Looks like a good finish if I do say so myself
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I did not find any gold/jewelerry in the hole :'(
This was before thickness taken out
After
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I did not find any gold/jewelerry in the hole :'(
This was before thickness taken out
After
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Noticed the bird seed in the garage had been tampered with again, so the mice are obviously back 
Realized where they were getting in, so patched up the brickwork near the bottom of the garage door:
Realized where they were getting in, so patched up the brickwork near the bottom of the garage door:
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Even with the really cold spell past us now, the ice on the drive just isn't clearing so sprinkled on some of the council's finest glitter. Two buckets didn't even make a dent in it. Breaking it up with a sledgehammer was getting nowhere too. The rain just makes it even more treacherous to walk on! It'll just have to thaw out....
It is amazing how small a gap mice and rats can squeeze through - there was a huge rat raiding a bucket of food scraps and stuff left by our backdoor and it was coming and going through a gap at the bottom of the fence barely bigger than my finger.
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Noticed the bird seed in the garage had been tampered with again, so the mice are obviously back
Realized where they were getting in, so patched up the brickwork near the bottom of the garage door:
I put my bird seed in a rodent proof container as extra protection.
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Yeh, I really do need to do this. Should have learned my lesson from the mouse infestation from last year.
Given I ran out of screws, boards and loft legs, I've paused on the loft for a bit. Next job was sorting out the weird Mish mash of handles/no handles/spring latch/no latch -- in any and all combinations. E.g. the little ones room:
One door handle, no latch. The other room has a door handle, a door knob and no latch. The bedroom has two door knobs and a spring latch. Unclear why it ended up like this lol. They clearly had proper handles at one point as they have been reasonably well filled...which made fitting a new latch a nightmare as the drill kept finding filler.
Fin..ish... I'll make it good in due course.
One door handle, no latch. The other room has a door handle, a door knob and no latch. The bedroom has two door knobs and a spring latch. Unclear why it ended up like this lol. They clearly had proper handles at one point as they have been reasonably well filled...which made fitting a new latch a nightmare as the drill kept finding filler.
Fin..ish... I'll make it good in due course.
Soldato
Finished wardrobe, bit of cleaning up to do but glad it's finished!
Soft closers auto close it which is quite cool, ******* to set up considering no walls level and I wanted tight tolerances! Fortunately the pull down rails get down with about 2mm to spare
My dog just wants me to get carpet back upstairs
Soft closers auto close it which is quite cool, ******* to set up considering no walls level and I wanted tight tolerances! Fortunately the pull down rails get down with about 2mm to spare
My dog just wants me to get carpet back upstairs
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I git woken nmby the mrs as a few things had turned off. Turns out the red had tripped, which I assume to have been caused by the heating element failing in the dishwasher. Guess I know what my job is over the bank holiday weekend 
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Your job is to tell her to sort it. Age of equality.I git woken nmby the mrs as a few things had turned off. Turns out the red had tripped, which I assume to have been caused by the heating element failing in the dishwasher. Guess I know what my job is over the bank holiday weekend
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I can do this, we're all equal so if I remove the part, her job can be to put it back and put it all back together
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First stage of sorting out my roof insulation was starting with the hatch to replace the random bit of 30mm celotex that was on it and replaced with 100mm recycled insulation (not itchy too!), held in with gorilla tape. This is the stuff I'll be using (two layers to make it 200mm) in the roof in the coming weeks, removing the old insulation which has fallen to bits and is only <100mm.
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