What "man jobs" have you done today?

We have a seperate garage and fence that connects.. last autumn I pulled the creeper off the house.. today it finally was removed from the fence and tomorrow will be the garage roof.

Now when I say remove - the existing trellis on the top of the fence pulled out of if it's fixtures in the recent high winds. the diameter of the creeper stem was an inch thick in places.. so once the section was off - a circular saw proved the fastest route to fit in the car.. So that's one FULL ford focus car load just for what was sat on the fence! The weight was OTT for the top the fence too..

It's a shame it's a large, well established plant that they have put in place but then throughout it didn't need managing..

The garage sprawl is also big but is currently wilting heavily after the ground stems were cut today. The gutters are splid leaf matter!

I've kept it's main stems - there's foliage on that and it can then grow in a controlled form again.. it gives lovely green appearance and then turns red in autumn before dropping all the leaves.
 
Last weekend I made a new pond UVC filter cover out of decking.. once she has made her mind up what colour .. I'll stain it then varnish it so that nothing bad gets into the pond.

I'll also be adding a 100ltr slimline water butt onto the garage so I need to move a rose bush and fit that at some point.

I think I know where the pond leak is too..
 
Was out at 9am this morning sanding and painting some low-level wooden soffits & fascias now that the new wall and window has been fitted in the garage conversion.
 
Bit more work on the house I bought a couple months ago, decided to remove the old art deco style monstrosity of a fireplace and open it up. Need to brush the brick work back and re-point it, then I'll have the outside re-plastered. Shall drop in some nice tiles or stone for the hearth and then it's ready for a wood burner later on :) Most of the messy/heavy work is out of the way and it makes the room seem so much bigger.

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I need to rip a similar one out of my house, my place was built in 1853 and has a really nice slate bit in front of the fire which is half covered by the monstrosity, I'm hoping they didn't drill into it!
 
Hit a problem when chasing cables up the wall to where the TV will be mounted, the hearth was blocked with breeze blocks but its the bricks between those and the lintel that were being held in place by nothing more than witchcraft.

But every cloud has a silver lining, dismissed the idea of running cat5e down the chimney when I first moved in. Thought it'd be too hard to fish out at the bottom..not any more :D

Going upstairs I now have 2 for HDMI to the bedroom, 2 for data with 1 spare and I'm keeping a spare behind where it will be rebricked for emergencies. Has saved me the job of running it outside the house which I thought was the next least destructive option.

Wish every job was as easy as that one...

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Hmm beware of condensation running down the cables.

My man job was to pull down the creeper off the garage roof today. It came off on one piece like a bad hair wig.. it even had soil made up of old leaves it had started bed in.. the gutters full with composted leaves and there are a couple of spots where it had lifted the roof tiles on my side. it's also behind the gutter so I'll need to take that out and then redo..

After cutting the entire lot up with a secateur (ics) I now have a massive blister hole in my finger and the entire lot filled the car again..

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To the left is the fence, now without the 30cm high trellis or creeper woven into it..
 
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jcr said:
Cut down a castor plant and trimmed Back the girlfriends overgrown bush.
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Giggerty :p

Me, I stuck some wheelie bin stickers on my wheelie bins. Not just any old numbered stickers, but custom made ones with my street name on too. Ebay bargain.

Thought it was about time after I found my bin in someone else's garden after bin day the other week. :mad:
 
Tidied my garage after 3 months of it lying dormant after my DIY kitchen refit. NEVER AGAIN will I let it get so untidy. All's left now is to evict about 20 billion spiders and clear about 4 tons of dust with the garden blower. :cool:

Even treated the garage to a spanking heavy duty RS workbench I rescued from the scrap pile at work (quite why it was there I don't know), making my DIY workbench wood stockpile redundant and now mostly landfill. Also managed to sell on 25m² of floor tiles that I didn't end up using for my kitchen within about 30 minutes of advertising them on Gumtree, thus liberating even more space in the garage.

Now, there's a second, identical workbench in the bin at work, not sure I have room for it though...
 
My 10" Clarke Table Top saw died a death last week and new one is around 160 quid - so stripped it out to frame - cut a piece of 1/4" poly carb to fit over the top - got my old BD Proline circular saw out and mounted it under the poly carb top. fitted 13amp plug inside controlled from original starter - fitted the original blade guard and now have a smaller working Table top saw. - Back to cutting dustbin loads of starting sticks.

Going to buy a cheap circular saw for other jobs now.

Dave
 
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