What "man jobs" have you done today?
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Installed one side of the cabinet lighting. Still the left side to do once a splitter arrives I was missing.Not in shot is a cable I still need to hide away for the bottom run
Caporegime
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Inherited during purchase so “not guilty”.Who cut those mitres
To be fair, I might have leant on it during sticking the led down so will go back to correct later.
Chaps,
Am going to have a massive push this weekend on the PIR/wiring/ethernet job in the dining room (at least) and potentially (stretch goal) the living room.
The boards I lifted in November basically disintegrated when I pulled them up. I am planning to "try harder" but I think inevitably I'll need to lay some big ass plywood boards to give a decent surface to glue any LVT/solid wood/engineered floor (massive TBC and potentially a fair while awy).
Am I nuts to grab some massive 6mm ply boards from Wickes and throw those down a surface?
2nd question - how do I seal the edges of the floor? What's the best sealant?
Thank you!
Am going to have a massive push this weekend on the PIR/wiring/ethernet job in the dining room (at least) and potentially (stretch goal) the living room.
The boards I lifted in November basically disintegrated when I pulled them up. I am planning to "try harder" but I think inevitably I'll need to lay some big ass plywood boards to give a decent surface to glue any LVT/solid wood/engineered floor (massive TBC and potentially a fair while awy).
Am I nuts to grab some massive 6mm ply boards from Wickes and throw those down a surface?
2nd question - how do I seal the edges of the floor? What's the best sealant?
Thank you!
5.5mm and to overboard the floorboards when I put what is left of them back down.
Soldato
I would go with 9mm as the overboard……5.5mm is pretty flimsy and may creak underfoot
Did wonder this myself. Sounds easier to just replace the broken floorboards with new floorboards or take the whole lot up and lay proper sheets full thickness.
Soldato
Pressure washed the decking this morning and just given the first coat of oil. Applied it using a hard surface mop, my back will thank me 
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In a very manly voice I told the wife to mow the lawn. I feel tired now.
Used a jackhammer to break up the concrete patio.
Filled a large skip last week using a sledgehammer but resorted to using a jackhammer for rest as the concrete turned to 6 inches thick and a sledgehammer was doing nothing except straining my elbow.
Easily another large skip full.
Filled a large skip last week using a sledgehammer but resorted to using a jackhammer for rest as the concrete turned to 6 inches thick and a sledgehammer was doing nothing except straining my elbow.
Easily another large skip full.
So the building still causing me major headaches, the main wall was about nearly 2 inches out from bottom to top so boards dabbed on and bonding to level.
This wall couldn't be boarded out as it would make the entrance too small.
Window came with a to snugger fit so needed chipping out and skimming and broke one of the glass panels, was hoping to have it all grouted this weekend
This wall couldn't be boarded out as it would make the entrance too small.
Window came with a to snugger fit so needed chipping out and skimming and broke one of the glass panels, was hoping to have it all grouted this weekend
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I watched the Gosforth video where he put back pretty ropey boards and said because he was overboarding it wasn't worth the expense.
Tbh I managed to get 2 boards up pretty cleanly today, so my plan is to relay what I can then buy new. The boards will probably sit closer together with the tounges cut so I'll need at least 1 or 2 more boards anyway.
I had considered doing 22mm chippy but seems sacrilege.
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Anyway, last day for Tool Station tomorrow! What do people recommend for...
* expanding foam to fill gaps between poorly cut PIR?
* And is there a genius way to cut PIR beyond a wood saw?
* Also my DeWalt multi-tool blades are weapons grade compared to the Amazon crap I had been buying. Is there any recommendation for decent blades or I'll grab some more DeWalts?
And finally - I have started stripping the wall paper. The plaster seems ok but I want to paint directly onto the wall. What skim can I do myself? I've seen a few roller systems?
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Caporegime
Gave the garden a crew cut then a light scarification. 7 hours all together and now I’m knackered and smell of cat ****.
Made some significant progress in the garden in the last few days. We've gone from a boggy muddy mess to somewhere which is not far off completion. Jobs were:
1) Fit new 2.4m fence posts at the back just beyond the retaining wall to reinstate a fence line at the edge of our boundary. Was a real pig to do as it was a sloping muddy mess.
Managed to get them fixed into the ground as far as possible with spikes then cemented them in.
2) Then set about painting about 45 x 4.8m 38x19mm battens so they could be cut to size and installed in-between the posts to create a slatted fence.
3) Started to paint the side fences too but they are absolutely drinking paint so think it may need a couple more coats to get a nice consistent coat on - or we may decide to keep the washed out look.
4) Had help from the brother in law and a few of his lads to shift in 5 tonne of top soil to bring the level of our lawn up and then lay some new turf down
5) Our kamado BBQ arrived so that got built and burnt in!
6) Oir Aldi garden bistro set arrived too which we put together and can start to use now.
Just have to wait 4-6 weeks for the grass to root in and establish before we can take down the little wire fence we have and officially "open".
only remaining jobs to do are finish painting the fence, shift in a tonne or so of slate chippings to go at the end of the garden and round the borders and then give the patio a jetwash as I was a bit liberal/careless when painting the battens!
I know all of this is useless without pics but I'll try and upload some tomorrow!
1) Fit new 2.4m fence posts at the back just beyond the retaining wall to reinstate a fence line at the edge of our boundary. Was a real pig to do as it was a sloping muddy mess.
Managed to get them fixed into the ground as far as possible with spikes then cemented them in.
2) Then set about painting about 45 x 4.8m 38x19mm battens so they could be cut to size and installed in-between the posts to create a slatted fence.
3) Started to paint the side fences too but they are absolutely drinking paint so think it may need a couple more coats to get a nice consistent coat on - or we may decide to keep the washed out look.
4) Had help from the brother in law and a few of his lads to shift in 5 tonne of top soil to bring the level of our lawn up and then lay some new turf down
5) Our kamado BBQ arrived so that got built and burnt in!
6) Oir Aldi garden bistro set arrived too which we put together and can start to use now.
Just have to wait 4-6 weeks for the grass to root in and establish before we can take down the little wire fence we have and officially "open".
only remaining jobs to do are finish painting the fence, shift in a tonne or so of slate chippings to go at the end of the garden and round the borders and then give the patio a jetwash as I was a bit liberal/careless when painting the battens!
I know all of this is useless without pics but I'll try and upload some tomorrow!
Soldato
Grass cut yesterday and then double run with the scarifier just now...
Onto the core aeration tomorrow followed by top dressing with 70/30 before overseeding on Mon/Tues (weather dependant on the top dressing as you can't do it properly if it's wet)
Onto the core aeration tomorrow followed by top dressing with 70/30 before overseeding on Mon/Tues (weather dependant on the top dressing as you can't do it properly if it's wet)