What "man jobs" have you done today?

dLockers said:
Just understood that my immersion wire has a spur for what is basically my internet/Comms sockets. Is this the end of the world? I need to rejig the understairs cupboard and could do with a few more sockets.
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Is it all behind a 13A fuse and made of a suitable cable? If so, it’s probably fine.
 
Kids birthday today so didn't get much done. I did make sufficient progress on the under stairs cupboard though; which had been nagging me for ages. The plan is to put the switches on the MDF left hand side, along with the 6 gang power supply - then leave any wireless gear wall mounted (Hue, Hive, AP) to give them half a chance of maintaining signal. I'll then build a drawer for the first half, and a door on the second half for the vacuum.

I also glued the skirting back on as once again there is an airbrick at skirting board height, lol..ffs. The 22mm offcuts cover holes in the boards that have been made over the decades to relocate gas and electric (y).

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Thought I would post here rather than make a sepate thread but have a tiling quondary

The house we have moved into has a wetroom type bathroom but some of the floor grout started to crack. I cleared it all out and regrouted the floor but two areas are still cracking annoyingly. One of the two areas that is crakcing is right under the shower and its slowly leaking into the kitchen downstairs so needs sorting. Am I missing something obvious or should i bite the bullet and get someone in to do it. Ive used water resistant grout and couldnt see anything more appropriate from scanning online.
 
MBL said:
Thought I would post here rather than make a sepate thread but have a tiling quondary

The house we have moved into has a wetroom type bathroom but some of the floor grout started to crack. I cleared it all out and regrouted the floor but two areas are still cracking annoyingly. One of the two areas that is crakcing is right under the shower and its slowly leaking into the kitchen downstairs so needs sorting. Am I missing something obvious or should i bite the bullet and get someone in to do it. Ive used water resistant grout and couldnt see anything more appropriate from scanning online.
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Why is it cracking? Is there an issue with the floor?
If there is give in the floor then it will likely keep occuring.
 
MBL said:
The tiles themselves seem in place from what I can tell and dont move at all.
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Maybe it's what the tiles are on that's flexing slightly, don't people put some sort of thick sheet down? Thought it was called concrete board or something? How long did you leave it to set before showering? Was it floor grout you used?
 
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MBL said:
Thought I would post here rather than make a sepate thread but have a tiling quondary

The house we have moved into has a wetroom type bathroom but some of the floor grout started to crack. I cleared it all out and regrouted the floor but two areas are still cracking annoyingly. One of the two areas that is crakcing is right under the shower and its slowly leaking into the kitchen downstairs so needs sorting. Am I missing something obvious or should i bite the bullet and get someone in to do it. Ive used water resistant grout and couldnt see anything more appropriate from scanning online.
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Once water has made its way through, the whole lot needs ripping out as your joists may be rotten etc.
 
If water is leaking through then you have issues. Grout is a final layer of aesthetic finishing it is not to be relied upon for water tightness. Its a lift up and fix job I'm afraid.
 
Just to add it doesnt seem like much water is coming through as the cracks are pretty small (in the shower area anyway) and the area you can see on the kitchen ceiling is pretty small, 5cm x 5cm ish but maybe thats only the visible bit.
 
Sorry for the stup question but then what is the protective finish for a wet room type bathroom? There are floor tiles which feed into a drain in the shower area. If a leak water is visible on the kitchen ceiling does this suggest something else other than the cracks in the floor tile grout?
 
Bit of outdoor maintenance. Power washed some paving down and cleared grass/weeds between the flags. Debating if to fill in those gaps & cracks with sand or something more permanent than sand
 
MBL said:
Sorry for the stup question but then what is the protective finish for a wet room type bathroom? There are floor tiles which feed into a drain in the shower area. If a leak water is visible on the kitchen ceiling does this suggest something else other than the cracks in the floor tile grout?
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It should have been properly waterproofed/'tanked'. It's quite a process prior to tiling itself. It sounds like your floor has failed, but more concerning, your tanking/water proofing had failed (or hasn't been done properly).
 
LuckyBenski said:
Finished sanding the lounge and did a mega hoover, took dust sheets off and wiped the wall down. Mist coat tomorrow!
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What are you using for sanding? I'm tempted to rent a mega machine as I definitely need to do all the other walls (removing lining paper in favour of just painting the plaster). It took me absolutely ages with a 125mm RO....
 
dLockers said:
What are you using for sanding? I'm tempted to rent a mega machine as I definitely need to do all the other walls (removing lining paper in favour of just painting the plaster). It took me absolutely ages with a 125mm RO....
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We're using hand sander things, where you clip in a sheet of paper. Yeah, really slow. Girlfriend was interested in one of the electric pole sanders with extraction when we originally looked at removing the textured finish. In the end we skimmed instead.

But then I think we've massively overdone the sanding TBH. I reckon we've spent 7-8 hours on it which is far too long for 2 people. 11 linear metres of wall so about 25-26m².

I'm going to see the results and then make a call on whether we over-prepped or it was worth it.
 
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MBL said:
Sorry for the stup question but then what is the protective finish for a wet room type bathroom? There are floor tiles which feed into a drain in the shower area. If a leak water is visible on the kitchen ceiling does this suggest something else other than the cracks in the floor tile grout?
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It's not necessarily about the finish. If the room is on the ground floor with concrete underneath, it could be fine. If it's on the first floor, there needs to be flexible matting underneath the tiles. If this isn't present, the grout is likely to crack. I had this problem in my old house - tiled the bathroom upstairs myself and didn't put the mat in and it cracked. I had someone re-do it at some point because it had become really dodgy, and the same thing happened as I ignored the mat (was selling the house, didn't care).
 
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