What "man jobs" have you done today?

[{SAS}TB]

Another scorchio glorious day today.

Far too nice to be inside (even if WFH.... Teams or outside in the sun ??)

So ....

Last of the logs split and just need stacking in the store. A day or two in the sun won't harm anyways

 

[Armageus]

Spent yesterday morning making some frames to sit on top of my veg boxes, to try and keep the birds and whatever else has been eating my plants away

Plenty of work still to do down this end of the garden, but this area was just a load of weeds at the start of the year - so far most of the earth has been dug and levelled, I've made the veg boxes and the compost bin, and started putting down some gravel path.

 

[dlockers]

Chaps - where does a broke man buy worktops? I haven't got the budget for quartz etc. Looking for decent laminate, or maybe I'll end up with wood. Or something in between?

 

[{SAS}TB]

Can try Worktop Express?

I bought a solid timber piece for my study desk and was the best price I could find - not sure on laminates etc but quality of what I got was great

Worktop Express

The UK's leading online worktop specialist

www.worktop-express.co.uk

 

[Armageus]

Chaps - where does a broke man buy worktops? I haven't got the budget for quartz etc. Looking for decent laminate, or maybe I'll end up with wood. Or something in between?

Aside from the usual DIY sheds, somewhere like

Kitchen Worktops | Kitchen Countertops | Worktop Express

Shop from the UK's largest range of Kitchen Worktops. Next day Delivery Available with a Price Match Promise, and 40k+ positive Trustpilot reviews.

www.worktop-express.co.uk

 

[413x]

Tortured myself once again by skimming a tiny wall in the upstairs of my dormer. Really don't know why i keep putting myself through plastering as I absolutely detest it..
Probably because I'm cheap

This is the one DIY job I will not even attempt. I've seem them doing it. It would take me 10x as long. And look 20x as ****

 

[dlockers]

Took a moment this evening to add a socket to the new comms board. I decided against fitting 6 sockets "proper" sockets and just re-used my 10 year old IKEA multi tap with a slightly shortened wire

^ first fix, I need to make up some patch cables that fit perfectly and mount the Hive onto the wall. I may put a socket top right for the wireless gear to save trailing the wires.

Interestingly though, I had thought the immersion had been spliced into for this socket, but it turns out this socket is run off of the extension/utility room "ring" (although it is just a radial).

That means whatever I thought the immersion was..........is doing nothing:

I then realised this is a 4 core so probably not the immersion wire itself (well, it isn't - because the immersion still works), so could be the old signal wire for the 3 way valve/tank?

Anyway it is disconnected and I'm pretty sure I still have heating

 

[Sin_Chase]

After moving in 9 months ago finally got around to ordering some new filters for the MHRV Syste. Presumed the previous home owners must have changed them at least realtively frequently. Would seem not, as the below Intake and Return filter images suggest!

 

[Richie]

Anyone else just Google MHRV?

 

[DXP55]

I thought all those were ripped out years ago?

 

[Participant]

Anyone else just Google MHRV?

Erm yes absolutely. Niche initialisms pee me off (slightly).

 

[Chris Wilson]

Strimmed and cut off a load of excess tree branches and bush branches in the peafowl aviary and walked them to the fire 100 yards away, the peafowl weren't happy and went into hiding. Got about a quarter of the branches moved and got fed up

Moved the bull into the field with the cattle crush ready for TB testing tomorrow.

Had beer, going to bed....

 

[aVdub]

Good luck on the Bull TB test today.

And by that I mean the tester and anyone that gets within 100 metres of that beast

 

[Sin_Chase]

I thought all those were ripped out years ago?

How come? Pretty common place in new builds to help meet SAP regulations.

As for the acronym - Mechnical Heat Recovery Ventillation. Sorry, didnt think it was that obscure!

 

[b0rn2sk8]

MVHR are great bits of tech and pretty much a requirement for the best thermal performance.

 

[dirtychinchilla]

Anyone else just Google MHRV?

It's MVHR!

I thought all those were ripped out years ago?

MVHR is going to be one of the big things that helps UK properties save heat. So definitely not. They're being installed in more and more places across the country because they reduce heat loss. New buildings are virtually air tight (or should be), so mechanical ventilation is a must. The heat recovery saves energy.

 

[DXP55]

Seems I mistook it for hot air ducted heating from 70's

 

[BennyC]

Worktops went in today.

Cut a hole in the rear of one set of drawers to give myself space to work as access from the bin compartment was just wide enough to get one arm through. You can see the dishwasher on the other side of the sink. Compression fittings and one hand don't really work...

These taps had been set in a ‘temporary’ piece of 25mm MDF for about 5-6 months!

 

[{SAS}TB]

Another glorious day and WFH, so ....

Last pile of splits to be stacked in the store

Other large store

Looking a lot tidier !

 

[Chris Wilson]

Another glorious day and WFH, so ....

Last pile of splits to be stacked in the store

Other large store

Looking a lot tidier !

Very neat, but if you get sick of the tidy look just give me a call, I can **** up the tidy look in a couple of days, I'm almost professional at it...