What "man jobs" have you done today?

Past two days in the evenings ripping up a 9m2 decking boards , frame, which was rotton, and some concrete. Loading it in the car and running it down the tip en route to work in the mornings

I'm tired , no more for a few days
 
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Can anyone recommend under counter kitchen lights? I had Ikea ones previously which worked well. They seemed to have memory for brightnes so you could smart plug the on and off feature??
 
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Pretty much finished work in the extension now. Started digging the foundations on the 17th April and just had building control sign off so I’m quite pleased with myself!

I’ve done everything myself and saved at least 20k compared to the quotes we had for it
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If you don't mind saying, what was the total cost?
 
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First day for ages without any rain so I fixed the leaking roof window on my outdoor kitchen. The acrylic sheet I used had warped slightly in the sun and had lifted so I added moser fixings and had some flash in the shed so used that to make sure it’s all sealed.

Also chopped some more wood up :p

 
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DJMK4 said:
Past two days in the evenings ripping up a 9m2 decking boards , frame, which was rotton, and some concrete. Loading it in the car and running it down the tip en route to work in the mornings

I'm tired , no more for a few days
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What you putting down in its place? Decking again? I put some of this down for a friend a month ago. https://www.composite-prime.com/product/redux It has a soft touch to it, nice wide boards. Its not cheap at £75 a length but for a small area it works well.
 
vail3r said:
First day for ages without any rain so I fixed the leaking roof window on my outdoor kitchen. The acrylic sheet I used had warped slightly in the sun and had lifted so I added moser fixings and had some flash in the shed so used that to make sure it’s all sealed.

Also chopped some more wood up :p

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Looks bob on that!
 
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What you putting down in its place? Decking again? I put some of this down for a friend a month ago. https://www.composite-prime.com/product/redux It has a soft touch to it, nice wide boards. Its not cheap at £75 a length but for a small area it works well.
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No Im instead putting down some sub-base, sharp sand cement and laying Some kandla grey indian sandstone which I have found at a a decent independent place by me . They stock loads of slabs porcelain, Indian sandstone, they don't do concrete.

Given the price of wood is around £11-12? For a length of deck maybe. You have to worry about wood rot which I don't really want. Composit decking would have been another choice.

The kandla grey slabs are 600x900 very good quality they have a big display so you can see different types of slab setups they have at this place. Quoted me £14.99 excl vat for each slab and they would split a bigger pack as I would need 9m2, around £287 (exc delivery) which is £50-80 or I could somehow grab them (not got a big enough car)

Just going to use a hand tamper to whack down sub base and get level right to hopefully allow water to run away from house when the slabs are layed

Need to do some research on drainage and if I can just use aggregate against the house or if it's better to put drain tubes in?
 
Best practice is to get the water to run away from the house but if thats not possible a drainage system to take the water. Use a full bed of mortar, no dot and dab. Priming the back of slabs is the done thing these days. It stops any mortar bleed through and once down they wont move. If the slabs are uncalibrated go to the yard and pick your own. Its only a small area (15-17 slabs). Uncalibrated will be 15mm-25mm thick giving you deep rivens usually on a corner. It can get tricky if you have too many like this. Kandla can rust and it will "scar" if you pressure wash it too aggressively. I'd go for a contrasting grout as if you use a matching grey the patio tends to look like a concrete slab if there is little variation in the paving.
 
Got rid of about 100kg of cardboard, and then hit screwfix for my extractor fan gear. I then decided to just push through and get all the major plastering done. What's left is a job for polyfill.

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Another little kitchen job. The fitter didn't bother securing the grille under the wine fridge, he just wedged it there and hoped I wouldn't notice. Typical Wickes fitter.

So I got some plastic blocks and screwed one either side to fix it in place.
 
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