I get those from a commercial outlet - they are off cuts from cutting pine logs in half and to length to make fence posts - £35 ton now - they seem to have reached peak of saleability as they have a huge pile in yard - When they were £5 -£10 -20 at ton you had to get in quick - £30 and now £35 people won't buy it so I assume they buy ready seasoned hard wood.
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That cost me 20 quid in wood - it's 4x1 treated and thinner bit's are roof lathes and uprights are 2x2- any builders merchant sells them but we have a timber yard locally that sells anything cheaper than builders merchant.
The sheet I bought ages ago on a Lidl bargain day for about a fiver.
That is my worst nightmare - I have one or two flexi pipes in my hot and cold water system - but only 4 yrs old at moment - might leave myself a to do on Reminder Fox to replace them in two yrs time.
I have tons of flexi pipes boxed in in non accessible locations, even though those are old ones that has made me a bit worried, i never imagined one would ever burst like that
I have tons of flexi pipes boxed in in non accessible locations, even though those are old ones that has made me a bit worried, i never imagined one would ever burst like that
I took the bath panel off the other day so I could pull the floor up and let it try out, the wood is stamped 1991 inside the bath, so not the original suite as I thought, still 23 years old though.
I think a partial cause for it going might be the fact that a few months ago we had a new boiler fitted, the new one is a combi boiler, so the hot taps now have virtually full mains pressure opposed to gravity feed from the hot water tank, that probably hasn't helped.
That looks good, neat job! Seems an ideal size and shape room too. Our lounge is long, and the chimney breast is well off centre, so I'm not sure how I'm going to set everything up when I bring it downstairs yet!
My 'man job' today was to diagnose the grinding noise coming from the dishwasher. However after checking the basics, I got an electric shock when touching the kitchen sink and the dishwasher at the same time!
Put my multimeter across the dishwasher and the sink and found this:
So unplugged it straight away!
It was only a basic cheap one, it's lasted 3 or 4 years so done well I guess. Especially seeing as I have put numerous car parts through it
My shed from TigerSheds (8x6 shiplap) got delivered today, so this evening after dinner I set about the underside of the floor with some old engine oil, leave it to soak in over night and give it another coat when home from work tomorrow, should stop it from soaking up and moisture from the stone bearers I'm going to lay below it.
Out with the old white and silver version of the akasa eclipse 64, and in with the new 750D (very happy with this case).
I still need some new cables though to match the blue/black theme aswell as some new fans to match my cpu fan so this isn't the final finished build, but I just transferred my parts over today.
Also, my new black fan controller hasn't arrived yet, so if you are wondering what the silver box is next to my hard drive cage, its two akasa jr fan controllers just as temporary. its not as clean cable wise as you pro's but im happy with what I have so far, it this case puts my old one to shame!! I used to run the side panel off my old eclipse 64 as the air cooling was shocking, so
it was a absolute dust magnet. and now in this 750d, the temperatures are lower than they was before, even with a side panel on. very impressed.
Also, this case makes my new 24" Asus monitor look tiny!!!
(Re-uploaded images, last one didn't work for some reason)
I just got my new fan controller installed turns out it was delivered to my neighbour, so here she is! looking neater now, I can't wait to get some new cables, one of them corsair generation cable kits, and some new black sata cables, and mainly new af140 quite edition fans, and two fans for on the roof of the case. then when funds are climbing again, going to grab a corsair H110 water cooler for the cpu equipped with the two 140's im getting for the roof of the case. Cant actually remember the last time I was this excited about my computer, went through the phase of put as many neons and led fans that's possible in a case in 2003, then in 2007 went for the not bothered what it looks like as long as it has power. now iv taken up this trend of make it look stylish and neat! though it costs a lot of money to do so haha.
Also if you wonder why only one graphics card is lit up, I have ulps enabled, I think its a great feature for desktop use
Right.. Thanks to my own stupidity of bricking my motherboard bios, I had nothing to do for a few days, no computer. and I sat and looked at this room I spend most of my time in when im home and indoors, after going through all my teenage life starting to paint it, then giving up after one wall, it ended up, 7 different colours, brown, white, blue, cream, alsorts. you name it, it was probably in here!
So I decided, (the missis decided) Its time to sort this room out once and for all, So now, I am going to show you two pictures of how TERRIBLE my room had gotten, Hence its covered with posters iv picked up over the years from world motocross events just to hide everything. (yeah im a biker btw )
Here is my old room with my new 750d
And a panoramic of my old room
Soo... You can see how terrible it all is, step 1. take them posters down, and see just how worse it can get.
Yeah it does get worse haha. Unfortunately, I didn't take any pictures of 2 days, 9 hours per day absolute grafting, knocking out built in wardrobes that was installed in the 60s, and stripping wallpaper off, and off the roof that I think had been glued on by the hulk, it took 9 hours just stripping it off even with a steamer....
Okay, so, as mentioned I bricked my old motherboard, so now that my room is almost done (pictures soon to follow in a moment keep reading). lets get that old motherboard out:
old and new
in with the new
And in with the new 16gb ram, fed up of running out of memory when I was using 4gb for the past 4 years
right now my system is up and running, computer and desk is installed, im now sat a few feet more to the right of where I was before, infact my computer is now inside where there was a built in wardrobe, which had a Christmas tree inside from the 80s lol up where the printer is in this picture, I left the bottom of that part of the cupboard in as a nice shelf:
Now to finish off a few bits and bobs. !
Baileys bottles Installed:
Now to paint them shelves !
Now all is looking good, lets get some panoramic pictures of my room, or well, just photos, btw I never apologised for my bad indoor photography! haha. also its dark outside now so just did the best I could with the lighting with my iphone.... here goes! all painted and done....... 18-20hrs.. (2 days work)...... (with help from the missis )
No idea what the.. is on tv, but yeah bad panoramic moment.
Also, bad panoramic picture as you can tell with the lighting on this one.
Looks so much better, my photography skills don't help in the slightest, but the room looks ten times bigger in person, I cant get over how good it looks.
btw the tv I just angle towards me when im on my pc, (42" Panasonic plasma)
Whats left to do, is new black curtains, and some blackout blinds instead of using two pair of curtains (cream curtains on one side then black on the other side). need to move that chest of tall draws) and need to move my clothes back in here, haven't dared yet incase theres even one drop of paint not dry. and as for my pc, need to install my new black sata cables that have arrived instead of the old ugly yellow and red ones that's in there now. and all is good.
also moving my desk to the right 3 foot, my pc is closer to the wall, and this corner of the house NEVER gets sun light at any time of the day, coldest part of the house, temperatures have dropped by 5c load!
Now, time for a new cig with my updated specs:
And now, will leave you with some shots of my computer hope you enjoyed reading!
(and yes that's a 2005 razer diamond black plasma blue Limited edition, still going strong!)
Amongst other things, rummaging through the dust in my filled up bagless vacuum bucket (did it in my garden) to recover a bunch of coins it sucked up from the hard to get at places between the seats of my car. 90p!
Just been for trailer full of logs to fill up this
Now find I have half trailer full left so need to make another log store.
While loading two transit type flatbeds came in - both advertising on side "Logs for sale" - so £35 ton wonder what they sell it for.
Iceshock - very nice transformation - wifes bedroom looked like that before we got married - soon got her tidy.
I have just fitted a roller blackout blind - you will find you get light all round the edges - they do some that run in channels but for my window it was £270 - heavy black curtains might do the job.
Cleared out and levelled new corner of the garden, loads of rumble, 2 foot weeds, and most annoyingly the ground was full of roots from all the trees/bushes originally there.
Took flipping all day but now ready for this to be built out next week.
EDIT: Don't believe I was, thought I was using the following link:-
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