What "man jobs" have you done today?

In addition to the above, rubber backed carpets not requiring underlay were quite prevalent in the 1980's. Newspapers were laid tp prevent sticking to the floor. As also they were not included in the house purchase often. The rubber backing did turn to dust eventually.
 
Hagar said:
In addition to the above, rubber backed carpets not requiring underlay were quite prevalent in the 1980's. Newspapers were laid tp prevent sticking to the floor. As also they were not included in the house purchase often. The rubber backing did turn to dust eventually.
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We’ve moved into a house that has this carpet in the back bedroom. And the rubber does crumble and turn to dust as you say. Due to be replaced shortly.
 
Hagar said:
In addition to the above, rubber backed carpets not requiring underlay were quite prevalent in the 1980's. Newspapers were laid tp prevent sticking to the floor. As also they were not included in the house purchase often. The rubber backing did turn to dust eventually
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I've found that in my 1996 build. I've heard of people taking carpets, but surely that only works in the case of it being a smaller room?
 
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2 days off and with help of my dad with me managed to get the sub base down on first day , inspection drain cover measured up. Got half of the kandla grey slab area now layed and inspection cover layed . No pointing yet between the slabs

Back to work tomorrow so probably won't be able to continue with this for couple of weeks

My back is buggered
 
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Decided to tackle this corner of the garden where the honeysuckle had been blown off the fence, grown over everything and the knocked the buddleia down with it. I always seem to pick the hottest days for these things.

I did have a brief moment where one of the posts didn’t seem to want to go in. Hoping the posts hold the honeysuckle back and that it can grow back on the fence and then over the posts.

In the spring I’ll cut some of the buddleia back so that it bushes up more and hopefully now I’ve rescued the other plants they can do the same. I also have a Viburnum to the left that will hopefully do it’s thing and grow big.

 
Ran around 50m of cable down my garden and put yet another security camera up due to my nextdoor neighbour being an antisocial ****.

Needs crimping tomorrow and cable running around the outside of the house at some point (currently through an upstairs window) but wasn't a job I expected to be doing tonight when I got home :(
 
Chaps,

Lose end today - might buy a nail gun to finish off the log store. Is the Titan thing okay? I really don't want to spend mega bucks.
 
theone8181 said:
Naa those nail guns they use in the USA which use .22 rounds :D .
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I had a course on one of those - A Hilti I think - It would ram a threaded shank into 1/4" thick steel frame.

Never did get to use one in ernest. Good old days - can you imagine the uproar if you could buy one these days - I assume they are not used as never seen one advertised in years.
 
iron_monkey said:
Needing a nailgun is a great excuse to get a compressor.
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Don't............... I have already been down that rabbit hole once before (Machine Mart/ Impact Gun for removing wheel nuts).

Spent the day "pottering" and killing some annoying jobs:

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Pipe boxing.

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Top pelmet and bottom whatever it is called. Also swapped sockets, plastered and painted the wall. The kitchen show is living up there until I box in the gas pipe and put shelves up.

For my shelves, I've found a wicked reclamation yard - so got 1.8m of scaff for £12.

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After much internal debate I attached the filler panel proud to the door. It is about 0.5mm too big annoyingly, but I'm hoping my eye will simply unsee it.

Dead now. Plan tomorrow is to rip up the floor, insulate, re-floor. Then see what the time is and start the living room re-wire/floor job.
 
dlockers said:
Don't............... I have already been down that rabbit hole once before (Machine Mart/ Impact Gun for removing wheel nuts).

Spent the day "pottering" and killing some annoying jobs:

NwGcMqw.jpg

Pipe boxing.

Bltfno7.jpg

Top pelmet and bottom whatever it is called. Also swapped sockets, plastered and painted the wall. The kitchen show is living up there until I box in the gas pipe and put shelves up.

For my shelves, I've found a wicked reclamation yard - so got 1.8m of scaff for £12.

yI9unlR.jpg

After much internal debate I attached the filler panel proud to the door. It is about 0.5mm too big annoyingly, but I'm hoping my eye will simply unsee it.

Dead now. Plan tomorrow is to rip up the floor, insulate, re-floor. Then see what the time is and start the living room re-wire/floor job.
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Possibly very carefully dremel the bottom edge?
 
Yeah you need something that soaks into the plaster and gives the following paint something to bind to. An emulsion with 10-20% water or I've even seen some decorators dilute some PVA in water to prime new plaster. If you've had no peeling your good.
 
DXP55 said:
I had a course on one of those - A Hilti I think - It would ram a threaded shank into 1/4" thick steel frame.

Never did get to use one in ernest. Good old days - can you imagine the uproar if you could buy one these days - I assume they are not used as never seen one advertised in years.
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"The lock picking lawyer" on YouTube was using one the other day to see how tough some super duper padlock was. It was very tough indeed! The attempts were definitely more brutal than "picking" :)
 
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