What "man jobs" have you done today?

LuckyBenski said:
Took Thursday and Friday off to get spare bedroom ready for guests... ended up going a bit off plan and doing general finishing up of jobs I'd been putting off. This included pulling about 5 network/RF cables to their final destinations as I'd left the roll of them sticking out the top floor landing. Cutting an access hole in the ceiling and pulling the final light switch cable. Fitting 3x light fittings and 2x switches.

I was really pleased to find when I was last working on this over 6 months ago, I had the foresight to drill holes for the data cable run, so I went in expecting to get the tools out and instead just needed to do the grunt work of reaching under floorboards and tugging on things.

My hands are sore, blistered and scraped but there are SO MANY less cables sticking out of random gaps in floors/walls now :)

Tomorrow I may run one or two extra light fittings depending on my partner's assessment of the rooms. Then it's just tidy up and make good for guests.

Doing it in 28 degrees indoors wasn't the most fun!
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Nice :cool:
 
Simon42 said:
I think that is the key challenge DIYer's have with plastering by trying to go slow on each coat and get too good a finish at an early stage when the plaster is too soft. With plastering it's about getting each coat on quickly so an area dries at a similar time, and then spending time later on to trowel them several times in slightly different ways to fill dips and remove trowel lines. It's amazing how much you can fix/improve on subsequent passes/coats and that's what the pros do.
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This along with a spray bottle and a slurry mix for top coats are essential
 
Just put two of those 70mm eves vents in - one each end of shed just up under edge weather board.
I now have a petrol can (plastic and new) of pertol in there and you can smell it when you open the door.
Hope this is a fix.
 
China Man said:
Fixing the oven door as it spring open by itself when hot, only a adjustable spike with a nut but I will make it a big deal so wife will stop nag me to do other stuff :)
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IvanDobskey said:
Couple of small jobs. Added a third hinge to the gate as I picked it up for a couple of quid in a clearance :p

Also took the front off the oven door to tighten a loose handle.
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lucky my wife can't read this.....our door handle does rattle too :)
 
Rebuilt the planters outside the front of my house after a neighbour clattered them with their car then denied any knowledge. Until I sent them a sarcastic snip from the cctv showing them balling up a reverse straight into them.. all good but a job I could have done without in today's heat
 
Mowed the lawns, watered the indoor plants and cleaned the cooker hood extractor.

It was pretty grim, I’ve not cleaned the hood before in 3 years of being here and I doubt the previous owner ever did. New carbon filter ordered and I cleaned the steel grill things in the dishwasher.
 
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skyripper said:
Rebuilt the planters outside the front of my house after a neighbour clattered them with their car then denied any knowledge. Until I sent them a sarcastic snip from the cctv showing them balling up a reverse straight into them.. all good but a job I could have done without in today's heat
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Talking of heat... over the last weekend and this last week, I've been sanding, filling, sanding again, applying a base coat, another base coat, some external caulk and then 4 coats of paint to our front door and frame.
At the end of which my wonderful wife tells me she's ordered new door furniture, weather seal, spyhole, rain deflector... and letterbox.

And the new letterbox was 5mm bigger then the old one in every direction meaning I had to spend yesterday cutting out (from my 'finished' door) a new aperture - first with a multitool, then when that wasnt going well, with some cutting discs and the dremel and a copius amount of swearing and even more sweating.
I would have used the angle grinder but that was going to make a right old mess with sparks and dust and I really didnt fancy days of painting again. Utterly horrible job to do when I thought I'd finished and was happy with the door!

Door is was metal skinned composite btw, not wood.
 
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Uhtred said:
Mowed the lawns, watered the indoor plants and cleaned the cooker hood extractor.

It was pretty grim, I’ve not cleaned the hood before in 3 years of being here and I doubt the previous owner ever did. New carbon filter ordered and I cleaned the steel grill things in the dishwasher.
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Hate cleaning cooking hood or any surface with built up of cooking oil and dust......everything is sticky. My last attempt end up having to use a credit card to scrap off the thick layer of oil only then start using hot soapy water. I feel ya
 
How do you guys cope with feedback on your DIY?

My little one was away this weekend. She came back and needed the toilet. Whilst in there, she shouted "daddy, daddy, there's a crack!".

She was pointing at one of the mitre's I'd done on the dado rail :(
 
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dlockers said:
"daddy, daddy, there's a crack!"
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Oh I've heard that one before, just in a different context.

Anyway I had a good one tonight.

There has been this odd - and increasingly powerful over the recent warmer days - meaty fish smell from the hall. Wife had gone on the internet and discovered knowledge that dodgy electrics can apparently (and this is news to me) smell of fish.

I have recently fitted downlights to two bedrooms, so she asking if we're safe, should I check the wiring, are we all about to be incinerated, etc.

Other important information: we have a cat. Wife's idea.

Immediately thinking of the cat, I ask her if she's looked under the sideboard and boot bench to see if there's anything there. Oh yes, I've checked and there's nothing.

So I look just to be sure, and there's a rotting mouse carcass under the sideboard.

That's my DIY feedback; assuming my DIY skills are about to kill everyone rather than suspecting the cat.
 
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Oh I've heard that one before, just in a different context.

Anyway I had a good one tonight.

There has been this odd - and increasingly powerful over the recent warmer days - meaty fish smell from the hall. Wife had gone on the internet and discovered knowledge that dodgy electrics can apparently (and this is news to me) smell of fish.

I have recently fitted downlights to two bedrooms, so she asking if we're safe, should I check the wiring, are we all about to be incinerated, etc.

Other important information: we have a cat. Wife's idea.

Immediately thinking of the cat, I ask her if she's looked under the sideboard and boot bench to see if there's anything there. Oh yes, I've checked and there's nothing.

So I look just to be sure, and there's a rotting mouse carcass under the sideboard.

That's my DIY feedback; assuming my DIY skills are about to kill everyone rather than suspecting the cat.
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The wife always blames me for anything that happens in the world
 
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