Neighbour a few doors up just messaged my wife and said they have a mixer if I want to borrow it! Hallelujah!
What "man jobs" have you done today?
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23 rads? Holy crap... I've only got 9
How many rooms you got?
It’s a 4 bed house (2900 SQF) but each bedroom has an en-suite and our bedroom has a changing room, radiators everywhere
You poor poor Scrooge McDuckIt’s a 4 bed house (2900 SQF) but each bedroom has an en-suite and our bedroom has a changing room, radiators everywhere
You poor poor Scrooge McDuck
Ha! It’s in Shropshire and the bank own half of it
not quite Gucci belt status.Doesn't that just mean the tap is in the way of reaching the handle??
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took my dad to pick up his newpapers. I'm pretty sure that counts as a 'man job'
Spent all of yesterday screwing down all the 1950s square edge floorboards in our soon to be new bedroom. It took a long time because there’s a fair few cables and pipes. All done and no leaks or zaps… feeling it today after being on my knees for 6+ hours.
Timco C2 clamp fix screws would highly recommend for this if anyone is planning it. I pilot holed everything but those screws pull the boards super tight to the joists. Walking over the floor now it’s silent. No creaking at all. Glad I chose to do this.
Timco C2 clamp fix screws would highly recommend for this if anyone is planning it. I pilot holed everything but those screws pull the boards super tight to the joists. Walking over the floor now it’s silent. No creaking at all. Glad I chose to do this.
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Walked the dog, washed the dog, cleaned the pond pump before it ****** down, now relaxing.
It’s a 4 bed house (2900 SQF) but each bedroom has an en-suite and our bedroom has a changing room, radiators everywhere
That just sounds like an awful lot of cleaning
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Fitted the second half of my lego storage. Need to cut the 2 halves of the shelf to fit across the top, but the end is in sight . I know the picture is off, believe it or not that's a hook that was there when we moved in, so I don't know how they measured it that far out.
. I know the picture is off, believe it or not that's a hook that was there when we moved in, so I don't know how they measured it that far out.
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This is exactly why I'm not planning on moving. Our 3/4 bed townhouse is about as much as I can manage to clean on my ownThat just sounds like an awful lot of cleaning
Cursing. Crying. Swearing like a pirate.
TV has been off and on the wall a few times, and each time I'm saying "we need to stop pulling the TV out to max extension, the fixings aren't good enough", but because this is weekend 5 of painting and decorating and fitting skirting and beading.. I haven't sorted them. And we need it pulled out to see it while the sitting room is in chaos. Cos the old sofa is in the wrong place at the mo.
Well the bloody thing committed suicide this morning while I was in the garage and due to a new sofa turning up this coming Tuesday I can't repair the wall until other jobs are done.
So.. plasterboard finding tomorrow.. chopping out the damage.. sorting the blockwork wall behind for some proper fat rigifix or equivalent.. refit plasterboard.. fill.. sand.. fill.. sand.. paint.. paint again.. that's my free time next week gone!
Oh and in the crash it marked the brand new wallpaper which is 200 notes a roll!!
Hence mostly swearing...
TV has been off and on the wall a few times, and each time I'm saying "we need to stop pulling the TV out to max extension, the fixings aren't good enough", but because this is weekend 5 of painting and decorating and fitting skirting and beading.. I haven't sorted them. And we need it pulled out to see it while the sitting room is in chaos. Cos the old sofa is in the wrong place at the mo.
Well the bloody thing committed suicide this morning while I was in the garage and due to a new sofa turning up this coming Tuesday I can't repair the wall until other jobs are done.
So.. plasterboard finding tomorrow.. chopping out the damage.. sorting the blockwork wall behind for some proper fat rigifix or equivalent.. refit plasterboard.. fill.. sand.. fill.. sand.. paint.. paint again.. that's my free time next week gone!
Oh and in the crash it marked the brand new wallpaper which is 200 notes a roll!!
Hence mostly swearing...
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Finished plastering my son's bedroom and wired up the downlights.
I had an epiphany today about the wet trowelling, in the unlikely event that this helps anyone. I had previously been wet trowelling by using a sprayer to wet the plaster, rather than a water brush.
This time I tried the water brush and it's so much better. I was worried it would make marks etc. but it makes it far easier, because it works / reactivates / agitates the semi-wet plaster better and makes it more manipulable, which equals a flatter finish.
I had an epiphany today about the wet trowelling, in the unlikely event that this helps anyone. I had previously been wet trowelling by using a sprayer to wet the plaster, rather than a water brush.
This time I tried the water brush and it's so much better. I was worried it would make marks etc. but it makes it far easier, because it works / reactivates / agitates the semi-wet plaster better and makes it more manipulable, which equals a flatter finish.
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Plastering looks good.... But downlights in a bedroom? No thanks.Finished plastering my son's bedroom and wired up the downlights.
I had an epiphany today about the wet trowelling, in the unlikely event that this helps anyone. I had previously been wet trowelling by using a sprayer to wet the plaster, rather than a water brush.
This time I tried the water brush and it's so much better. I was worried it would make mark's etc. but it makes it far easier as it works the plaster and makes it more manipulable, which equals a flatter finish.
I imagine you made it harder by keeping the skirting on but presume its just a skim
Is it a dot and dabbed plasterboard wall? Just use corefix fixings.
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Yes just a bond and skim.
Downlights in a bedroom are brilliant for various reasons, but in our case it's because the ceilings are quite low so any pendant is quite close to your head.
Sure is. I'll Google them. I did use rigifix but even those started to shift after a few years. Which is why the got replaced before decorating started, apparently replaced extremely badly.
Tough break. Is the TV a write off too I assume? I've used corefix before for dot and dab walls. Recommended.