What "man jobs" have you done today?

I'm really chuffed how my new desk is coming on.
I bought some angle iron today and with an old piece of plywood it pulls out from under the desk and I can put my synths on it.

32 years of this to the bottom two now.
Just ordered a coat rack to go under the shelf to put PS5 and VR on it plus headphones.

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Buffman said:
Is it a dot and dabbed plasterboard wall? Just use corefix fixings.
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This. I can’t recommend them enough.

As it’s an extending mount I’d make sure you have one in every hole and it sounds like you might want to put a couple more in for good measure.

They ARE expensive mind, about £1 a piece and you’ll probably need a new (10mm?) drill bit because standard ones are not usually long enough.
 
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skyripper said:
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...
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As a yorkshire man that sentance scares me the most, that seems very excessive for paper.
How deep did your old fixings go into the wall, people often forget with those cantilever mounts how much force its putting on the wall at max extension.
 
skyripper said:
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.
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I'll dig out the name of the fixings I used but they have a metal sleeve that goes in to the plug to add extra support. I also put some instant plaster (tube) into the wall hole before putting the plug in. I suspect the house will fall down before those bar stewards come out.
 
Mason- said:
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.
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Knee pads?
 
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sigma said:
I'll dig out the name of the fixings I used but they have a metal sleeve that goes in to the plug to add extra support. I also put some instant plaster (tube) into the wall hole before putting the plug in. I suspect the house will fall down before those bar stewards come out.
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Sounds like core fix.
 
theone8181 said:
As a yorkshire man that sentance scares me the most, that seems very excessive for paper.
How deep did your old fixings go into the wall, people often forget with those cantilever mounts how much force its putting on the wall at max extension.
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The paper is from the Designers Guild. It is beautiful but also crazy price.
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Thats two rolls up there.

I also don't recommend Zofany paint if you don't want to sell bodily organs. Unfortunately my wife has no such qualms :)

I think rigifix / corefix are the way to go, but it's the holes behind the plasterboard [in the blockwork] I need to rebuild/refill, thinking gripfill tbh, then redrill fresh to exact size after.
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Then I can make the plasterboard good.
 
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Mason- said:
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.
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Must be a weekend for it - Spent Saturday fixing several loose/squeaky floorboards in one of the Kids rooms, and then laid some new Underlay (Carpenters' Richstep 9mm).
Made a huge difference to comfort and noise in the room, and with the cost of energy prices, any benefit in insulation will be a bonus.

sigma said:
Knee pads?
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I've got knee pads, but find them too bulky. I've settled on using a gardening kneeling pad for these sort of jobs.
 
flea.rider said:
?? only if it's over 5kw ? .. had my wall done cause mines a 8kw .. and we don't do doors downstairs .. still had to do it ..
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Yeah correct. Only if it's over a certain size. Didn't go any larger on my log burner as I didn't want a ventilation hole putting in the wall.

However, modern stoves can have their own direct air line putting in, so it doesn't suck up air in the room. I wonder if you get one of those, whether you need the ventilation hole in wall.
 
Repaired a bunch of damage to an interior wall that was messed up by a tradesman's ladder when he went to the loft. I've got a bunch of swearing at self assembly to do this afternoon too.
 
dlockers said:
I can make a go fund me for you to get a new monitor?

Seriously tho chrome my end resizes it perfectly? Or is it the forum software
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I haven't sold my soul to the devil so I don't use Chrome.

Pictures are massive in Edge also so I guess it's forum software, or you could just make them smaller. :cry:
 
ChrisD. said:
I haven't sold my soul to the devil so I don't use Chrome.

Pictures are massive in Edge also so I guess it's forum software, or you could just make them smaller. :cry:
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dirtychinchilla said:
And in Firefox too. Nightmarishly large
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Is it a forum software thing @kindai ? They appear perfectly sized for me, altho sometimes I do get a glitch where they show at actual resolution.
 
dlockers said:
Is it a forum software thing @kindai ? They appear perfectly sized for me, altho sometimes I do get a glitch where they show at actual resolution.
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If you have a scaled window it will scale the image accordingly. If you have full window it will show the full image size unless you use a width attribute eg [img width="1200px"]pichere[/img]
 
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