What "man jobs" have you done today?
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Some cracking stuff in here 
That bathrooms really nice 
All I've been doing as of late is hanging shelves in the new house, first encounter with plasterboard/cavity walls on heavier items D: Next job is to research how to hang a really heavy mirror!
That bathrooms really nice All I've been doing as of late is hanging shelves in the new house, first encounter with plasterboard/cavity walls on heavier items D: Next job is to research how to hang a really heavy mirror!
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Haha I can't win, I posted a thread about what safety surface to put down (rubber/bark chips, mats) and get told to leave it concrete as kids need to learn/didn't have soft surfaces years ago etc and now I need to protect this.
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Lately I have been having great fun chopping wood. I was able to nab a good few logs from an ancient pine than fell next door to me in the strong winds earlier this year. My father in law helped me chain saw the logs into rounds, then i got my first ever axe to chop it up.
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Fixed 3 doors in less than 3 hours, replaced our door locks after I broke the front one, figured I'd get some higher security ones seeing I had to replace one anyway. Also fixed the dodgy latch on the door into the spare bedroom.
Edit: also cut the grass that I've been putting off for the best part of a month
Edit: also cut the grass that I've been putting off for the best part of a month
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Some cracking stuff in here
How heavy are you talking ?
for example my TV bracket was attached using "rigifix" bolts, I could literally hang off the wall mount now.
My solid oak framed mirror I used specific dotndab fixings, and tbh they just look like long wall plugs, the coat hooks pulled out of the wall using these though so I just got some "frame fixings" from B&Q and it is solid now.
the frame fixings looked like 6 inch long wall plugs with the screw to match. I would be happy hanging considerable weight from them.
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Built (put together a flat-pack ) desk and chair for my eldest daughter's birthday 
) desk and chair for my eldest daughter's birthday
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Secured sleepers with 150mm timberlok screws (which were bloody fantastic) and lugged 500Kg of rubber chips into it, just hope the little man enjoys it as I'm knackered now.
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This thread is very inspiring!
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Made and consumed some bacon rolls
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Went and bought a pile of bloody heavy bathroom tiles.
Ouch.. yeah.. moving tiles is tough!
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Can i be rude and ask how much did that cost, could do very similar to my own
Sorry, ive been away. it wasn't cheap due to the size and glass spec, its toughened 10mm. The glass was about £350, the friction clamps about £12 each. Fitted, the whole lot was £510 which hurt a litte but its a bespoke item that we think really works.
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Just finish renovating the bedroom on the bosses orders. 
Stripped walls(didnt wanna touch the chipboard ceiling cos they dont look too bad), sanded woodwork, ripped up old carpet and underlay, screwed down all squeaky floorboards.
Emulsioned ceiling, put up wallpaper-then painted, re glossed woodwork, put down new underlay and carpet(well fitters did).
Put together 3 large wardrobes including led lights and all internal fittings, put together bookshelf and smaller e shaped shelves, put together bed side table. Think thats it.
Took me 13 hours to put this lot together, good bye finger prints.
Bedding needs an iron.
Stripped walls(didnt wanna touch the chipboard ceiling cos they dont look too bad), sanded woodwork, ripped up old carpet and underlay, screwed down all squeaky floorboards.
Emulsioned ceiling, put up wallpaper-then painted, re glossed woodwork, put down new underlay and carpet(well fitters did).
Put together 3 large wardrobes including led lights and all internal fittings, put together bookshelf and smaller e shaped shelves, put together bed side table. Think thats it.
Took me 13 hours to put this lot together, good bye finger prints.
Bedding needs an iron.
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Nice.
Only managed to get another half day done on the bathroom.
Pulled the floorboords up and cut some chunks and holes out of the joists for the inlet and waste piping for the sink and toilet.
Panicked because the sink didn't fit on it's cabinet (we bought it nearly 2 years ago) until I realised the cabinet was upside-down.
Cut and fit new floorboards with strategically placed holes.
Prepped the sink/toilet cabinets again with the holes.
Next job, new waste and water piping.
The cistern only just fits in the toilet cabinet and they've thoughtfully given us one with a side entry, so it's impossible to connect a pipe. I'm going to have to get a bottom entry float valve and bodge it in somehow.
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Carried on with the bathroom this weekend, should be able to get it grouted during the week.
I need to make a side for the bath, i was thinking of using ply wood and them sticking some tiles on to it, i was wondering tho, how would i attach it to the wooden frame i will make around the bath? i want to have access to the underneath of the bath but didnt really want to drill through the tiles and screw it on. Would velco work? does anyone have any tricks for this kind of thing? im not sure velco would be strong enough.
I need to make a side for the bath, i was thinking of using ply wood and them sticking some tiles on to it, i was wondering tho, how would i attach it to the wooden frame i will make around the bath? i want to have access to the underneath of the bath but didnt really want to drill through the tiles and screw it on. Would velco work? does anyone have any tricks for this kind of thing? im not sure velco would be strong enough.