What "man jobs" have you done today?

[dlockers]

Looks good! Although seems to be very little expansion gap around the edges? Would be covered up by the skirting when I anyways if you cuta little more out.

The bit you can see there, the plaster is short off the floor by about 20mm. So it looks "tight" but there is actually a good 10mm to go. I've trimmed the door trim hence why that sits underneath. I am a bit nervous about the gap around the hearth so I'll have at that with the multi tool.

Pic: https://i.imgur.com/MPjbriM.jpg

You are right though, should have been a tad less keen given the skirting is 20mm at its thickest. I had an issue around the stairs though where it hadn't acclimatised as well as the other boxes and when I went to bed that night, it had shrank by about 5mm

How many hours have you put into your house? Are you doing a lot of the work for the first time/a new experience?

Not sure, haven't kept count - I am a keen amateur, my late dad taught me everything and when he snuffed it in 2008 I had a go at "ripping" out my Mum's house. I did a bit on the old cottage I was at but that was too old/nice to touch. It has taken me almost a year to get to this stage - I live by slow and steady having had to live with rushed jobs in the past

 

[Participant]

Finished an almost total renovation of my son's bedroom today. Here are some progress shots:

Before

Rip out / wallpaper and carpet removal

New light switch location chased in

Walls SBR bonded, bonding plaster to repair large holes, downlights first fixed and skimming including stippled artex ceiling

Mist coat

Found under the floorboards!

Radiator pipes adjusted, new rad fitted, first coat of colour

Curtain pole, mirror, carpet fitted

Ready for use

 

[Uhtred]

Is that a dead mouse/rat under the floor there?

 

[One More Solo]

Cracking work, is your son a big drinker?

 

[Participant]

Is that a dead mouse/rat under the floor there?

Yessir. Dead mouse. Not sure how it got there but it doesn't look like it's been dead for very long.

Cracking work, is your son a big drinker?

Haha. Wife and I rewarded our efforts (mostly mine, between us) with two large glasses of white.

 

[LuckyBenski]

Is that a dead mouse/rat under the floor there?

Not long dead by the look of it (well, this year, not decades ago I mean)

 

[dlockers]

GTFO out of here @Participant with your "starting a job" and "finishing a job" nonsense.

Is that a dead mouse/rat under the floor there?

Looks like an old nail to me

 

[The Angry Welshman]

Yessir. Dead mouse. Not sure how it got there but it doesn't look like it's been dead for very long.



Haha. Wife and I rewarded our efforts (mostly mine, between us) with two large glasses of white.

did you not try and find out how he got in there, before finishing the job?? seems an odd place for a mouse to get, under an upstairs bedroom floor

Also, why no double bed...why to parents give their kids big bedrooms and then stick a single bed in it?? seems strange to me

 

[Participant]

did you not try and find out how he got in there, before finishing the job?? seems an odd place for a mouse to get, under an upstairs bedroom floor

Also, why no double bed...why to parents give their kids big bedrooms and then stick a single bed in it?? seems strange to me

Couldn't see and didn't want to rip up more floorboards. There are a few holes in exterior bricks and I've got some expanding filler ready to tackle those.

Double beds - I actually agree but the wife doesn't think it's right for a child to have a double bed for some reason.

 

[964rs]

Yessir. Dead mouse. Not sure how it got there but it doesn't look like it's been dead for very long.



Haha. Wife and I rewarded our efforts (mostly mine, between us) with two large glasses of white.

You should probably get a pest controller to come and check your house. Mice don't tend to be in ones and
it does look quite fresh. Where it is between two floors is not a place it just stumbled into.

 

[jaybee]

Nice work @Participant
I probably would have investigated the dead mouse a bit more whilst floor was accessible as well. Hopefully just a one off, but unfortunately one normally means more, somewhere...

 

[Berger]

I’ve been adjusting the balance of the radiators in the house. Something I have never done and it needed doing. Some upstairs would hardly get warm unless it had been running 30+ minutes.

It’s mostly 22/15mm copper but there’s a bit of microbore in there too.

I’ve got it a lot better simply but adjusting (turning down) the ones which warmed up the quickest. It wasn’t rocket science since everything was just cracked to fully open: so anything I did was going to make an improvement! Should heat the house more evenly and the boiler work a bit more efficiently too since it’s losing more heat and not just shoving loads of hot around 4-5 radiators and ignoring a couple.

Do I buy a cheap thermometer gun and do it more accurately or not, undecided!

 

[Armageus]

I’ve been adjusting the balance of the radiators in the house. Something I have never done and it needed doing. Some upstairs would hardly get warm unless it had been running 30+ minutes.

It’s mostly 22/15mm copper but there’s a bit of microbore in there too.

I’ve got it a lot better simply but adjusting (turning down) the ones which warmed up the quickest. It wasn’t rocket science since everything was just cracked to fully open: so anything I did was going to make an improvement! Should heat the house more evenly and the boiler work a bit more efficiently too since it’s losing more heat and not just shoving loads of hot around 4-5 radiators and ignoring a couple.

Do I buy a cheap thermometer gun and do it more accurately or not, undecided!

I started looking at this over the weekend too - downstairs radiators taking ages to warm up but the upstairs warm up fairly quickly.

I have an ASHP so reading mixed thoughts on this (some say the lockshields should be left wide open for best flow and not balanced?), but I want my sitting room radiators to heat up quicker, as that's where the thermostat is, and where we spend most of the time - so makes sense to me to get that room warmed faster?

Also thought about getting a thermometer, but again don't know what the difference between flow and return should be with ASHP?

 

[dlockers]

I'm still running fully open and honestly don't see any issues at all. I guess I'm lucky and the way they are hooked up is doing half the work for me??

 

[jaybee]

I need some help actually guys with a heating related thing. We have underfloor heating in the kitchen which works brilliantly. The digital controller to err control it, is limited. We literally use it as an on/off switch. It displays the temperature and has the ability to set time periods for when it comes on or off, but I don't think there is a way of setting the actual temperature it turns off at. So basically I can set it to be on between X and Y, but it will then just simply stay on for that entire duration, pumping away and after an hour or two, the room can get up to 22/23 degrees if we are cooking in there as well so I have to manually turn it off. I know, first world problem.

I guess I should take it off the wall and check what wires I have going to it to see what I can replace it with to start with? I will try to get the model number. Seems an unbranded basic thing.

 

[dlockers]

I need some help actually guys with a heating related thing. We have underfloor heating in the kitchen which works brilliantly. The digital controller to err control it, is limited. We literally use it as an on/off switch. It displays the temperature and has the ability to set time periods for when it comes on or off, but I don't think there is a way of setting the actual temperature it turns off at. So basically I can set it to be on between X and Y, but it will then just simply stay on for that entire duration, pumping away and after an hour or two, the room can get up to 22/23 degrees if we are cooking in there as well so I have to manually turn it off. I know, first world problem.

I guess I should take it off the wall and check what wires I have going to it to see what I can replace it with to start with? I will try to get the model number. Seems an unbranded basic thing.

Is it on the central heating?

 

[jaybee]

Is it on the central heating?

Sorry I should have made that clear, it's a separate thing to only control the underfloor. It's a wet system. It is part of the central heating but is independently controlled. Has it's own loop. So the main house heating for radiators is on a separate thermostat and controller elsewhere.
The underfloor digital controller basically sends a signal to call the main boiler and a separate pump by the manifold in the kitchen, to come on at the same time.

 

[dlockers]

Sorry I should have made that clear, it's a separate thing to only control the underfloor. It's a wet system. It is part of the central heating but is independently controlled. Has it's own loop. So the main house heating for radiators is on a separate thermostat and controller elsewhere.
The underfloor digital controller basically sends a signal to call the main boiler and a separate pump by the manifold in the kitchen, to come on at the same time.

What controller is it? You sure it isn't (with respect) user error? Seems totally bonkers a stat that shows temp can't use it to switch on or off.

 

[jaybee]

What controller is it? You sure it isn't (with respect) user error? Seems totally bonkers a stat that shows temp can't use it to switch on or off.

Totally agree with you. I would tell most people the same exact thing. No offense taken. I would love it if it was me being a **** and it does in fact do what I want! Here it is it appears to be the same as this I found in two places:

TFC Group

 

[jaybee]

The only reference to temperature I can see in the manual on there listed under technical documents, says about setting the frost setting in 5 degree increments. What a useless POS. It's basically a time switch. The temperature appears to literally be there just so you can see...well the temperature. lol

EDIT: Found it on toolstation now and the first review confirms it:

"No temperature controls"
"Accidentally bought this instead of a thermostat because it shows the temperature and I didn't read the description properly. Seems like an ok timer, but the rubbery buttons feel like the ones on a cheap multi function tv remote.