What "man jobs" have you done today?
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It's 2023. "Man job" has got to refer to the type of job, not the gender of the person doing it.
And gardening counts, just about, IMHO.
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I had in laws over so did literally anything to get out of the house, including leaf raking and washing the car. Unfortunately I trod in dog poo because their mongrel was brought over, too.
To make it more interesting take a SDS drill up with you. Happy days
Did that in the summer I was debating calling the fire brigade to get me down
Filled a wall with insulation, made a frame and started fixing packers before putting boards on.
Boards feel pretty solid (12.5mm on a 300 centre stud wall but slightly concerned on a 600 centre wall that because its lifted off on certain positions that won't be enough support....
The walls are out about 10mm out of plumb top to bottom!
Boards feel pretty solid (12.5mm on a 300 centre stud wall but slightly concerned on a 600 centre wall that because its lifted off on certain positions that won't be enough support....
The walls are out about 10mm out of plumb top to bottom!
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Just removed them in every room from my house. They did pop off easily, the only good thing about them!
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I think garden jobs should count double at this time of year
.To the above, I did try the sputnik attachment but it's just not as good as the wand.
I think garden jobs should count double at this time of year
To the above, I did try the sputnik attachment but it's just not as good as the wand.
If it is a nice sunny day, you soon get warmed up if doing something slightly energetic.
Temperature starts to drop though around 3:00pm or as soon as you stop working.
A nice smoked bacon sandwich and a cuppa afterwards went down a treat.
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Begun to thin out the forest. This is about 20% of what I have ...
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I think garden jobs should count double at this time of year
To the above, I did try the sputnik attachment but it's just not as good as the wand.
I also don't use the special patio/pacing cleaner head as I don't like the impact/result as it blasts the joints too much, but I don't use the common straight jet either for similar reasons.
I use an adjustable spray jet head that can be angled, and use that at about 45 degrees to the surface. I find this gives good cleaning without blasting the joints too much meaning more sand or grout material stays in place just the top dirt gets removed. Given I've removed, increased sub-base depth and refitted a large amount of our block paving I am now trying to minimise work. An annual clean, biocide, sand and sealer keeps it looking good for the year and in fact I could get away with every 18 months.
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That is an epic range of awful vintage textured finishes
Helping my wife’s cousin destroy his upstairs
We had builders start on Wednesday, digging foundations for a garage and porch conversion. Day 1 involved removing the garage door (garage is under the kitchen/bathroom/lounge) and moving our main water feed pipe. Of COURSE this means our boiler packed up on morning 2
I thought I diagnosed the issue as an electronic component failure (DHW temp sense resistor), so ordered one...This weekend so far I have swapped that component and found it isn't faulty. Identified another area of the fault, and ruled out another electronic component (hall sensor in the DHW exchanger). So I'm left with... Cleaning the filters in the exchanger as it's sticking, causing the sensors to fail. Not sure I've got the balls to go that deep into my boiler as I'd be stripping out half the plumbing to reach it.
Also: final coat of paint on the lounge skirting, identified a leak my builder found (bath seal + girlfriend who likes over-full baths), planned out the insulation in the porch ceiling. Later today will be looking over some wiring to sort it before builder covers it with block work.
Can't wait for builder to finish and I can start the interior finishing of our new porch
Back again, more leaf raking and cutting back of shrubs today, that looks to be most of it done now for the year?
There is possibly another smaller leaf rake job when the last of the leaves are down in a couple of weeks time.
Gardening followed by fresh oven baked French bread today with camembert, olives and picallili rinsed down with a cuppa.
There is possibly another smaller leaf rake job when the last of the leaves are down in a couple of weeks time.
Gardening followed by fresh oven baked French bread today with camembert, olives and picallili rinsed down with a cuppa.
Oooh -when I look at all these threads of people gutting their houses I am really glad all that is behind me - First house knocked wall down between lounge and dining room - removed chimneys -moved bathroom from front to back bedroom.
2nd house total redecoration and kitchen updates followed by massive extension -Footings had to be 6ft deep due to Oak tree's -27x15ft and 8ft ceilings. New drains and new garage -- This house full gut -rewire -new plumbing -windows and doors -new ceilings due to old ones dropped due to water leaks in loft. New soakaways and drains - miles of concrete paths and concrete areas to sit on dug up.
The wife says we should paint hall and lounge - I said I have polished this load of poo once I am not doing it again.
I now refuse to do anything on this 1970's load of jerry built bungalow crap.
Take my word for it -It never ends even if you think your house is your forever house you do not take into account getting old.
I really do not miss stairs.
2nd house total redecoration and kitchen updates followed by massive extension -Footings had to be 6ft deep due to Oak tree's -27x15ft and 8ft ceilings. New drains and new garage -- This house full gut -rewire -new plumbing -windows and doors -new ceilings due to old ones dropped due to water leaks in loft. New soakaways and drains - miles of concrete paths and concrete areas to sit on dug up.
The wife says we should paint hall and lounge - I said I have polished this load of poo once I am not doing it again.
I now refuse to do anything on this 1970's load of jerry built bungalow crap.
Take my word for it -It never ends even if you think your house is your forever house you do not take into account getting old.
I really do not miss stairs.