What "man jobs" have you done today?
- Thread starter jaybee
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Installed a catflap for a mate. Bit of a faff in a UPVC door because the panelling had decorative elements at the bottom which got in the way of where the mounts were going but we got there. Pro tip: wear a mask. The insides of UPVC doors have this foam which when cut gets nasty AF.
Tested and labelled up all his ethernet ports installed in his new build back to utility room. Developers decided not to do that bit.
Added a load of things to his snagging list.
Then hung his OLED TV...
He was told the wall was cavity with studs but upon inspection it was dot and dabbed plasterboard over thermalite brick or breezeblocks. Armed with all the fixing types IN THE WORLD, we didn't have the corefix ones for dot and dab. Joy. So went and got some and made light work of the supplied LG G series bracket mount.
LG's plastic clips for cable routing on the back of their G series TVs which are meant to be able to sit flush to the wall, are terrible. The clips are meant to hold the cables in place tight to the back of the TV but they all unclip. Complete fail. So, much tape was used.
Then we cut out some plasterboard with my trusty dewalt multi tool vibrator thing in literally about 30 seconds. Whacked in some trunking and secured with two nails top and bottom. Put HDMI/ethernet/power cables in and trunking top back on. Then filler on top.
Waiting for it to dry.
Tested and labelled up all his ethernet ports installed in his new build back to utility room. Developers decided not to do that bit.
Added a load of things to his snagging list.
Then hung his OLED TV...
He was told the wall was cavity with studs but upon inspection it was dot and dabbed plasterboard over thermalite brick or breezeblocks. Armed with all the fixing types IN THE WORLD, we didn't have the corefix ones for dot and dab. Joy. So went and got some and made light work of the supplied LG G series bracket mount.
LG's plastic clips for cable routing on the back of their G series TVs which are meant to be able to sit flush to the wall, are terrible. The clips are meant to hold the cables in place tight to the back of the TV but they all unclip. Complete fail. So, much tape was used.
Then we cut out some plasterboard with my trusty dewalt multi tool vibrator thing in literally about 30 seconds. Whacked in some trunking and secured with two nails top and bottom. Put HDMI/ethernet/power cables in and trunking top back on. Then filler on top.
Waiting for it to dry.
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Put the Xmas tree and the decorations back in the loft....then sat on the work laptop all day catching up on emails (deleting 
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Worked from home all day, then noticed the wife had taken the Christmas trees and decs down.....she is now pointing at the loft hatch for me to get them back up there!
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Well I was giving the lawn mower a clean and service ready for the spring..... and I might have got carried away with the decals I started making.... 
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Impressive!
Soldato
Finished removing about 500m of rubber covered cables from a 60 year old house. Back to shell. Ready for the structural work now.
Well I was giving the lawn mower a clean and service ready for the spring..... and I might have got carried away with the decals I started making....
Soldato
Had to replace the 3 gridswitches in my kitchen as I hadn't realised when using the air fryer I wasn't pulling it far enough away form the wall and it was distorting the plastic on the switches. Was fairly straightforward but man are the wires they used tough to bend!
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I've set up a cctv camera in the front window. Not expecting to catch much interesting, but a few 'undesirables' are about and have been seen in local back gardens recently. My bro in law got me the tapo c500, and so far it looks good. Night vision in lovely and clear, but I do live with a street light right ouside my door to help out there...
FluffySheep
FluffySheep
Why not hide them behind the plaster board?Next part was putting some battens in for the rad.
Marked out where the brackets will be
I cut it out with a pad saw, would have just used the multi tool but they’re loud af and not bank holiday friendly.
5 screws is probably excessive but want it to be solid.
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On the wall which I did with the 37.5mm board I didn’t fit battens, corefix fixings can span that gap no problem. No way I could get away with them with this chunky stuff though.The fact you thought about battens is 10/10. Now I have an even better idea to hide them beneath the plasterboard is 11/10. Thanks guys
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The difference will be huge.
I did similar in an 1860 built end terrace years ago. Battened and used 25mm kingspan on the inside of all the external facing walls. Money very well spent.
There are multiple fixings you could use to mount a rad to plasterboard without using battens just in case you didn't know. I'm sure you do know, but just saying in case. (Grip it blues, spring toggles, snap toggles).
Wouldn't trust them tbh. Rads are heavy, especially when full of water.
For hanging a picture or something, fine.
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Proper fixings will hold multiple times the weight of a rad with water in plasterboard. As always proper installation is the key here.