What "man jobs" have you done today?

Not strictly a man job by me, but the flooring company turned up yesterday to screed the kitchen floor and fitted the vinyl flooring this morning.
A great job was done, unfortunately it wasn't the colour that I'd ordered, so the poor fitter had to rip it all up and has had to return to base to get the right stuff :rolleyes:
 
Got three of the four camera's fitted.
Fixed the washer dryer, that has this heat system that after a year or so, clogs up slightly with fluff and then the fan screams. The top has to be removed and then all mounting screws that hold the trunking in place and then using a ***** tool the fluff has to be removed and the sides scraped. Awful design.
Fitted a black screwless double socket into black tiles. Which was nice.
Finished some plastering and painted a section of the kitchen that's been redesigned.
 
Fitted a replacement drivers seat to my car (orginal had lasted 160k before collapsing) and planted 13 Hawthorn shrubs :)
 
Our all the furniture, light shades, pictures, paintings, mirrors, plants etc back after the decorators finished earlier this afternoon
 
34 rubble bags later and I've finally gotten rid of all the plaster that I took off the walls. Apart from the bits probably permanently lodged in my lungs.

Getting it off the wall was so tedious that I almost cried with joy when I realised the bits around the window were plasterboard and came off much easier.

Now to get the electrician in to move some plug sockets and first fix. Then batten out, insulate and plasterboard.

Anything else I should be doing whilst back to brick? No plumbing needed as only 1 radiator that's already plumbed. No need for any cat5 cable either.
 
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Insulation down, floorboards down, waste fitted. Ready for sorting the walls out for paint now. I also gave the joint+tape another coat -- hoping I can save myself with sanding as it looks a bit suss.

Suddenly feeling super fatigued so tbc on whether I cba to tackle the sanding tomorrow........ touching distance of finish line though.
 
My missus got a new dishwasher at her house and I offered to have a go at plumbing it in, I'm sure I've missed loads of stuff, but it seems to work! anyone notice anything obvious I've missed?

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Go easy boys x
 
What's your head saying on the architrave buffman? I think mine will look similar but not sure I am a big fan - tempted to take it off and space it out so it doesn't sit flush.
 
dlockers said:
What's your head saying on the architrave buffman? I think mine will look similar but not sure I am a big fan - tempted to take it off and space it out so it doesn't sit flush.
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What do you mean? I just bought some new architrave as above.

If the door lining wasn't fitted so out of plumb I probably wouldhave either taken the tiles to the doorframe or mitred them with a set of tiles into the doorframe.

Changing the door lining frame seemed like extra effort

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Might be the angle of the pics but looks like your tiles finish flush to the architrave? I'm trying to design that out of mine.
 
dlockers said:
Might be the angle of the pics but looks like your tiles finish flush to the architrave? I'm trying to design that out of mine.
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I'm pretty sure when we had mine done they tiled up to the door casing / lining then planted the architrave over the top
 
{SAS}TB said:
I'm pretty sure when we had mine done they tiled up to the door casing / lining then planted the architrave over the top
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Yeah I think this will be what I'll do too. Just need some strip wood to match thickness of tileboard and then may be able to refit existing architrave even.
 
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