What "man jobs" have you done today?

JRJ said:
@dlockers I put a Niche in both bathrooms at the wife's request and then she hated how untidy it looked with all the different products, ended up buying a bunch of these https://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/B09JWK6SZR/ref=ox_sc_saved_title_6?smid=AQL50GY8VHIWL&th=1 and decanting stuff into them, I now have niche's that are too tall :cry:
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Haha top man, this actually did come up in discussion. My proposal of gifting her a stanley so she could trim the top off of all of her products was not seen as a solution :rolleyes:
 
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Janesy B said:
Put in a thicker door stop in, replaced some broken trim and put in new draught excluder strips for my summerhouse doors. I think someone's had a go at getting in so beefed everything up, before you could pull at the doors and get a hand underneath, now it doesn't move at all.



Next job is turning the blank drawer front that's attached to the cabinet into an actual drawer. I'll be glad when I've worked through all the stuff I've been putting off for a year.
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The old drawer front was just glued on to the cabinet, the other drawers had about two screws holding them together :rolleyes: No more having to crouch down to use a pan drawer for cutlery now and I've gained storage. The old glue and paint just scraped off, and I used zinsser BIN so the paint actually sticks this time. Cat N house.





I want a new kitchen but don't have new kitchen money so this was £20 well spent.
 
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Janesy B said:
I want a new kitchen but don't have new kitchen money so this was £20 well spent.
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This has worked well for us too. At first we assumed we'd need to save up and rip out the kitchen ASAP. But since moving in and using the kitchen, we've dismantled and moved/resized a few bits, and it's made it more usable. When we finish tweaking the layout, we can then basically replace it all with new.
 
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TBH new kitchens are bit overrated - the main "lifestyle" benefits are things like soft close hinges, useful storage spaces etc.
 
OH I remember back to those days when you would walk into the kitchen waving your willy and boring guests to death with you soft close doors and draws :D
 
dlockers said:
TBH new kitchens are bit overrated - the main "lifestyle" benefits are things like soft close hinges, useful storage spaces etc.
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Yeah I don't want a new one because it will be new, more that the layout doesn't work, I want new appliances, it doesn't have a proper extractor, the room is painted wallpaper so there's a couple of damp patches etc. It's a mix of old white and wood effect laminate that's been wrapped/painted to within an inch of it's life.
 
tres said:
Aerated the lawn - desperate attempt to improve drainage. It is an absolute mess. Time will tell!
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You gotta go hardcore haven't you? Like garden fork size holes filled with drainage soil/sharp sand.
 
Had a job this morning that came with a F word -B word -C word and all other words like that - All I had to do was drill 4 x20mm holes through a wooden door in garage -
Easy -- No - I haven't used my flat wood drill bits for years and the size I needed was blunt -Had a go at sharpening it and managed to get my holes drilled.
Question is why do we keep old blunt rusty drill bit's - Why didn't I throw them away years ago and treat myself to a new box of them.

I am tempted to go the Toolstation/Screwfix and buy a posh box for about £28 or a cheapo for £10 but odds are on I would never use them.
I gave my Stanley battery drill the Italian version of tune up. Instead of fully charged battery it was flat and hot
 
Cleaned the chickens food and water hoppers

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Happy little chuckers

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Lots of gardening jobs today. Re-potting chillis and Hebes, trimming and propagating some Photinia Red Robin hedge.
Cutting the rotten bottom of one of the wooden swing supports off and re-drilling the fixing hole.
 
Same here lots of garden related jobs:

- planted potatoes
- planted various seeds
- turned compost in compost bin
- cut a load of old pallet wood to size ready to make another couple of vegetable boxes
- fastened guttering back onto the shed
- fastened an angled block of wood to the back of the shed to stop the neighbours fence bashing against it when the wind blows because he can't be bothered to properly secure it
- Went to the middle of Lidl and picked up a new incinerator and a few other garden bits
 
Chaps,

I am really not liking my hard line Hep2o pushfit stuff. It is just "too perfect" and I think any flex is going to be a source of headaches. I keep waking up thinking about it :cry:

Is there a more easy/guaranteed way of connecting up? I have 22mm to 3/4" BSP. Can I use a compression flexible fitting? Seems a shame to lose the flow rate but I guess the tap will nail it anyway...
 
No pictures but my beard trimmer stopped working. Generic £50 rubbish but on testing the battery and motor both were working as was continuity on the switch so decided to get my soldering iron out. Desoldered the charge port, motor and battery and took the PCB and cooked it in the oven for ten minutes. Just like the xbox 360 red ring of death days.

After getting a mouthful from the missus for a) using a soldering iron in the kitchen and b) cooking electronics in the oven I put everything back together and hey presto I have a working beard trimmer again! Queue the smug face in her direction :).
 
Replaced the 4 way boiling water tap which had sprung a leak on one of its factory fitted hoses.

It was a bit of an operation due to it being on the worktop above a 50KG Belfast which had to come out for access.

Getting it out required striping the cabinet, unscrewing from all the adjoining units and dropping it down in place to get the sink out as the waste section is thicker and sits into the top of the cabinet.

It only just cleared the worktop with the cabinet at its lowest level, it’s almost like I planned it when installing the kitchen.

The new tap has redesigned hoses so I expect mine wasn’t the first to fail and they replaced it no questions asked despite being outside their 2 year warranty.
 
Fitted a double socket with x3 USB.

Got to strip a Hoover washer dryer next week and try and sort out the poxy heat exchanger fan, which screams like an F18 pre launch :(
Seriously considering just buying a Bosch unit instead /
 
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