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Plot twist: You were meant to fit it portrait, not landscape
What "man jobs" have you done today?
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How do you and otehrs manage when doing up your bathroom and you only have one in the house?Did a tip run so smashed out the old toilet. Thank god that thing is gone! I've also got the bits I need to delete the old bathroom. I removed the waste pipe which left quite a hole, so I've used a house brick and did my first fill with some mortar repair.
Q --- how do I get the yellowy style render that matches the 1930s pebble dash? I end up with grey splodges otherwise!
State of the old room! Whilst it looks bad, I guess it is much simpler - I will overboard the external walls with insulated plasterboard, overboard the ceiling, throw down some 22mm chipboard, and then it is decorating/carpet.
Got the final green tiles up and the niche sorted - I still need to fill in the gap in the marble (left hand of niche) but that isn't much drama. I might use wood and continue the ledge, TBC.
I am ready to grout and final fix the glass door now...thank god.
Where do you take showers etc? In the gym or something?
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Had a friend come over to help tackle the last few problematic rewire tasks: 3x light switches needed the existing chases widening and back boxes deepening. Drilled for an exterior socket and siliconed the cable/fitted the box outside. Pulled a bundle of cables into the boiler cupboard through some blind joists and similar.
Tomorrow I will be doing a lot of tidying and pulling/terminating all the stuff we demolished today. My neighbours probably aren't very happy we carried on drilling til gone 7pm!
Tomorrow I will be doing a lot of tidying and pulling/terminating all the stuff we demolished today. My neighbours probably aren't very happy we carried on drilling til gone 7pm!
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Lol for 2 giant bottles of shampoo?
I moved bathroom from front to back so I've had the old bathroom functionally the whole time (up until last week).
Soldato
You're buying regular sized toiletries? On your salary?
True Gucci belt level shampoo doesn't fit in ordinary shelves.
Got a Bosch impact from them last week when it was on offer - £60 well spent IMO
Top tip is to buy one that is a good size.
I got the Dewalt set as I’m a brand whore.
Tbh I always wanted it, just needed an excuse and the more powerful drill will come in handy.
Also yellow.
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I have actually started intentionally buying different coloured tools now. I have DeWalt power tools and loads of my hand tools are black and yellow. It's no longer easy to tell my partner what tool I need based on colour
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Spent the last 3 days digging out a 4.8mtr long….600mm deep, 900mm wide raised garden bed. My backs in half now.
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Digging out as in removing it, removed 48 half bags of compost……not digging for a raised bed.Not to pee on your parade but why are you digging for a raised bed?
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At what point of buying it, seeing it, installing it, did you realise that even the smallest bottle wouldn't fit.
Was it at that moment, hairnet on, face full of Dove and blindly trying to force the normal sized bottle into a small niche
Looks like the evenings are going to flyby with distilling all those shower products into handy little dispensers
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Repaired and made a small garden wall much more robust with some second hand bricks.
Also installed some trellis above the wall.
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Also installed some trellis above the wall.
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Is it worth buying an electric scarifier (Screwfix around £70) for a 3.5 x 9m lawn?
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Personally I would do it manually with a metal rake.
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Personally, absolutely worth buying an electric one for that area. Not only will it be a much quicker and more pleasant experience, it will do a much better job than doing it manually.
So yesterday: mowed lawn, cleaned pond glass, removed blanket algae, re plastered the frost damaged front of the pond - a mix of sand, concrete, 15 minute concrete and SBR to make a fast, sticky, waterpoof plaster that sets and then cures long term. Also did a run around to get the bits in the morning, plus a gate post for next weekend.
Today: cut back the brambles at the back, cut slates to fit beside the pond, laid 20mm gravel, MOT that I had left over and then hand mixed concrete to lay the slabs.
Next weekend it will be tiling and gate post.. I may even put a new gate in.
Today: cut back the brambles at the back, cut slates to fit beside the pond, laid 20mm gravel, MOT that I had left over and then hand mixed concrete to lay the slabs.
Next weekend it will be tiling and gate post.. I may even put a new gate in.
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It's very compacted heavy clay soil. I dethatched it with a grass rake last year which helped but it doesn't break up any soil at all.
I want to try and disturb the top layer of soil to then mix in some fresh compost/sand and overseed it all.
It does seem silly to buy something just for once a year or once every two years use but it ain't much cheaper buying a good quality metal rake or aerator fork tool.