What "man jobs" have you done today?

Well my day was a nearly what man jobs have you... but Evri delivered an open and battered box from Toolstation, with no packing, which ensured the full drum of twin and earth smashed all the dry wall back boxes :(
Whole lot rejected, spoke to Toolstation, refund incoming and fingers crossed tomorrow will see an intact delivery.

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aVdub said:
Well my day was a nearly what man jobs have you... but Evri delivered an open and battered box from Toolstation, with no packing, which ensured the full drum of twin and earth smashed all the dry wall back boxes :(
Whole lot rejected, spoke to Toolstation, refund incoming and fingers crossed tomorrow will see an intact delivery.

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Yeah they're a nightmare. I had 3 boxes delivered over 3 days in no particular order. Shame. Screwfix way more reliable
 
dlockers said:
Yeah they're a nightmare. I had 3 boxes delivered over 3 days in no particular order. Shame. Screwfix way more reliable
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This is the first time I've had an issue, but have never ordered things that require a little common sense with packing before..

Started to chase cable runs.

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Nice (unexpected) warm and sunny day so out in the garden

Cut the grass

Weeded the gravel and border at the front

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Weeded the front raised border and planted the new plants bought earlier

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Pruned that huge laurel at the back left of the gravel weeding picture and the Mrs asked me to prune Willow tree at the back which was blocking light into her mini greenhouse

Out with the pruning kit

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And said trimmings

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Stripped them down for anything half decent to use as kindling.

While the chainsaw was out I cut down two old chopping blocks which will get split to burn next season

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{SAS}TB said:
Nice (unexpected) warm and sunny day so out in the garden
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How is the battery chainsaw? I'm tempted by one for odds and sods (any major /elevated work I'd get tree surgeon in)

Ive never used a chainsaw before and a bit safety lax.... But so far been fine with lots of angle grinder'ing etc. Dont know if chainsaw trousers etc is necessary for fairly menial home based work.
 
Had a decent push today. The doors randomly arrived too (scheduled for Tuesday; he said he was delivering in London and had them on the van just in case).

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3m x 2m with integrated blinds.

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Walls up - just need to build 2 smaller walls to take the RSJ.

Unfortunately I ran out of steam and time; the nail gun was way too loud to keep going.

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This certainly isn't water tight; I just hope it doesn't fly off :cry: .

I am hoping to get a major push on Tuesday which'll see it fully water tight and doors sealed, but the weather is utter garbage again :(
 
Buffman said:
How is the battery chainsaw? I'm tempted by one for odds and sods (any major /elevated work I'd get tree surgeon in)

Ive never used a chainsaw before and a bit safety lax.... But so far been fine with lots of angle grinder'ing etc. Dont know if chainsaw trousers etc is necessary for fairly menial home based work.
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I don't used my petrol one anymore as the battery one is.certainly good enough. Izt doesn't have the grunt of the petrol but much quicker and easier to use

So long as you are sensible you should be ok. I don't use chainsaw trousers but try not to cut too close to me.
 
dlockers said:
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What's the floor dimensions of this? Have you kept it under 15m²?

I'm starting to want to plan mine out but initially thought I'd do 4m x 4m (5m wide garden). Realised this is over the limit but now thinking about 3x5 as "long" might actually make for better layout than "big and open".
 
LuckyBenski said:
What's the floor dimensions of this? Have you kept it under 15m²?

I'm starting to want to plan mine out but initially thought I'd do 4m x 4m (5m wide garden). Realised this is over the limit but now thinking about 3x5 as "long" might actually make for better layout than "big and open".
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Up to 30m2 is fine if youre 1m off the boundary line. It can be up to 2.5m tall.

If youre 2m off the boundary line it can be 3m tall if flat roof or I recall 4m it pitched
 
Buffman said:
Up to 30m2 is fine if youre 1m off the boundary line. It can be up to 2.5m tall.

If youre 2m off the boundary line it can be 3m tall if flat roof or I recall 4m it pitched
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Oh yes forgot about the 1m distance - annoyingly though that would give me a tight space as garden is 5m x 15m. 1m around each side would be good for maintenance I suppose.
 
LuckyBenski said:
What's the floor dimensions of this? Have you kept it under 15m²?

I'm starting to want to plan mine out but initially thought I'd do 4m x 4m (5m wide garden). Realised this is over the limit but now thinking about 3x5 as "long" might actually make for better layout than "big and open".
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6x3.5. you have to be careful with spans over 4m. The commercial ones will start to install flitch beams etc.

Stay a meter off of the boundary for BC. As soon as you go closer than a meter and over 15msq (i.e. entering "not a shed" territory) they want it substantially non combustible which is interpreted differently by different councils. Medway iirc say that means brick.

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Add to this the size of the existing shed. @dlockers what's your total shed storage space?

Is your total shed(penis) size larger than @john_smith ?
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The workshop is 13x3 so total space external to house is 60sqm. It doesn't matter about size as John loses all man points by making it about cycling :rolleyes: :p
 
Anyway first man job of the day was evacuating about 1000litres of water. The temp roof failed. Titan to the rescue. Luckily p5 is water resistant so once dried out should be fine... Well, it has to be fine because I'm not replacing it :D.
 
dlockers said:
6x3.5. you have to be careful with spans over 4m. The commercial ones will start to install flitch beams etc.

Stay a meter off of the boundary for BC. As soon as you go closer than a meter and over 15msq (i.e. entering "not a shed" territory) they want it substantially non combustible which is interpreted differently by different councils. Medway iirc say that means brick.


The workshop is 13x3 so total space external to house is 60sqm. It doesn't matter about size as John loses all man points by making it about cycling :rolleyes: :p
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60sqm is Airbnb territory!
 
aVdub said:
Well my day was a nearly what man jobs have you... but Evri delivered an open and battered box from Toolstation, with no packing, which ensured the full drum of twin and earth smashed all the dry wall back boxes :(
Whole lot rejected, spoke to Toolstation, refund incoming and fingers crossed tomorrow will see an intact delivery.

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Well as an update, it has been reordered and stuck in a black hole at Evri since 22nd

Glad I ordered everything else to start the job on the 22nd :(
 
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