Associate
Emulsioned above the picture rail in the living room.
What "man jobs" have you done today?
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Soldato
Cut the back hedge
Then cut the grass, more to pick up the hedge trimmings than anything else
Then cut the grass, more to pick up the hedge trimmings than anything else
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Soldato
Was just clearing up and the postie delivered my replacement strimmer head
So fitted that in readiness for next needing it ...
So fitted that in readiness for next needing it ...
Soldato
25% off 5L tins at the moment, so 2x 5L Trade Diamond was only £7 dearer than 10L of Trade Vinyl Matt.
10L should be plenty, provided the white base coat hides the grey well enough.
That's mega. The Trade Diamond stuff is so good.
Don
Depends what you mean by similar way?
Nothing is as removable as hot glue - you can literally just peel it off in most cases.
A 2 part epoxy is probably the closest thing, in that it fills gaps, you can build it up, and it is physically removable in most cases (although a pain)
Associate
defo true this wit hot glue
in fact if you use it somewhere too hot it can just go soft and let go
its very temporary
why people use it on circuit boards and things too !
Caporegime
Not sure what I'm missing, but what's wrong with that?It turns out our council have run power for the downstairs wet room extractor (persistent live) off the lighting circuit, which Dad says was shockingly lazy and bad form, but absolutely in character for some of the cowboys we get sent
Extractor fans often need permanent lives to allow them to overrun after the light is turned off, and a lighting circuit is a perfectly valid place to grab a permanent live from.
Nice team effort there! No I in team!
Soldato
Thanks and indeed!
To be fair she's out the back weeding now while I'm sat on my fat ass on my phone
Nothing wrong with it, in fact it’s meant to be like that.
Extractors are switched with lights, they need to be on the same circuit otherwise you’ll get crossed live wires which is dangerous, particularly when a lighting circuit will only be 6A and a ring main could be at 32A.
Soldato
I'm not a sparky (Dad is), but it wasn't the fact that the extractor fan was connected to the permanent live, but the way it was disconnected then reconnected, causing the light to be on permanently.
He got it sorted in the end, but wasn't impressed with the dangerous standard of work (his words).
Caporegime
Ah, that makes more sense. Kind of a key part of the issue
.That’s quite a bit different to what you originally posted, hence why we questioned the statement.
Associate
Carefully* applied some thick gloss paint to our living room window sill.
Hopefully it'll help it look less like a ploughed field.
Hopefully it'll help it look less like a ploughed field.
Soldato
Spent part of the morning cleaning two bedroom opening windows.
Not the glass but the window frame and window opening - There was a lot of black stuff all round frame and the window itself.
So cleaned those up and then sprayed all locking bars and stuff with silicon spray as suggested in my post above.
I can now open them with one hand.
Not the glass but the window frame and window opening - There was a lot of black stuff all round frame and the window itself.
So cleaned those up and then sprayed all locking bars and stuff with silicon spray as suggested in my post above.
I can now open them with one hand.