What "man jobs" have you done today?

Hope my missus doesn't see that board - give her too many ideas!

Certainly a good way to track progress as I have lists in my head and all too easy to forget.
 
Hope my missus doesn't see that board - give her too many ideas!

Certainly a good way to track progress as I have lists in my head and all too easy to forget.

It is cool and was good cracking through some it. I'll do a few more little bit latter but till shower is sorted I've no effort
 
Made a start to my papering today after having stripped the walls about a month ago! Needing to get some wall plugs for fixing my curtain rail properly as its been half hanging off due to previous owners making a mess of fixing it last time! Should get most of the papering finished off next weekend.

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Going to be filling in the small gaps between the lining paper before i paint it and will be changing the sockets over from white to brushed steel (already changed the tv point)
 
Just had a very hard a very strenuous afternoon watching a replay of the F1 Grand Prix on TV... that counts as a man job, doesn't it! ;)
 
How long did you leave the easy fill to dry?

From experience with polyfill it dries and shrinks after a week or so - so leaving an excess proud seems to work better.

Poly cell finishing skim is good stuff. Great for tidying up a wall and very easy to sand. Deeper bits just need two layers
 
Walls in bedroom cleaned up and filled/skimmed and then white washed. Walls were a bit of a state where all the plaster came off when removing woodchip. Could have got it replastered but thought I'd put time into skimming/sanding a few times. Also surface mounted the light switch.


Then sanded, cleaned with white spirit and painted the skirting boards/architrave with wood primer.



Wall just needs a bit more skim in places. Today I washed as painted the ceiling twice. So time consuming to do properly but hopefully worth it
 
I wall mounted the TV a few weeks ago. Pretty chuffed with it really considering I haven't ever drilled into drywall to do something as hang a picture. Got all the cables inside the wall, etc. Now just to prep for the surround system.

I replaced a GFCI outlet in our bathroom, still doesnt work. Then I tried to replace and outdoor tap that's ****ing water everywhere when you turn it on (frost has knackered it) and I couldn't get it out of the wall. Pretty successful day :roll:

I put some shelves up in my son's room and wall mounted his baby monitor. That was slightly more successful.
 
Just getting over a serious bout of Man Flue and been confined to brandy bottle - but today felt better so cleaned out and tidied shed - Isn't it nice to open door and walk to back of shed for something instead of climbing and shifting.

Also first day for ages the wind isn't blowing a gale - so nice to be out in garden again.

Dave
 
Just getting over a serious bout of Man Flue and been confined to brandy bottle - but today felt better so cleaned out and tidied shed - Isn't it nice to open door and walk to back of shed for something instead of climbing and shifting.

Also first day for ages the wind isn't blowing a gale - so nice to be out in garden again.

Dave

I have todo the garage :( .. after coming back from camping everything was bundled in with enough space to dry off.. but I have lots of wood stuff around that I need to find a way to store useful offcuts - perhaps a wooden panel box bin..
 
Whilst I have a long weekend I'm going to get some turf to put where we had plants...does anyone have any advise before I lay the turf what should go beneath it? The soil the plants were in seemed good enough for them to grow in but should I add anything else?

You can see from the pic where the grass will be going at the front...


Cheers
 
Unblocked the bathroom sink at 7.30 this morning.
Had to improvise as I was pushed for time, so took the karcher wet and dry vac to the plug hole. Worked surprisingly well :)
 
Today I made fire :cool:

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Mowed the lawn.

Whilst it doesn't sound like much, It's a fairly large lawn and it was still quite damp and I used a flymo.....
 
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