What "man jobs" have you done today?

I've found a thread on the plasterers forum that suggests the beading may have had an oily finisher on it before it was plastered, and to use a stain blocker on it. A fella came back with results saying the following:

Hello everyone

Applying an oil-based stain block and then painting over did the trick! I hope this helps - I first applied the stain block using a brush but the final painted finish wasn't very good. Using one of those small foam rollers to apply a thin coat of stain block gave a much better finish.

Thanks again! R
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So I'll give this a go and report back! Thanks for your suggestions
 
The outdoor tap cover came yesterday.
I'm normally on this sooner but I couldn't find it.

We had a new outdoor tap fitted last year as the other was .... Ropey.
Didn't realise an isolation valve was fitted.

So lunch yesterday. Tap off, water drained, cover on.
Cuppa and back into the garage rebuilding playstation 3s

I think I'm winter ready now ....probably forgot something.
 
We've got a single skin brick side return and utility adjacent to our kitchen. It has 2 skin brick columns every 2m or so for structural support. It's absolutely freezing in there. I'm wondering if it's worth slapping some insulated plasterboard on the single skin walls? My main concern is that the brick columns won't be insulated, as it would protrude too much and make the passage too narrow. Would not insulating these columns render insulating the rest of the wall itself fairly pointless?
 
Same here but a day earlier -So glad I fitted isolation valves with handles on - Those slot ones for screwdrivers always seem to sieze up if you don't spin them on regular basis.
Also turned taps on on the water butts to drain them.- don't want them freezing up and splitting.
This winter seems to have come all of a sudden and caught me on the hop.
 
Macky said:
We've got a single skin brick side return and utility adjacent to our kitchen. It has 2 skin brick columns every 2m or so for structural support. It's absolutely freezing in there. I'm wondering if it's worth slapping some insulated plasterboard on the single skin walls? My main concern is that the brick columns won't be insulated, as it would protrude too much and make the passage too narrow. Would not insulating these columns render insulating the rest of the wall itself fairly pointless?
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I think you'll find that the room will get warmer but the columns won't, so you might be at risk of condensation/damp on them. It may help a bit though, possibly depends what the room is like at present (e.g. almost warm enough vs garage sort of temperatures)
 
Manbatius said:
The outdoor tap cover came yesterday.
I'm normally on this sooner but I couldn't find it.

We had a new outdoor tap fitted last year as the other was .... Ropey.
Didn't realise an isolation valve was fitted.

So lunch yesterday. Tap off, water drained, cover on.
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For some weird reason, my outdoor tap is teedoff the WC cistern feed so, if I use the isolation valve, it also turns the WC toilet water off :o.... INsulated cover over the tap and see what happens. Not had an issue in the years I have been here uet with just that.


Manbatius said:
I think I'm winter ready now ....probably forgot something.
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Salt for the paths/driveway? (I got a 20kg bag of white salt last week - cant be having red salt and all the mess it leaves :o)
 
PermaChanged said:
I currently have a wall mounted extractor in our en suite bathroom, which is not doing a sufficient job of getting steam out leaving us with condesation on the window, tiles and more recently the start of black mould on the ceiling - the wall mounted extractor is not situated in the best place for effective extraction, and only pulls 15l a minute.

I've ordered a Manrose 100t inline extractor unit to be put in the loft space which I'll use in conjuction with the above, which will vent out of an also ordered Ubbink UB41 with the pick up point being in the shower, with 60l a minute extraction rates.

Can I just cut the cable feeding the existing wall extractor, and Wago junction box the two extractors together off the same isolator? I can't see it being an issue given the relatively low loads involved.

Is there a reason to not use both extractors simultaneously off the same isolator?
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Going ahead with this, and adding a switched fused spur to each run just for some safety reassurance and individual isolation - just a 3A fuse in each.
 
this is today's patient. An internal iron soil pipe at the end of the picture, which I will be cutting to fit a flush vent tile to then allow a 40th solar panel



hired this nifty pipe cutter to do most of the work I hope...
 
Cutting done. Was a real pain until I used my Halfords pro torque bar which is 50cm approx and way more leverage than the piddling one that came with it.

Limited space as iron pipe is in a brick surround that drops all the way below ground floor. Now got to get the vented tile and piping on. That is a job for weekend after snow and ice has gone hopefully
 
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I didn't think the picture was high res enough to see the books :p Great series of books though :)
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That particular series has unique cover art.... Also, I am reading it now so it jumped out at me. Just finished Book 6 so going to read the first 6 of the novellas from Memory's Legion, then go through Dragons Tooth before starting the last 3 :)

After watching the TV series twice over, it's the series that got me back into reading books :cool:
 
Richie said:
That particular series has unique cover art.... Also, I am reading it now so it jumped out at me. Just finished Book 6 so going to read the first 6 of the novellas from Memory's Legion, then go through Dragons Tooth before starting the last 3 :)

After watching the TV series twice over, it's the series that got me back into reading books :cool:
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The TV series actually manages to do the books justice :) One of the best sci-fi shows of recent times.
 
Yesterday I printed a maintenance list, basic, item, tasks and months along the top, this is how cool I am.
Stuff like run the dishwasher with nothing in, clean the secondary filter, check spray heads.

it's stuff like this, which I think I do often, but its actually months apart.
I then did the above and added clean hoover filters to said list.
 
Manbatius said:
Yesterday I printed a maintenance list, basic, item, tasks and months along the top, this is how cool I am.
Stuff like run the dishwasher with nothing in, clean the secondary filter, check spray heads.

it's stuff like this, which I think I do often, but its actually months apart.
I then did the above and added clean hoover filters to said list.
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Could you share the list please? There must be something I'm not doing
 
Manbatius said:
Yesterday I printed a maintenance list, basic, item, tasks and months along the top, this is how cool I am.
Stuff like run the dishwasher with nothing in, clean the secondary filter, check spray heads.

it's stuff like this, which I think I do often, but its actually months apart.
I then did the above and added clean hoover filters to said list.
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I always mean to do this as I also leave it too long between regular tasks. Anything with a routine - bins, cat litter, bathroom cleaning, like clockwork. Anything with a "frequent" or "periodic" category, I forget until it's a bit overdue.

I dream of a list of annual tasks I can check monthly to stay on top of things.
 
LuckyBenski said:
I dream of a list of annual tasks I can check monthly to stay on top of things.
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I've been on top of this for any years, from regular house/garden maintenance items (expansion vessels, machine filters, roof/drive/patio treatment, garden prunning/treatments, IT tasks etc) to personal/household/car services renewals. All with reminders in various systems - HA dashboard for very frequent and MS365 tasks for others.

However be careful what you wish for, as I look at my various task lists and see a depressingly long list of tasks :(
 
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