What "man jobs" have you done today?

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I know everyone's always got an opinion, but I don't think chipboard is a great substrate for tiling.
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Fair - I've been generally not confident about chipboard, hence going for the thickest and using T&G and glue. What would you recommend - ply?

I grew up in a solid brick and concrete council flat, so anything other than solid ground feels underbuilt!
 
LuckyBenski said:
Fair - I've been generally not confident about chipboard, hence going for the thickest and using T&G and glue. What would you recommend - ply?

I grew up in a solid brick and concrete council flat, so anything other than solid ground feels underbuilt!
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I would overboard the chipboard with XPS tile backer board as you suggest, 6mm or 10mm depending on required floor build up.
 
Participant said:
I would overboard the chipboard with XPS tile backer board as you suggest, 6mm or 10mm depending on required floor build up.
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Thanks, that should work perfectly. I don't know anything about tile backer yet, never tiled before.

I've got an extra 22mm chipboard on the floor right now and I can see the height is basically spot on vs the hallway. It's a few mm below the carpet, which puts it a few mm above the parquet that's under it. Depending on whether we stick with carpet or go parquet, I aimed for the porch to end up in-between.

5mm adhesive + 10-12mm tile leaves us 5-7mm for tile board, sounds like 6mm is the one.
 
I spent a few hours spread over the last week repairing a large hole in the plaster coving in my Victorian tenement flat, left by the rewiring guys after they did their thing. First time trying to do this kind of repair but it's turned out pretty good! Just need to build it up layer by layer with patience, and sand it down carefully. I winged it cos I couldn't be bothered making a mould. Not sure if manly enough for this thread though as I didn't lift anything heavy :(
 
If it looks stupid but it works, it ain't stupid? Ran out of scaff boards so found these window ledges I've been moving with me for about 10 years lol. No idea where they came from. Also thought I ordered 6 brackets; but it was only 4. Need to grab 2 more to give centre support.

lol@ the Lian Li case. This was an impulse buy for £18 for the nostalgia (I wanted it 20 years ago and it popped up 2mins away; totally perfect other than the fan holes).

Zwift here we come (as soon as I get a multiplug and @ZedPowered sends me my keyboard from MM :D).

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^ mouse is from a set my late father bought; it was super spenny at the time. It is garbage tho - needs a mousemat to give anything remotely close to accurate. I will finally recycle it I think - the keyboard went a while ago. Going to plug in a little crappy USB thing I think.
 
dlockers said:
If it looks stupid but it works, it ain't stupid? Ran out of scaff boards so found these window ledges I've been moving with me for about 10 years lol. No idea where they came from. Also thought I ordered 6 brackets; but it was only 4. Need to grab 2 more to give centre support.

lol@ the Lian Li case. This was an impulse buy for £18 for the nostalgia (I wanted it 20 years ago and it popped up 2mins away; totally perfect other than the fan holes).

Zwift here we come (as soon as I get a multiplug and @ZedPowered sends me my keyboard from MM :D).

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^ mouse is from a set my late father bought; it was super spenny at the time. It is garbage tho - needs a mousemat to give anything remotely close to accurate. I will finally recycle it I think - the keyboard went a while ago. Going to plug in a little crappy USB thing I think.
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It’s on its way in festive packaging :D
 
Fully removed the old green house ( built 3yrs ago lol ), taken all the compost to the recycling centre ( 60 gravel bags half filled ), just got to clear all the old timber now. will do that during the days of 2nd, 3rd, 4th january, which includes building the new feather edge fences. Then will lay down some new clean gravel to level the area fully ready for the new shed build.....
 
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Built this. Instructions said 180 minutes. Took nearly 2 days. Had to make some alterations with a multi tool. Massive PITA in the tight space.
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Is that an optical illusion or is that the smallest radiator in the world?

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I had a go at organising the workshop again today.
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I tried to be all nostalgic and use the mouse my dad bought when I built his HTPC 20 years ago. It was during the period of laser kicking in and optical phasing out, with some hardcore folk still rocking ball mice lol. Unfortunately it sucks (of the era) so using a Microsoft intellimouse I've somehow acquired 6 of lol.

Ran out of eth for the PC as well so ended up stealing the ubiquti AP eth and then remounting it when the bit of eth I had ran out lol. DMP thinks it's now better placed anyways.

Speed and cadence sensor fitted to the peloton but can't get them connected to the pc. Bluetooth not finding them so I'm upgrading the adaptor which must be like BT 2.0 or something lol. I had a tp link ub400 but it's total trash that needs a 400mb driver that still doesn't work. I think I may need an ANT+ on an extension lead tbh. New one comes tomorrow will see how it goes - may need to leave a cheapie phone in there as a BT bridge otherwise I'm tethered to it and my wife can't use it.

Keen to get measured up for the diesel heater.
 
Cheers mate! No, far more than a days work for a newb brickie like myself.

A good few days in the end splitting the work up.

Angle grinding out a strip of the existing slabs.
Digging down and mixing some sand cement footing.
Figuring out how to mix and and watching YouTube vids.
The actual brick laying took far longer than I anticipated due to me being such a noob and trying to keep the inside of the wall clean to keep the surface smooth to hopefully keep the membrane in good nic and stop any moisture getting through for when I eventually render it.
Filling it with 1.5 huge builders bags of soil was one mega workout too! All the shovelling into a wheelbarrow , transporting and shovelling again.
Sorting some drainage via a fabric wrapped perforated tube.
These bricks are so much heavier than they look too, definitely renewed respect for brickies after doing this project!
 
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Demon said:
Awful job, but good once done!


Access to a 3D Printer? There are many modular storage/organiser projects you can design your own layouts/boxes/bits and pieces and print them so you can get them all organised neatly.
Our resident u-tuber katie279 did a review of the gridfinity stuff and seems to have gone a bit overboard with organising her entire house..

But there are many little cable organisers for grid finity for all kinds of cables to allow you to wrap them up and store them within the confines of gridfinity standard sized boxes.
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Just checked out katie279 vide.o. wow amazing stuff. Wish i had a 3d priniter
 
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