What "man jobs" have you done today?

LuckyBenski · 27 May 2023 at 15:04

azazl187 said:
My missus has been moaning about having to do the food shop for weeks now so I've told her I'll do it. 6 weeks in and I make it back with the whole shop within an hour. It used to take her over 2....

Now that's a man job if ever there was one!

Now let's see you cook it all!

Currently in the middle of clearing out the DIY waste we've not sorted all year. Got about 20-30m of removed skirting I've realised we won't reuse, loads of carpet grab strips and rubble from chasing/plastering. After all this goes to the dump I'm having a huge tool tidy, which should then leave some rooms clear for new DIY tasks!

Welshman · 27 May 2023 at 15:16

LuckyBenski said:
Now let's see you cook it all!

Currently in the middle of clearing out the DIY waste we've not sorted all year. Got about 20-30m of removed skirting I've realised we won't reuse, loads of carpet grab strips and rubble from chasing/plastering. After all this goes to the dump I'm having a huge tool tidy, which should then leave some rooms clear for new DIY tasks!

I do all the food shopping and the cooking in our house……my Mrs does the cleaning, works for us.

azazl187 · 27 May 2023 at 15:24

LuckyBenski said:
Now let's see you cook it all!

Currently in the middle of clearing out the DIY waste we've not sorted all year. Got about 20-30m of removed skirting I've realised we won't reuse, loads of carpet grab strips and rubble from chasing/plastering. After all this goes to the dump I'm having a huge tool tidy, which should then leave some rooms clear for new DIY tasks!

I'm still at work at dinner time but I cook weekends

LuckyBenski · 27 May 2023 at 17:53

Cleared the skirting, rubble, lino and odd bits from the house and visited dump. It was bustling! Apparently it's a place to bring your kids

Welshman said:
I do all the food shopping and the cooking in our house……my Mrs does the cleaning, works for us.

We have the opposite split. I can cook well, but she's more creative and motivated so she's in charge of kitchen business really. I'm more stringent about cleaning and routines

casper_uk · 27 May 2023 at 21:27

Ripped the old kitchen out and took up the terribly fitted fake tiles from the floor. Going to be a lot of cleaning required as there has deffintely been a number of leaks in the past judging from the mold on the walls. Might even have to redo all the pipe work. Also got to decide how to get the oven and hob cable into a new isolator which is going to be on the bottom row of cabinets. The isolator is currently at head height. Guess it's going to have to be chased in and buried in the wall.

Duke · 27 May 2023 at 21:46

Cleaned the conservatory roof then painted first coat of solar reflective paint on it.

{SAS}TB · 28 May 2023 at 16:35

Up and a (relatively) early start

Got the saw horse set up with the intention of cutting the last timber delivery into 12" lengths / rounds

Also tried standing the saw horse in an old builders bag to try and catch most the chippings ...

First time using the DeWalt battery chainsaw and am very impressed just needed to watch the oil level as she's quite thirsty and does chew through batteries if cutting larger pieces

Had the maul and axe out to mix it up a bit and any "down time" between charges

Took a good 6 hours or so to cut them all up and load into the new store (wanted to tidy the area up) even though I'll have to lug them all out again to split ..

They are 3 rounds / lengths deep so a fair old stock

There were a few gnarly pieces and a few large rounds I put into the smaller store

The last of the seasoned stuff on the top shelf.

Other large store is rammed and the splits drying nicely

Decent amount of wood chip from the session

Put It in the "woodland" area in the back garden

Had a good sweep and tidy up where they had been stored / processed

That's it for today

theone8181 · 28 May 2023 at 21:02

Tbh I think it doesn't count as a man job if you use a chainsaw, you need to use an axe and wear that chequered lumberjack jacket. I don't make the rules :cry:

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{SAS}TB · 28 May 2023 at 21:07

Lol, can you imagine cutting them up with an axe!!

Splitting, yes, but cutting into rounds - nope diddly nope nope

miller745 · 28 May 2023 at 21:25

Made a picnic/WFH when it's sunny table! Builders merchants chopped 3.6m lengths into half which saved me a load of time.

{SAS}TB · 28 May 2023 at 21:26

miller745 said:
Made a picnic/WFH when it's sunny table! Builders merchants chopped 3.6m lengths into half which saved me a load of time.

Nice !

dlockers · 28 May 2023 at 21:32

miller745 said:
Made a picnic/WFH when it's sunny table! Builders merchants chopped 3.6m lengths into half which saved me a load of time.

Super simple but that's great going tbf

UberTiger · 28 May 2023 at 21:34

miller745 said:
Made a picnic/WFH when it's sunny table! Builders merchants chopped 3.6m lengths into half which saved me a load of time.

Nice! How much were the materials? Saw these flat packed in B&Q the other day for just under £100 and wondered about what it'd be like to build a custom one.

miller745 · 28 May 2023 at 21:55

UberTiger said:
Nice! How much were the materials? Saw these flat packed in B&Q the other day for just under £100 and wondered about what it'd be like to build a custom one.

Was £147, I used 6x2 treated. Got an extra 3.6m in case I made mistakes and mistakes were made!

G_Wizz · 28 May 2023 at 23:54

miller745 said:
Was £147, I used 6x2 treated. Got an extra 3.6m in case I made mistakes and mistakes were made!

Did you work from a pre designed plan or make it up as you go ?

DXP55 · 29 May 2023 at 10:49

{SAS}TB said:
Up and a (relatively) early start

Got the saw horse set up with the intention of cutting the last timber delivery into 12" lengths / rounds

Also tried standing the saw horse in an old builders bag to try and catch most the chippings ...

First time using the DeWalt battery chainsaw and am very impressed just needed to watch the oil level as she's quite thirsty and does chew through batteries if cutting larger pieces

Had the maul and axe out to mix it up a bit and any "down time" between charges

Took a good 6 hours or so to cut them all up and load into the new store (wanted to tidy the area up) even though I'll have to lug them all out again to split ..

They are 3 rounds / lengths deep so a fair old stock

There were a few gnarly pieces and a few large rounds I put into the smaller store

The last of the seasoned stuff on the top shelf.

Other large store is rammed and the splits drying nicely

Decent amount of wood chip from the session

Put It in the "woodland" area in the back garden

Had a good sweep and tidy up where they had been stored / processed

That's it for today

Now you have highlighted this tile my eyes go straight too the other two on that first row of tiles.

They really do need levelling. ?

miller745 · 29 May 2023 at 11:41

G_Wizz said:
Did you work from a pre designed plan or make it up as you go ?

It was planned, I'd made a 3.6m long version of this at my old house and used sketchup to design that. But when you start making it, just tweak it as needed, i used a screwhead as the spacing for the seat boards etc.
Still managed to cut the angles wrong on the uprights, I got carried away

Chris Wilson · 29 May 2023 at 11:44

Today's man job is getting the wife on the mower (after she's been for 25 litres of petrol), as the grass has grown like hell and is full of buttercups. There was a fox with 4 or 5 cubs on the lawn first thing, she's a bit sniffy and wet about shooting cubs, so not only have I got to get them in range, but do so when she's out, and she's off work at the moment. The dogs have been going crazy at first light, now I know why...

{SAS}TB · 29 May 2023 at 11:47

DXP55 said:
Now you have highlighted this tile my eyes go straight too the other two on that first row of tiles.

They really do need levelling. ?

Ha ha. No! The tiles are far from uniform and moving / leveling them just knocks others out of kilter.

It's "rustic" and absolutely fine as it is

Chris Wilson · 29 May 2023 at 11:48

miller745 said:
It was planned, I'd made a 3.6m long version of this at my old house and used sketchup to design that. But when you start making it, just tweak it as needed, i used a screwhead as the spacing for the seat boards etc.
Still managed to cut the angles wrong on the uprights, I got carried away

Looks very proffessional, just needs a few pints on it