What "man jobs" have you done today?
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Looks a lot better - good job 
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I imagine cutting a curve with an angle grinder is incredibly hard work
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Is it dry yet?
I had some walls skimmed recently and they took a good 3-4 days to dry out. Don't force them to dry by using heaters or a dehumidifier - just keep a window ajar and let the plaster dry out naturally.
Soldato
He did three walls yesterday and is here now doing the fourth wall (bay window) and the ceiling.
Windows are on locked open and the radiator on as normal. Should be fine for visitors on Friday evening
Windows are on locked open and the radiator on as normal. Should be fine for visitors on Friday evening
I imagine cutting a curve with an angle grinder is incredibly hard work
Not really just use a quality blade and mark out the line beforehand.
Rather than have an abrupt turn they could have widen the area in front of the door to soften it off.
I imagine cutting a curve with an angle grinder is incredibly hard work
Cutting tight curves just looks odd on paving anyway, using cobble setts is a better way.
Soldato
Is it dry yet?
He's done and really happy with it. The walls he did yesterday are drying out nicely
Those pictures are giving me horrible flashbacks!He's done and really happy with it. The walls he did yesterday are drying out nicely
Had just the walls skimmed, mist coated at least twice, before putting the final colour on. Carpets are due to be laid soon and I'm really hating the upheaval (again).
You've picked the wrong time of year for it
OR you could have gone ahead and sprayed it anyway, covering your neighbours table and chairs, decking, plants etc. just like mine did (even after I asked him if anything needed moving first). Prized Pirck.
Soldato
Shelves went up.
I initially stained them a little too dark and had to sand back to bare wood again and recoat using only 1 coat of stain. What was annoying was the test piece i used had 3 costs of stain. Suppose it's the difference in that i spent a lot more time prepping the shelves and only gave the test piece a light sand.
What was also annoying was that my wood was 8x2, so i bought 8" shelf brackets. Fitted perfectly as a test fit, but the screws aren't countersunk into the bracket so stick out ~4mm which stops the shelf fitting. I had to cut a recess out at the back to get them to fit.
I initially stained them a little too dark and had to sand back to bare wood again and recoat using only 1 coat of stain. What was annoying was the test piece i used had 3 costs of stain. Suppose it's the difference in that i spent a lot more time prepping the shelves and only gave the test piece a light sand.
What was also annoying was that my wood was 8x2, so i bought 8" shelf brackets. Fitted perfectly as a test fit, but the screws aren't countersunk into the bracket so stick out ~4mm which stops the shelf fitting. I had to cut a recess out at the back to get them to fit.
Shelves went up.
I initially stained them a little too dark and had to sand back to bare wood again and recoat using only 1 coat of stain. What was annoying was the test piece i used had 3 costs of stain. Suppose it's the difference in that i spent a lot more time prepping the shelves and only gave the test piece a light sand.
What was also annoying was that my wood was 8x2, so i bought 8" shelf brackets. Fitted perfectly as a test fit, but the screws aren't countersunk into the bracket so stick out ~4mm which stops the shelf fitting. I had to cut a recess out at the back to get them to fit.
Where are those brackets from? Quite like em.
Soldato
They're just called Scaffold Shelf brackets. You'll find a lot of places do them, but this place seemed the cheapest.
https://www.woodnwax.co.uk/product/scaffolding-shelf-brackets-cast-iron-shelf-bracket/
They come in various depths too.
https://www.woodnwax.co.uk/product/scaffolding-shelf-brackets-cast-iron-shelf-bracket/
They come in various depths too.
Soldato
Power washed my other two boundary fences to take algae off it. Will be doing a second coat on the dividing fence and making a start on the first couple of panels if one of the other fences tomorrow.
What a strange thing to say!
He's done and really happy with it. The walls he did yesterday are drying out nicely
nice job that looks almost identical to my living room with those massive bay windows.
strangely I also have the same configuration with the plug sockets, If I could go back I would have put
a plug socket on the inside walls of the bay window or just 1 side. handy having them there if you got sofas along them walls it gets difficult to access the socket. also useful if something needs to be plugged to be on the window shelf.
Soldato
Very coincidental
It's a bedroom and we had the downstairs mostly rewired when we had a loft conversion last year so all planned out for the bedroom layout
It's pretty much dried out so sanded the woodwork and gave the walls / ceiling and coving it's first coat of paint today.
Yesterday swapped out an old an rather tatty looking radiator for a new one
Also built a new step to the front door
Before
After
Also (you can just see to the right) replaced a broken paving slab with a new one
Broke it out
The new one was (as expected) nowhere near the same colour due to the age and weathering if the existing
But luckily and by sheer coincidence my dad had one that had been stored in his garden for years and it matched a damn site better
There was also a wobbly flag further down the steps so brought that up, cut the old bed out and rebedded and repointed it
It's a bedroom and we had the downstairs mostly rewired when we had a loft conversion last year so all planned out for the bedroom layout
It's pretty much dried out so sanded the woodwork and gave the walls / ceiling and coving it's first coat of paint today.
Yesterday swapped out an old an rather tatty looking radiator for a new one
Also built a new step to the front door
Before
After
Also (you can just see to the right) replaced a broken paving slab with a new one
Broke it out
The new one was (as expected) nowhere near the same colour due to the age and weathering if the existing
But luckily and by sheer coincidence my dad had one that had been stored in his garden for years and it matched a damn site better
There was also a wobbly flag further down the steps so brought that up, cut the old bed out and rebedded and repointed it