Home DIY

Bro, I do. Srs bsns.

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No excuses with that. Get levelling.

Different consoles have different spacing between the shelves so make sure that you got matchning pairs (dont ask me how I know this)

Last time I put one up I put a screw in the top hole of the first console, poped two shelves in and used Them and a vattenpass to measure where the second console should be.

Have fun

children's chair looks like a cat that's thinking "hmm, this isn't really level"

fixed

Easter Sunday fun.

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Balls

dont ask me how I know this

Same way I know it I expect. Managed to locate and offset the culprit this time, result is reasonably good.

Have fun

I didn't

Shit! Doesn't look all that wet even though there's corrosion around the hole? What kind of pipe is it?

It's a CH pipe. I had a successful day of lifting up carpets, pulling up the floorboards to move a socket from one end of the landing to another. Then at the end of the day before bed I decided I'd quickly just screw the floorboards back down so my wife wouldn't accidently trip during the night.

Despite me clearly marking where the pipes were, I lost concentration and just screwed right through it. Not a good time for me to not know where the mains shut off is. I closed off the ch loop it via the boiler and closed up all the radiators and just soaked up what I could with towels. Once it calmed down I just called it a day and let it be this mornings job. I left a fan blowing over it overnight so it had dried a fair bit

Pic of my bodge repair job below . Was there a smarter way to do this?

I'm never mucking around with floor board before bed ever again.

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children's chair looks like a cat that's thinking "hmm, this isn't really level" and for some reason has Tina Kino's way of looking at things

Fixed again. :)

I need another project like I need another hole in my head but this came up on our community Facebook page so went round and had a chat and seemingly purchased this. '30's is the new Victorian doncha know. This, like all of my other projects, will be a slow burner.

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Nice :)

Was there a smarter way to do this?

As long as there is an easy way to get to it again - inaccessible compression joints aren't a great idea, as they are prone to leaks over time. Otherwise, solder it.

There is a specific sleeve which just simplifies the process. You cut the pipe, slide the sleeve on and tighten the compression joints. What you've done there is fine though.

Copper pipe, bought on a roll, how easy is it to straighten it?

And, unrelated, noisy pipes, getting worse. Happens when the toilet is flushed. Really loud now. It's mitigated a bit by running the cold tap in the kitchen. The pipe in the bathroom that seems to be the cause looks to be the cold water one which feeds into the electric shower. It vibrates like a madman.

Gerbils.

"Make the noise...!"

Straightening copper pipe is easy enough in the small (8mm) pipe as long as it's not for show. I've never used the larger sizes but I guess it would be easy enough to accidentally kink it. If it's going in an exposed area I'd stick with copper in pipe form, otherwise why not plastic.

Vibration is often a washer. It would be an electric shower where it's not so straightforward to check and repair though!

I made a side table out of copper pipe last week. I tried to use a roll of 10mm pipe the first time but found it impossible to get perfectly straight.

It was very easy to get straight enough for practical plumbing purposes though. I just unwound onto the floor and rolled it under foot. As Airhead says, not easy to get straight enough to be on show...

I gave up on the coil and bought straight pipes instead.

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its for a art/craft project so will be visible. Will look for a supplier of straight pipe in that case.

Nice table - does it have a top yet?

re the noise, will pass it on to the landlord to investigate

Just trying to decide what would look best for a top. Going to try 15mm ply and see how it looks.

Tbh, I don't like how the table looks anyway so I'm only fettling really.

Wood treating/staining existing sheds/fences is hands down the most demoralising DIY job I've ever done.

4 coats on the shed and still going.

The fence panels are going on a back burner.

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Spraying is the revolution...shed and fences.

I'm thinking we may need to do that.

Someone else suggested old engine oil. Which as we're going for a dark grey for the fences I wonder if we should have done that instead.

That sounds exceptionally flammable...