Home DIY

The chap who painted our place was a whizz with this - took all the rads off the walls to paint behind them.

Another old trick is loosen the joints unhook them from the brackets, lay the heads on the floor and tighten the joints back up. You have all the time in the world then to strip, line and paint the wall, but as Konastab01 says, a professional would be thinking how little they want to have to pay for new carpets or spend time cleaning up a spill.

It's worth learning to drain and refill the system of the house you live in.

I think that's probably sensible. It's a much bigger job to prep and paint it all.

Are you a professional cake decorator? :)

This method was standard practice and still is in places where the workman is receiving less than industry wages. The repaircare stuff is terrible for my income. I end up charging much less in labour and I'm spending £70-£100 on materials for some jobs. Fortunately it means there's always a bit of it around to do the smaller jobs though which is where it really saves time.

The repairs last so long I'm going back to repair other parts of doors 5 years later and the old repairs are still solid.

Did one way worse than this last year and restored the water bar perfectly. Double patio doors, the worst.

I guess people never want to spend the money replacing double doors but I do tell people they should have called me 3 years earlier. Exterior stuff is easy if you do a bit every year. It's nice when it's warm and sunny.

Hah no but mrs. Howard could probably have done a good job. Need to sand it all back now but the prevailing wind blows the shite inside so will wait for a calm day and make something to catch the dust.

The weather bar and seal thing fitted well.

We’ve inherited a lot of neglect with our place. The extension on the back is all wood framed and twenty years old. We’ll pull it all out in five years time and replace it with modern composites or plastics. Or maybe new wood if we can find someone to do it.

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Definitely form following function with little compromise but decent belt and braces approach. I'm getting a whole load of diy jobs done at the moment. Just very very slowly.

Oh totally, but this was a new rad and new pipes.

Nice work, there's a window frame I really really need to do this to.

Aye that’s one of the reasons we do it, refilling systems now that are all pressurised are a Kantor. I’d rather take 30 mins doing it than having some cunt moan and then want a new carpet out my tail.

Aye easy to take one of and refit it, not a 10 min just fitting a brand new rad.

Nice work - that gives me hope that I'll get away with minimal arseache on mine

If the wood isn’t actually rotten, as Airhead says, sand and varnish keeps the current look, but won’t last as long as a good paint system. Painting over oak (which is what it looks like you have there) isn’t to everyone’s taste.

Dust extractor was one of the best investments I’ve made for jobs like this. Epoxy dust is a bastard.

Sander for making scaffold planks into something usable for outdoor furniture - belt (cheapo corded) or random orbital (can get a Makita LXT one).

Put some 606 up. Surprised by the heft of the cabinets so bracing them for now with some boxes and shiz until I’m happy the wall isn’t going to come down.

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That's just a type of flex cable right?

Probably belt sander if they're quite rough. It'll take forever with a battery orbital.

But late to reply sorry, but one of these inspection cameras are great for investigating that kind of thing. At under £40 they are a lot cheaper that the ones made by tool manufacturers and will connect to your phone so you can use its screen to see what going on. I've got one and its paid for itself many times over.

Ooof nice!

Wicked. Thanks.

Also means I can practice colonoscopy on the side....

very nice, our buyer wants our string so now we're deciding between splurging for 606 or buying more string

I have one you can borrow if you need. Micro USB though so if your phone is USB C you'll need to connect it to a laptop.

I promise it's been long enough since it went up my nose out of curiosity that and Covid will have died off.

we just had a new hob installed by AO am i supposed to silicon it?

Does it have its own seal? If so, then silicone might just make future maintenance more of a ball ache.

Don't think so, I can see my self storing food for a long time under the lip thats currently there