Home DIY

Living in renos is so gross.

Edit: new page fail

Brill!

🥴

Yep. Slippers 24/7, dust, general mank.

Wickes Proplex here whilst we wait an age for a flooring date. Has reduced the dust quite well

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Would you use in a bedroom, or is it not that good at dust minimisation?

Ghetto wood shed number 2.
Felt going on tomorrow.

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My dad did this on his last place, never been a tradesman. I'm never going to live up to his DIY skills.

Recently found out he installed am entire CH system in his first flat with the use of a book and a few words of advice from a mate.

Anyone have any experience with EPDM roofs? The garden room I'm building has 2 velux that I need to trim the membrane around. Normally you'd unroll the membrane from the centre of the roof one way, then come back and roll the other. However this isn't really an option for me.

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I've not done this yet, but expect to be doing so in the next week or two, so keen to see how you get on or to chat about how to do it.

Our flatroof was leaking so I got into the YouTube flatroof rabbit hole and the weirdly charismatic flatroof doctor on YouTube says two layers of torch down rubber bitumen is vastly superior to epdm hehe

Felted and in. Just need to chop the rest of the wood and get it in!

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The reflection in that mirror is really artistic!

Ha.
It was very carefully composed.
To hide the sordid truth.

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This looks promising

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KxpCRTNYkSs

Looks great! I'm trying to something similar. Would you mind telling me where the medicine cabinet is from?

Sorry, I don’t know.
I took 2 of them out of a job (a millionaire art dealer’s pad in Notting Hill) well over a decade ago.
It’s been up in my loft waiting for me to finish my bathroom, I gave the other to a mate.
It’s the kind of utility design you used to be able to buy cheap in the States from McMaster-Carr

This place has a few decent ones.
https://www.bellabathrooms.co.uk/bathroom-furniture/bathroom-cabinets/stainless-steel-cabinets.html?p=2

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Funny you reference the US. Our apartment there a recessed one, so did our mates and I really liked the idea of them.

I assume there's a reason they're more common there than here.

Dream for me is one including a heated mirror for shaving.

Edit: turns out you can buy cheap heating panels. One of the reviewer wired(?) to the light pull cord so by the time you finish showering it's clear
https://www.screwfix.com/p/klima-heated-bathroom-mirror-panel-65w-65w-230v-410-x-580mm/77859

I assume there's a reason they're more common there than here.

Sheetrock (pb) and stud walls make fitting one an hour-long job instead of a whole day (!) into bricks and mortar.

There’s also a tradition of design of ‘utility’ fixtures and fittings in the States this cabinet fits into; unselfconscious minimalism/modernism.

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Dream for me is one including a heated mirror for shaving.

I’m planning having one of these, I won’t be shaving in the cabinet mirror- but the wall opposite is going to have my collection of bevel-edged grandma mirrors hanging along it - I’m going to stick a pad onto one. You can buy on eBay cheap.

minimalism/modernism x bevel-edged grandma mirrors

Got to soften it up somehow.
😂

I’ve got no problem with non-modernist objects/furnishings in a modern interior.
Then the interior retreats and you look at the objects, like in a gallery.

Or Charles and Ray’s gaff.

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Dream for me is one including a heated mirror for shaving.

Can recommend. We have one of these and I'm pretty happy with it. Mirrored on the inside and out, which is more useful than it sounds and has a motion sensor switch so you don't need to touch anything to turn it on and off: https://www.amazon.co.uk/Neue-Design-Illuminated-Certified-Standards/dp/B00VQP14RQ/
Weighs a ton though. I'm surprised the wall can hold it, given its candy floss consistency.

Pretty happy with my recent DIY progress, went from this:

To this:

Inside a week (with some help from some floor sanders) and ran ethernet cables around the house at the same time too.

Fitting radiators is not that hard, getting the tails to not leak very very slowly is a different matter, but I've got some Loctite 55 now. Was working all week too so I'm basically broken today.

Next up: fitting soundproofing to the party walls (which seem to be made of cheese), skirting, architraves, electrical fittings.

Oh and testing the ethernet cables I put in because I ran out of time to do that before the floor sanders arrived on Thursday morning, so let's hope they work...