Home DIY

Good idea, that could work.

Any tips on getting the door to the right level? I'm guessing some shims/packers below.

Just a general observation, as I sit here in my lounge staring at a pile of power tools, some not-yet-fitted threshold strips, and the front of my bathroom cabinet (partly repainted): this shit never ends and I should learn to love the process, right?

Nothing technical for us just a screwdriver levering over a hammer or something and aim to get it close to the top of the frame.

this shit never ends and I should learn to love the process, right?

Uhuh

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It keeps one distracted from the existential void I suppose.

Cool, good to know. Sounds like a two person job. I'll wait til the father-in-law visits and spring it on him as a surprise.

I would have thought removing 2-3mm off the bottom of a door would top trump trying to raise it on the hinges?

It's got metal kickplates on the bottom, attached with knackered old screws, and a 5mm gap at the top. But I thought the same as you until I looked closely.

The inflatable wedges are good
https://www.screwfix.com/p/winbag-inflatable-air-wedge-160mm-x-160mm/1363K?

^ This. Air wedges make lifting or prying things so much easier, with little risk of damaging the lifting area.

The big drawback being they turn into a round ball at maximum lift, so become unstable. Adding a block of anything to take up most of the gap and lift up to 25mm works best

this shit never ends and I should learn to love the process

you are starting to understand the arsenal FC mindset

Hello helpful people of the DIY thread, just a bit of help needed on sequencing of works that need to be done in our hallway.
We're having the floors and stairs sanded and finished with some Bona product, textured wallpaper to be removed and all walls and ceiling skim coated, sockets and switches replaced using existing wiring and a replacement radiator fitted. New radiator is a cast iron type and twice the length of the old one so a few floor boards need to come up so the pipework can be run underneath.
Would you have the radiator installed after stripping the wallpaper but before plastering (then remove again before skim coat and reinstall after plastering and decorating) so the plasterer can work arround the wall ties for the radiator etc? Floor sanding to be done last?

I don't like to think about sequencing of this stuff now I just ask my plumber, as he's really good. Unfortunately in Edinburgh.

Plumber should be able to get the pipe tails to come out of the floor in the right location as long as they know the spec of the rad. Then the redecorating can be done at leisure and the rad installed last.

A tip I got from another trade guy is do the floor sanding etc last so that you can make good any accidental damage that may occur during the other works.

Garden wall renovation now 70% done. The other 30 will have to wait until I can get my rotting shed out the way. Gave up on core drilling the stones for fence brackets as the 300mm core bit only had a 200mm pilot drill, not sure how that is supposed to work. Also the stones are hard as fuck so don't think it would have worked anyway. Going to try constructing my own slatted panels above as a way around the slightly uneven spacing of brackets.

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Shelves cut, sanded, oiled and up!

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Definitely floor sanding last. Easy to touch up skirting boards etc. Pain in the dick if you get eggshell or gloss on a freshly sanded floor.

This looks great!

One thing that I learned from help my old man do stone walls, specifically hanging gates on them, is that they like to fall apart. We ended up using big iron straps for added support.

Kinda of grafted over the top of the wall? It is a bit of a concern tbh: A) how susceptible to wind/human damage the finished structure will be, and B) whether drilling in to the capping stone will shake them loose again. Not sure I've come up with an adequate solution just yet. I could just set the fence above inside the wall but it would make the garden feel smaller and I wouldn't be able to fully appreciate the fruits of my labour. The other side has some cranked custom made metal posts. I could get something similar made maybe.

Kinda of grafted over the top of the wall?

A bit like blue physio tape, either side, and bolted all the way through.

I should point out that my old man was a gynaecologist, though, not a mason / hedger, and the chosen solution may have reflected that somewhat.

A bit like blue physio tape, either side, and bolted all the way through.

I should point out that my old man was a gynaecologist.

Bolted all the way through in surgery as well? 😮

Not a bad idea but what you can't fully appreciate is that there's only about 2' of wall above the neighbors gardens where they've been built up over the years, probably with building detritus. Anyway your comment has prompted me to pursue the cranked metal post option a bit further so as to allay my fears of the first gust ripping the fence down and taking the top of the wall with it. It'll hopefully make the other side look like less of a weird bodge too.

A home DIY success story for Sunday evening: replaced the water heater in my dishwasher which has always been crap but finally gave up the ghost a few days ago. It's like a new machine. Gone are the days of playing the "guess how much extra washing up there is now that you have to wash the stuff that should be clean already" game.

And I fixed the toy crane the kids have broken TWICE this weekend.

Just call me DIY dad.

Feels good man. Ours crapped a while ago, turned out to be a pipe blocked with all manner of rancid grease causing it to trip the flood cut-out. I fixed it with a £2 piece of PVC tube from the tropical pet shop.

Oohh, our smeg dishwasher dies the same flakey on off heating thing. Is it a pretty easy job to swap the heater?