Home DIY

Fantastic!

Fuck that’s nice!

Where did you get the tiny tiles from? I fancy doing something similar

I wondered what kind of blade master you must be, cutting MDF strips out of sheet material and making such a success of it.

I only had to do a few where ms_com ordered too many 138mm wide strips and not enough 69mm wide ones. But luckily they were only 400mm long and using a knife means practically zero kerf. They did go well though. Careful with the first pass and semi-careful with the rest and it was grand. You do get a bit of a burr where the blade pushes a bit of material up but it's easily knocked off with a light sand.

40cm is a single pass so I guess that’s doable. Anyway, the results look great!

@TW

Oak cladding gone up. The back wall is going to have a curtain but frustratingly I am two lengths of oak cladding short to finish the job.

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Just on this - you were right in that it was quite difficult. The shaver socket and cabinet placement were either sides of a stud. But, I then found the cabinet doesn’t have any switches so I needed switched power anyway. Thanks though

That's lovely looking wood. Good job.

is that a wooden toilet?

Cheers

Was up against time as the weather turned today and I didn’t want the mitre saw out in the rain. Frustrated to be a few boards short. But we have another building project that’s going to be clad so I can make up the shortfall then.

It’s a wooden “throne” it houses a composting toilet. Fluids are separated into a soak away. Solids are collected and then placed into a specific human waste hot composter.

human waste hot composter

That's no way to talk about @hippy

Pretty accurate though.

How good are bathroom wall panels these days?
Trying to sort out a bathroom with tiles only half way up the wall. Can’t take a shower in the bath, and not sure I want to take off the current tiles and retile.

Thinking either to put wall panels above the current level of tile, or taking the tile off and putting them full height.

We have them in a shower. They are a good job. Wooden backed are more expensive for some reason. We stuck with plastic/pvc backing as it won’t rot. We are on our second set of panels as we changed the shower recently - absolutely no worries about using them again and we will probably put them in the other shower when the time comes.

Still need to fit the top handles, but I think it looks better than the plain doors. Used a dead flat eggshell (over Zinsser Cover Stain) in the same colour as the walls.

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I’d like to add a second light switch in my garage, I’m confident about how to wire it but what cable do I need to order? I thought it was just called ‘twin and earth’ but looking on screwfix there seems to be different types.

Nice job, I'd be happy with that.

Do you need 4 core to get the strap line for 2 way switching?

Twin and Earth is the most common type of household wire. It comes in many varieties but the 2 principal types are used for either sockets or lights. You can use 2.5 T&E for lights, it's just more expensive. You need to have cable which has a higher capacity than the breaker on the circuit. In your case the smaller 4 core will probably do it but you need to establish that yourself.

This is the loft. Putting insulation rolls inbetween the rafters is presumably relatively straightforward?

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Be aware that adding insulation is change to a thermal element and is therefore notifiable to building control.

You need to consider ventilation too.

oh. ventilation sucks.

consider it and then ignore it?

#bringbackrep

Thank you. It makes sense now. 🙏