Home DIY

This is neat, prob get one of those.
Spent 6 months stripping out most of the 20th centuries bad additions, so many random wires, at least 4 previous door bells leaving their scar's everywhere. Looking for something simple, but not a door knocker, because, why not.

Dropped my old rail square too many times so had to replace it.

The new one is nice and shiiiiiiiiny.

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Yeah perfect, thanks. I'll drop you a PM

Sounds like a tricky job tbh.

I'm also very bad at it.

I expect I'll be dong a lot of sanding.

Thanks for the tips.

I have a 6" knife which seems to be working well enough.

You'll never got more than that out a new boiler, 12-15 you'll be doing well and even now the long warrantys are gonna be fun when they get to the later end of the 10 years.

I'm also very bad at it.

I did it on and off for a decade and I only felt like I was any good in the latter half, lol.

On the plasterboard taping. Are people just painting over the boards having taped the joints? I thought that was a continental style. I'm 99% on older buildings though. I usually assume the entire wall will be skimmed on top of the joint filler so no need to feather the edges.

I have a 225mm head sander (the Planex). It doesn't get much use but it's very good at smoothing easy fill, it was pretty much designed for it.

It's worth repeating the advantage of painting the filler with Gardz. That also helps you to find the myriad of tiny bubbles you often get in fillers. They are filled by dry loose filler after sanding but all appear when you wet the surface.

Before I get locked in, has anyone seen any good deals on a lightish / ~3kg SDS?

Sub£100, ideally with some bits.

Cheers.

(have dewalt batteries, but perfectly happy with corded)

Also any hacks for budget boxes for tools?

Flow diverter replacement on a Grohe mixer.

Mercifully straightforward and £25 for a complete valve.

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Bags for life end up being my tool bags/boxes 90% of the time tbh.

So much this - but replace bags for life with cheap canvass holdalls. Systainers are a nice idea on paper but they wind up taking up so much space and in my experience tools get dropped / damaged in use not getting them to or from the work area.

If you tape + easifill well enough you'll be very hard pressed to spot the joints. Tapered are easy. Square ends require a bit of experience. Start in a cupboard or behind where a wardrobe is gonna be. After 1 full room of swearing and going back over a run only to make it worse, you'll get good enough.

Uk style is to do a single skim (or two super thin jobs if your are skilled) over the whole boards once taped.

Never got the hang of paper tape for anything other than internal corners.

Or you end up filling boxes to the brim, so you’re not carting too many boxes around, and then you have to take everything out to get anything and then spend 5 mins repacking it all.
I’m waiting for a bit of extra cash to buy a fancy veto tool rucksack for my daily hand tools, but at the moment some odds and sods in my normal rucksack, nail gun tied to the outside of said rucksack, and a bag for life in each hand is my EDC.

Not a bad idea.

For the avoidance of doubt this is DIY. So I quite like having things that stack neatly (or theoretically can).

Long term goal is a robust power tool drawer. But I can't see that happening anytime soon so for now a box for my multitool and SDS (if I get a box less one).

Edit: tool drawer like in this dudes video around 9m
https://youtu.be/ROkIvJ_rVKU

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I've only ever done uk style 2 coat. I've followed plenty of new plaster jobs where the plaster is a mess because it's been done in 1 coat.

Any reason you're going for a light SDS? My theory was that I'm only going to be using it for hefty stuff so may as well buy a hefty one.

Having a massive heavy tool when you’ve got to use it one armed up a ladder is a nightmare, so there’s plenty reason to want something that suits it’s duty.

I’ve been after a 12v drill and impact driver for that reason for ages, as if I’m doing loads of overhead work, the beastly 18v combi gets a bit heavy!

I've just noticed that our new tap has a little red/blue icon - they're very tiny so am not wildly bothered but, presumably because of brexit, the red icon is on the cold side. I'm guessing it's just a case of disconnecting the tails and swapping them onto different pipes?

Where did you get this please Howard? My Grohe thermostatic mixer is playing up. The cost of that replacement unit from the manufacturer is eye-watering!

My dad bought the erbaucher or what every its called from screw fix and as much as I love some milwaukee, its a great drill and has chisel feature too. I think it was about £100 although its the battery version.

Post a picture.

Does anyone want a 6' x 6' larch lap fencing panel? Unused, but not improving with outdoor storage. Free to anyone who can take it away from my gaff in Kilburn NW6

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Just searched for the part number and bought the cheapest. Think it was direct from Grohe but through eBay. On Grohe’s site it’s £68. Go figure.