Home DIY

About 95% done on ms_com's office now. Patchy sanding job due to trying to operated a floor sander with limited head room, but she's happy with it. Photos just after the second coat of osmo, so glad to have all that shitty red varnish gone from the top floor now. She decided she wanted the skirting board removed around the little window recess so will have to fill around that and also fix the paint that got fucked up on the eaves hatch when a bastard rocking horse toppled over onto it.

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Looks really, really good mate! Good effort indeed.

Thanks. Mis-matched wallpaper is intentional. Ours is not to reason why.... Despite there still being other unfinished rooms, they have not even been started. This one was started when we moved in over 2 years ago. But a combination of design delays, it being full of crap and me getting absolutely fucking furious when I smacked my head, shoulders or back on the low ceiling meant it has crawled along. But getting the new veluxes(i?), smashing out the weird bulkhead thing in the top right of the before photo (where the old expansion tank used to live), stripping the nasty varnish and covering the shit paint job the previous owners slapped on with a brush (often over blu-tack and old panini stickers), building a built in cupboard in the weird alcove to the left of the smaller velux, creating the requested built in desk/shelf wall, filling the million nail pops from when the roof was replaced (should have just paid a plasterer), replacing the head lacerating light fitting, restoring the rad, have all been very satisfying. ms_com has a double sofa bed on the way (so it can double as another spare room) and it will likely get a massive rug.

I work in this room at our gaff. What have you done for lights? I Should have taken the opportunity to put in spot lights when we had the roof off.

It was this, or something very similar. Sticks out only slightly less than the flourescent bulb but doesn't create potential glass shard death if I smack my head. And they can be directed. Ms_com is 6" shorter than me so never going to be an issue for her and also hence why she gets this room as her office and I get the tiny box room with 10' ceiling.

https://www.victorianplumbing.co.uk/revive-satin-brass-4-light-bar-spotlight

She also has lamps on her desk

“often over blu-tack and old panini stickers”

Do you have Franco Baresi for swaps?

You're welcome to go through the bag of the henry hoover and separate it from sanding dust.

Ta. Similar to what we ended up with.

My partner went away for a long weekend so I decided to suprise her with a seating area out the front of our home

• The front home is south facing sun trap
  
• due to layout of the housing hardly anyone walks past
  
• its shielded to the left and right by our and, our neighbouts porch.
  
  

1.) Cut the existing lawn

2.) Discover that the top soil is very shallow becuase of the super heavy clay under it (which explains why that area was always slow to drain). Also, builders are always same, found a load of site rubbish under the lawn.

3.) Buy more pressure treated gravel boards as we're now going up rather than down. Make some stakes, and frame out the area.

4.) add anti-weed matting, and realise your going to need a lot more gravel

5.) add bench, table and plants - enjoy

Upper Hallway progressing well. Lights and smoke alarms now up and socket covers on
. Just the radiator and giving the floor sander a call and it should be done. It's come a long way.

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Where are those two pendant lights from please? I saw something very similar on aliexpress the other day

https://www.aliexpress.com/item/1005003678914998.html

Yeah, they're Louis Poulson PH5 minis.
Got them from David Village lighting.

Many thanks

Nice one

The grain on your doors!

Great idea! Nicely done

I've recently picked up a track saw and a 1400 mm rail, but realize it might be a bit unwieldy for smaller cross cuts. Does anyone have a spare 700 mm rail they would part with? Seems to be tricky to buy them as they tend to come in pairs with a joining bar, which is a bit redundant for me.

Looks great

Use your track saw to cut it in half surely?

YouTool or similar aftermarket, can't find a Brexia link rn:

https://tinyurl.com/2j9vff28

Catford"s finest 1930s single panel pitch pine doors 😂. They were painted all manner of colours and had them stripped.

I need to take all of the kitchen back to bare brick so need to take all of the plaster off (well all plaster that's not held on by the wallpaper). Want some sort of tool for the job. What is it I want and does anyone have any specific recommendations? Not something too heavy because cyclist arms. SDS with chisel?

I've got an Asgard shed on the way, and I'd like to put a gutter on it for a water butt - but without drilling holes. Has anyone done this? I'm thinking glue or magnets...