Home DIY

Today was not the day to be man handling full sheets of 18mm OSB solo (the one behind the scribbles is not a carrier - or else, divorce). I have a sheet carrier handle thing which makes it slightly easier. But, fuck me I forgot how heavy those things are.

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I was looking over the plywood i have for my desk build earlier.

have the 18mm sheet i got this week and... wait a minute... two sheets of 12mm.

go and check my order and i fucking ordered the wrong thickness when i first got in most of my office materials.

annoyingly it was because they fucked up my delivery so i cancelled and reordered so i could pick some of the items up separately while i was in the store finding out why they didn't deliver my stuff. must have put the wrong size in my basket.

didn't notice as i had a ton of stuff arrive at the same time so i assumed it was right.

i can reuse it for some of the other stuff i have planned but now i have to find the money for more 18mm for the desk and i'm fucking skint.

Glue the two 12mm together and have a 24mm thick desk? Would look nice.

Then sand back to 18mm

lol

This. I doubled up some birch ply for something and it looked ace. Chonky

I built a basic step for our back door out of some leftover bricks and a stone paver (ignore the neatness!). It's level, but the stone paver hasn’t stuck to the mortar and moves a little bit under foot. Stupid question but is there some sort of glue that works with stone? I kind of thought the mortar would stick it.

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the stone paver hasn’t stuck to the mortar

Might have been too dry or the stone was dusty

In the past I've used Gripfill to stick a wall back together that was reversed into:
https://www.screwfix.com/p/evo-stik-gripfill-solvented-grab-adhesive-beige-350ml/10261

I'll give it a whirl, thanks

Gripfill works and it's cheap. Make sure you stay off it for a day. I better say - dependant on usage, it may fail but it's worked for me - albeit maybe for a year until it needs redone.

Gorilla PVC glue is good for this. Clean off the surface so it's clean and there's no dust or debris. Apply to multiple spots. Push together, weigh down and leave it.

This stuff expands to fill gaps. Also will set in the presence of water.

https://amzn.eu/d/359nLDP

Other retailers are available.

did all my caulking today. bought a set of the cramer fugi silicone tools as i hate it and it always messes up.

now I'm angry at myself for not having them when i redid basically the whole houses coving last year. so fucking useful.

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Some good deals at Toolchimp at the moment, incl. Bessey clamps at about 50% off: https://www.toolchimp.co.uk/clearance

What was your mortar mix ratio? Gripfill etc would probably do for a while but I imagine would be likely to fail after a while.
The proper way would be to coat the back of the stone with an SBR slurry (SBR and cement mix) and lay it on a full bed of bedding mortar (5:1). While not absolutely necessary, the SBR primer will aid adhesion and prevent salts etc leeching up and staining the stone.

Where are you based? You'll only need a tiny bit of SBR. I can give you a cup to save you buying a full bottle if you're SE

That's a more permanent fix but, dependent on footfall, maybe not permanent. I speak from experience and it is a headache!

Am having a loft conversion done. Part of it meant I had to knock down a bedroom wall to make space for the stair case. I'm building said wall back it it's new location but am trying to decide if I should align it with the face of the stair case, which makes it quite not square with the room, or of I should build the wall square and have a big gap at the back where the stair case meets the wall.

In the photo, the level represents a square wall. You can see the gap I would get, it's looking like a wedge that will be 30mm wide at the back

What to do!?

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I want to make a nice container for this bay tree:

(Trunk circumference 35cm
X
Height (inc current pot) 160cm
X
Width 120cm (w/could trim to 90cm).

I want it to fit into a particular area in my front. The ground is slightly sloped so I'd need to shim or build it to an angle.

Initial thoughts are using decking boards with some sort of internal frame. But Idk if it'll look a bit naff.

Any other ideas? Ideally black.

Cheers

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gonna need the plants care knowledge, like where the sun rises and negating the heat reflection etc.. is it a container for the existing pot as apposed to a re-pot? repurposed decking does always look like ,, repurposed decking..
Could throw something more organic at it like a mud clay cement mix and see what takes to it

We had a wooden thing kinda like a cask once, that would look nice in one of those.

Like this:
https://www.ebay.de/itm/164107062977?mkcid=16&mkevt=1&mkrid=707-127634-2357-0&ssspo=cygUIi0PQk-&sssrc=4429486&ssuid=-1LpX64aRTW&var=&widget_ver=artemis&media=COPY

Not quite sure what you mean or what rest on it's location, hut here goes...

For context it was in a raised bed that we removed. I liked the tree so potted it in this massive plastic thing as a temp measure to see if it surved as it was in a sorry state. It looks like it has and I want something smaller, and taller.

It is currently unsheltered, but gets full sun almost all day. It's new home would be sheltered, but would get the morning-midday sun and be surrounded by brick walls and concrete pavers underneath.

Any actual move would wait till the spring as a large root grows at an angle, so that would need to be trimmed. Plus I'd need to reduce the width. Which I think I could reasonably do down to 90cm.

Hard to find a good pic, but this is what it used to be like before it was severly damaged by heavy snowfall.

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That's a good shout. The only thing is the height.

I'd ideally like something taller. Both lookswise, but also so there is enough soil.

https://www.vidaxl.de/e/vidaxl-hochbeet-pulverbeschichteter-stahl-100x100x68-cm-silbern/8720286857601.html?gad_source=1&gclid=Cj0KCQjwlIG2BhC4ARIsADBgpVT7sztSRhWMnj_93g-mRdWkPSmGWG3l4I-Ddy3m4UwL9vmBMPTs-vAaAv0JEALw_wcB
Sorry about the German link, but those are also quite nice. And sorry about the non DIY suggestions, but might be one of those things where buying makes more sense.

Like today I wanted to make ramps so the robo vacuum can do it's job, as the ready made ones are expensive. But despite access to a real nice table saw, I realised cutting those angles wasn't really an option.
And then I found a precut solution for roofing that's going to cost all of 16€ for 4 meters of ramp.

That kind of thing looks agricultural, maybe available closer through a farm supply?

Or: https://www.vidaxl.co.uk/e/vidaxl-garden-raised-bed-powder-coated-steel-114x40x36-cm-anthracite/8720286855690.html