Home DIY

I thought it was high, the quote is to replace the doorframe and remove the old one. The door itself is fine and imo just the chipboard section where the locking side of the door should be cut out and then some oak frame spliced in.

The joiner knows it's going to be on insurance so a think stuck a big premium on it!

I just went online and an exterior oak frame is about £180

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I'm about to pull the trigger on a big Planer Thicknesser, which has a cast iron top and weighs close to 200kg. I'm slightly concerned about my ability to get the thing up these concrete steps (and into the big shed not in old photograph but now existing at back of garden). Anyone have any suggestions on how to get it up? I can recruit a friend but I have doubts I (a skinny former cyclist with a flakey back) and a mate would succeed? I'm guessing it will be delivered on a pallet and in a plywood box but I don't know.

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Don't laugh at my bodge brick ramp, it helped my wheelbarrow immensely.

First I'd try to recruit two more people, then I'd get 4 sets of furniture moving straps or whatever they're actually called. We carried in our kitchen worktops on two people, and I think they were north of 100kg each. Makes a huge difference, both in how much you can lift but also safety. Be careful with your back though, lift properly so you don't fuck it up.

Laying some sheet goods or timber will help you push it up those steps.

We have those and they're great, but I'd still try to find something with wheels that could do most of the work.

Anyone got a track / plunge saw I can borrow? need at least 2.5m track...

Can collect and return from Cambridge area / north east London.

Cheers.

I've built two of these

really good for things like these. The wheels on ours won't work on that path though, but maybe with something a bit more proper

Maybe possible through people you know to hire a couple of professional removal mans "on the side" for a week-end job, pay them cash, they should be able to do the job in half an hour or so? I'm in France and my brother in law is a removal man, he does "on the side" jobs during weekends for people and has loads of demands!

Yep, or even a moving dolly.

Cheers all, you've given me enough ideas to pull it off I reckon. I think I'll go for a plywood ramp + dolly route. I actually have some fancy workbench castors on my bench that lift off the ground by 10mm or so with a lever push. Think I'll try rig those onto the pallet then push it up the ramp, if if that fails get some proper wheels and make a dolly.

if can get it on wheels then you could use a rope with pulley/ ratchet straps around the tree to pull it up

nice outfit

Put it on top of the cat, then explain to cat it needs to go towards the shed.

I should probably UTFS, but I am lazy.

I have a long bit of wood with hooks in it. I want to fix this to my garage wall which is made of aerated concrete blocks.

What sort of fixing should I use? I'd like to hang stuff on the hooks, maybe a few bikes and wheels and general bike tat. Maybe some kids bikes too.

thanks in advance

Just remember cast iron is prone to crack when dropped.

can you imagine...

It is however much less likely to crack if you cushion the fall with your foot.

My bath weighs around 200kg, we moved it using myself and three very large chaps, up two flights of stairs and along a couple of corridors.

Think that would most certainly be a warranty claim.

this sounds dangerously close to volunteering.

You should probably have emptied the water out first.

what areas do you work in? need a new shed door and door frame...

i basically asked this a few weeks ago. https://www.lfgss.com/comments/14994032/

it split the room between hammer-in fixings and masonry screws. not done the actual work yet so i can't comment.

Or at least got out of it while they carried him