Home DIY

Need to unblock a dunny. Worth bothering with a plunger or some chemicals first or should I just call a plumber? I'd prefer spending more on a plumber than buying stuff that takes up space and gets used once in a blue moon.

That brings back terrible memories. Student party in our flat in Dundee, one of the two bogs blocked the next morning, but filled to the brim. We wait 2 days in the vain hope it'll clear, then draw straws the night before the cleaner is due to clear it. Luckily, I didn't lose.

One of my flatmates used the carrier bag technique, and pulled out two toilet rolls that someone had stuffed around the u bend.

dunny clearing?
get your hands dirty!

Pass.

Find a carrier bag that ideally has none of those tiny safety holes in it. Wrap the bag round your hand, stick aforementioned hand down the bog and plunge up and down until the blockage clears. You could try it bareback if you're feeling really brave but the bag both help with hygene and makes a good seal for the plunging action.

Might consider that. There's no solids in the toilet though (nom nom) so the blockage is probably u-bend or further away..

Nah, I'm getting plenty of fibre. I flushed a bunch of wet wipes instead of binning them not realising they're not supposed to be flushed. Dick.

My tip is based upon clearing exactly this type of blockage more than once. It's cheap and instant. If the loo is well blocked, flusing it first to raise the water level will help things move when the blockage shifts.

Grown up has returned and it was the gas valve. It wasn't letting enough gas in to ignite and he'll back to replace.

Oh my days.

After all that faff I went to get some shoes out from under the stairs and at some point the wife has got them hump with the shoe box and thrown it back in partially shutting off the meter valve.

Fucking fuck. Still the boiler was still in-accessible so it would have had to of been extracted at some point.

Find a carrier bag that ideally has none of those tiny safety holes in it. Wrap the bag round your hand, stick aforementioned hand down the bog and plunge up and down until the blockage clears. You could try it bareback if you're feeling really brave but the bag both help with hygene and makes a good seal for the plunging action.

Goggles on, bagged up, couple of decent pushes and she was away.

Result! Just don't make the mistake of taking the 'used' carrier bags to Sainsburys to maximise on your Nectar points...

I used a bin bag to clear the kitchen trap as the blockage was out of asda bag territory.

Right so all my ceilings have some moody artex effect and have since noticed that it's started to crack where to floor joists are. I've also noticed now that it's been repaired before.

What do you do to patch it up?

If I had the money I'd have it skimmed but I don't so I won't.

Get a plasterer in to skim it.

Skimming is the best answer I fear, got ours done a few months ago and transformed the rooms. Apparently it can have asbestos in so best not to try chipping it off bit by bit.

LIke I said I'd much prefer to have it skimmed but can't afford a plasterer, I did have a mate bring his plasterer friend round to price up how much it would be and he said even for mates rates it's out of your budget.

Try skimming it yourself or live with it & save up?

Main reason we need to move is I can't afford to save my train ticket has gone up and my salary hasn't, kids need to eat.

I've just had the hall ceiling plastered and typically something else has happened. I think there is a drip from one of the copper pipes, not a lot but enough that I've noticed its not drying in a particular spot. It is also possible it was dripping all along but because of the paint it never presented itself as obvious and I put it down to the time one of the kids had a shower with the door raised.

I really can't (now) afford to have him come back so the only option is to attack it from above but if I remember rightly it is one of the feed pipes to the bathroom rad.

How do I take the water out so I can jb weld the fucker or at least some thing temporary until pay day?

Just tighten the nut a little on the feed pipe to the rad. They're notorious for leaking after a small amount of movement.

So it may not be where I think it is then just dripping from the lowest point?

That makes it worse to find as to the left is under tile heating.

PS

Just agreed a price on the fucker hopefully it will be gone soon.

I bought some wood and ting, and made some airing cupboard shelves.
My lovely wife has been asking for some for 14 years. Still as I say, if a man says he is going to do something he will do it. There is no need to keep reminding him every six months.

Complete with Brompton space.

Great job

Proper.
I've made shelves using threaded rod hung from the beam in our basement; keeping it off the floor was the smartest thing about that project.

Is that a wall-mounted Albert?

Unless it's radically/pointlessly altered, no.