Home DIY

I had mine done properly recently. Absolute world of difference compared to my old loft where I just balanced some boards between joists.

Fucking hate those things.

Late to the party, but just built another one of these:
Fine chicken wire on the base (to stop rats burrowing under - possibly overkill) - under the sleepers on all sides, covered with weed suppressant membrane that comes up the sides and is sandwiched between the top 2 sleepers to stop soil leaking out.
Corner brackets and then massive timbascrews to tie the layers of sleeper together. (For which job I should have had an impact driver and now have a couple of inches that won't go in any further with my current tool selection.)

Nice. One of these days I'll give mine some attention.

Last time I was up there and I poked this thing off the rafters with a very very long stick.

Maybe next year I'll muster the courage to bag it up and dispose.

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I'm not sure yet. The whole place needs some TLC. The floorboards are mostly bare and have either been painted red with random splotches, white, or got laminate over. Stairs are similarly a bit battered.

I've yet to come up with anything coherent yet, hence starting on things like boarding the loft to give me the illusion of progress without having to really get stuck in.

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give me the illusion of progress without having to really get stuck in

I resemble that remark

I have a question on paint and finish.

I am having a new house sign made, it is a piece of oak with letters CNC'd out.

We would then like to fill the letters with black paint, and potentially put some sort of finish on the sign.

Any recommendations on paint or finish?

We would then like to fill the letters with

Epoxy resin, surely?

With embedded LED tape so it glows at night and the emergency services can find you.

The later bit is kind of serious. Make sure your home is easy to identify should you need an ambulance in a hurry. Many door numbers are very hard to read from the street at night.

Our house is a nightmare to find, no delivery driver can find us, may look at a solar light on it.

As an aside for emergency services, what3words is a really useful tool, and UK emergency services can then find you easily.

what3words

Bah humbug. If you have a street address in the UK then the emergency services have a database and map. May be different in other parts of the world. If you are in the back of beyond use a grid reference rather than some proprietary closed system (also not good at multilingual, poor choice of words sometimes).

I have a name and a postcode, a postcode shared by three farms covering roughly 10 square miles.
What3words was recommended to me by an ambulance driver when they came out for my daughter at night...

I got a call from an ambulance controller saying they couldn't find us - Clapton E5, simple street address that shows up on google maps instantly!

This!

I guess someone got to spend some money on something "new" and someone else made some money (and locked them in to make some money in the future...)

what3words

Has extremely questionable licensing terms, and apparently an excellent marketing team.

Just passing on what an ambulance driver said to me when they struggled to find us...

There used to be a firm that offered a 'glow in the dark' resin.
Might be worth a quick search?

We have 5 different road names on our single road and our house basically sits in the middle of them all. It's basically non stop complaints from people trying to find us

Also an excellent legal team given how eminently reverse-engineerable its "tech" is and how effectively they've stamped out open source alternatives.

Horrible people.

Am I being taken for a ride here? Tilers in to do a very small bathroom (1.6m x 1.85m x 2m). Invoice for materials has 6 lots of 20kg adhesive.

I'm no expert of course, but 120kg of adhesive seems a lot for such a small space?

Have a google - tile adhesive coverage in m²

That way you can quote the manufacturer's stats back to them if it's way out.

I mean yeah, it seems way out for what the manufacturer suggests (20kg does 8m² for walls or 5m² for floors).

I basically just need validation for something that feels out of my comfort zone, even if I know how to read an invoice against manufacturer's spec...

Even adding 10 or 20% it's miles out, I'd be pretty confident calling them on it.

Dov should be able to tell you how much he used, he's just tiled his bathroom.

If my calcs are correct if say they are fuckin miles out, Id have a rough guess off what you said a tub does and say they shouldn't use anymore than 2 but I could be wrong.

As said above you add a bit into account of waste and that but not fuckin 3 or 4 extra tubs.