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just had a quote for sorting electrics in our summer house.

new lighting circuit wired up to 2 existing led lights and one newly fitted led light, plus point to add downlights later on.

2 new circuits for electric rads, (2x 1500w, 2x 1000w) and sockets for each

new power circuit and sockets in 4 locations (but multiple sockets in some).

all cabling run surface mounted in conduit and all stuff supplied by him.

I think it looks ok (not cheap but not like he's trying to quote his way out of the job) but wouldn't mind outside opinions just to be sure.

Changed my mind about the pax already nvm

Stupid question: i have a pax wardrobe frame that broke when i tried lifting it off the floor on my own and it was oriented in the wrong direction so all the fixings just snapped and it collapsed. Before i chop it up small and take to the tip how bad of an idea would it be to use as a shelf board in workshop racking if i supported it every 30-40cm underneath? Guessing moisture susceptibility is the main issue. Just wondering it i can save buying some osb if i already have this.

is this a case of 2014 lufguss versus 2024 lufguss?

this place has gone seriously downhill since i stopped singlehandedly ruining it.

just angrily toss a pizza up on the roof when you arrive and you can relax for the rest of the evening.

that's what I want to do ideally, but i gather it's quite hard to find a spark willing to do that these days.

the other option was get them to put in one or two sockets on each ring (office sockets ring, electric radiator ring and workshop sockets) and wire up just the ceiling lights in my office and I add the rest onto them later myself. all the cabling is going to be surface mounted anyways.

look i just want those pics taken down ok, it was just a phase.

Bastard fucking cunting wasps!

there was a fairly massive one angrily harassing me while i was doing some diy on my workshop this week, the little cunt was so focussed on flying at/around me buzzing angrily it didn't notice the massive amount of spiders webbing in the roof window. flew up and got stuck and then an equally massive spider appeared from nowhere, paralysed it and webbed it the fuck up while the wasp buzz-screamed it's head off. 60 seconds later it was gone and being stored in the spiders larder for dinner.

the spider was one of those giant bulbous round abdomen with tiny body ones so equally unpleasant to know is lurking nearby but as he is doing the old gods work he can stay for now (after i googled whether native spiders in the uk paralyse their prey like at just to be sure it wasn't a dodgy one from some supermarket bananas).

/csb

cheers, when I'm done organising my mountains of stuff i don't think there'll be much wall visible as i intend on hanging a lot of stuff on them, which is why i went the ply route.

need to both get an electrician in and also find the money to pay him to wire up the lights and electric radiators asap. just need to work out the simplest plan of action so i can keep costs to bare minimum.

workshop stud wall finished. door reveal not as neat as the other one but literally nothing about the plane on which the wall sits is square with anything else. door has plenty of room to expand and doesn't swing by itself when open so that'll do. won't be decorating this side of it and the other side will be plasterboarded when i get round to sorting that room out at some point.

next up build some kind of franken-bench on the left there for my 3d printing stuff to live on and figure out what to do with the poxy paint cans that are in my way constantly but i daren't dispose of.

anyone got a recommendation for an affordable but decent set of brad point drill bits covering the typical range of sizes?

i finally snapped enough of the ones from my cheap "1billion piece drill set" (that is mostly screwdriver bits) that i want to get a purpose specific set.

they look amazing. i wish you could still get the old phileas fogg style spiced tortillas they were so much nicer than plain salted ones. they look very similar though plus the chocolate.

i think there's some illuminati law against good flavours of crisp based snacks. brannigans beef and mustard, mccoys mexican chilli, all forms of pizza flavoured crackers, pf tortillas all cancelled despite being top tier. has to be a conspiracy. has to.

Just had some cunts still lit firework land on our wooden decking right next to our summerhouse.

Luckily i saw it and was able to douse it before it either burnt our dogs face when we let him out for his next piss or burnt our fucking summerhouse down but ooooh look at the pwetty lights.

Fucking twats

i was intending to go 400 centres on the studs but i marked it up on 300 yesterday before i realised my mistake and then i was just not fully awake first thing and cut my spacers 260 instead 360. was 4 studs in before i realised.

luckily it all still adds up and my plan to chuck a full sheet of 18mm ply up over it won't be affected at all, thankfully i ordered spare studs though. i shouldn't have any issues at all hanging stuff off it after as well

gonna get this half of the wall boarded up tomorrow so i can put all the things in my workshop back and make it useable again, then i can get started on the door frame and figuring out how to dogleg the wall back 20cm as the top beam i'm attached to runs straight above the window on the other end and i dont want to overlap the glass with the wall.

One wall dies ^

Another wall is born \/

can loop in the bbq thread to start getting ready for next spring.

spent the afternoon extending our bt master socket to an extension socket under the stairs. the AB unfiltered output on the mk4 faceplates make it so simple so long as you dont mess up the connections.

even managed to get cabling barely noticeable unless you're actively looking for it. feel a bit annoyed at myself for not getting it done a year ago when was getting the place ready to move in if that's all it would have taken. all the bits have been sat in the drawer this whole time.

on the plus side the sideboard next to the front door is no longer piled high with homehub, asus router, ring alarm base and hue base. speed test is slightly faster than before somehow and no dropouts.

frees up the mesh router from the hallway (had one under the stairs already attached to switch and home server) so now I have one to put in the garden office.

next step stop procrastinating and just drill the massive hole in the living room wall for the 2 shielded cat6a runs to enter so i can finally run the ethernet and close the trench i dug for the power and data in the garden about 15 months ago.

been enjoying lucky tower ultimate early access on steam after seeing it on youtube a few times.

controls get a bit fiddly when you have a lot of stuff going on and have yet to make any significant progress but have died dozens of times in hilarious ways.

https://youtu.be/lsL_sj-HRvM

Got a really nice outdoors camera backpack I have no use for. brand new.

one of these

35L, Blue.

the video at the end of the photos on amazon shows off all it's bells and whistles.

£80 posted? (rrp is £200+)

also have a used chrome niko (original version i think, it's this one ). very good condition just a little bit dusty from sitting on top of my wardrobe.

£65 posted.

not my photos obvs but if you want them i can grab some tomorrow.

my screen heights are always a little janky as i prefer top and bottom to side by side so i'll do the bulk of my detail work on the tablet screen looking slightly down and most of my secondary stuff up on the top monitor looking slightly up.

my current setup uses an lg double-up so it's just how i'm used to working now even if it goes against norms on eyelevel.

I started out going for top aligned today but was rushing to rip the ply i was fixing to the studs to help reinforce things and used the narrower of the screens for reference for its width so when it came to mount the tv it was too narrow to mount the second one low enough without the bottom screws going off the edge. so went for middle and i'm happy with how it turned out.

need to get the cabling all sorted so i'll be taking them off and on a few times still before i tighten the mounts up fully so they're a little misaligned for now but they sit dead level when properly seated.

I'm nearly done sorting out my garden office.

plan is to mount the ultrawide monitor and the tv on the left wall there high enough i can angle my tablet screen under the monitor but i'm questioning myself on how to line up the tv and the ultrawide vertically and don't want to have to faff around changing it once its up.

I think the most sensible option is line the tops of both screens up but for some reason i keep wondering if aligning them on their centre makes more sense.

it's aligned top, right?

People who put the tv remote next to the tv.

made a huge amount of progress yesterday getting my workshop area into some semblance of a usable space.

will be adding a simple stud wall where the black room partition is once my office is finished and building more workbench space along it.

have a mountain of shelf brackets and wall hooks and organisers ready to go up too when i decide on how i'd like to lay out all the tools too.

finished the noggins and cut the plywood top to size today. pretty happy with how it looks.

once the top is attached i want to put a small surround 10-15cm high around the back edge of the desk to cover where it meets the wall and help stop things falling off the back by the window.