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Not a bad shout - guess I need to get myself down to a store to measure boards without the tongue if i'm thinking of knocking it off, lest I get gaps between boards that I'll be able to feel.

I really thought there would be an abundance of people selling old floorboards but I suppose they either end up in skips or on peoples instagram reels.

I'm doing up a room at the moment and the subfloor is in a pretty bad way - cracked, creaking, or the boards are the wrong depth all together. My measurements are 21.5mm thick, 122mm-ish wide.

I assume that makes them ⅞" x 5" boards and i'm struggling to find anything reclaimed.

Reckon I could get away with https://www.wickes.co.uk/Wickes-PTG-Timber-Floorboards---18mm-x-119mm-x-1800mm/p/120831 or would the T&G just mean theres too much of a gap?

Was hoping to make right for under 50 as it's just an office so I imagine overlaying with ply probably isn't the way to go.

Got pics? Your plasterer might just scrim tape it, or you could squeeze in some foam for them to scrim in the corners.

We did a shit job with our insulated plasterboard in the kitchen and the plasterer managed to get it looking sharp in spite of us.

I've got a room that i'm about to re-carpet, and some of the floorboards have been replaced with ones that are the wrong thickness. Any recommendations on what to use to shim them up higher so that's its flat? Sourcing OG ones isn't quite worth the cost for this room.

I've got some of the plastic wedge shims, but wondered if there is something else I could or should use? Perhaps I could use the mitre saw to cut down custom thickness ones.

You might be alright - im 6'5" and probably 93kg and still in an XL Gabba

We used SBR before we poured self levelling for our kitchen, I didnt really think why but assumed it was to seal the porous substrate so that the self levelling didnt dry out too quickly and crack.

Foam is a really good way of getting an edge to a pour as well. We did our kitchen and used it at the thresholds as and when it was needed.

Questions that usually arise (har ironic har) for damp that looks like that - is that corner heated and ventilated, and what does the guttering look like above it? Might find that when theres heavy rain, the guttering is overspilling and getting onto that corner and showing up there.

Google efflorescence too - it's most probably salts coming through the wall instead of something properly hazardous like mould.

Edit - even when you sort the problem, the figure that gets touted is that it take a month for every inch of brick thickness to properly dry out. So you could be looking at a good year before permanent redecorating is on the cards for that low corner of the room.

On top of battery sharing, I would look at getting both a drill and a driver.

Not having to swap a drill bit for a cross head bit whilst you're working is great

Oh my god. I found some shoes on eBay and they are really here and really nice.

Church’s brogues £55.

Along the wall on the left I think. Want to be as close to the radiator as possible as its got 3 external walls, and feel as though I shouldn't really put my screen in front of the window.

I'm having another pass at my home office after living with it for a couple of years - digging out cracks and repainting in general. Theres this pipe cover running down one length of the room which I've sort of butchered to fit in a deeper rad (think floor the pipe angle).

What do you think I should do with it? I sort of want to rip it up and see what's under there (see if I can do away with it all together)/make the hole around the pipe good.

Am I being silly and should I just leave it?

Before anyone says it - levelling out the rad is part of my journey

Got an IR camera coming from octopus soon. Well excited, but also distraught at how long the list of actions will be at the end of it.

I've recently bought a PC that doesn't have bluetooth built in (shown by the number of adaptors the new keyboard, mouse and wifi needs).

I've got a pair of Soundcore headphones at the moment - can I just buy one more bluetooth adaptor to pair them up, and have the mic to work as well?

Maybe this is one for the PC/Gaming/WFH thread.

RIP my favourite bar tape.

Good shout - I could try and install on somewhere else on the MacBook or see if there’s another hard drive I can test on. Fair shout.

@duncs nah - a terrible influence is suggesting I relive my teenage years with some classic world of Warcraft haha

Damn - no workarounds? Would save me spending a couple hundred on a crap windows machine…

Really specific one.

I’ve got a MacBook Pro from work that I’d like to play games on but it has all the admin limitations with installing to the applications folder.

Is it possible to run games off an SSD, that aren’t in the apps folder?

Cold one this morning, minus 2 into Manchester. Still mad northerners wearing shorts.

Spoke to a chap on a fixed Surly with guards, front rack and disc brakes last night on the A6 towards Stockport. Could they be on here?

Nice Genesis that - would if I weee in the market.

I'm also in this market - had a lot of helpful replies on the food thread https://www.lfgss.com/conversations/132944/?offset=32775

Heating up beans in a mug in the microwave.

Could you try tightening the cartridge a little bit more to lose the angle?

from the right?