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Post by khanivor on Oct 22, 2022 20:04:56 GMT
Not quite of the bannister standard, but I laid laminate floor in the upstairs bedroom today. Done so much of it now I’m becoming quite the expert. Underlay and floor down in half a day. No messed cuts despite a tricky start that involved cutting around door frames and lining up the two planks in the door recess for a clean full run along the wall. If you or anyone else is laying similar again; use an oscillating multi tool with a wood cutting blade to trim the bottoms off the door casing. Take a piece of your flirting, use that as a height guide and trim away as much as you can without cutting apart the door frame Then when you make cuts on your planks they can slide under the casing and leave zero gaps |
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Post by starchildhypocrethes on Oct 25, 2022 16:13:10 GMT
I’ve got this week off to use some up left over holiday, and rather than just sit on my arse playing games and eating, I decided to use my non-existent DIY skills to board up my loft instead.
5 hours in and I deeply regret this decision.
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Post by khanivor on Oct 25, 2022 17:42:40 GMT
Fool of a Took
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Post by dogbot on Oct 25, 2022 18:16:05 GMT
I paid someone to do mine.
After, a friend in the pub said "oh, we could have all got together and done that easy, had a few beers, it'd have been a laugh".
A couple of months later, he decided to do exactly that. It wasn't easy, nor was it a laugh.
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Post by freddiemercurystwin on Oct 25, 2022 18:31:34 GMT
Alcohol and DIY are seldom 'a laugh'. Even where masturbation is concerned.
That said, I do quite enjoy those silly half hour DIY projects the sprogs randomly spring on me (like make me a fingerboard skatepark or something) I do when half cut on a Saturday night or something.
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Post by Trowel 🏴 on Oct 25, 2022 19:19:45 GMT
Boarding the loft is one of the most satisfying DIY projects I've done in recent years, especially with the knock on effect of all the lovely storage space it creates.
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Post by technoish on Oct 25, 2022 19:51:26 GMT
I'm sure I would fall thru the ceiling.
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Post by jeepers on Oct 25, 2022 20:08:06 GMT
The Sagulator is an internet nugget of gold.
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Post by Dougs on Oct 25, 2022 21:29:32 GMT
If I understood any of that, it looks amazing.
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Post by nexus6 on Oct 25, 2022 21:38:22 GMT
I'm sure I would fall thru the ceiling. I was helping a friend put 2 long steel beams in his loft to convert it. Each beam was 3 sections to be hoisted up and bolted together. Very last section is in the loft and another mate has one end of it. Steps back to turn with it, misses his footing on the joist and whumf falls over, arse through the ceiling while still holding the beam up. Not a laugh! |
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Post by khanivor on Oct 25, 2022 22:17:51 GMT
I dunno. That sounds pretty fucking hilarious to me
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Post by Trowel 🏴 on Oct 26, 2022 19:08:25 GMT
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Post by freddiemercurystwin on Oct 26, 2022 19:27:38 GMT
Sweet, maybe get yourself a stand for £50, makes things like decking boards so much easier.
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Post by X201 on Oct 27, 2022 6:17:58 GMT
Ooh, I’m tempted too. Got a load of skirting board and other stuff coming up in the next month.
edit: Took the plunge. Too good an offer to miss. Thanks for tip off.
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Post by minimatt on Oct 27, 2022 9:46:25 GMT
neat Trowel 🏴 - I've had the exact same saw for a couple of years now  love it as it's compact when folded up and light enough to lug around without putting your back out obviously with internal rails it can't do trench cuts but the compact size the internals afford is worth it to me. the light/shadow line thing it does with the blade is neat, not really readable outside but definitely good inside. the clamp on the left hand side bust on mine within about a week but tbh I'm never much use them. Oh, and I somehow managed to snag the rubber dust shroud at the back between the blade and something, which made a suitably scary noise and took a chunk out of it - probably just me being cackhanded, but would have been probably on a tilt/mitre combination cut so I guess look out for that ace saw, used it loads
edit: wear ear defenders though, it's a shouty wee thing edit 2: and don't worry when you lose the blade change pin wrench because you can get adjustable pin wrenches for less than a fiver and they'll fit the angle grinders you also lost the wrenches for |
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Post by X201 on Oct 28, 2022 8:46:02 GMT
Finally got back into my Flickr account, so here's the promised horror that was the brick supporting my internal downstairs lintel.
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Post by minimatt on Oct 28, 2022 8:55:28 GMT
oh my god
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Post by dogbot on Oct 28, 2022 8:58:54 GMT
Crikey, that doesn't look structurally sound at all.
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Post by mrpon on Oct 28, 2022 9:17:59 GMT
Jeez, get some acrows stat!!
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Post by Trowel 🏴 on Oct 28, 2022 9:31:19 GMT
Me:
"Looks like another job for the caulk gun."
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Post by dogbot on Oct 28, 2022 9:35:53 GMT
Me: "Looks like another job for the caulk gun." Pfft. Duck tape, obviously. |
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Post by mrpon on Oct 28, 2022 9:38:09 GMT
Speaking of which, I had some new windows fitted the other week. Is there a shortage on expanding foam?! Or have my guys accidentally bought shrinking foam?! You can see daylight at the sides of the frames.
I tutted.
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Post by starchildhypocrethes on Oct 29, 2022 19:55:24 GMT
My loft is finished and fuck me if doesn’t actually look pretty awesome! Not bad for a talentless DIY hack!
I am testosterone.
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Post by starchildhypocrethes on Oct 29, 2022 19:55:38 GMT
I hurt so much, everywhere, though.
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Post by minimatt on Oct 31, 2022 9:00:33 GMT
So it hasn't stopped pissing raining but have managed to make the wall & roof frames and get it up (and the shed) inbetween downpours and gale force wind. My halloween spooky ghost costume is a tarpaulin, so frequently has that fucker been wrapped round me.
Walls went up without much bother, might have gone a bit overkill with the hundred mill lag bolts fixing them to the base but it's not going anywhere:
Slid the roof frame over the top, again, sans incident:
Not pictured, as rain interrupted play, was getting the roof sheeting on (had to do this in situ rather than sliding the completed roof frame into place as wasn't sure I'd be strong enough to lift the completed thing into position).
The front half of the sheeting I could do from the ladder, but the back half necessitated clambering out onto the roof. Ambulance wait times are currently ~12 hours.
Good news! Shed roof can happily support a ~60kg hobbit. Bad news, without the additional bracing afforded by any cladding, sitting on top is disconcertingly wobbly as it's fairly free to rack from side to side. Scampered down and temporarily pinned some diagonal bracing before going back up to complete. Once cladding is on I'm sure that'll make it rigid (and the shed), if not then I have a couple of metres of 2x2 left over, I might add a few diagonal corner braces to the wall frames.
SHED SAGA PART 3 coming soon, hopefully covering corner trim, door frame, cladding, and finally fitting the window made back here |
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Post by nexus6 on Oct 31, 2022 9:14:10 GMT
It's already going to be 100 times more robust than a shop-bought effort so well done!
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Post by Psiloc on Nov 1, 2022 12:25:14 GMT
I need to build a frame for some LED strip lights (those ubiquitous sticky backed LED strips).
It's to create the white border for a Sinden lightgun. The problem is that I need a 4:3 border and not a 16:9 one otherwise I'd just run it along the edge of the screen. So this frame of whatever material needs to be hung from the top of the TV or leant up against it and frame the image within the white border.
My question is about the easiest way to build this frame. Building a frame out of wood seems like a right faff for such a dumb project and likely to scratch the screen. I considered sticking it to a sheet of acrylic or something but that's starting to get expensive and may possibly add glare.
What's the lazy way of doing this that I'm overlooking
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Post by nexus6 on Nov 1, 2022 12:29:09 GMT
I'd like to input here but have no idea what this is....!
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Post by Dougs on Nov 1, 2022 12:55:49 GMT
How about using craft foam sheets or perhaps polystyrene to make the frame?
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Post by mrpon on Nov 1, 2022 13:07:03 GMT
I thought the border was at software level?
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love it as it's compact when folded up and light enough to lug around without putting your back out
