It's kinda cute how the local community publications try to find ways to sex up events which in fact amount to lots of bumpkins standing around in fields looking at [cars, tractors, bikes, chainsaw sculptures, paintings of fields]. Bless em.
If anyone had asked me before today, "What's the worst DIY job that exists" I would have without question said its plastering a ceilng. Turns out though, it's actually trumped by removing plaster from a ceiling. In this case to prep for taping the joints in a ceiling repair. Would not recommend.
Removing lath and plaster and chiselling the plaster (and render if IRC) from a whole house. I was blowing black crap out of my nose for weeks, was wearing a mask most of the time too.
Good effort. If it weren’t for the fact this was relatively small scale I would have been tempted to just tear it all down and start again. In other news, Dulux decorator centre: unexpectedly excellent. Wrongly assumed it was just Dulux, but they stock all of the really nice products that are less easily found in the high street shops, Zinsser, Toupret etc.
Inversely, today I had the best job: removing an old rotten shed with a sledge hammer. Pure catharsis.
I’d like to take a moment to thank the builder that didn’t clip the cables behind the plaster for a socket, so that when I went to change the box for a deeper one, half the wall came with it.
Does yoloying a 3 story building restoration in an old soviet nuke base count as DIY? How it started (well it started worse than that, just cant find photos of it before the cleaning out all the rubble) How its going
Spent the afternoon with a claw hammer and saw, smashing and cutting 15 pallets into lengths of usable pallet wood in 33c heat. Tomorrow, in slower time I planned to take those lengths and structural pieces to recreate a new garden bench. I have some really hefty pallet pieces I’ll use for structural supports, just need my set square to get the angles just right…. Can I find if!? Absolutely not…
I only learned that recently. I also, annoyingly, only recently learned that when measuring and you jam a tape measure against the wall you don't have to bend the whole thing to take a reading. The length of the measure is written on the back of the bloody thing itself.
It's one of the reasons I like DIY, aside from being tight, every day is a school day and you only have to learn what you need to get by and get the jobs done
Indeed, some of them, like my B&Q Special, have an integrated 45/90 degree square as the actual handgrip! Bonkers stuff. Don't know if I've ever used it though.
Went into Lidl to buy a couple of 4ah batteries for my tools as I still had £55 of birthday money hanging about, came out with a cordless circular saw, one 4ah battery and a set of drills with countersinks fitted Circular saw wasn't even advertised in the leaflet. Currently rebuilding my neighbours chickens nesting box, might throw up some pics if there's any interest, although its not that interesting lol. I said to my missus that I think I'd maxed out on tools but then thought about it and decided I still need a cordless router. Cordless Saw1 by CrapBag posted 20 Aug 2022 at 21:46
What are routers, exactly? My mother has one and keeps making cool wood projects but damned if I know what the router does. Something to do with grooves?
