#1157

maybe my leather slippers suggested New Money.
Called 2 others and they were booked until August/September!
I might do, but reckon it will be the same shite.
Gonna rent a platform for £150, buy paint and rollers for £100 all in and do it my blood self!
#DIY
#fallhitheadouch

#1158

definitely get more quotes - that’s ridiculous. I’d do it myself to be honest. A ladder isn’t expensive and it’s just painting. Get a mate to help if needs be.

#1159

I would be well up for it but my house is weirdly high. Maybe that’s why the quote is so much (though he wasn’t going to be using scaffold so…). It’s because of how the pitched roof is. No idea from ground to top of chimney but…9 metres? Like considerably taller than an average house. A standard platform has a working height of about 6, and wouldn’t really do it, so would have to rent something taller.
It’s going to be a bit of a nightmare, but saving £2.5k is a decent motivator.

#1160

Quotes can be weird.

For 9x window blinds (supply and install): ~£1k from one company. ~£7k from another. Not identical (I slightly preferred the blinds from the mid expensive company), but was definitely comparable spec so no hesitation to go with the cheaper option.

For a days work of ~a dozen rudimentary electrical jobs: two quotes for ~£400 within about a tenner of each other. Felt kinda sorry that the guy we didn’t go with was such a near miss. Three or four others we contacted didn’t even get as far as bothering to turn up or even acknowledge the enquiry.

For supply and installation of a TV and speakers onto wall brackets, and a new plug socket, with wiring, cabling, and associated chasing: the guy Richer Sounds sent round basically refused to even quote. Apparently because it wasn’t a gaudy full home cinema megascreen status symbol project, if the fella’s Facebook page is anything to go by.

Always gotta be worth getting two or preferably three quotes and take it from there, though, innit.

#1161

Made a thing for records and amp and stuff (just waiting on the remaining shelves to dry). Quite happy with it, everything is nice and snug. Shame the speakers are up against the wall but not got much choice atm unfortunately.

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Feel like an idiot for turning down the offer of borrowing an orbital sander the other day, though.

(will do cable management another day. cba now)

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#1162

That looks pretty professional to me! Is that enough ventilation for your amp though?

#1163

Or is that not even an amp? Like I’d know.

#1164

Thanks. And er, I guess we’ll find out! It doesn’t run too hot but having looked at the manual, maybe I should have left a bit more space…

#1165

Just drill some holes in the top.

#1166

Coins under spikes wanker i do this too

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#1167

Got a front wall that needs a paint as it’s a real mess. Been scraping the paint off. Rest of house has like a tyrolean render, not sure what is under this paint, looks like some old type plaster. Once I’ve removed the old paint, can I get away with just slapping some textured dulux weathershield on it? Cba to spend too much time on it tbh

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  • No, probably
  • Absolutely not

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#1168

This is hell btw. Probably 10 metres of wall. Been doing it in bits when I have time. Probably the most boring task I have ever undertaken, and doing about 4 hours of it on the hottest day of the year (is it?) was not fun. Maybe only half way on removing all the paint and thrown about…day and a half of time at it.
Cheaper and easier to build a new fucking wall! Gonna fill the many cracks, put some sandtex primer on and then paint and it better be fine because I am never me touching this stupid piece of shit again.

#1169

any of y’all got any hot tips for getting a screw with a fucked head out?

Hot tap on our bath has seized up and needs a new valve (i think) but the screw to get the sodding thing off is shot to pieces

#1170

Rubber band between the screw and head? Or superglue and let it set between the screw and screwdriver.

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#1171

^this

If they fail, I think you’ll have to call someone out, as I’m assuming that it’s too tricky to get a hacksaw in there?

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#1172

sorry, obviously meant screwdriver and head!

#1173

Brute force and ignorance. Just snapped all the plastic around it and got it out in the end. Replaced the whole thing anyway so no harm done.

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#1174

Oi. No professionals!

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#1175

And now I’ve got a leaking isolation valve on the toilet intake…

Anyone got any experience of replacing one? Easy enough job? Any tips?

#1176

If they’re copper pipes and they’re fairly solidly attached to something and if you don’t think you know much about plumbing then there is a vast capacity for pain in store for you there. Could go wrong really annoyingly and as it’s an isolation valve wrong in a “wet and no more water supply” way to boot.

Get a plumber.

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