Paging Gyp

The beer and curry was most welcome, ta.

I joked a couple of days ago that, following the pattresside incident,
the cooker replacement had not impacted every room in the house,
including the loft and the garage, and if I wanted a bit of distraction
I'd have to go and hide in the car.

And so it was that on the way to B&Q to return a few sheets of chipboard
that I'd not needed, I braked slightly harder than I should have done,
and with limiting friction well and truly overcome, 4 out of the 5
sheets departed forwards off of the roof-rack and remodelled the bonnet.

 

Oh dear. While I admire the fact that you are prepared to take on such
a huge DIY task I am beginning to question whether it was worth it.
It's also put me off even thinking I could achieve 1% of what you have
tried to do.

 

Rubbish. Just get a hose pipe and spray it liberally around your home.
Follow this up with turning your kitchen into a building site by
throwing some sand around. Empty your garage and leave your bikes in
the work car park. Damage one of your bikes ('cos you don't have a
car). Take a few grand out of your savings and burn it.

There you go, just about identical.

 

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You're not wrong :-(

 

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*Yes*

FWIW I feel for you. My bathroom construction between October and
January reminded me that DIY is bloody hard work.

Still, there's no fool like a *very-early-middle-age*[1] fool and I'm
confident I'll do it again.

Suppose it's genetic, my father (73) is doing a little bit of DIY at the
moment... four bedroom barn conversion. Hope I'm as energetic and
ambitious as he when I'm his age.


[1] Not to Hog and darsy, work with that you bastards.

 

BBC Sitcoms would like a word with you about stealing their material
from 1974. SMDHE was not a manual for life.

 

My worry is that I could achieve most of those effects with a hammer and
about 5 minutes - that's how useless I am.

 

After another couple of days playing with power tools , I realised that
you should not judge your own abilities by my own variable results
[1][2][3][4][5]

DIY could be your niche. Just grab a tool and get on with it, you know
you want to.

[1] + over-boarded the kitchen floor with 12mm marine ply - 270 screws;
enough for any man on a Sunday
[2] + chiselled out the air-bricks that used to service the ex-pantry
[3] + bricked up the air-brick holes
[4] + found enough spare wallpaper that can repair the hall without
full redecoration
[5] - accidentally destroyed the kitchen door using a rockery; it could
happen to anyone

 

WooHoo! Result.

 

I want details and further particulars of how this was achieved. Now.

 

Somehow, I can sense that despite your not-so-subtle piss-take a couple
of days ago, you are genuinely pleased for me in a just-middle-aged-man
overcomes a major DIY obstacle sort of way.

Tomorrow the electrician turns up again [1], and as long as we can get
the lights sorted and I can get the floor down in the upstairs bedroom
[2] the plasterer for the kitchen and the man that will magic the carpet
on the upstairs floor (and his wife [3]) will be in on Tuesday.

If that all comes together I can move stuff into the new study so I'll
actually be able to take delivery of the kitchen cabinets later in the
week...

Do you think I out to set up a webcam for when I come to cut the complex
mitre joint in the worktops?


[1] Who incidentally is your double, and has the same first name which
is a slightly un-nerving when I turn round and see him waving a
significant power tool...
[2] once the kitchen lights are done
[3] long story

 

In message

But surely you realise that if it was genuinely interesting I'd have
posted what happened rather than simply posting a teaser.

Anyway, as I'm doing electrical under floor heating in the kitchen [1]
I've had to overboard the floor to provide a thermal barrier and try and
deter some of the heat from exiting downwards.

The manufacturer recommends 18mm board, the tile man recommends 6mm, I
settled on 12mm. Whatever, adding 12mm of board + wire + muck plus tiles
means that none of the doors fit.

So off came the kitchen door and the under-stairs cupboard door. The
latter is carefully stowed in the garage, the former is taken to the
front of the house and propped up.

Still day. Still day. Still day. Still day. Still day. Still day. Still
day. Still day. Still day. Still day. Still day. Still day. Still day.
Still day. Still day. Still day. Still day. Still day. Still day. Still
day. Still day. Gust.

So the door launches itself across the garden and impalas itself (I
wanted impales but the spell checker wanted impalas) on T's rockery
starter kit [2]

This I see as a good thing as, if I can actually get it in the
smacked-up lump of wood back into the hole, I've got an excuse to buy an
even bigger Kylie calendar next year to cover the hole

[1] I can feel an electrical system down posting coming on already
[2] Ok, it's a rock [3]
[3] With a big pointy top

 

Piss take, me? Surely not.

Oh, of course I am. I hate to see money being wasted.

*cough* In your dreams.

 

And yours!

 

Top tip: remember to put the thermostat sensor on the floor before the
tile goes down. :0

 

You didn't..?

I'm actually going to pop the sensor in a tube sunk into the wood and
accessible from trunking in the cupboard, so if the sensor fails, it can
be replaced without the floor coming up

 

I did this with my bathroom.

Well, put the sensor in a tube. However what's this about a tube in the
wood? Is this something that you should do with underfloor heating? I'd
imagine wood would be a bad idea because of the temperature cycling
causing it to swell/warp/whatever.

However I'm regretting not putting down two electrical mats, one as a
spare "just in case" since i'm sure eventually the one I've got down
will die and then it would be a complete pain.

In reality, I think that underfloor heating powered by water is the way
to go.

 

With the stuff I've got, they recommend laying marine ply on top of
floorboards if you are, err, putting it on top of floorboards, or a
thermal (polystyrene-like) block if you are laying on top of concrete.

They were quite insistent that the wood be screwed down rather than
nailed - I guess this is to try and stop it swelling too much

It's costly enough on a big kitchen that I didn't want to do that.

Mine comes with a lifetime guarantee, and if it fails, they'll come and
rip up the floor and replace the underfloor heating. They won't replace
the tiles though, but it has to be said that the times and tiler are
probably cheaper than the underfloor heating

I'm, yet to finish plumbing my sink. Underfloor heating powered by water
is still a distinct possibility :-(