What I have fixed today

[duke]

Nice kitchen, I can see why the blinds are needed. Our West facing garden window in the kitchen is a must also to block the light. Your blind make ours look junky.
What wood is the counter?

 

[Windows]

Nice kitchen, I can see why the blinds are needed. Our West facing garden window in the kitchen is a must also to block the light. Your blind make ours look junky.
What wood is the counter?

Thanks. The blinds are William Morris’ Strawberry Thief design https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Strawberry_Thief
It’s East-facing so a lot of morning light.
The counter is cherry.

 

[TrimTheKing]

I’ve been struggling a little getting up and down onto my sawhorse which doubles up as a step up, 18” repeatedly dozens of times, and I’d had enough so I’ve added a step to one side, I can still saw along the other.
Should have done this a long time ago as it’s a real game changer.

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Should have said that I’ve damaged a tendon in my calf which hasn’t helped!
Step doesn’t look half way up the leg but it is.

Does that not make it liable to tipping towards you as you step on it if you're not careful?

 

[TrimTheKing]

Negative take on a chopsaw so it doesn’t pull the wood up.

Pete

By circular saw I think he means hand held, not tablesaw. I could be wrong though.

 

[Cabinetman]

Does that not make it liable to tipping towards you as you step on it if you're not careful?

Most observant of you! Not very much and if I’d made the step a little shallower it wouldn’t at all, just have to remember not to stand on the outer edge, luckily I made the horses nice and wide, the tops are almost 7” so good as step ups as well as saw horses.
Ian

 

[Windows]

Reattached a loose fascia board to the front of the workshed.

Took a hook off the shower room door that had never sat flat and sanded its back to level it.



Then painted it along with a couple of other items.

 

[AJB Temple]

Yesterday our log splitter went bang. Magic smoke. This is a crucial bit of kit as we have 7 trees to break down, plus 2 small dead ones to fell still. This is a truly vast amount of wood for us. Willow (huge), pine * 4 (huge), cherry, apple.

Capacitor had exploded. Literally. Foam pumped through the case and went solid. River shop delivered a new on inside 24 hours for £7 inc and I fitted it today. Two barrows of logs split (pine is a devil to split cleanly) before the rain came. Mrs AJB was elll impressed

 

[Woodbloke]

Mrs AJB was elll impressed

Winner - Rob

 

[Phil]

We have lived in this house now for nearly 10 years, bought 2013, built 2014.

The bathroom basins have these pop-up plugs. Nice. Easy to screw off and clean the drain hole.

The one bathroom basin started draining slowly, generally from hair getting stuck.
Easy fix, screw off the top. Easy ...... the flipping thing was stuck, would not budge.

Fetched a persuader from the workshop, gripped it, and o cr-p it broke off.


No way the mechanism was going to be removed other than replacing the drain unit.
Which involves emptying the cupboard below, unscrew rubber drain pipe, unscrew the drain unit from basin and fit new unit.
Also involves me lowering my bulk to the floor to do the job. Knees already complaining.

Some lateral thinking, discussed solution with the bathroom boss, which she agreed.

What do we have? the old fashioned rubber plug at a fraction of the cost of a new popup.



Will now also tackle the second bathroom which I use.

 

[Moulinabois]

Yesterday our log splitter went bang. Magic smoke. This is a crucial bit of kit as we have 7 trees to break down, plus 2 small dead ones to fell still. This is a truly vast amount of wood for us. Willow (huge), pine * 4 (huge), cherry, apple.

Capacitor had exploded. Literally. Foam pumped through the case and went solid. River shop delivered a new on inside 24 hours for £7 inc and I fitted it today. Two barrows of logs split (pine is a devil to split cleanly) before the rain came. Mrs AJB was elll impressed

I like burning apple and cherry but never bother with willow (of which we have loads) as it burns too quickly and doesn’t give off much heat. Having heard that firewood is now 80 euros a cubic metre here, maybe I’ll be saving the willow in future

 

[Lurker]

Phil,
We have the same sort of plug.
Never considered that that could happen.
So….. next time I remove the top, I’ll give the thread a dab of silicone grease.
Thanks!