Home improvement (3 Viewers)

[Deadmanposting]

ann post cuts a lot of wood for the fire. i cut it for the fire and for the lathe; this is what i have down the end of the garden at the moment; i also have a woodshed, and more drying in my 'work' shed.

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you have a lathe??

That is fricking awesome

Man oh man

 

[magicbastarder]

yep. keeps me out of trouble.

 

[Deadmanposting]

Seething with jealousy right now

 

[ann post]

CAn I ask why you have such a need for chainsaw capabilities?

I have this to deal with.

 

[Cornu Ammonis]

@ann post earlier today
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[JohnnyRaz]

Shed/lockup no2 built. I reused some sheeting from a lockbox as the roofing/back - one of those ‘superficially simple’ ideas that became a nitemare. But multiple fuckups later it somehow is solid and looking ok. A minor pleasure is that I don’t have a piece of timber longer than 70cm left, only a few modest offcuts in general- sign of a well spec’d job

 

[ann post]

I was supposed to do something wayyyy less photogenic today but forgot a few vital tools so went back to cosmetics. This one is very intermittent, january and march.
I also forgot to bring some clothes and had to emergency go to easily detectable clothing shop.

 

[ann post]

First stage of the new studio build (which is also the cinema and spare bedroom and an office)

A little shelf for the projector. All straight out of a shop stuff, painting the place in a few weeks so left it natural till i know what i'm doing globally.

 

[Anthony]

If you want a laugh I must post the new shelf I built in the Airing Cupboard.
We had to get a new tank a couple of weeks back and they put in a massive one which left us with hardly any room for airing clothes. I improvised with the 3 bits of wood that were left after the plumbers rearranged the thing.
Hey, it works.

 

[pete]

what's a good and free windows/online CAD app for doing floorplans? i have drawings with the measurements but no dwg or dxf or whatever file, so i'm looking for something idiot proof i can work with to get some approximation of a 3d view.

 

[ann post]

what's a good and free windows/online CAD app for doing floorplans? i have drawings with the measurements but no dwg or dxf or whatever file, so i'm looking for something idiot proof i can work with to get some approximation of a 3d view.

I don't know any CAD, all my room planning these days is top down with google draw. I dont do them to scale beyond writing the measurements in the text boxes.

 

[Cornu Ammonis]

I use powerpoint

 

[Deadmanposting]

Shed/lockup no2 built. I reused some sheeting from a lockbox as the roofing/back - one of those ‘superficially simple’ ideas that became a nitemare. But multiple fuckups later it somehow is solid and looking ok. A minor pleasure is that I don’t have a piece of timber longer than 70cm left, only a few modest offcuts in general- sign of a well spec’d job
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nice work

is this wheelie bin sized?

 

[JohnnyRaz]

nice work

is this wheelie bin sized?

Just about I’d say - the back is a bit lower than the front to allow drainage, so you might get caught

 

[Anthony]

It actually looks worse in a photo.

 

[ann post]

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It actually looks worse in a photo.

There's a fair few of those kinda jobs around here too, I'm pretty selective about what goes online. One of the beds has a flooring laminate holding half of it up. It's not even connected.

 

[magicbastarder]

was talking to someone last night whose friend a few years ago had just bought a big house out in the country, styling was somewhat OTT.
the woman who had just bought the house rang the lady i was talking to, in tears; she was in the large sitting room, with a huge rug and hardwood floors, and had rolled the rug back. under the rug the floor was chipboard.

 

[Deadmanposting]

was talking to someone last night whose friend a few years ago had just bought a big house out in the country, styling was somewhat OTT.
the woman who had just bought the house rang the lady i was talking to, in tears; she was in the large sitting room, with a huge rug and hardwood floors, and had rolled the rug back. under the rug the floor was chipboard.

It really floored her, wha'?


That's an easy enough fix though really

 

[JohnnyRaz]

It really floored her, wha'?


That's an easy enough fix though really

potentially expensive but..

 

[magicbastarder]

if you can't match the existing floorboards, you're looking at a total replacement. IIRC she mentioned the room was nearly 10m x 10m.