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I’ve always thought yeah, but never got round to being ‘finished’ enough to have it done.

I played the prologue, then couldn't get into the full campaign - too many unique mechanics by army to wrap my work addled brain around.

I'm actually using a PC portable as a bedside light at the moment and loving it. As long as you only need it for ambient light, because it's completely cableless it's so easy to pick up and turn on/off and it's great to be able to move it when necessary. I'm constantly tempted to get one/a couple more.

I think the table versions of the PC have inline switches...

There loads, Pao, PC portable, Turn on.. Not much change from £100 though if any from any of them.

Or similar but a bit smaller

How small do you want? What about just a tabletop bulb holder in the material of your choice, and then a sphere opal bulb from Tala

I just started tonight. Feels like a bioshock clone with ‘23 graphics so far..

Isn’t there a Hoffman video on this?

Not /s but /s

Pretzel Pete still available, and not far off.

Any steer on a good starting set of tools for spoon carving? I’m sure I’ve seen some great ones on this thread.

Want to buy some blanks and replace some screen time with something else to focus on. Tools obviously seem to run the gamut from unfeasibly cheap, to buyer status. What’s the best actually viable option, for a hobby approach?

I always thought Naked Doors looked good/good choices.

Interested in cranks if split!

Nice light!

Self reporting: me, who got to the gym and realised I forgot my lock - but had a padlock so padlocked my mudguard stay to someone else's left behind d-lock.

What’s everyone doing for ‘the big game’ on Sunday? I’m thoroughly thoroughly buzzing.

If it was pink you mean?

Anyway, on an entirely related note - what multitool do I want? Cordless because I’m most likely to use in awkward spaces? They look to be different shaped/not system batteries, so I can dip toe in a different brands water to my other cordless stuff?

they were never intended to be opened

I think you’re exactly right. When we moved in they were shut off with trim and translucent plastic, but it looked rubbish and I like light. Wouldn’t be the DIY thread without the conceit of tackling something futile!

@Hefty thankfully behind the ply is the loft, which we have access to and all seems sound behind the ply, in every weather through winter. The shit bottom edge is where my partner ran a roller over the flaking paint at the bottom because there was paint left over after painting an adjacent ceiling. I think just age/poorly originally painted is the cause for the flaking, most of it came off when I sanded back the (rough) filler patch job after pulling the trim off. Didn’t want to repaint properly staring down the barrel of ripping it all down anyway.

@Airhead I think probably bodge/close enough job for someone who wasn’t that invested. Previous owner was a bit senile and her son mostly handled her affairs from abroad, so I don’t think anyone would be looking at work too closely beyond ‘yep, that’s windows’

Thankfully there is loads of work including more decorating/plastering to do on this floor, so it’s a good time for exploratory work. I think I will have take the top couple of inches of ply off with an oscillating tool and see where I get. They’d be a great feature if they were functional so I’m not too averse to throwing ££ at them if necessary - it’s just in my nature to exhaust my DIY capabilities as first port of call. Presumably I’m looking at a grand or two per skylight (there are 4 sets of 2 in total) for replacements? I think if they are sound I’d rather pay someone to rebox them nicely if that is feasible but proves beyond me.

This was exactly the way it went in my head. Intent was to take as little off the beam as I can get away with. Would multi-tool be the best way to get at it? Starting to wonder if it’s worth pulling them out and then rebuilding them flush with plasterboard - much bigger job though!

It’s all ply, nailed to beam/rafters. Feels/looks as though the windows were set to (just) clear the front edge of the beams, but then ply nailed to face, rather than flush has buggered that clearance. There really isn’t a huge amount in it (I say now.) I have access to the back side from inside the loft space, but not from the roof, but that’s the wrong side of the beam to do anything

I’d like to be able to open them to clean them, they seem otherwise good nick in that, they haven’t let water in all winter, no noticeable drafts etc that I’m happy enough to give it a go. I can open them and wiggle them a few mil within the clearance I have and they seem sound. Is there something I’m missing about velux that I shouldn’t be opening them?

My skylights in my house don’t open because they don’t clear the box they’re built into. The frames are built on the roof beam/trusses and then they are boxed through the loft space. I need to take a 10-20mm out of the top of the box/beam at the opening edge in order for them to have enough clearance to open. You can see in this picture where the frame is set back from where they are boxed in.

Would an oscillating multicutter be the best way to do this in a confined space? Taking ~10mm out of a roof beam isn’t going to make my house explode is it? (There is also the thickness of the boxing to clear.) This feels DIY-able but if someone tells me to leave it to a pro I’d be happy to…

Great spot.

South-East-London-going-to-the-bakery bike

Should be a thread. If I didn’t have an SE bakery bike already I’d be all over this.

We just had a quote for double that for 3.5x2m as per @hvsds I’d jump on it.

Yeah that’s cracking.