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@TW why do you have photos of me on holiday before and after the beach on day 1?

I have 4x XT8s in our current place (weird long narrow place over 3 floors that i wanted to have some stuff hooked up by ethernet in certain rooms) and they work pretty well here. i think the firmware was a little flakey for a while about 14 months or so ago but they've been pretty solid since.

I'm looking to connect them up with an ethernet back channel in our new place though to give better speeds for the wired devices i have.

sorry professionals only.

sand 3mm channels in the walls at each end, super snug fit.*

super frustrating when the easy bit turns out to be the bit that requires a load of faff. that's pretty much how everything goes in my current projects.

*I am not a diy doctor.

new bench for the deck arrived so I assembled that too. figure it'll be a handy work surface for organising things on and resting between steps of the manual area for when my buddy and I assemble the gazebo soon.

nice work. i'm tempted to just do the same for the ethernet separately to whatever we do for the power line run. will be easier to sort out later on if i do decide in 10 years that i need cat 12 or whatever is the new new by then.

uk power networks came for site visit to upgrade main fuse to 100a. house needs upgraded supply cable which is fine but they need to scaffold up to the overhead cables in the street and separate us from our joint supply with the neighbour to do so (neighbour is a lonely 87yr old man who thankfully was ok with it happening but not happy about losing power for a couple of hours when they come and do it, luckily i've been making a point to chat to him when I see him so i think he wont be a problem and we offered that he can come hang out at our current rental place in the next street over on the day of the work if he's worried about not being able to do anything while the power is out).

forgot i've been meaning to ask about how I should go about repairing this (i'm assuming filled in fireplace as it's where the front chimney is) not sure if i blew out the plaster while wallpaper stripping or it was just really badly done (or a little from column a and a little from column b).

you can see how thick the plaster was that came off looking at the chunk stuck behind the skirting.

I have 5l of pva and a couple of tubs of this ready mix plaster for doing some of the less hefty filling and jointing of the overboarded ceilings but I feel like it's probably not best for such a large area. will be covering in 1400 lining paper and giving how bulbous the wall was already not expecting miracles just want to get it close to flat looking so I can get on and decorate.

any chance you guys can bless me with a step by step process and shopping list of stuff I'll need to make it good

very kind but we've escaped down to the south coast now

thanks as always for the input everyone.

have you got a link to a suitable mattock. a lot of the ones i'm seeing are either made of cheese and have loads of photos of them snapped in half in reviews and the others are stated as only being suitable for softer ground (i think that's a grubbing mattock and I want a pick mattock right?)

I ordered a couple of bits for my sds+ to at least give that a go.

sayonara stupid step. first time having a go with a recip saw but I'm a fan. those posts won't know what hit them soon.

whoever said there's be some shitty concrete underneath the step you win the five points.

not sure what the easiest way to remedy this is as we want to put flower beds along there. do I just buy myself a pickaxe and a lot of ibuprofen?

p.s. laying in that hammock at the back when I was done with a half defrosted bottle of ice to sip on as it melted was probably the best I've felt in months.

Bodged the new step for our deck together and installed it temporarily so I can get on and demolish the larger corner step which is going to interfere with powerline runs to the summerhouse.

was feeling a bit overwhelmed and fed up with the redecorating progress in the house so wanted a quick win that i could just get done.

eventually I'll dig a little deeper and run a path to the back door with gravel or bark chippings or something and line it with some lights.

had fun doing it until i had to hammer in the clout nails for the truss clips. not only was it noisy as fuck thus endearing me to all my new neighbour it probably took about 20 attempts per nail to get the fucker started with the hammer without it pinging off into the grass. that low, with a weird angle of approach and being left handed did not a good combination make.

Just finished it last night, the christmas episode is like a distilled anxiety firehose to the face.

overall I think I enjoyed this series more than S1 some excellent tv in there.

Have been very busy with my proper job's project and trying to get the house decorated (three weeks in and we're still knocking it back before building things back up).

Have an appt with UK power networks who are coming to survey the place to install a 100a fuse (thank you spotter for the heads up there) I enquired about going higher but a three phase supply is the next step up and would be about £8k minimum so we're going to just be more judicious about what/how much stuff we have running.

electricians are booked in also to replace our ancient consumer unit with a 100A 14 slot modern jobby in the main house and then we're running a cable to a 60A 14 slot sub unit in the summer house. they explicitly mentioned not including any trenches in their quote so I'm preparing myself mentally for a few days of back breaking work to get it done myself. have also purchased 50m of cat6a swa armoured cable for the house <-> summer house data run. buriable cat 8 seems rare as fuck and cat 7 seems to be the odd one out in terms of specs/uptake and I didn't find any proper armored stuff not on a big drum of 100s of metres so 6a will do. even with fibre arriving in the street soon (cabinets just went in) that should be plenty to run the wired backlink between mesh nodes on my network.

I also noticed after mowing the grass for the first time it appears we may have some rodent friends living in our lawn as there are burrow like openings along the edge of our decking step, got pest control people getting back to me about that. but keen to get that sorted so they don't try gnawing my freshly laid cables (hence the armoured swa in the first place too).

Also spotted the site I had bookmarked for getting the electric radiators from had a 20% off sale so we decided to just buy them all now so they're ready to use (they're plug in and come with freestanding feet so hard-wiring and wall mounting can be done once everything is finished but given how long things are taking sorting out the main house I may need them before it's all fully completed. went for 1000w models for the gym and games room and 1500w for my office and workshop. office is the one I'll need to be as comfortable as possible year around and the workshop has the largest volume of space to heat so figured they are where to go a little bigger. we'll probably never have more than 2 on the go at once anyways as the rooms will all see use at different times of the day. https://www.electricradiatorsdirect.co.uk/ecostrad-iq-ceramic-wifi-controlled-electric-radiators-black/

am a little frustrated that it's going to take a back seat for another 4-6 weeks while the redecoration/house move is sorted but hopefully having the new consumer unit installed and ready waiting to be cabled up should mean the studwork and first fix for all the fixtures can be done nice and quickly and I can get things turned around pretty quickly.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_HLfUdGMekw

A long while ago a girlfriend told me to get the [top of the range cricket bat*] as she said I would not be happy with the next one down. I really liked her for that. But then she dumped me.

*golf club thread

if you were playing golf with a cricket bat, no wonder she left you.

that is screaming out for a firemans pole so you can leave the house in style.

the velcro attached blackout panels marketed for babies to sleep during the day work pretty well.

there's often an FN and screen toggle button combo on laptops to turn screen sharing on or off. have a look along the top row of function keys maybe an update turned it back to off by default or something.

Not sure if forum approved... @middleofnowhere ?

any recommendations for specific expanding foam to fill the larger gaps between walls and ceilings where they've not bothered to make it join property and hid it with coving, will be re- covered in coving afterwards but would prefer to try and get it mostly ok behind if i can.

thanks all. I just didn't want to attach it to the deck and then have it spread all over if it was mold.

once my workshop is up and running I'll eventually build my own steps anyways I imagine but I need to remove the current step asap as it will impact running power to the summerhouse so this will make do for a few months or whatever.

was being lazy as I don't have my workshop setup yet and ordered an overpriced decking step kit from b&q so I can just assemble it and not have to fuck about with cutting things to size while in the middle of the full house redecoration.

I am going to own my ignorance completely here, the package turned up completely soaked inside the plastic wrap and half the planks are green with dark green splotches.

is this a byproduct of the pressure treatment or just plain old mold like I suspect it is?

I realised putting moldy planks on the deck was a bad idea as soon as I took this pic so they are drying out in the sun with a sheet of plastic under them now.

all the reality tv show nonsense she watches this is about as close as you'll get me to the tv when she's in charge of what's on.

the sofa will be by that big window so I'll be in direct line of sight, I'm counting it.