Show us your photos of DIY at home thread.....

[SteveA]

Lets be honest your probably doing it to a better standard than alot of so called pro's personally I'm all for DIY the amount of time and money and new skills I have acquired along with a sense of self satisfaction is a great thing.

 

With you there mate.

We've had a few "pros" on other houses and a few were appallingly, um, wrong!

Although some of the "pros" we've used have been extremely excellent.

Cheers, Steve

 

 

I'm not jealous at all, in the slightest, not one bit.

 

We, by far, prefer our view of a brick wall and the roof of next doors garden shed roof.

 

cheers, steve

 

😂😂 only way we can do all of this is im doing 90% of the work myself so makes the budget go a bit further. The joys of being a time served many moons ago

 

and by the looks of it you're doing an awesome job.

Most of my building efforts seem to be spent fixing other people's bodge jobs.

cheers, Steve

 

Re-roofing our depenance a couple of years ago

 

Stripping off the old stuff, then re-enforce the wall tops, re-enforce ridge, bit wonky but solid, redesign gable to match existing kitchen roof and new chimney.

 

Changed roof line to allow increase in height to wall last pic, remove cement render and replace with lime mix. Underpinning to wall & large support for 1000 litre water tank - centre.

 

Not fallen down yet.

 

Is that in Provence?.... I love the wonky red tile roof.... and from your photo I can see why French roofing is so rustically charming. Awesome. You have sunshine too!!

cheers, steve

[csservices]

Apologies for my gimpy mush in the pics, blame the other half, this was the end result from me having to refit the log burner, originally fitted by a "professional", chimney sweep informed me there was a six inch gap between the stove pipe and the clay liners, allowibg soot to fall back down and collect on register plate, ended up removing it, enlarging opening and refitting it, which then led onto building the shelving in the alcoves

 

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[fastrac]

nice job there bob

[SteveA]

Apologies for my gimpy mush in the pics, blame the other half, this was the end result from me having to refit the log burner, originally fitted by a "professional", chimney sweep informed me there was a six inch gap between the stove pipe and the clay liners, allowibg soot to fall back down and collect on register plate, ended up removing it, enlarging opening and refitting it, which then led onto building the shelving in the alcoves

 

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Grand job that.

The gas fire was condemned/ disconnected in our house here. Neighbours told me the last tenant was getting bad headaches.... so aft we bought it I took it all apart and found the flue was stuffed full of rubble, presumably due to where the external chimney stack was removed and fully capped! Total insanity!

 

After removing a fake wall/ fireplace I found an old cast iron cooking range. Can't use it due to the missing chimney pot, doh!

Why can't people just leave houses as they were originally built/ intended??

cheers, Steve

[Will Heal]

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It doesn't really look that bad but it's amazing when you start to learn about a potentially dangerous topic how much you go OMG - I've done that, I'm lucky I didn't cut my arm off, electrocute myself or set fire to my house.

 

Our instructor described it like this

 

 

Although my use of the word lazy does not truly describe the complacency and lack of keeping abreast of developments that can come with experience and time.

 

My advice either get the pros in (as you'd advise for felling a tree) or take time to read up on the Building Regs. The Electrician's guide to building Regs is a good place to start. Doesn't mean you can't do it yourself but it means you will be able to get it signed off as safe!

 

 

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Seems about right.

I just fixed our tumble drier. (Put the drive belt back on. First time I fixed it took me 2 hours, 1 electric shock and cut finger and it got a kick.

This time being reasonably competent I did it in about 15 minutes with no injuries ( or swearing) does this mean next time I do it I'll be an expert therefore it will probably try to kill me?

 

 

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Is that in Provence?.... I love the wonky red tile roof.... and from your photo I can see why French roofing is so rustically charming. Awesome. You have sunshine too!!

cheers, steve

 

Hi Steve,

 

We're in the south Vendee, nearly all the old houses have red tiles. Lots of sunshine here!

 

Thanks

 

N

[Mull]

Does cladding the office count?

 

 

 

Bob

 

 

 

 

 

Nice job👍.

Do you cycle to the office everyday?

[csservices]

Grand job that.

The gas fire was condemned/ disconnected in our house here. Neighbours told me the last tenant was getting bad headaches.... so aft we bought it I took it all apart and found the flue was stuffed full of rubble, presumably due to where the external chimney stack was removed and fully capped! Total insanity!

 

After removing a fake wall/ fireplace I found an old cast iron cooking range. Can't use it due to the missing chimney pot, doh!

Why can't people just leave houses as they were originally built/ intended??

cheers, Steve

There was a back boiler gas fire in there when we moved in hence the small opening, used to cost a fortune to run so removed it and put combi boiler in, first winter it was removed was spent with an old duvet wedged in the bottom of the chimney while we saved up for the log burner.

 

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