What you pottering at today thread.

[Stephen Blair]

A dishwasher tablet will do the same, but nippy on the cuts though!

I used to Love peeling glue of my hands in Art at school.

  No pottering for me today, all chores.  Sunday sort out the house and machinery day that did end up in a kitchen sink removal. 

[Bob_z_l]

Between 06;00 and 07:30 spent a lot of time pondering what I'd be doing today. 

Wasted pottering time, got a call from a good mate who'd been let down. A day of groundman activity and I'm home, weary, thirsty and planning tomorrows pottering.  

 

Living the dream.   👍

[Mark Bolam]

You should be ashamed of yourself Bob.

Working on a pottering day indeed.

Tsk tsk.

[Stephen Blair]

He did start off aiming to do 1 thing and doing something different!

 

reverse pottering? 

[PeteB]

Household pottering, washing washed, ironing done, floor mopped, dishwasher emptied, will run the mower over the lawn if I can, have a beard and hair cut, shop, do a roast, bimble about in toy car!

[peds]

Doing the last room in the new house today, the 5yr old son's bedroom. Floor just finished (I did the OSB subfloor, she did the laminate clikclak on top), and I've taken 6mm off the bottom of the door and the architrave legs. Doing the skirting board now, whilst she paints some snowy caps on the blocky mountainscape she'd already painted a little while ago.

Next up: a bunk bed shaped like a castle, with drawbridge, portcullis, dungeon, and slide. 

[peds]

1 hour ago, PeteB said:

bimble about in toy car!

 What toy is that?

[PeteB]

2 hours ago, peds said:

 What toy is that?

I got a V8, RWD, Ford Focus drag car. About 350hp which gets it up the road, but be careful in corners! Great for pottering about in!

[daveindales]

4 hours ago, peds said:

Doing the last room in the new house today, the 5yr old son's bedroom. Floor just finished (I did the OSB subfloor, she did the laminate clikclak on top), and I've taken 6mm off the bottom of the door and the architrave legs. Doing the skirting board now, whilst she paints some snowy caps on the blocky mountainscape she'd already painted a little while ago.

Next up: a bunk bed shaped like a castle, with drawbridge, portcullis, dungeon, and slide. 

Are you taking 6mm off the bottom of the skirting or fitting new skirting. ive a similar job to do and don't know whether to remove the skirting and replace, or take the necessary amount of bottom of skirting? 

[peds]

Ah no, it's brand new skirting board, first time on the wall. I was just taking 6mm off the door and architrave around it, we didn't know what floor would be going down when we had the doors done.

Would you really need to do either of the options you describe, would you not cope with the skirts being slightly higher?  Or is three a load of fitted furniture or something? 

 

Depending on the cost, I'd probably try ripping the needed height off the old skirting board and refitting it, don't know if it would be worth the time/value of reusing it, but I like doing things like that anyway...