I watched it until my eyes started bleeding, about a minute in. I did like the thing where he says I’ll break it in half, that’s three pieces and he’s there with two nuts, two olives, and a body plus the valve itself if you wanna count that. Ozziedog,,,,,,,,,then I lost the will to live
Ok, it’s hi ho time for me. When I get home from work I’ll take some pics. Looks pretty good but I’m sure the absolute answer would be to lower the skirtings or fit larger. I’ve fitted chamfered 45 mill architrave so it doesn’t look like such a huge bump and I gave it two coats of primer/undercoat yesterday so it looks reasonable. Mrs Ozziedog will get some gloss today and I’ll run the gloss around when I get back from delivering pumpkins to the masses. They’re bloody heavy on the top of a load of shopping,think I’ll have to ban Halloween. Ozziedog,,,,,,,,Hiiiiiiiii Hooooooooo,
As said in previous posts, the answer was new larger skirtings, however, not tooooo displeased with the results. Went to work last Sunday and left Mrs Ozziedog in charge of getting some gloss so I could gloss and finish the job To my amazement, when I got home, the good fairy (Mrs Ozziedog) had glossed the skirtings and finished the job. Not only had she glossed the skirtings but she did a fab job too. As I came in the front door, I could smell the paint and the thought did cross my mind, but I then put it down to the residual from the day befores two coats of primer undercoat. What a smashing surprise. Ozziedog,,,,,,,,,, next ,,,, the lounge doors
Oh,,,,, I took on previous advice which coincidentally was one of my maxims back in the day when I was a tradey. That mainly consisted of, if you want something specifically, then go to the specialist type shop for that type of thing rather than the diy stores. So I went off to Malden timber as they were back in the day but secretly I knew they were now Travis Perkins but to no avail, I would be lucky to get sawdust there let alone any tidy moulding, plus I didn’t spot it on the day but drove past in my company car (Asda Van) a couple of days later and noticed it wasn’t Travis Perkins any more at all it was now them that don’t have Jewson much! So I traipsed about for a bit popping in here and there and getting nowhere and found myself driving past Wickes and went in there to find loads of mouldings at absolutely eye watering prices but nothing exactly how I wanted but a nice real timber pack of chamfered architraves seemed to be more up to the job. Some of the mouldings looked like they’d run off at the first sight of Henry from the cleaning gang with visible shakes just from being stared at. Anyway it’s in it’s painted and it’s done N Ozziedog,,,,,,,,,now today’s little jobby is a peach
Today’s little conundrum has already been started however I’ll take you through my thought processes up to here. As you enter my lobby through the front door and porch, you’re faced with a set of stairs, then immediately to the right is the downstairs dunny / cludgy and shower that used to be the passage to the pair of conventional lounge door then dining room door to your right and straight ahead to the kitchen . But I’ve reutilised the space and have two doors together as a pair to entrance the now through lounge on my right. Up until now, the right hand of the pair was bolted to the head with a concealed bolt and was only ever used when large deliveries were arriving or when there might be a larger than normal party thus the left door was used for access and had a conventional lever handle set with the receiver fitted to the right hand door, plus rising butt hinges made taking the doors off and whizzing them down the garage a piece of cake . I’ve now remodelled the lounge to try and make use of the amount of wasted space that we’d had previously with a recliner arm chair on it’s own behind the fixed lounge door and a corner sofa set up parked in the middle with the telly and gubbins opposite. So the plan was to get two four seater sofas and arrange them as a splayed pair at forty five degrees or less opposite the telly to make use of the length of the room with the furniture and we’ve gone for a lovely teale colour, Mrs Ozziedog took a bit of convincing, I’m also thinking chocolate cushions and bright orange cushions but she’s not having any of that yet! So back to the doors. I now want to fix the left hand door with a concealed bolt and open the right hand door to enter the lounge right at the beginning but struggled with the latching set up.
So the issues with the latching set up led me to do a little research on line. I found that doing away with the latching set up was gonna be the way forwards as security wasn’t an issue. So I’ve gone for magnetic catches But not the conventional floating magnets in a plastic housing as that would be way too visible, okif hidden in a cupboard but I had the issue of being accessed from both sides. So I’ve buried some 12mm magnets in the door head and some in the top of the door and used a screw in the bottom of the holes as an adjuster then no more nails or similar to hold them in place. Initially it didn’t work very well with my practice set up, but by off setting the magnets both 2mm from the centre line, so keeping them 4mm apart makes the magnets keep pulling and works well. Some of the online ideas buried the magnets Unser a thin bit of filler and then painted over to hide them but didn’t think that was necessary. Ozziedog,,,,,,,,,,sorry to bore you to tears
Skirting looks good, like every old house I owned where the floors had shrunk. lol Pity the door frames don't meet the floor, that's beyond tricky IME.
Cheers bud, ‘‘twas just a much thinner flooring went down “ and the door frames/ liners were my fault as it’s a floating floor and needed a clearance but I possibly went a tad overboard with my hand saw, a swine of a job on your knuckles too,. This would have been a great job for a multi tool if I’d had one, not sure if there were many about back then. Ideas for what to put down on this floating floor bud ??? That’s another little job on the never ending list that’s rising to the top, it’s a glued one, pre click lock, maybe twenty or twenty five years ago. Ozziedog,,,,,,,,,,, What’s ‘ IME’ I’m having a dim day
