Victorious DIY Successes
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Victorious DIY Successes
A thread to share photos of your DIY wins.
Post your shelves, wall paper and well hung pictures. Throw in our kitchen sink.
Bask in glory. Celebrate your success.
Post your shelves, wall paper and well hung pictures. Throw in our kitchen sink.
Bask in glory. Celebrate your success.
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Re: Victorious DIY Successes
6 weeks start to finish.
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Best compliment I can give you is that I had to zoom in to confirm it was in fact, a vehicle.
Nice work.
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I'm 66 and I can safely say I still haven't got any!!!
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I changed a light bulb last week. Sorry no pictures!
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Kitchen refit.
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Nah...those Relay diesels have pretty awesome fuel consumption...ceiling is only very light tongue and groove with 25mm kingspan insulation.
Overall weight is well within guidelines...the biggest decision weightwise was the shower tiling..that's weighty but was still doable.
Taking out the front bulkhead gave me a bit of wriggle room weightwise.
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morninbob. Have you done that yourself its fabulous.
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I thought it was crooked.
With a kitchen like that you need a dog that can wipe its feet.
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Not quite as ambitious as a whole kitchen - a bathroom cabinet. Still attached to the wall after thirty years! Made because I couldn't find a sensibly priced one the size to accommodate, in particular, spare toilet rolls. It allows you to design your own shelving arrangements. Of course no sooner had I got the thing up then the shampoo I used started coming in a bigger bottle! Made of two nice pieces of wood on the sides, two shelves like the one in the photo to give a bit of interest, glued together with dowels. The mirror runners were bought from a DIY store and the mirror doors made to size locally.
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Perfect...I've still got a mountain of bog rolls left over from covid.
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My Covid project, turning my garage into a movie room
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Darthlaw. What a great job you’ve done. Just noticed the Marshall speakers and the one near the tv, do they double up for a bit of sing song with the Guitar.
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They're actually beer fridges!
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Brilliant Darthlaw, great way to relax with those to hand.
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A bit of automotive DIY success. The roof on my car wasn't sitting correctly when closed. I was quoted between £150-£200 to fix it. I was directed to a You Tube video which showed how easy it was to repair. So a £2 piece of elastic from Dunelm and around half an hour of my time fixed the problem.
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Now you've done it!
Since 2010 I've been messing about trying to get a good sound from my Hi-Fi. It not only involves getting good equipment - speakers, amps etc. - but also addressing issues of how sound behaves in small rooms. That involves using bass traps and other acoustic panels but also getting the speakers and listening chair (ears really) in the right place to get the best possible sound. It means lots of measuring with a microphone and computer programme and lots of experimentation. It took me some eight years but now I'm highly satisfied.
It looks very industrial but for me it's about listening. The former bed room is roughly four metres square.
Bass is the biggest issue. Get that right and you are nearly there. Try playing some bass type music and walk around your room. The bass will sound different in different places, not only horizontally but vertically too. Some frequencies will be weak others boomy. It follows that somewhere in the room there is a best position to locate your ears and speakers. That's the starting point. There's plenty of science and a lot of opinions! For me, copious bass traps and an equaliser do the job.
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I once turned an ordinary old sofa into a sofa bed, by just forgetting my wedding anniversary.
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The night before my wedding (stag night the night before) I had to lay kitchen flooring. Vinyl. Not very manageable, like a carpet can be moulded and pressed.
So I measured every length and angle and made a cardboard template. Went upstairs with flooring and Stanley knife and cut to the template. Took it downstairs to kitchen and dropped it into place.
Perfect!!! Never tried that again!
So I measured every length and angle and made a cardboard template. Went upstairs with flooring and Stanley knife and cut to the template. Took it downstairs to kitchen and dropped it into place.
Perfect!!! Never tried that again!