Daydream fund challenge part 4

I_have_spoken

Found the plexi-glass blown out my rain cover, spotted in the shrubbery of neighbour across the road.

Gutters are overflowing, reckon moss has washed off the tiles and choked the channel. Impossible to get up a ladder however, so will have to do jury-rig something on a pole tomorrow.

Buckets in the conservatory, the wind is blowing water under the finnial and it's dripping in.

choille

Take care - it's disgusting out there. I don't know when it will let up.

Davesnave

It's easing here now, then due to go hooley again in the small hours, before finally just being windy around dawn. We haven't had the rain you guys have had, though. Looks awful in Cumbria.

Looks like I will still be filling dents in floors again tomorrow. :(However, I've mixed-up my own patent filler from stuff left over from other jobs, which goes down much better than levelling compound and smooths-out a treat.

There must be a catch! :rotfl:

I_have_spoken

Nice day with us! Sunny and mild. Cleared one of the borders of perennials, so that's the wheelie-bin full.

choille

Stopped raining/hailing late afternoon - thankfully. Lake District looks bad.

Dave we have to level the utility floor. Still on the painting of cupboards thing - though I am slacking really!

IHS - Do you not have a composter? I don't put any weeds or green stuff in the wheelie bin, just throw it on a heap. or in a composter - saves on the space & it does make nice compost.

I_have_spoken

IHS - Do you not have a composter?

I'm afraid not

Davesnave

choille wrote: »

Dave we have to level the utility floor. Still on the painting of cupboards thing - though I am slacking really!

If you have a whole floor to do, like we did in the kitchen, then the pour-on compounds, mixed in a big bucket with a whisk thing, are good and easy.

These floors I've done are 95% sound, but they have spalled areas and chunks out where carpet gripper was, etc. Anyway, my mix of compound + fine sand + SBR building adhesive has done the job.It has latex in it. Normal sand & cement mix won't stick or last if only a few mm thick.

choille

I_have_spoken wrote: »

I'm afraid not

We got some from the Council for about £5 each, but I did buy a big sectional one. I am really amazed at the compost they make. It takes a while - I leave them for about 9 months.

I also but the leaves in an old chicken run & they make lovely potting compost mixed in with some bought stuff. Also been good for creating new beds - although that's all an eye sore this year & terribly over grown.

Thing is with the compost bins they save on filling the wheelie bin with veg matter. Ours gets emptied once a fortnight & I am using it for getting rid of building waste instead of carting that 30 odd miles to the skip. I do feed all the veg peelings & bits that I can to the animals apart from onion stuff etc.

We seem to have a slope on the utility floor Dave - we'll level it with the jollop that we got at B&Q. Good for you filling the holes with your own jollop recipe - clever. Good job to do as it makes that a proper job. What are you putting down?

Can't believe how nice these tiles I got from Homebase are. £3.70 for a pack [ 1.2 M2 ]- just the job. I do love a bargain!

Just done a relist on Ebay - not listed owt else as it's dead & takes so long.
Low on energy with the weather. I get Novemberitis - lazy & fat!

Davesnave

choille wrote: »

We seem to have a slope on the utility floor Dave - we'll level it with the jollop that we got at B&Q. Good for you filling the holes with your own jollop recipe - clever. Good job to do as it makes that a proper job. What are you putting down?

Can't believe how nice these tiles I got from Homebase are. £3.70 for a pack [ 1.2 M2 ]- just the job. I do love a bargain!

The tiles we bought for smartening-up the smaller en-suite were from Homebase & very cheap. They match the ones the previous owners put on the walls of the shower, roughly 8 years ago, so that shows how long they've been stocked! For some odd reason the other folk put ghastly bright green and black fake marble tiles on the floor. They had to go, along with the pukey mauve walls! :rotfl:

In the guest bedroom and the main bathroom we're using Howdens' laminate:
https://www.howdens.com/flooring-collection/laminate-flooring/howdens-professional-fast-fit-v-groove-flooring/professional-v-groove-american-pecan-laminate/

The bathroom floor area is so small, it really wasn't worth going with something else...and we got a good deal.

Davesnave

choille wrote: »

. Still on the painting of cupboards thing - though I am slacking really!

Don't worry, I'm still on the varnishing of 10 oak doors, started probably in the spring. That's 20 sides X 3 coats a side with associated rubbing-down.

By the time I finish, it will be time to start giving them a re-coat!