DIY for Special Snowflakes (YouTube/ drill driver bits)

Fire_Fox

Recommendations please for DIY-from-scratch YouTube channels. Ideally English/ Welsh/ Scottish/ Irish because we are free style Brexiting from the Special Relationship. :eek:

This is my level. Any similar channels?

Hand tools I had some, Wilko'd up some more. No screwdrivers because ....

I am slowly working up to ordering a Bosch drill driver the cheapest Which? Best Buy and same brand as my Dad.

Selecting an appropriate drill bits/ screwdriver bits set is WAY above my current Special level.

I don't have a budget, I have no idea how many bits in the set, but a quality that will outlast that drill ideally.

A set usable by male friends with decent home DIY/ some work skill to fix my botches/ do the harder stuff. Mostly to be used for removing or attaching stuff to plasterboard walls and ceilings, flatpackery.

HELP. a Snowflake please.

bob_a_builder

YouTube DIY, heres one I like ...

Charlie DIYte
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC7x7wk8yeN2ZEJCo6BgP2ag/videos

silvercar

Start at the beginning:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=11KBCEHAdrU

-taff

Anything with Tommy Walsh, anything woodwork with an american guy Steve Ramsey. There's a northern bloke as well, can't remember his name, and there is a woman in alaska who does quite a lot of everything. It all depends what you're looking for.


Whatever job you want to do, search you tube then look at a few until you find one that explains it in a way you understand.

Fire_Fox

bob_a_builder wrote: »

YouTube DIY, heres one I like ...

Charlie DIYte
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC7x7wk8yeN2ZEJCo6BgP2ag/videos

Thanks that is great.

Strongest plasterboard fixings large pack ordered. Even tho I have no drill or bits. Or any DIY skills. Puny wing toggles demoted in the toolbox.

silvercar wrote: »

Start at the beginning:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=11KBCEHAdrU

If I start that far back, my parents will be centenarians by the time I am able to help them with my inaugural mini DIY task. Help them remotely from care home to care home. :beer:

Fire_Fox

-taff wrote: »

Anything with Tommy Walsh, anything woodwork with an american guy Steve Ramsey. There's a northern bloke as well, can't remember his name, and there is a woman in alaska who does quite a lot of everything. It all depends what you're looking for.


Whatever job you want to do, search you tube then look at a few until you find one that explains it in a way you understand.

My YouTube search skills were lacking, except the Polycell tutorials.

Before that, I near fainted reading the sealant tube instructions. Wilko supply four parameters in mm for the gap being filled, and two angle measurements in degrees. :rotfl:

Add in white spirit and personal protective stuff, and what I thought was a five item task has expanded to twelve items. Two of which I do not have or want (white spirit, angle thingy). Wilko upselling maybe!

Other basic DIY may include removing and dumping an old electric panel heater or two (wired in to wall behind blank plate with switch), and on a wall bracket. I thought to cut off electric to the entire flat first at the circuit breaker main switch.

Remove two shelves above a doorway, similar to above without electricity but with a ladder which is dicey. I usually sit or stand on the storage units, mega sturdy and large area to stand on.

If I ever choose drill bits/ screwdriver bits, eventually attach ready made pelmets to ceiling near curtain pole/ brackets. Half hidden up in a ceiling reveal so if it looks a shower of sh11e no matter. Not sure I have enough hands.

Oh and dissembling a mouldy chest of drawers (water leak). Assembling replacement flatpack. IKEA so done the same solo years ago. Seeing if the old drawers plus identical drawers elsewhere make a full set. Or crack out the PVA glue.

In theory a lot of that is low skill, which is the point.

-taff

If they are storage heaters, there's going to be quite a lot of cement based lumps in it that will be difficult to get out before you take it off the wall, or very heavy to take off the wall if you don't. Cut off supply, unwire the plug and put a cover back on it after making sure the electrical ends are safe.
If you're rubbish at youtue, search google, it'll usually bring up a couple of the most pertinent videos for you anway. Or ask here. You don't need everything you should use for PPE for every single job because recommended atire/gubbins is usually very over the top in case of possible sue-age...Use what's sensible. Drilling or anything that involves high speed spinning things - safety glasses a must, possibly ear defenders if you're sensitive/using it for a long time etc.

Fire_Fox

-taff wrote: »

If they are storage heaters, there's going to be quite a lot of cement based lumps in it that will be difficult to get out before you take it off the wall, or very heavy to take off the wall if you don't. Cut off supply, unwire the plug and put a cover back on it after making sure the electrical ends are safe.
If you're rubbish at youtue, search google, it'll usually bring up a couple of the most pertinent videos for you anway. Or ask here. You don't need everything you should use for PPE for every single job because recommended atire/gubbins is usually very over the top in case of possible sue-age...Use what's sensible. Drilling or anything that involves high speed spinning things - safety glasses a must, possibly ear defenders if you're sensitive/using it for a long time etc.

Thanks again.

Definitely radiant panel heaters not storage heaters. Two other smaller panel heaters are under my bed, hated them and their locations. My father took the others off the wall so I vaguely remember a hook bracket attachment.

Yes I will certainly screw the blank cover back on. "Safe" meaning maybe twist wires together with long nosed pliers and tuck in? I just got a cheap set of pliers so tried to remember the difference. I have black PVC tape is that useful here?

Ooooh could properly vacuum under the bed instead of pushing heaters around if I just get rid of them. In my slovenly defence the headboard and frame are solid oak and I cannot move it.

Protective stuff I have is disposable gloves (eczema prone), rubber gloves (for all cleaning), £1 shop safety glasses, disposable filter dust masks.

Six week chest infection exactly a year ago, then some clever clogs throws the windows wide all glorious summer for fresh air and sunshine to potted herbs. :whistle:

Diesel bus stops all along street = two deep cleans to front half of flat in six months. Sugar soaping the wall and FINALLY the penny drops about the fresh air and my lungs. Trying to be sensible. Which clearly is not my forte!

Also have a house cat and no outside space at all, so fumes can't hang about for her safety. Ideally I'd just not have white spirit and suchlike. Cat will have a hotel holiday during future decorating.

Rodders53

:rotfl:

Fire_Fox wrote: »

. "Safe" meaning maybe twist wires together with long nosed pliers and tuck in?

:eek:

I have black PVC tape is that useful here?

:A

Fire_Fox

Rodders53 wrote: »

:rotfl:

:eek:
:A

I have never wired a plug or changed a fuse. But laid a pretty round patio by myself so ner.

Assisted/ hindered husband in full rewire of house, but that was poking end of cable through a hole as instructed. And foot through ceiling not as instructed.

I nearly understood the rings/ circuit arrangement of lighting or sockets then. But electric heaters and appliances don't fit with that at all, they are the end. Or not.

OK so no twisting. Black tape each bit of wire separately or all together? ELI5 because electrocuting an electrician would be bad form. Although MSE if they had already fixed my lighting and heating ....

-taff

Twist the wires separately, not together, and you could use the tape or a block. You could turn it into a plug socket, I'm sure some electrically minded person will advise if that's possible or not depending whether its a specific amp wire or not...