I did it myself!

Nutty_Tart

:j

I am just having a moment and thought I would share it with you.....

Back in the summer, I bought some replacement doors for the upstairs rooms. I have asked various chippies/handymen for pricing on changing these doors for me, but only 1 person ever bothered to come back with a price (it seems that not many people want the 'fill in/odd job' work - if its not at least a weeks work, they don't want to know!). Well, today, I got fed up with looking at them behind the sofa and took the bull by the horns!

I have, today, hung my very first door...... :j Admitidly, I still have to put the handle on, but its hanging in the door space with nothing propping it up - am so pleased with myself..... :T

Apologies if I'm on the wrong board, but it just goes to show - if I can do it - it can't be that hard!!!

Thank-you for reading and indulging me :rotfl:
NT xx

Ellidee

:T Whoo hoo well done !

Rikki

Well done. :T


Where there's a will there's a way.

ormus

excellent. well done you nutty tart.:rotfl:

zebidee1

Wooo hoooo! Well done! :T

novelli

Well done!! just goes to show what we can do when we try!!

Ive just finished artexing my hall stairs and landing too!!

gonna try knocking doiwn a partition wall next!!! who nees a man!!

Nutty_Tart

lol novelli,

I have another 2 to do, but it has spurred me on to install the french doors I wanted downstairs - I have to make the current doorway bigger to accomodate the new doors (stud wall side ). Once that is done I can then put up the coving (don't want to do the coving first, as it would probably come down with all the banging :rotfl: ). There are so many jobs that need doing and so little money.........

I copied a great idea from a TV show a couple of years ago - I have written down on little pieces of paper (raffle ticket size) all the jobs which I need to do. They are folded up and put in a tin. When I have a little spare time, I pull a 'ticket' from the tin and that is the job that I have to do next (hence door replacement!). I'm just waiting for the day I pull out the one that says 'replace bathroom' :eek: (can't hide that one behind the sofa eh! :rotfl: )

NT x

Rikki

Where do I send my folded pieces of paper?

G-G_4

excellent - well done you!

Ephemera

Hey Nutty Tart, and well done you!!

I have some ceiling boards I need help with

Must admit I've been pretty lucky that my parents didn't pigeonhole me as a child, along with cooking and sewing we all got plumbing, car repair, woodwork and home repair exposure. My partner is hopeless at DIY and I used to have to fix stuff at home. He just holds the torch and I wield the spanner or screwdriver. I work in engineering (water industry) and am the only woman in the department - it's great fun and not a lot of hormones flying around!! :rotfl:well except mine...

You can do pretty much anything if you put your mind to it. Most of the time the only thing stopping you is you....:o

HugoSP

You do know that you need to get a building inspector from the local council and apply for planning permission and, in some cases concent from the listed buildings/Parks Autority when you change the doors.

They check levels using a laser meter and a theodalite, and this takes days to do and costs a fortune.

If you'd got a builder to do it they could have charged you £50 per door and that would have been it, as they are covered under Part X of the building regs - they wear the right jeans whilst they do it and leave the regulatary fag ends bobbing around in the toilet that take weeks to flush away.

When you sell your house you need to tell the buyers that the doors were installed before 1976 when the new regs came in.

In addition the fire brigade may need to do a smoke test. But if you're really lucky the Parish Council may waive this requirement under local bylaws.

Just try to get them to let you off the sound test......... this can cause major disruption as the roads have to be closed around the house when this is done.




Seriously - well done. The above was my jaded view on the red tape that exists whenever we decide to do a bit of DIY