Moving on to fixing the outside of the shed, and the garden we wrecked in the process of building.
The Mrs has demanded a new patio in front of the existing brick wall, a path down the side of the garden, and finally to make it as level as possible.
This is what I’m dealing with now
The...
I’m in the market for a new printer too.. I have an original ender 3, and a prusa mk4 at work.
Not enormously impressed by the prusa to be fair - two clogged nozzles that needed replacing already, and a couple of ruined prints.
I’m trying to decide between the Bambu lab p1p or k1 max.
The...
If possible, could you please do some semi controlled test before and after?
Eg download one of those apps that let you record sound and db.
Then place phone somewhere outside where you know exactly where it is, and can place it in the same place at a later date. Then do something noisy in...
I have just done something similar to my shed/workshop build. My outer walls are slightly different, in that they're cement board outside, filled with loft insulation, and lined with acoustic plasterboard on the inside. I then have a completely separate stud wall (63mm studs) offset 2-3 cm from...
Same :)
I tend to use them under a set of thin “proper” gloves if I’m doing something that will likely rip them. For example something like these https://amzn.eu/d/5w9LSn9
I even sometimes do it the other way around, ie wear latex gloves on top of work gloves, if I’m temporarily doing...
Thank you, and good to hear that the setcrete wore well in the utility room :) It was lovely to pour it out and watch it fix the mess that was there previously. Very therapeutic!
Hopefully it holds up OK for me too, but even if it doesn't, at least it's now level enough to accept another floor...
So, now the inside is in effect "done".
I have kept very tight eyes on the spending, and can account for every single penny (well, maybe not penny, but at least to the closest 10 pounds). It's been eye-opening, and sometimes I wish I hadn't, because I've spent almost exactly 2x the original...
Focus now turned to the workshop side.
I spent ages filling and sanding the joints - probably spent more than a weeks worth of man-days (spread over many many evenings) filling, sanding and painting. In the end, it looks mostly OK. There are some bumps in the ceiling I wish I could get rid of...
Well, about time I updated this again :)
The electrician came and went, and did an excellent job. Far better than I would/could have done myself, so well worth the money.
Armored cable - 16mm2 and a run of about 50m in the end, terminated into a fusebox, and all the cables along the external...
So update - spent another several days worth of lunch time, dug two holes and managed to clear the other run too.
Insane how much rubbish came out tbh.
One of the holes with the old pipe visible
Used the angle grinder with a diamond disk to make the pipe end square past the cracked...
Hmm so I found where the roots got in….
The p bend was just random clay pipe segments without anything on the outside of the joints ♂
I almost admitted defeat and called a drain person, but before that I stuck my own little pressure washer in to see what was going on, and it sort of worked...
So the house we bought a couple of years ago has had its rain/storm water drains neglected for its entire life, it seems, and now one section is full of roots, right under the patio :(
I've cleared more than 10m from the front of the house running towards the back with drain rods. This section...
There’s something called self levelling compound (“flyt-spackel”), that I intend to use on my own uneven concrete floor. Don’t know what it costs in Finland, but here it’s about a pound per kilo - maybe something to consider?
Yes, many times.
I don’t know if the diaphragm in the second stage will let air past it and also how would you tell if the diaphragm had developed a rupture etc, but @Sergei Slovenija ‘s idea of firefighter device probably has that sorted (though availability is probably low)
An idea I’m toying with is using a scuba diving regulator and breathe through that, but there are probably some pitfalls with this that I haven’t thought of yet.