Test your spirit level by turning it through 180degrees, you’d be surprised how many spirit not levels there are in the world.DeskJockey wrote: ↑Tue Apr 13, 2021 8:00 pm Spent the day sorting out shelves in the shed and it has been a bit of a faff, although mostly self-inflicted.
When you're an ignorant amateur with limited skills and tools, you're reliant on the shops/trades to get what you need. Been to three different places to try to get the wood I need and so far I'm still missing some. Local Selco appears to have it all in stock, but as I'm not trade, I can't buy from them.
But I've managed to hang two (out of ten) shelves. Still need to source wood for three of the remaining ones.
The self-inflicted bit was eyeballing the screws and getting it wrong. Twice. Turns out the 3.0 X 35mm ones are just long enough that the tip pokes through the board. Luckily I tested it on an offcut before the actual shelf.
Less impressively the shed we had built by professionals is not level, nor are the walls flush. Thought I would have the shelves level with the windows, but the frames protrude making it impossible to get the brackets to sit flush. At one end they're flush, at the other end of the window they sit about 2-3mm proud. So I hung them 20mm lower, no big issue. Using my trusty spirit level I made sure that all the brackets were level and when standing back to admire my work, noticed that while the shelf is level with the bottom of the window frame at one end it is about 25mm lower at the other.
But, it is only a shed, so I'm not really that bothered. I'll hang the rest later in the week.
Apart from that the fan in the bathroom (barely two and a half year's old) has stopped working. Sometimes it does start, sometimes it doesn't. Sometimes it comes on with the lights other times it'll take half a minute or so. The timer function seems to have completely given up. Very annoyed, so have booked a sparky to come replace it with a not-a-Manrose one.
As for bathroom fans that’s quite common, we get recalls for faulty fans now and then