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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.

DeskJockey wrote: ↑Tue Apr 13, 2021 8:00 pmLocal Selco appears to have it all in stock, but as I'm not trade, I can't buy from them.

dinny_g wrote: ↑Wed Apr 07, 2021 9:41 am The more I think about it, the full survey is probably a good idea anyway to check over the kitchen extension that was put in 4 or 5 years ago.

Cheers all

V8Granite wrote: ↑Thu Apr 15, 2021 2:58 pm

dinny_g wrote: ↑Wed Apr 07, 2021 9:41 am The more I think about it, the full survey is probably a good idea anyway to check over the kitchen extension that was put in 4 or 5 years ago.

Cheers all

My friend paid for a super duper survey but when a cracked wall was found which needed huge amounts of work the survey had so many clauses he couldn’t claim a penny back.

Dave!

Swervin_Mervin wrote: ↑Mon Apr 19, 2021 4:14 pm We now have underfloor heating in, the floor boarded out, the fireplace opened up, first fix electrics and plumbing, all the walls plastered, and the window/bifolds reveals all opened up.






I've lost a couple of hours today trying to figure out the Evohome setup for UFH with the electrician! It's all very good kit but the instructions are really quite shit. Eventually we reached a point where the main Touch controller (from where you program the various zones and timings) was clearly triggering the actuators for each zone. But for some reason the wireless room stats weren't communicating with the Touch controller.

The wireless stat has 3 bind setting Bo, Co and HC. Bo is for when it just controls the boiler direct (as we had previously in or non-smart setup). The instructions for the UFH controller say to bind with the Hc setting. Eventually we figured out, via Google, that the stats should be set to Co, however, in order to link to the Touch controller (seems obvious now). But nowhere in the instructions for the stats or UFH controller does it mention this. And this is the issue - the instructions for each piece of Evohome kit are written almost entirely without cognisance of the other parts of the kit. There is no overarching guide, so you have to figure it out piecemeal.

Anywhere, we got there in the end. Now we have to sit tight for paint this week, then we wait until the kitchen's fitted w/c 10th May. Windows should turn up the same week as well. So in a month's time we might actually be close to finished.

Foz wrote: ↑Wed Apr 21, 2021 10:39 am Stripping 15 layers of paint, woodchip, wallpaper etc is hard work

Ascender wrote: ↑Sat Apr 24, 2021 10:51 am Looks like this Bosch I have isn't very user-friendly for repairs - certainly can't replace the brushes.

What's the forum views on the best cordless drill to buy these days which should last a while and will maybe be more able to replace parts should they get worn? I think the trend in consumer stuff seems to be to make them more disposable items with sealed components inside so once they've 4/5 years old, its time to junk them.