My Day

[Chelsea14Ian]

Just to remind people, and sorry in advance I will be cleaning our oven.This may well bring on rain,sleet ,snow and storms.

[HEM]

2 days ago we bought the garden furniture out of the shed/carport.

This normally brings on several weeks of rain but so far none.

[TheQ]

58 minutes ago, HEM said:

2 days ago we bought the garden furniture out of the shed/carport.

This normally brings on several weeks of rain but so far none.

The  weather has not been told about the corona virus,  so it's being traditional,  it's waiting for the bank holiday to get bad... 

[addicted]

Don't worry, I cleaned the windows that'll do it every time!

 

 

Carole

[wombat nee blownup]

Don’t panic. Michael Fish said it isn’t going to rain.


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[Chelsea14Ian]

Well part one of the oven cleaning. Think I'm going need a bigger bottle of oven cleaner. Still the sun still shining 

[wombat nee blownup]

there you are mate. Use this one


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[TheQ]

Three hours sitting / kneeling on a scaffolding board on the garage roof clearing Ivy,  job not finished. 

The rest of the day continuing  creating this.. 

 

 

[BroadAmbition]

Popped round to our neighbour behind ours.  Cleaned out the gutter then cleaned the outside of said gutter, facia n soffit.  Tomorrow I will give the gable end and front of house the same treatment.

Whilst I was up the ladders a neighbour of hers rang her noticing what I was doing and said she had grass growing out of her gutters.  Really? What does she want me to do about it then - Mow it or weed it?  This was always going to be an issue, before you know it I will have no end of requests for the same  treatment.  Well I did our neighbours as a favour as I like helping her out but there has got to be a limit.

Before and after photo's

Griff

 

 

[Guest Jayfire]

2 minutes ago, BroadAmbition said:

Whilst I was up the ladders 

Nobody. I stress that nobody, is even thinking about those ladders slipping out from beneath you Mr Griff Sir 

[BroadAmbition]

Right, back to our patio area.  The dwarf wall has had its third and final coat of paint, we are both happy with the results, no more breeze block to look at

Commenced hand cleaning the slate, it soon became apparent that green nylon pad was bouncing off it.  Needed something stronger, into my tip of a garage and miraculously found some coarse grade wire wool - much better.  Needed to frequently change the water between scrubbing and rinsing / wiping off.  Fortunately when I installed our current kitchen I had the rare foresight to fit both hot and cold outside taps.  Saves getting hot water from inside the domestic Goddes's domain.  I'm going to go over the lot again tomorrow then re-grout

Griff

 

 

[BroadAmbition]

Nobody. I stress that nobody, is even thinking about those ladders slipping out from beneath you Mr Griff Sir 

Thanks and I would hope not, they have grippy rubber feet on em, been 'Up Em' hundreds of times to date

Griff

[ExSurveyor]

Did you try the jet wash first,

I have found cilit mould and mildew killer works well on stubborn areas.

[Guest Jayfire]

4 minutes ago, BroadAmbition said:

they have grippy rubber feet on em, been 'Up Em' hundreds of times to date

Bugger 

[BroadAmbition]

Did you try the jet wash first,

No, I should have done but having cleaned / painted all round that area it was tooooo late 

Griff

[grendel]

My day today, was tidying the other half of he conservatory, half is my workshop, and that is getting kind of overcrowded with tools so i wanted some more space. now when i moved into half of the conservatory the stuff in that half had been moved to the other half, and it had a lot of boxes of my ex's stuff too. so basically there was a path from my workshop to the door and that was it - the rest was roof high.

so 10 am i started, stuff was moved out into the garden, rubbish was bagged up, more stuff moved, just after lunch i had one side clear so i took the opportunity to use the part roll of lino i had sitting there, width wise it was about a foot short, and length wise about 3 foot short, but its a start. then it was shifting things around and putting all the stuff to keep back in, though there are still boxes to go through and stuff to throw. anyway after 7 hours hard graft there is an area of floor nearly 6 foot square, and a big pile of rubbish in the garden awaiting the reopening of the local tip.

its been very tiring, but also going through the junk left by my ex and binning what isnt needed has been good too, i had put it off way too long.

I use plastic tubs for storing a lot of things as these are readily available from work, and they keep things dry, i also found we have a leak in the roof somewhere, so i will need to find that and fix it.

for anyone that is interested both halves of my conservatory were second hand and had to be disassembled on site and transported home and reassembled, both at different times, the second was reassembled with an extra bay and shortened to match the existing, then to join them one of the end panels of glass was removed, the sliding door in the workshop half was blocked off and the door in the new section is now used to access the garden.

Still a work in progress as there is a stack of ercol chairs that need to be found a home, which will free up a lot more space.

[BroadAmbition]

Bl o o dy Hell Peter - At least you have made a start, somewhat overdue is one understatement - Looks like my garage and you wouldn't want to go in there!

Griff

[keifsmate]

On 09/04/2020 at 07:41, HEM said:

2 days ago we bought the garden furniture out of the shed/carport.

This normally brings on several weeks of rain but so far none.

I thought that only applied to Britain!

[grendel]

I reckon another 3 or 4 sessions and i might get some useable space for expanding the workshop, i did install a set of metal shelves that has helped with places to put things that arent in buckets

[MotorBoater]

Can't help feeling that rocking chair is in the wrong place !

[grendel]

its sitting on 2 other ercol chairs with another rocker atop it.

 

[Chelsea14Ian]

On 09/04/2020 at 18:17, wombat nee blownup said:

there you are mate. Use this one


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No will needs some heavy duty stuff like I use at work.

[BroadAmbition]

You Sir - Need a skip - A BIG one !

Griff

[grendel]

probably, but i doubt i will be able to get one of those at present either

[BroadAmbition]

Well next door to me did so with ease

Griff