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I'd say pretty close to 50%. I had help throughout the project because there are aspects of a job this size it isn't possible to do alone, and things I wouldn't even attempt such as plastering, but I was very hands on throughout.

Yes. There's a 8" section steel in the apex of the roof. In retrospect I'd use composite laminates if I were to do it again, as getting a spliced 8m steel into place that weighs 50kg a metre was a stressful day.

Lovely work. Superb result.

That's pushing the boundaries of DIY, Snappa

Was this on your own house?

Yes.

Then I'll allow it. Very nice work

That's superb.

Good stuff. I bet it was satisfying. I definitely have the option to go up into the loft in my house as the pitch is quite steep and I could easy stack a staircase from the top landing into the loft without losing any floor space. I don't need the room at the moment but it's nice to have the choice.

Hello. MrsA wants to smash the wall down between the kitchen and the dining room to make one room. I guess i need the walls replastered, rewired, a floor,and something about gas to consider. What haeven't i considered?

Whether the kitchen wall's structural? Where to put the fridge and the cupboards?

The resale value of the house with one less room in it?

Dunno regarding beams. I guess the builder would do that. Brick up back door, and use that space. Make kitchen into L shape and stick a small island in or somesuch. I might make this out of lego.

I think it'd be a positive move. Kitchen is small. Two doors down has had it done and looks good.

Good shout, the number of rooms probably effects most when it's bedrooms.

Yeah, you wouldn't want to go from 3 beds to 2, but from 2 reception rooms to 1 might be ok if it makes the space more usable.

fewer

In other words, you can use what you like in informal discussions, and it's only a rule anyway because some guy once said so as personal preference, but most corrections on this matter are actually an example of hypercorrection.

Each room size. So, take out wallo LHS of kitchen, brick up RHS rear door and think about making a chopped off U shape or island. I dunno.

Nah

That's basically exactly what I did, Mali. It suited us perfectly, but meant having no room for a dining table so not perfect for families.

No, they're not. It's a matter of correct vs not correct. Otherwise we may as well just give up and abandon civilisation and revert to Hobbes' state of nature. You're kidding yourself if you don't think that these are the rules that bind society together and ensure that we all get along without descending into looting and pillaging. What are you, a bloody anarchist?

*looks up from cannibalising work colleague*

Sorry my bad I jumped the gun a little bit.

That's alright - I've never known you to be at the back of the queue when meat was on offer.

Is that because you had a breakfast bar/island bit? I think we actually have more room for a table with the wall out of the way.

This.

Yeah, that was exactly the issue

"Ah, it is a load bearing wall," says Builder #1, presumably sucking air through his teeth.

Fairly predictable

I wouldn't have put it there.

Had to do some forced DIY this evening. Noticed a wet patch on the bedroom floor and water dripping from the ceiling. Turns out that after my Facebook joking about Doris doing no damage while we were away, I'd actually lost a roof tile on the back of the house. Local roofers turned their nose up at such a small job, blaming high demand due to the recent weather.

Luckily, the design of the house allows relatively simple access to the small flat roof over the bedroom window so I figured I'd do it myself.

I had to borrow a long ladder from a mate and by the time I got it back to the house, it was dark, blowing a bit and starting to rain. So, I decided to get it done. The tile wasn't broken, it'd just slipped, I just had to slide it back in under the next row up.

Terrifying, mate. Damn near shit me pants up there. But the roof is fixed and it didn't cost me anything. Except maybe a few years off my life expectancy and some new pants

Tiles are generally nailed down so they don't do that, aren't they m

No these ones are stacked in a way that they hold each other on with weight. Unless a gale force winds lifts them up, apparently

I believe Topsy and Tims dad did something similar in a recent episode on Cbeebies...

but he didn't mention shitting his pants though.

It's in the subtext

Usually, some of them are nailed. The rest rely on the weight of the tiles to hold them in place. They can slip...

It's an easy fix, provided you're alright on high ladders...

Indeed. The higher ones slide up out of the way. I would've been much happier doing it in daylight, but things were getting wet

You did well. I dislike working on ladders for reasons that are too boring to explain other than it isn't to do with height.

It's odd because I can go up and down huge a-frame ladders or clamber across gantries all day at work when I'm helping the theatre techs rig lights, but lean a ladder against a wall and I go all rubber legged.

Do they remind you of pub staircases?

Did a ladder you once worked with steal your girlfriend?

Nope. I have disc problems in my lower back, and standing stationary on ladders really aggravates it. Going up and down them, fine, being still for more than a few minutes with my feet together on a rung and my back starts seizing up.

You're right, that is really boring.

I have a mini chainsaw which I'm using to cut down a tree but the tree is wider than the chainsaw. Does that matter? Will it still go through or is it too small?

Buy a bigger chainsaw.

They chainsaw down Giant Redwoods, and I'm pretty sure they don't use meter-wide chainsaw blades

Get a Bagger 288

Or a smaller tree.

All I know about cutting down trees is what I've seen on the internet. You have to get your wife to video it and it's supposed to land on either a porch or a pick up truck.