Who has a lockdown project at home?

Yes, they are great. We used them in the Airbnb upstairs for the kitchen bench and we have some in the studio. We have 154 in total - one of my counted them in an idle moment last week (there are many idle times in lockdown). I think 154 might be enough.

 

Hope you never have to move ....

 

Me too. Sometimes I wake up at night and ponder how much stuff we have - 84 chairs at last count. It's a problem with having a big place. When the time comes, we'll just give lots of stuff away.

 

Other projects, seem to be growing in number and waste produced

Lockdown had better end soon, or I will have to move to stay occupied

 

There's plenty to do here. I'm happy to entertain you with lots of work to be done.

 

You've taken up drywall building, Stoffo?

 

I concur


Painting the second storey facia when you run out of veranda .........
Being a problem solver, solution is to take off the stabilizing outriggers to use as "legs"
Am still here

 

Ummm, that seems safe.

 

Mobile scaffolding is so good, there’s nothing you can’t do with it.

 

OMG!

 

The shed is done. I had a few hold-ups when lockdown ended - could have done with another month of lockdown.

Two big benches with diametrically opposed vices and a gutter between the work surfaces. So enough room for four people to hang around. The legs and framing of the benches were from stuff I had out the back, so I just had to buy the tops - formply and some 30mm ply. Bunnings sell the latter in 2200 x 600 sheets for $62.

Under the side of each bench is a drawer with screwdrivers, pencils, tapes measures etc. I found a lot of spares in my big clean-up.

The 4 matching vices came from a bloke on Gumtree. I suspect they were from a school. They came up fine after I pulled them apart and cleaned them up.

My bench is down the back under the wall of tools. Getting all those planes out and pulling them apart and servicing them was a nice thing to do. Likewise the saws.

It's a nice space to be in.

 

Ticking box's
Before & after
The "Man Cave" has never looked so good (or seen sunlight in 40 years )

 

What to do on a rainy week/weekend ???
Tick off a few more things on "The LIST"
Sand & seal the floors (after 8 years), running the ducted for air flow and to reduce humidity to hurry it along, hope to be back in by Monday

 

Started as a lockdown project to extend and widen the usable internal pool area
Many hours spent on my knees paving
Poured my first concrete wall
Glass pool fence finally in and pool refilled

Shade sail ordered, driveway to do yet
Will be happy to run out of things to do
Maybe I should get a proper job

 

Sheesh! Hubby's good, but not that good. He'll do reno's on IP's, but when it comes to the house he is S.L.O.W. Mind you, he's an electrician by trade & in our first home we had a light bulb hanging by wire for quite a few years, before I got him to put the fitting up. Current home had a fireplace that I hated, he removed it and fixed everything up inside and put a bucket on the roof, on top of the chimney. That stayed there for maybe seven years before he fixed it. Was maybe a half hour job. His response was that I should stop nagging. He'll get around to it, when he's ready. Woke up one morning to bang, bang, bang on the roof & there he was fixing the final part.

 

Effectively I spent the week in lockdown so kept working on my deck lighting task. As DIY as you can get, ordered about 100 individual components from China and built the controller, modified a server psu to supply 12v to the thing. Connects to the home WiFi and can be controlled/programmed a variety of ways. Painted the aluminium extrusion the same colour as the handrail and the wires come up through the posts (drilled when replacing the deck 2 years ago,) for a fully seamless look. Hours of planning. Lots to tidy up but I'm happy with the result!

 

Covid came home from school....
No one else in the house has tested positive (yet), though we have been isolating 5 days now
I dug a hole looking for the sewer Inspection Opening