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Beau Peep Notice Board => Outpourings => Topic started by: Diane CBPFC on February 24, 2011, 10:51:49 PM
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Today we are doing DIY at our house (living room). It is a pretty big mess but it is going to be fab.
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Diane, I hope it's fabulous, I don't do DIY because I admit to being crap at it.
However I'm a master at PSE (Pay Somebody Else) and my kitchen looks brilliant! ;D
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I stand shoulder to shoulder with Max. There is not a single job in our house that I can't do with a quick phonecall.
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I stand shoulder to shoulder with Max. There is not a single job in our house that I can't do with a quick phonecall.
.. And an open chequebook.
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You got to share the wealth brother Bil.
It keeps the world ticking over.
Besides, having to wade to the sink is a real pain in the butt. ;D
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I ought to have shares in B&Q, Homebase, etc with the custom I've given them over the years. But there is satisfaction in getting a job done well.
Recently, I saved over £30 in making a new gate using wood from an old pine bed.
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I ought to have shares in B&Q, Homebase, etc with the custom I've given them over the years. But there is satisfaction in getting a job done well.
Recently, I saved over £30 in making a new gate using wood from an old pine bed.
We need a photo...
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Glad to know there is another DIYer here Bill - there is a lot of fun to be had with a hob of putty and a new tin of paint.
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I wonder if other forums are as exciting as this one.
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I wonder if other forums are as exciting as this one.
I know - this forum should have a health warning on it. I had to have a lie down after I read about the recycled pine bed!
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Now, if he'd made a bicycle out of his bed, that would have been interesting!
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Diane, I have a new name for DIY. DIA. Do It Again.
So I don't bother to start off with.
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Things here are far from perfect (some runny paint bumps) but even so - better than how it started off and that's the main thing.
I sold a pup today to a posh plastic surgeon and made her sit in the midst of all my painting muck to take a photo with the parents - that's when I knew the woman was a gem and my baby Rudy was getting a good home.
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Here are the gates. Notice, in traditional DIY fashion, I have yet to paint/treat the new gate, hence its aged look. The old gate was really falling apart with pointy bits sticking out and a big hole for the dog to stick her had through. I could not wait (forever in this cost-cutting climate) for the MOD to replace their gate, so I made another using the leftover wood from a pine bed (always save this stuff - you never know when it will come in useful).
In fact, the only expense was a new latch (£9.99), the equivalent wood would have cost about £25 and a new gate already constructed would have cost £50+.
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I would be just itching to stain that gate and the posts it's attached to - but it is a very nice gate.
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Why, thank you Ma'am. I did mess up the angle piece ( you can see the gap at the end). What was nice was the two horizontal bars had a square bead already on them (on one edge) as this wood was the side of the bed and the bead secured the slats. This bead meant that the vertical bars fitted inside, and with the diagonal, all were within the overall thickness of the gate (horizontal bars plus bead).
The posts are already stained (mostly with grot at the moment, but there is some preservative there somewhere)
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Here are the gates. Notice, in traditional DIY fashion, I have yet to paint/treat the new gate, hence its aged look. The old gate was really falling apart with pointy bits sticking out and a big hole for the dog to stick her had through. I could not wait (forever in this cost-cutting climate) for the MOD to replace their gate, so I made another using the leftover wood from a pine bed (always save this stuff - you never know when it will come in useful).
In fact, the only expense was a new latch (£9.99), the equivalent wood would have cost about £25 and a new gate already constructed would have cost £50+.
Why?
I fixed your old one for you - cost nowt...
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Heck, if only I known you could do that TTIII - could have saved myself all these months of dieting.
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I was born in Margate, and went to school in Ramsgate, so gates have been a big part of my life.
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My mind is now reeling with place-names which could have influenced people's lives. They're mostly rude.
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Many years ago, I was in a
pub hotel in Leeds with my brothers, gathering refreshment shortly before my younger brother was due to wed his Yorkshire bride later that day. We were all wearing kilts for the occasion, naturally (yes, that does cover the obvious question). The barman being an observant gentleman approached our table and enquired, "Did tha come down here from Scotland?".
"Aye!", said I.
"Did tha come down M6 through Lancashire?"
"We did." said I.
"Did tha shut gate?..."
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;D
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Here are the gates. Notice, in traditional DIY fashion, I have yet to paint/treat the new gate, hence its aged look. The old gate was really falling apart with pointy bits sticking out and a big hole for the dog to stick her had through. I could not wait (forever in this cost-cutting climate) for the MOD to replace their gate, so I made another using the leftover wood from a pine bed (always save this stuff - you never know when it will come in useful).
In fact, the only expense was a new latch (£9.99), the equivalent wood would have cost about £25 and a new gate already constructed would have cost £50+.
Why?
I fixed your old one for you - cost nowt...
It's easier to do this digitally rather than for real. The bar was originally from there but was rotten and could not be resited. As the rest of the wood was also rotting, I put the bar across as shown to try and stabilise the gate. This picture was taken in 2009 and the repair lasted until late last year. That's when two other bars fell off, leaving sharp nails and screws protruding. The only option was a new gate.
:P
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Many years ago, I was in a pub hotel in Leeds with my brothers, gathering refreshment shortly before my younger brother was due to wed his Yorkshire bride later that day. We were all wearing kilts for the occasion, naturally (yes, that does cover the obvious question). The barman being an observant gentleman approached our table and enquired, "Did tha come down here from Scotland?".
"Aye!", said I.
"Did tha come down M6 through Lancashire?"
"We did." said I.
"Did tha shut gate?..."
Well he wouldn't twant sheep ta git out. :D
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Bill, I'm sorry to say but that was an awful DIY story. 10 GBP in hardware and all that work and it fell to bits in a year? If you had put a coat of paint on it it would have hung together another year at least. ;)
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Bill, I'm sorry to say but that was an awful DIY story. 10 GBP in hardware and all that work and it fell to bits in a year? If you had put a coat of paint on it it would have hung together another year at least. ;)
No, Diane. I think the £10 in hardware was for the NEW bed-gate. The old MOD-gate was the one that fell apart - by the looks of it, I don't think the old gate could have taken the weight of a coat of paint.
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You are sooo right Vulture. The new gate is shown in the picture I took yesterday. Itttttttt is still standing and, yes, I will get some preservative on it soon.
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I knew someone who didn't have a gate. He mentioned that there had been a gate there at one time, but nothing more, so I don't know whether it had fallen into disrepair and been intentionally removed, or what had happened to it. I don't even know when it had last been there (and didn't think to ask as it hadn't seemed important then).
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Yes, I imagine you are kicking yourself now Nige.
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Yes, I imagine you are kicking yourself now Nige.
I think he owned the property, in which case the gate would have "belonged" to him too, so I suppose he was entitled to do with it as was his wont.
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I’ve always suspected that there may be Italian blood in me. Proof: I am part English; there are some fabulous noses sprinkled throughout my family and to top it off, I took to tiling like a duck to water.
Fireplace is looking fab :)
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Well all the signs are there - the Englishness, the noses, the tiling. In fact what the hell are you on about?
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Isn’t it obvious? My great, great, great, great, great English granny had something going on with a Roman centurion!
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Oh, I think she'd have had to have been a good deal greater than that, Diane.
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Oh, I think she'd have had to have been a good deal greater than that, Diane.
She was 327.
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Cradilus snatcherus!
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I knew that there should have been more greats but I was getting tired and feeling the hostility from Malc.
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Malc's great, great, great, great, great, great, great, great granny probably had something going on with a Viking.
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Malc's great, great, great, great, great, great, great, great granny probably had something going on with a Viking.
Now you're leaving yourself open to being sued for libel... <-
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Or invaded. But wait, they did that already ... And to many places.
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Malc's great, great, great, great, great, great, great, great granny probably had something going on with a Viking.
Now you're leaving yourself open to being sued for libel... <-
Nope the way I have it worded - she could have sold him soap and candles.
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I highly doubt that though.
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Mead and furs, more like
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Soap and candles are still very suggestive of sexual practices.
Well, where I come from anyway...
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Soap and candles are still very suggestive of sexual practices.
Well, where I come from anyway...
Come on, Malcolm - it's ages since you went to that convent...
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You might do better with the Mead and furs, Malc.
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Many years ago, I was in a pub hotel in Leeds with my brothers, gathering refreshment shortly before my younger brother was due to wed his Yorkshire bride later that day. We were all wearing kilts for the occasion, naturally (yes, that does cover the obvious question). The barman being an observant gentleman approached our table and enquired, "Did tha come down here from Scotland?".
"Aye!", said I.
"Did tha come down M6 through Lancashire?"
"We did." said I.
"Did tha shut gate?..."
Well, I've scrolled all the way down the page from this and although Bill's gates and Diane's Italian heritage and was there something in there about Malc's Vikings? were all very entertaining, I'm still laughing at TT's story. Could have something to do with the wee dram in which I'm indulging. Looking at the Dalwhinnie bottle made me think of Roger and then I thought I've been neglecting my Beau Peep mates, so here I am havering again.
Sorry to disappoint you, but I'm going to bed now, before I embarrass myself again.
The embarrassing part is that I've only had one pretty wee one.
Night all. :-*
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The DIY got put on hold whilst I am doing our taxes. Looking for deductions; if anyone is available for adoption please let me know.
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This is now four and a half weeks of me living in DIY chaos.
And still I am cheery, hardly grumpy at all really.
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I can hear your teeth grinding from here Diane...... So adopt me, I have no mum or dad anymore, generally housetrained with the odd exception/accident. ;D
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You would fit in here then Max - our dear old Brinkly pees on the vacuum cleaner.
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Brinkly's the butler, right?
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Well he is now – as you can imagine he was totally unsuitable in the position of Pool Boy.
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Sounds like he was okay making a pool by the vacuum cleaner.