The Home Improvements Thread (2)

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alqassam said:
Anyone moved an wallmount aircon from 1 room to another?


Want toove the master bedroom AC unit to the guest room and out the new unit in the master bedroom.
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I briefly considered it with our current renovations - would have cost me the same in labour to move it as the installation of a new one - so we decided to just leave the current one where it is and put a new one in the braai room.
 
Random question for the day, whats going to be the easiest way to cut blackwattle firewood logs shorter? Need shorter logs for a project my wife wants me to do.
 
xrapidx said:
I was worried someone would say that :D Don't have one (yet).
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I borrowed a friends one to cut up 40mm thick poles that was on my old afdakkie. Now use it as fire starters. It's the easiest way if you need to cut plenty. Otherwise a sliding mitre saw ?
 
xrapidx said:
Random question for the day, whats going to be the easiest way to cut blackwattle firewood logs shorter? Need shorter logs for a project my wife wants me to do.
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Well, what cutting tools do you have..? We can throw it this and that but, if you don't have this or that, makes it useless suggestions.. Just tell us what you habe and we will tell you what would be easiest to use, using what you have..
 
WAslayer said:
Well, what cutting tools do you have..? We can throw it this and that but, if you don't have this or that, makes it useless suggestions.. Just tell us what you habe and we will tell you what would be easiest to use, using what you have..
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Many hand saws... and a jigsaw.

But - it seems a bow saw and vice is going to work.
 
@xrapid a sable (recipro) saw with appropriate blade if the wood is dry, best to have the piece being cut held securely.....should be able to hire.
 
So we're busy prepping the walls for painting now, using a premixed skimming plaster now to smooth the walls and cover any scarring and other irregularities.

Thing is, the walls have been primed with white and the skimming plaster is white too. Would it be absurd of me to tint the skimming plaster with some paint tint so I can see where it's been applied? i.e. Mix some colour into the skimming plaster so I can see as I go that I'm not missing any spots.
 
I just realised that I "need" a routing table in my life. Decided to make my own door trim/architrave with pine and just router a finish on the edges.

The nicest looking require face routing though, which needs a routing table. Think I can convince my SO? :ROFL:
 
Isn't pine a bit soft for a door frame?

Busy doing shelves for the kitchen - and everytime I look sideways I knock a small ding in them.
 
xrapidx said:
Isn't pine a bit soft for a door frame?

Busy doing shelves for the kitchen - and everytime I look sideways I knock a small ding in them.
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Maybe right yeah... meranti rather then maybe
 
SAguy said:
So we're busy prepping the walls for painting now, using a premixed skimming plaster now to smooth the walls and cover any scarring and other irregularities.

Thing is, the walls have been primed with white and the skimming plaster is white too. Would it be absurd of me to tint the skimming plaster with some paint tint so I can see where it's been applied? i.e. Mix some colour into the skimming plaster so I can see as I go that I'm not missing any spots.
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Most of the readymix skimming plasters are ready for paint and don’t require primer. So you shouldn’t need to worry about it that much
 
Smokey mcpot said:
Most of the readymix skimming plasters are ready for paint and don’t require primer. So you shouldn’t need to worry about it that much
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Ok cool, I see some guys apply it with a plastering trowel and others apply it with a roller and scrape off excess with a trowel. You suggest either method?
 
SAguy said:
Ok cool, I see some guys apply it with a plastering trowel and others apply it with a roller and scrape off excess with a trowel. You suggest either method?
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Either works, depends which the applicator prefers and is better at.

personally I use a trowel, very little Excess lines left when I’m done. For the few tiny lines of excess, I wait about 20 mins and use a damp sponge to smooth away the excess.
 
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