[Closed] Lockdown jobs you'd otherwise never get round to...

I am finding it hard to be motivated to do anything so I decided to work my way thru the 7 sins. today is sloth

Purge more stuff in the garage (as my Dad grew up in the post war "make do and mend" era I've inherited his "that'll come in handyitis"); re-organise the shelves to make better use of the space; repair the summerhouse- if I can get wood (oeer!); paint the fence; sort out the filing and paperwork that comes with a disabled child; collate my pension stuff ready for a decent review once we're back to normal. And tomorrow......

Trying to fit in what I can while WFH, saving a significant commute and not ferrying the kids around in the eves/weekends.

I’ve scraped all the tubeless residue off my wheels, accumulated through various top ups, tyre explosion and punctures. They look brand new!

Cleaned, disinfected and smoke bombed the chicken coop today. About to dust it with mite and louse powder and diatomaceous earth before replacing the bedding, and dusting the residents.

Also on the list:

Replace a couple of rotten boards in the raised beds.

Paint the doors and wooden windows on the garage.

Replace some saggy shelves in the shed.

Replace a dropper cable and wheel bearings on the bike.

Tidy my sock drawer!

Photograph a collection of studio pottery that used to belong to my dad ready to sell when things pick up

ive been given a laser Cnc machine as a fixer-upper

apply for planning permission for project underground bunker

go back through a career’s worth of unrealised public sculpture projects and turn them into little 3D prints

Shower tray needs new sealant as it's slowly turning black. I've been putting that off for a while...

apply for planning permission for project underground bunker

Can't see that being a problem in the current climate.

You could store medical supplies in it for distribution to the desperate when it gets really bad.

It could be the Cistern of Mercy

painting the fence 🥱

Fish & Chips ... learning to cook proper Chips as I am still getting soggy chips. Fish in batter is not a problem but cooking proper chips is an art. Need to be crispy and not soggy.

However, my potatoes are running very low and only 3 large ones left. 😱

painting the fence

after which you must sand the floor and then wax on, wax off

Nothing too mad yet, I don't want to run out of jobs before all of this is over. However the sofa cushions have been washed and ironed and the kitchen windows are spotless.

Irritatingly all my lock down jobs were kiboshed when the Builders merchants both phoned at 8am saying they were locking down and my orders wouldn't be delivered....

Need to be crispy and not soggy.

Part fry, remove, bring oil up to a high high heat and return the slightly cooled chips back to the oil to finish off. *Should* result in a crispy finish 🙂

Part fry, remove, bring oil up to a high high heat and return the slightly cooled chips back to the oil to finish off. *Should* result in a crispy finish 🙂

How come those at Fish & Chips shop are not part fry? Still come up nice and crispy. 🤔

Normally I travel to the coast for good fish & chips but that is not possible now.

Hopefully by the time virus is over I shall be able to cook myself Fish & Chips ... 😀

Just managing children, that is it. 🤷🏻‍♂️ All this talk of jobs, books and boxsets is utterly unachievable. Trying to keep two energetic children alive is a full time job. Two days in and we are well and truly climbing the walls. I’d kill for a tedious job to do!

I might clay bar the wife's car, but probably I'll just clean the garage

I am sorting the basement.

Kinda regret not ordering in materials for a workbench prior to lock down. Bit making do with building and hanging high level shelves to get shit out the way. Hoovering everything as i shift it. Need yo rewire the lights and add more sockets too.

Then i can start the real work.

Going to wash the van for the first time in 18 months. Might even sweep out the forest from inside it too!

I'm officially working the whole period, so whilst the load will be 'relaxed' over the next few weeks, I can't exactly take the p*ss.

The shed however, is due a substantial tidy, which will be fun. I've already stripped the plaster off a wall in the lounge that got damp and was blown, that got replastered yesterday, I even managed to get it smooth & flat. Wonders never cease.

Did some bush trimming earlier.

Nuff said I think...

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Have you glued all those split logs back together?!!

That's dedicated!

Is it warm enough to paint a garage floor yet? Or will the 6yr old paint have gone off?

No those are the logs still left to do! I did start off thinking I’d do something artistic like McMoonter but that lasted about 5 minutes before I thought ‘**** it just make a big pile’!

I'm struggling with motivation, but probably finishing Pornhub

Wood chip. If by the end of this I still haven’t removed it all, I will give up and just screw plaster board over it.

So far we’ve cleared the garden instead of going on our cancelled holiday.

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And I’ve made a wood store and have been working my way through a pile of (much smaller than timbogs) logs.

I’ve got a door to paint too.

@phil5556 that is an impressive amount of work! But why? It looked nicer and gave nice cover before!

Servicing the old boiler, been putting it off for ages.

That picture makes it look a lot better than it really is! It was mostly brambles and scraggy out of control bushes.

It grows back quickly and we’ll keep all the nice bits in check from now on, it hasn’t been touched for about 20 years, 2 owners ago.

That’s what it looked like in winter, in the summer it gets crazy!

we have leylandii thats as high as the house that needs to be only half as high as the house. i have a saw on a pole so this lockdown thing wil need to go on for a while if im going to get it done.

*tries to work out where phil5556 lives* 😂

Back working tomorrow onwards so painted the garden summer house shed thing today with Sadolin, good for another 8 years hopefully..cleaned out the chicken coop...now to binge watch 'Hunters' on Amazon Prime.

Servicing the old boiler, been putting it off for ages.

Please don't post any pictures..

👏

Sort out back yard, take the wood store down for the summer to make more space for seating. Got some hanging basket plants, make a removable fence panel to get the trailer through, some tatty bits in the cellar need sealing and painting, I'm sure I can think of loads of other things.

Fixed 4 tubeless wheels today.

I’ve got a load of cherry needs cutting, but my electric chainsaw blade is blunt, as is my bow saw. No place left to sort that now.

Try and get on top of the back garden.
Extend the swing so I can put both kids on at the same time.
Sort out the garage.
Polish the cars.
Try and de-green the house.
Decorate the "games" room.
Possibly oil the living room floor.

Apart from tidying the shed & cutting the grass, you mean?

Well there’s a G-major scale on guitar to be learned. Followed by A-major, B-major etc. And all the minors too. Think I’m nearly there with G-major but my little finger really does struggle to reach the A on the bottom E string, while middle finger is on the G. Any tips other than eating lots of those “a little bit fancy” chocolate biscuits

as is my bow saw

File will sort that out or it it hardpoint?

Did four tubeless tyres this evening accompanied by traditional swearing. Trying to avoid mrs p’s growing list of things she wants to “get done”. Really struggle to be enthusiastic about painting a bathroom but strangely interested in above poster’s description of renovating alloy car wheels .....she will kill me before this is done.

Jeez, where to start:

Big bonfire of rubbish I cut down in the winter.

Clear the garage out and build the new shelves I bought over Christmas.

Finish clearing up the end of the garden now the ground had dried up.

Take down the field fencing that blew down in the storms over winter.

Finish rebuilding a mower that I've stripped, it was more broke than I thought!

Fix the septic tank soak away.

Sort the storm water drains (may be linked to above).

All of that and I need to finish some assignments for college, then I can get on with laying a new patio!

Most things don't need any investment, all of the shops I need to buy stuff from will be closed. I'm expecting to be furloughed for a while....

I have had a fence panel that blew down in the storms about 3 years ago. The panel never blew over, just the 2 posts snapped, but a huge bamboo bush has kept it upright since. I knew it would be a pig of a job so kept putting it off. Any way, over 2 days I removed old panel, Dug out the bamboo (it was like digging out concrete), dug out the remnants of the old posts and concrete they were set in then put up the new posts and panel. One of the old posts was so rotten the bamboo roots had grown into it!

Next is clearing the old mortar out between the patio slabs and redoing it with fresh stuff then giving the veg patch a going over.

At this rate i will have a great garden this year as it went to the dogs a bit the last few years as I spent more time riding the gardening. Not this year I reckon.

If I can get a few bits of timber and the odd bag of ballast and a cubic yard of soil delivered then I'll be doing some woodwork and a raised bed, tidying the shed, building some low level bike obstacles for the boys and some decorating.

If I can't then some things won't get finished.

Felt arrived today to re roof the shed which has been a mild concern since last autumns storms left the felt a bit iffy and torn.

Will be decorating the spare room as it's now where I'm working mostly and the bathroom needs some paint too. So that'll be another productive day or two.

One thing that's keeping me going is that when we are released the DiY should be mostly done and we can concentrate on having fun for a bit.

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