yetchh Posted April 10, 2017 Author Share Posted April 10, 2017 Haha yeah, took it standing outside so it's a ground shot Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
yetchh Posted April 15, 2017 Author Share Posted April 15, 2017 Some paint shotz, mostly basecoat.. You get the idea.. that was from last week, paint should be finished this weekend, This is the cuntie fillet I was talking about, lots of planning to get the desired finish.. worth it I guess.. Actually, it looks fucken great now it's painted.. that stuff hides a multitude of sins, unlike car paint.. Nearly there with the ply.. Finish the ply tomorrow and get on to the bathroom joinery, floors are being sanded this week, carpet hopefully soon after. Also got a quote back for the bedroom doors, $600 each for a hung Rimu veneer door in rimu jambs.. 4 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
yetchh Posted April 16, 2017 Author Share Posted April 16, 2017 Didn't start till about 12pm coz Easter.. had to fuck around trying to straighten and pack walls around the front door, totally sick of packing walls.. then I ran out of screws. I think the reason that corner is so stuffed and bent was because the shifters had the stye in that corner about 30mm higher than the others when it was at QE2, I didn't think to adjust it.. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post yetchh Posted April 18, 2017 Author Popular Post Share Posted April 18, 2017 Finished the last of the ply yesterday and screwed the rest off, can't see this house moving much in a quake, so many layers.. Paints all finished thanks again to family, then I fucked around in the afternoon clearing everything for the sander, Fillets came up great, I then had a crack at the bathroom vanity, Cut a hole.. goddam oaks hard, chewed a blade or half way through. Also smells remarkably similar to Rimu which also fucks metal things.. Trial fit, had to enlarge the hole slightly with a 40g flap disc still just burns it off.. Two more hole for the taps, And voilà.. not to shabby, Just need to adjust the drawers somewhat.. Sanded the top back a bit as it was a little messy and the two halves of the top didn't really line up properly, not sure whether to oil it or put it back like it was. Checked on the floor sanding progress today, guy doesn't fuck around.. floors all leveled with the filler on already.. also bought some carpet this evening, shit isn't cheap, 6k between the floors and carpet! Should look ok tho.. 17 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
yetchh Posted April 19, 2017 Author Share Posted April 19, 2017 Mid sand shotz, Hole? What hole.. Rimu kaleidascope Bathroom Reckon I could've just smashed the boards in there without a care in the world and it would still look good.. 6 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
yetchh Posted April 22, 2017 Author Share Posted April 22, 2017 Urrrgh, skirting.. and architraves.. Least I have some pumping dnb tunes thanks to rdu, take me back.. In other news, picked up the last of my mac today and stored it under the house, starting to look like a proper lumber yard under there.. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
yetchh Posted April 30, 2017 Author Share Posted April 30, 2017 So... built a deck, Added some more fillets round the front and back doors, Photobucket is being a cunt so I'll do the rest later.... 5 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
yetchh Posted May 3, 2017 Author Share Posted May 3, 2017 Where was I... Fillets, Floor came up okish.. Bought a kitchen, got fed up with looking at shit that was a mission to change/adapt to my kitchen. Its Chinese with German hinges.. 3.5k Put it together and semi installed in on Sat/sun and discovered they forgot to give me a bit.. That's better, Drilled some light holes, fucked one up but it was at 12am Tuesday morning so it's ok.. Crawling round in the ceilings a bit of a cunt, glad I'm not doing the insulation, Oh, and I spy with my brown eye.. Christened this one already, felt good.. Still not a fan of those taps as they're too new looking, would've preferred the ones I missed on the tard for a fiver.. getting closer and closer..was gonna get my mate to laminate my bench for me but I just found untreated 45mm laminate ply for $140 a sheet.. would be good for a temporary bench, see how the money goes. 6 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AllTorque Posted May 3, 2017 Share Posted May 3, 2017 Man, floors look choice. Loving the vanity too. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
yetchh Posted May 3, 2017 Author Share Posted May 3, 2017 Yeah they came up pretty good, can barely see the repairs.. not sure they will look that good for long. Vanity needs a bit of a clean but I'm pretty happy how it came out, just need a big mirror. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
smokin'joe Posted May 3, 2017 Share Posted May 3, 2017 14 hours ago, yetchh said: .was gonna get my mate to laminate my bench for me but I just found untreated 45mm laminate ply for $140 a sheet.. would be good for a temporary bench, see how the money goes. looking good. were you looking at a laminated timber for your benchtop ? i will be doing some sharp deals on rimu shortly as i have a metric fuckload to process, but would depend on length i what i have could be of use. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
yetchh Posted May 3, 2017 Author Share Posted May 3, 2017 Yeah bro, I've already got 50l/m of dressed mac that I'm going to use for it.. cheers tho. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
yetchh Posted June 4, 2017 Author Share Posted June 4, 2017 It's now been a month since my last confession.. some stuff has happened, mainly thanks to terrible internet. I'll start with the repairs of the jambs damaged by my asbestos friends, my mate said if I repaired them with epoxy they'd never break, even being on the hinge side.. so that's what I did, Pretty happy with the outcome, wouldn't even really know something had happened which I guess is the aim.. wish I'd done it before I stripped all the original arcs off but meh. Had the missus do some nights whilst grandparents babysat.. Put the draw faces on.. being Chinese, there were some slight variations in width which I can see now they're finished, but for the most part they're ok.. Also put all the handles on horizontal. Discovered that some of the screws weren't quite long enough, had to buy extra from blacks. Not much, but finally got to fill the hole in the bathroom Got 90% of the power on about mid May which was great, could work inside with plenty of light.. Also built the entrance deck with temp steps. Whoops, Solved, Came up better than I thought, just haven't taken a pic. Also made a man hole cover, beats losing warm air up that hole.. Went with flush mount painted mdf, had a slight negative detail around it but it's barely noticeable.. will take a pic 4 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post yetchh Posted June 4, 2017 Author Popular Post Share Posted June 4, 2017 Bench top saga.. About a day after I decided to keep and pay for the dressed mac I'd been accidentally sent I decided for the short term it was too expensive to laminate my bench top.. que Trademe find of 45mm lvl plywood for 140 a sheet, and then subsequent delivery.. I was always going to do some sort of temp plywood bench but I ended up putting a fair amount of work into it. Suffice to say it's here to stay. Cut and test fit, Decided to narrow the kitchen width a bit a and add in a breakfast bar on the island while I was there. (can see my horizontal handles) Epoxied the two halves together using these handy clamps, Needed to find a sink that was small enough to fit with the carcase and tap centers, in my infinite wisdom I moved the taps 100mm to the right before I'd even bought the kitchen, then restricted what I could put in there. Found an insert that was almost right, then cut it up, Set it out, at 11pm at night the only thing I could find to measure the radius of the corners was a half used roll of ecoply tape, turns out the corner I measured was the only one with the same radius add the tape, the other three are slightly smaller, doh! It's also not square.. Cut with a jigsaw, did a great job.. Routed a recess for the sink and attached the clamps I cut off the old insert.. Had to make some minor adjustments to the carcase, Epoxy for the finish coat, soaks into the wood and won't peel like urethane, was gonna oil it but the edges of the ply aren't particularly strong, the epoxy also fixes that problem.. I then partially mounted it and set out and cut the hob hole.. I then had a minor anxiety attack, cursing myself for making life hard with a 900mm hob and worrying about the addition of a thermal block between the hob and carcase, got over it and just cut the carcase as I needed, turned out good in the end, just shows what 4hrs sleep a night does for your mental stability (that and having 4 days to do a 5 day job) Hob test mounted, Late night bench sanding The ply came with an annoying bow from side to side, really became noticeable with the island, so I mounted it bowing back the other way as much as I could in the hope that the epoxy would semi hold in that position, kind of worked.. The epoxy, Did a much better job with this one as I had more time, with the other side I got quite a few air bubbles but as I was doing it in work hours I had to go with it, will sand out back at a later date and do a final coat. The island looks a lot better.. Big thanks to Luke (bling) for easing my mind with regards to the hob and the gas install Cut and epoxied the sides, Then added strand board to the back, I like stand board, it's kind of industrial but not.. Still need to get another sheet to do the kickers and then the kitchens mostly done. 18 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post yetchh Posted June 4, 2017 Author Popular Post Share Posted June 4, 2017 Shifted in on the weekend of the 20th of May, got a couple of shots of a pristine house, then it turned to shit.. Bespoke splash back, Not really sure how I feel about being in, I liken it to eating a pizza you made never tastes as good as someone else's.. got a few stresses with regards to finance, as we're way over budget I can't put a heat pump in which kind of sucks, and I'll have to hope that since the original valuation of 335k didn't include half the stuff I've done inside nor a deck that the next one will be more in the ball park of 360 otherwise I'm pretty well fucked... also won't be etting a garage anytime soon which quadruple sucks.. Put in some stumps for the deck today.. Discovered this week also that I have a one month deadline to get code, pressure goes back on.. 16 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
yetchh Posted June 7, 2017 Author Share Posted June 7, 2017 Sick of winter already, sucks coming home to work in the dark and cold.. anyway Deck stuff.. 8 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
yetchh Posted June 10, 2017 Author Share Posted June 10, 2017 God nogging takes ages by yourself.. but got it all done and built the lower step then ran out of timber.. Bit of a cunt around the house tho, hopefully it ends up looking ok and not too piece meal.. also got the missus and mum to build the ground up to 950 so I don't have to have a handrail for compliance.. also ordered all the bolts only to discover the were galv and not stainless.. thought it was cheap.. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kyteler Posted June 10, 2017 Share Posted June 10, 2017 Took me a while to figure out you probably meant bolts and not books? 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
yetchh Posted June 10, 2017 Author Share Posted June 10, 2017 Hah.. fixed. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
yetchh Posted June 11, 2017 Author Share Posted June 11, 2017 Today's effort.. Was a real mindfuck trying sort the steps, mainly coz I didn't draw the whole thing out beforehand and spent half the time second guessing myself with measurements, fucked the bottom step up for that reason before I went inside and drew up the rest of it.. need to add 30mm to the face of the bottom step for it to be inline with the rest.. hopefully bought the last of the timber today, scares me a bit with how much its cost, especially the steps.. guess that's the price of a useable deck. (Hasn't cost that much, just seems like it.. but the stringers for the steps are 450 by themselves) 5 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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