What did you do over the weekend?

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I'll kick off...

Highlight of the weekend for me was playing cricket with both my sons for the first time. It was my younger boy's first senior game and just my older son's second. It was really fun to play in the same team together.

We also did some more planning for the backyard project - it's nearly time to order the bathroom vanity, toilet, taps etc so we've been searching for the right products.

Jason

Darren

Probably not as much DIY as I should have... Spent Saturday afternoon at the beach with the kids and our dog, rather than painting the eaves.

The one DIY-related thing I did do was trial some decking oil on some off-cuts for our new deck, which is almost finished. We're using a water-based clear oil on the deck and the posts for the pergola. Good news is the trial was a success, so I'll add oiling the deck to my (very long) to-do list.

And maybe I'll get to those eaves next weekend...

Kermit

Spent the weekend at the beach. Was fantastic beach weather.

Had a BBQ last night and there was limited meat selections at the small beachside supermarket. But got a boneless lamb roast, pulled off the netting and trimmed it a bit so it was reasonably flat like a butterflied cut. Turned out really well!

Sunnette

Mostly kidlet stuff, but I took my three year old to Bunnings where they had awesome kiddie activity. They helped him build a sliding lid box. He came home and painted it. He's so proud.

And on Sunday we battled creeping fig together. I can't feel my arms anymore, I haven't used a saw in probably 20 years. Which leads me to ask a question, but I guess I'll do that somewhere else, not in this thread.

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Welcome to Workshop @Sunnette. Great to have you join the community.

Sounds like the gardening board would be the best place for your question. Feel free to fire away.

Looking forward to hearing all about your projects.

Jason

cupofchloe

We're having a long awaited 'spring' clean in Summer and we are installing better storage solutions in our home.

We're in the process of:

Changing the spare room into an office space - new wardrobe installation, potentially a wall bed installation

Cleaning out the carport and 'man cave' and installing storage

Reordering our kitchen and installing kitchen storage in the pantry

So far, we've done alot of throwing out of things and have put together storage shelves in the car port.

Next step:

* Find the right Kitchen Storage for the pantry - lots of jars and spices, I can't find or reach in the back of the pantry

* Clean out the items in the man cave! - Its a deep cave, where everything that doesn't have a place in the home is stored too!

Nothing to exciting for me, I got given my ToDo List and I got to work.

I focused on getting the front grass in a better state with some fertilisers, etc.

Gave the ensuite a fresh coat of paint, then realise ld it was a bit of a waste of time considering #wifey has decided I'm going to be tiling the entire walls "sometime this year".

Got a few new ornamental things and hung them round the place.

Started planning how I'll be making/installing a new wooden benching from wall to wall in laundry.

Wonder what next weekend will bring.

Highlight of my weekend was attending the women's final at the Australian Open. It was a great match and certainly a surprise result.

Jason

I rescued a few plants from the chaos of the building works in the backyard over the weekend. The argavae were the priority as they are so resilient. I also hacked into some trees on the fenceline with the permission of our neighbour, but fear we need some professional assistance to remove them.

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I managed to offload a heap of things on Gumtree which resulted in some new coffee beans, a nice bottle of red and some savings for my kids.

Also spent some time on my front lawn, reinforcing a bench seat, building a couple of shelves for my study and cooking some of the best burgers I've ever had before cleaning and swimming in my pool.

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Gorgeous sunshine on the weekend here in Melbourne. Hope everyone had a good one. Let us know what you got up to in the discussion below.

Jason

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It was terrible to see the destruction to homes in Sydney's northern beaches yesterday and also hear that people are missing and have lost their lives in floodwaters. I hope everyone in the Workshop community is staying safe and hasn't suffered any losses.

Jason

CathD

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Yes, thinking of all those in NSW doing it tough at the moment.

This photo was amazing. Very sad to see people lose their houses and even worse to lose their loved ones.

MartyH

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If anyone is battling water, these sandless sandbags are a great idea - super absorbent - https://www.bunnings.com.au/quickdam-300-x-600mm-sandless-sandbag-6-pack_p1090867

Kermit

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Seen some photos of huge waves...

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@Jason

My heart goes out to those on the Eastern coast. Nature is beautiful, yet at times it can also bring about devasting destruction, & unfortunately they were in the wrong place at the wrong time, when nature took a turn for the worse.

CathD

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Also terrible in Tasmania.

Here's an aerial photograph of Latrobe, near Devonport:

Ticked off the To Do list with mostly maintenance stuff - fixing, changing, etc but did enjoy another trip or two (or three) to Bunnings, bought a new workbench, and whipped up this little clothes rack for my girls.

https://www.bunnings.com.au/cibo-design-1200-x-500mm-outline-mirror-with-white-border_p1730133

@Jason, my weekend job has taken a week & a half, but we're thrilled with the result.

I won a nice vanity cabinet on a local on-line auction quiiiite a while ago, & I recently got the urge/time to fit it. Sounds simple enough, take old one off, replace with new one.

I wish. 😳

We already had the mixer tap & flex pressure pipes, but soon found that there was more involved. The new vanity had a shelf which made it impossible to refit the original drain trap, but that wasn't going to stop me. I made up a custom trap from PVC fittings, & connected it to the existing floor pipe, using a flexible pipe.

Silly me, I'd previously bought an auto sensor mixer faucet (which didn't get approval), & mistakenly used the flex pipes from that instead of the ones for the new mixer. The problem surfaced when I went to fit the mixer mounting plate under the counter top, it wouldn't fit, & I'd already fitted the flex pressure pipework which was a pain. 😣 😳

OK, time for the test run to see if there were any leaks, which there were, but eventually I got them sorted.

All good, I let Tania do the honours of heading the celebrations by christening the work.

Oops, cold water came out when she moved the lever to the left. 😳

I couldn't believe that I could've messed that up, so went about swapping the flex pressure pipes to put it right.

Time to re-run the opening ceremony & celebrate, but wait, I got it wrong again. Eeeeeek!!!

Today went well, I grouted in the tiles that I'd repositioned from the original install.

What, you say? The original cabinet was deeper than the new one, so I needed matching tiles to cover the gap. Luckily the old cabinet had an open back, the tiler'd done the right thing & tiled the wall inside the cabinet, so I'd snitched them for spares.

Anyways, it was an eventful project that was conquered through sheer perserverance & determination. All said & done, Tania's very proud of me that I battled on regardless, & we have a makeover that looks a treat.

I also fitted a new mirror, towel rail & bath fittings, with a final cost of only $500, which includes the vanity, so very happy indeed.

https://www.bunnings.com.au/milano-by-enzo-barelli-90cm-stainless-steel-single-towel-rail_p4821009

https://www.bunnings.com.au/mondella-resonance-pin-lever-top-assembly-set_p5002797

In closing, I found & bought (on my own) the bits, parts, pieces in 2 shopping sessions, over 2 days at Bunnings, with an estimated time of 6 hours total. I get confused very easily, which explains the length of time taken, but as Derryn Hinch says, "That's life". 😉

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Many thanks for sharing, @Andy_Mann. It would be great if you could start a new discussion and share some photos of this project. I'm sure all the community would love to see what you have achieved.

We managed to get some gardening in over the weekend, have started planting in our backyard. It's also going to be a big job...

Jason

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I spent all of Saturday volunteering through the NFP I run with a good mate of mine, Flow Perth. Then Sunday I installed some neq lightinf in the garage, reprogrammed my garage door and cleaned some stuff out of there and put the first coat on my timber frame for a feature wall I'm doing in my pool area.

Took Monday off work, worked on my car, did the 2nd and 3rd (final) coats on the timber frame and mowed my front lawn.

Nothing too exciting (except Saturday) but it'll be all go once all my Marri arrives for the feature wall 😀

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Have spent time over the weekend repainting some fencing panels and the retaining wall so it blends in. Also getting stuck into planting, one small section at a time. It's going to be a big job so will do it in small chunks over the next month or two.

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No DIY for me this wknd. I did take an extra day off for an escape down south with #wifey but #nokids. It was amazing. The only "DIY" I got to do was cleaning the red dirt off my new car when I got home 😋

Got some good stuff coming up though with planning and sourcing the right wood coming along well for the feature wall in my pool area.

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Kid-free weekend? Great work @ProjectPete.

I am also thinking about some sort of feature wall at the moment for the new games room. I have some WRC timber battens leftover from our pool fence and want to utilise them.

Jason

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@Jason Keen to see how it all goes mate. I'll share my project soon, just waiting on my Marri wood to come out the kiln, cut to size and then I've got a 6 hour round trip to pick it all up (a friend of mine has a mill down south and is obvs doing me a great deal for me to drive 6 hours for it 😋)

I'm basically doing it like decking, with a staggered layout, but fixing it to a fence instead of the ground.

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@Jason & @ProjectPete, looking forward to seeing your outdoor feature walls, I messed up our WRC fence, & Karri deck years ago, so please learn from my mistakes.

I got lazy with wood oiling the WRC, so our fence now looks like it's made of roughly handled, craggy shiplapped driftwood (not a good look), & the Karri deck disappeared in front of my eyes, but serves me right for not termite proofing it. 🙁

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@Jason I forgot to mention before that you'll need to treat all surfaces of your cedar.

I'd always thought that Western Red Cedar was very stable, but it still requires complete sealing for it to mauntain its beauty.

If you only do the visible faces, moisture ingress from the untreated areas will potentially wreak havoc with the wood (as in my case), causing warping & splitting, plus it will expand in the wet seasons, & shrink in the dry which could be a problem if hard mounted directly to the fence.

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Yeah I've oiled the frame already @Andy_Mann and will certainly oil the Marri once I receive it and do it 1-2 times a year depending how it matures.

I've gone for rough sawn for a more rustic finish in the area so have that working in my favour as it ages 🙂

What did everyone do over the weekend?

We did a little more planting and weeding in the backyard. Trying to take it a little at a time as its a big job ahead.

Jason