Talk about DIY house renovation

[Marcus Johnson]

I'm about to invite the circus to town (tent fumigators) for the first time since we bought the house. I hate to see the termites undoing all our hard work. I guess a ten-year run isn't too bad... most people here seem to have to tent every 5-6 years.

[Richard Prowse]

Originally Posted by Robert Prowse

That's out of it! Here's me fretting over a few little borer holes.

Rob went to the doc and the doc gave him some pills and told him to put them up his back passage. Rob took them home and put them in the passage near his newly renovated bathroom.
Later Rob complained to the doc, saying,
"For all the good those pills did, I could have shoved them up my... "
sorry about that!

[Marcus Johnson]

Hey Robert... I was cleaning out my workshop/ storage shed yesterday, and found our old portable shower that we used outside for a two months while I totally redid our one bathroom (I've since added a second). It's a sort of tall, skinny popup tent, into which I ran hot and cold water feeds... it stood in the middle of our backyard. I have to say, my wife and two daughters showed admirable pioneer spirit during those two months. But when I showed it to my wife yesterday, I said "whattya think, honey... keep it or toss it?", she gave it a BIG thumbs down.

[Richard Prowse]

Originally Posted by Robert Prowse

How much do you want for it?
We all are using our on suite while I do up the main one. But step son insists on leaving his shower until we both want to go to bed!
We are on holiday today and no ones talking because of a stupid argumant over the shower last night!

Learn the bass and try playing them a bass solo. Everyone talks through my bass solos!

[Marcus Johnson]

Had a little bit of a NZ vernacular problem for a minute there.... I wasn't sure what "gib" was... so I looked it up in the online Webster's dictionary, and it told me that a gib is "a castrated male cat". Presumably, that isn't what you are screwing and gluing......

Anyway, those gib lifters are great if you are doing a big job. They make the job a whole lot safer, and save a lot of wear and tear on your neck and shoulders. The last time I hung a ceiling, we just muscled the panels up (two guys), it was not fun.

[Richard Prowse]

Young Rob, you weren't listening. Both gib screws and nails are fine and should be used in the same way. The glue is a good addition that also helps to keep the gib in place. In NZ you can borrow a gib lifter from most hardware stores so that even a small job can be made easier. Yes Marcus, I've tried muscling panels up too... certainly no fun!

[stan haskins]

Speaking of a job which is no fun, I tried to save money last year by buying the cheapest wall-to-wall carpet I could find and installing it myself with a knee kick.

I didn't think about wearing knee pads until after I was done.

Ouch!

Needless to say, the carpet is basically destroyed now. We won't get a new one until after all of the potty training's done, though.