DIY and gardening.
Apr. 24th, 2004 08:44 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
armbWe decided the new kitchen tap was at least partly responsible for the recent bad taste, so I've refitted it without the jointing compound ("perfectly safe for drinking water" it says on the tube), and after leaving the various rubber seals in diluted bleach for a bit in the hope any reaction with chlorine is complete. It does seem to have improved it, but it's hard to be sure yet.
Fitted a bolt to the inside of the side gate, so now you don't have to go out the front door and unlock it before taking a bicycle out the side.
Took a whole trailer-load of garden clearing to the tip (recycling centre). We do have a shredder, but there's a limit to what it will do (and we'd missed the last couple of recyclable collections, so took several boxes of paper and cardboard and glass too).
Alice and the boys painted the treehouse green (it isn't really a treehouse, it's a stilt-house or a post-house, but anyway it's less conspicuous now).
I fitted a new handle to an old log-splitter. If I'd seen the new ones at the Easter Monday market before buying the new handle I probably wouldn't have bothered with it (carefully shaping the new handle to be a tight fit, cutting a slot and a wedge, fixing wedge in with ring wedge), but that was too late, since I've had the handle and not finished shaping it for weeks now. (I bought the handle from Ridgeons, but ring wedge for it at Mackays, since neither of them stocked both).
Ate supper outdoors for the first time this year, after a short family cycle ride.
Fitted a bolt to the inside of the side gate, so now you don't have to go out the front door and unlock it before taking a bicycle out the side.
Took a whole trailer-load of garden clearing to the tip (recycling centre). We do have a shredder, but there's a limit to what it will do (and we'd missed the last couple of recyclable collections, so took several boxes of paper and cardboard and glass too).
Alice and the boys painted the treehouse green (it isn't really a treehouse, it's a stilt-house or a post-house, but anyway it's less conspicuous now).
I fitted a new handle to an old log-splitter. If I'd seen the new ones at the Easter Monday market before buying the new handle I probably wouldn't have bothered with it (carefully shaping the new handle to be a tight fit, cutting a slot and a wedge, fixing wedge in with ring wedge), but that was too late, since I've had the handle and not finished shaping it for weeks now. (I bought the handle from Ridgeons, but ring wedge for it at Mackays, since neither of them stocked both).
Ate supper outdoors for the first time this year, after a short family cycle ride.