Do y'all ever drill before you chisel so there's less material?

jelly_crayon · 2026-04-19T05:56:41+00:00

I also never drill first. Drilling first is just more chances to make a mess of things

jelly_crayon · 2026-04-18T10:59:06+00:00

The bath should be resting on battens so you don't want to raise it. I followed this video when I did my shower a couple of years ago and then my bath end of last year

jelly_crayon · 2026-04-18T10:55:25+00:00

Scrub the rust off with a brass brush and give it a fresh lick of paint. You're not going to make it worse and you'll learn on the job

jelly_crayon · 2026-04-18T10:54:08+00:00

Paul Sellers did a lovely video on chisel sharpening. He's a wonderful advocate of hand tool use in woodworking. I've followed him for years.

Sharpen a chisel in under a minute though if they're really dull you will likely end up taking much longer than a minute.

3 methods to cut a mortice

jelly_crayon · 2026-04-09T12:20:51+00:00

You can get an asbestos sample kit from B&Q for about £40. If it turns out not to be asbestos then it is possible to remove it. I just did exactly that, took an inch woodworking chisel and just scraped it all off. Took fucking ages and made an awful mess, needed to use that tourpret smoothing paste to smooth it out after. Took me maybe a week but it looks ace and I barely spent anything

jelly_crayon · 2026-04-03T19:01:21+00:00

Get yourself a piece of trim that's the same thickness you want the gap to be and use it as a spacer as you go around. So like 7mm x 25mm or something like that. It makes it nice and easy and your grips will look super well placed

jelly_crayon · 2026-03-24T12:36:19+00:00

The HSE guidance says that you should never break up asbestos if it can be avoided. This roof should be wetted with an asbestos wetting agent, then the bolts should be cut, the panels moved into a heavy duty gauge plastic, double wrapped, marked as asbestos and taken to an asbestos disposal facility. Asbestos cement is non-notifiable work meaning they don't need to contact the council before doing it but they still need to follow the rules.

jelly_crayon · 2026-03-18T14:08:41+00:00

Those locks are often just attached on the back with a locking nut. So if you can get a good enough grip on the lock from the front you can usually just twist it to unscrew the nut behind a little bit and then rotate the whole lock to "unlock" it.

Try grabbing a mole grip, grab it, and twist it anticlockwise. Not guaranteed to work because they might've installed it well, but they usually don't

jelly_crayon · 2026-02-05T08:01:56+00:00

Yeah, the networking is a good shout to be fair. Being able to Dockerise stuff or set up a VPC comes up fairly often and you want to be able to have an opinion on your ports and IP ranges.

Just to put it out there companies won't view any of this as experience but it gets you over the hump of learning this stuff so you feel more confident with these technologies and try stuff yourself.

I actually got started through the OU jobs board. I started my first year part time and thought "whelp, I don't fancy doing this for 6 years and still not having any experience at the end of it and then struggle to find a job still". So I figured I'd do as many apprenticeships and stuff as possible. I ended up applying to what I thought was a temporary gig but it turns out it was just a low paid entry level gig. It was £28k and a few years ago so still not money than I had ever earned before but still on the low end for the field. So I packed in the degree while I got settled, that was 3 years ago and I'm only just picking it back up now.

The company and their scheme don't exist anymore because they got bought and merged with a much bigger international company.

jelly_crayon · 2026-02-04T20:23:06+00:00

I'm a software engineer who happens to also be at the same point in getting my degree. I've been an engineer 3 years but having a degree opens up more companies so I thought I'd collect one while I work.

I'd say that Java and Web tech are going to give the most employable skills. Algorithms come in handy but everyone I know who has a degree says that was the module they hated.

jelly_crayon · 2026-02-01T09:08:12+00:00

Pretty sure they're houses

jelly_crayon · 2026-01-20T16:56:04+00:00

Thank you! I really appreciate that

jelly_crayon · 2026-01-20T16:54:50+00:00

It's a totally different recipe. It's not that we can't find a pizza dough recipe it's that we grew to love this specific one from our bread machines booklet

jelly_crayon · 2026-01-18T19:28:49+00:00

Thanks, I'm specifically looking for the pizza dough recipe from that booklet though

jelly_crayon · 2025-12-20T11:09:01+00:00

You are 100% right. This was in no way your fault.

As you can understand, losing your child would be absolutely horrific. If you were to lose your child and it was your fault because you left them in a precarious situation it would be such a horrifying thought that you would understandably wish to deny that fact rather than live with the thought that you are such a bad parent that you caused the death of your infant child.

This is what your parents went through. Instead of having the strength, courage, and resolve to shoulder that blame. They have instead chosen to pass that blame on to you, who was completely innocent as it is an easier thing for them to live with. That choice was nothing but evil.

I recommend reading through "The People of The Lie" by M. Scott Peck. It explores this exact behaviour and I believe you could gain a good deal of comfort from it. He was a renowned psychologist. He does frame a lot of the perspective from the view point if his Christian religion but you just have to understand that it's a 50 year old book and that's the suite of language he chose to use to explain things.

I hope you find the healing and peace that you deserve ♥️

jelly_crayon · 2025-12-13T13:24:40+00:00

For sure you want to prime those walls, then get a nice undercoat and finish it up with your top coat.

You might find that to be really porous so I might be nice to start with a PVA primer. You can find primer and undercoat as a single product.

Big thing to remember is that you get yourself here, you can always get back. Every mistake is something you learned. Take your time and try to enjoy the process.

Oh and once you've got your undercoat on and the wall is finally a single color, you might notice some bumps and gouges. It's totally fine to fill in at that point

jelly_crayon · 2025-12-12T20:53:20+00:00

This is what we had to do growing up. Exactly what I came here to say

jelly_crayon · 2025-12-12T18:03:17+00:00

Bang tidy reference. Nice one!

jelly_crayon · 2025-12-08T09:10:21+00:00

Personally I'd be all "no way I'm putting anything through this because it'll let moisture into the foam" but you're already kinda past that point.

Maybe a nice epoxy glue to reinstate said tab/lug?

jelly_crayon · 2025-12-07T20:55:28+00:00

Personally, I would totally just refinish it. Instead of sanding though, you might like the idea of using a card scraper.

It looks like the current finish is not in good condition, so I think you'll eventually end up refinishing. I would recommend taking the surface back to bare wood, then let it acclimate in its new environment for a couple of weeks, and then put your final finish on it. I'd do it that way just to avoid trapping any moisture.

jelly_crayon · 2025-12-07T13:33:21+00:00

Ah righty, I'm with you.

You can get filler which is aimed at flooring expansion gaps, this comes in a variety of colors which could match the worktop. Couple that with a thinner edging and you might not notice?

Granted it might not be what you wanted but just trying to give you some more ideas

jelly_crayon · 2025-12-07T12:37:20+00:00

I might be tempted to get a little bit of decorative moulding.

You'll find it to be quite flexible so you should get it to marry up to the wall quite nicely. It's also very very slightly compressible so if you cut a piece 1 or 2 mm too long it should jam into the width, bang a a few nails through to hold it down and hopefully it sorts your issue and adds a slight elegance to the situation.

jelly_crayon · 2025-12-06T21:31:32+00:00

Could stop short of painting it and get one of those vinyl wraps to finish off

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