DIY/Home furniture blah blah blah

[Superhudd]

Mood lighting works. If your running of the single light bulb it can be too overpowering, a cheap option is to lessen the watts of the bulbs. Uplighters are great.

If you are getting someone in to do the boiler, maybe also look into having a gas fire installed in the lounge, if you have a chimney in it, get a gas fire that looks like a coal fire. Chicks dig an open flame fire place even if its gas.

 

[Boonie]

I bought my boiler trade and had a mate who is corgi reg fit it, cost me £1100 in the end.

 

[Spursman]

sounds like you need some lighting.

 

[DHSF]

With regards the boiler mate you need to just bite the bullet and get one. I have owned houses and flats and it is usually the biggest expense you will have. But depending on where you live it is essential. We have a house in worthing we rent out and one of the downstairs room has no central heating it is used by the family we let to as a summer room as it backs onto the garden. But this room always has damp in.

A new boiler is a must, the government a little while ago were doing a deal for people buying new boilers some eco thing i would look into that, you may even get a grant or something im not sure what it all was. Just remember saying to the wife how fudging typical it was that a couple of months after we brought a new one the government were doing a deal on them for people.

As for the smell, we have these lovely Japanese glass water things that you put sticks in and they let off a subtle smell for a few months. For decorations i would put up photos as others have said or anything that makes up smile. So lots of tottenham stuff, i have a den at home and it is full of mark cavendish canvas art. The wife said she would prefer porn, but i love mark cavendish.

In regards to the boiler - I will bite the bullet just trying to think whether does more expensive mean better? or are there any good boilers out there without spending £1k. I know nothing about boilers and dont want to ask like southern electric as im sure they just supply with with the Ferrari of boilers and dont need that.

As for the smell - I brought them and got candles too - fudging erotic brick

On a side note - youre still a ****

 

[DHSF]

There are some good suggestions.

I have mood lighting spent a fortune - didnt realise uplighters etc cost a fortune. I also got a cheapo from Ikea for £11 fudgein bargain.

The walls are too bare so maybe a big giant clock on one wall and a photo of myself naked or something on another (yes i have a big big big fudge off wall - ****s)

 

[Seedy Ron]

a photo of myself naked or something on another

Probably be an effective anti-burglary device.

 

[DHSF]

Probably be an effective anti-burglary device.

Probably be stolen and auctioned at Christies or something

 

[scaramanga]

In regards to the boiler - I will bite the bullet just trying to think whether does more expensive mean better? or are there any good boilers out there without spending £1k. I know nothing about boilers and dont want to ask like southern electric as im sure they just supply with with the Ferrari of boilers and dont need that.

As for the smell - I brought them and got candles too - fudging erotic brick

On a side note - youre still a ****

Usually more expensive means more efficient. Might be worth trying to get a subsidy - if you can convince an inspector (likely to be quoting for the work too, so you have a good chance) that the replacement is an upgrade not a fix then you'll at least get interest free credit and pay via your gas bill.

 

[DHSF]

Usually more expensive means more efficient. Might be worth trying to get a subsidy - if you can convince an inspector (likely to be quoting for the work too, so you have a good chance) that the replacement is an upgrade not a fix then you'll at least get interest free credit and pay via your gas bill.

Interesting - will research that actually

Installments would make it easier to maybe spend a bit more and get more efficiency and in turn work out cheaper over the long term

 

[Skinhead in a Suit]

As some have mentioned already, if it doesn't involve at least a hammer, then it's women's work.

 

[ArcspacE]

Probably be an effective anti-burglary device.

:lol:

 

[Gordinho]

Usually more expensive means more efficient. Might be worth trying to get a subsidy - if you can convince an inspector (likely to be quoting for the work too, so you have a good chance) that the replacement is an upgrade not a fix then you'll at least get interest free credit and pay via your gas bill.

https://www.gov.uk/green-deal-energy-saving-measures/how-the-green-deal-works

 

[PochettinoPochettinoPochettino]

Im so vain I have a picture of me which is 7ft high and about 2ft wide. Its in a photobooth style of me getting changed from Clark Kent into Superman like he does in Superman III. I was at a fancy dress party and did it in the toilets for a laugh but the photo is mustard. That said, any bird that comes round and sees it might think im a **** and might not want to sleep with me. Ive only had it up a month but 1 bird thought it was ok.

If I was you DHSF I would definitely have a big picture of yourself in your pad. It shows arrogance and vanity. Women love that...

 

[DHSF]

I have a pic of me dressed up as a pimp - purpe suit and purple hat with leopard skin trim. A pimp cane and sunglasses (old skool style). I may get one of those really big posters (someone put the link up here) and will frame it.

I may even get a massive billboard style one and shove it on the A40 or ont he runway into Heathrow

 

[Spursalot]

As some have mentioned already, if it doesn't involve at least a hammer, then it's women's work.

If it doesn't involve a hammer then you're doing it wrong. You can do pretty much anything with a hammer.

 

[Dicko]

Any painter and decorators on here?

I need to re-paint my radiators and the internal doors and frames (all white)... What's the best paint for this?
I saw some special radiator paint today but it was 20+ quid for a tiny tin that I'm not even sure would be enough to do all the radiaors!! Is this the best option because there's also wood and metal paint that says it'll also do radiators but I wanna make sure I get the right thing as my radiators have already gone an off-white colour after only about a year or so since I moved in?

 

[scaramanga]

Any painter and decorators on here?

I need to re-paint my radiators and the internal doors and frames (all white)... What's the best paint for this?
I saw some special radiator paint today but it was 20+ quid for a tiny tin that I'm not even sure would be enough to do all the radiaors!! Is this the best option because there's also wood and metal paint that says it'll also do radiators but I wanna make sure I get the right thing as my radiators have already gone an off-white colour after only about a year or so since I moved in?

Get them powder coated - you should find someone who can do that in most industrial estates. Usually they won't charge any more that a tin or two of decent paint will cost.

 

[Dicko]

Cheers, I'll check it out

 

[Gordinho]

I have a pic of me dressed up as a pimp - purpe suit and purple hat with leopard skin trim. A pimp cane and sunglasses (old skool style).

Now that is what you call a passport photo.

 

[Gifter]

DHSF you strike me as someone who is comfortable, so I would go all out on the heating (good systems sell houses), if you own the place of course (sure you do).

Plus, if it is old I'd get some cast iron radiators (well I'd say largely whatever the age, maybe not some new places, but very cool for warehouse looks, victorian/georgian and older, even if there is a modern finish), we have an older cottage with an inglenook/back boiler and no gas in the village, so we have a couple of these which run off electricity (but that costs ALOT more), still water filled but with an element, would rather have gas as long as the boiler is quite a distance from living/sleeping spaces.



Here's a builder, so you can upload a picture of your wall and impose a radiator onto it. Should you be interested.

http://www.castrads.com/builder/

I've really tried to find 'wall art' and stuff but can never find things that are just right (very irritating), we going to get rid of all ours downstairs and get some more, plus new curtains, new carpet for the loft conversion and stairs to it... expensive next few months.

I'm also going to paint the entire house with organic, zero VOCs, paint (well the parts of it which are not already covered). I look forward to doing most of it, but hate the planning and deciding (my wife instantly becomes the spawn of goebbles when it comes to paint colour choices and soft furnishings!) is something of a mare.

Chich - considering your like of all things Japanese, I would suggest you try some decent quality Mandarin Essential Oil (we have it, in fads, in our bedroom as it is a relaxing fragrance, I pour a little oil in and burn a tea light when I go up for bed, by the time I'm washed and ready for bed the room smells lovely, sometimes blow out the candle, sometimes let it burn, you know that's how I roll!), plus a tea light/oil burner is also quite oriental if not directly Japanese. I use Lemon for the lounge/kitchen, fresher, more lively... You can get larger amounts on Ebay quite cheap (ie for about £20-25 you can get 250ml of Organic Mandarin Oil, if I recall, yet it would be about £5 for 5-10ml in a Holland&Barrett). No chemicals in that brick, or very few compared to most home scents, why people would pay to be slowly poisoned is beyond me, but I guess people just don't want to reflect on their ways.

Anyway, Free Leeds!