It's the start of a lot of
fucking painting.
(username failed moderation, Mon 29 Sep 2014, 15:30, 2 replies)

The painting and tiling is mostly all done now
though the bathroom still needs a lot of work - I'll be shitting and showering at work from Wednesday to Friday this week it seems :(

Once that's done though I can get on with the important stuff - like digging a trench down to the shed in which I can lay power and internet cables :D :D :D
( emvee cruor deo cruoris, Mon 29 Sep 2014, 19:31, closed)

don't dig too deep though - fuck knows what could be buried and not marked anywhere. be on the safe side and hire one of those underground pipe and cable detectors - might save your life or prevent you putting a shovel into a shit filled sewer pipe!
have you laid any cables before? (and no, not the brown variety either!)
( Tesco Quality 60.825659, -0.788337, Mon 29 Sep 2014, 19:49, closed)

I think I should be ok - I'm going to pull them through under the decking
and then just bury them a few inches below the garden path so that I won't accidentally dig into them. When I laid the concrete for the shed foundation I included an L-bend waste pipe that I can feed them into so I can just drill a hole in the shed floor and have them running up the wall inside the lining to a couple of proper sockets - and I've already got an old laptop earmarked for a shed server :)

Then all I need is a beer fridge and an easy chair

[edit] I should mention a qualified electrician put the box on the back of the house for me, so if I do get stuck I'll ask him - he's already insisted that I use armoured trunking for the electricity (rather than the plastic pipes I'm pushing the cat-5 through)
( emvee cruor deo cruoris, Mon 29 Sep 2014, 20:08, closed)

armoured cable is the ONLY way to go ... I've lost count of the number of times I've seen mice or rats with half a head missing cos they've chomped into a pvc t&e cable, or a network cable has been chewed through. the little fuckers must lost the taste of pvc!
( Tesco Quality 60.825659, -0.788337, Mon 29 Sep 2014, 20:43, closed)

Hm. I have some spare brass pipe that I'll use for the network cable under the decking then
if there's a place there'll be rats, it's there.
( emvee cruor deo cruoris, Tue 30 Sep 2014, 2:01, closed)

'grats, best of luck!

Don't cheap out by omitting a lightning suppressing doohickey for when the network cable comes back into the house.)
( Happy Phantom has been to Hastings, Brighton, and Eastbourne too, Mon 29 Sep 2014, 22:33, closed)

Ooh, good point
*heads to the internet to acquire one*
( emvee cruor deo cruoris, Tue 30 Sep 2014, 2:01, closed)

Oh yeah.
We bought a new place about 6 months ago. One of the things I insisted on was my own playroom. I now have a 22' x 12' garage.

The carpet in there is better than the carpet on the landing, which annoys my Mrs somewhat.

Ref cables - my wifi works fine, and that's at least 50' from the router, across a garden. Do you really need cabling?
(username failed moderation, Tue 30 Sep 2014, 9:29, closed)

I've probably gone a bit overkill if I'm honest
but there are cat-5 sockets in the living room and the master bedroom and I had enough spare cable, plus I'm running power to it anyway, so I figured why not have a connection in the shed too?
( emvee cruor deo cruoris, Tue 30 Sep 2014, 12:20, closed)

^this
There's that glorious few days (if you're lucky) in between owning the house and actually moving in that you can get a shitload of painting and decorating done.

Then you're in the place a year and fuck it, the kitchen still isn't finished. I'll do it this weekend. Honest.
( gone, Tue 30 Sep 2014, 9:19, closed)