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[Varche]

What is your project? Can be vehicle or other like Fuse 19's house extension.

Haven't had many such threads recently.

Mine is renovating a rural near ruin into some form of habitation. It really is more a life style as we have been doing it for thirteen years. Could have been depressing as the rate of progress is so slow. we are averaging one room/space per year! If you factor in our time , we will never get our money back. Like a lot of projects e.g. car renovations you never get your labour back.

I did try another project a few years back. that was to create an Ebook of derelict rural Spanish properties with a photo or two of each house with an anonymous short write up of who lived there, last year of occupation. Once the roof caves in, the rate of decay is rapid ( a matter of just a few years before there is nothing higher than the front door). I have amassed photos but it is a bit tricky getting the data- understandably. The Spanish authorities discourage folk from living in the countryside as services are expensive to provide. As a result ruins are everywhere.

Anyway just interested what other people are doing.

[tigers_gonads]

The back garden …………..

I love nice gardens BUT hate gardening with a passion 

Normally if its green, its either a tree, grass or a weed 
Over the last couple of years, i'm determined to learn to be a gardener so I have bought a 2nd hand greenhouse and actually managed to grow things in it that lived more then a few weeks 

I also built a corner flower bed with a rockery about 4 years ago.
THIS YEAR, I put some flowers in it too 

[Marks DTM Calib]

1959 108 DMU is the current big job, lots of welding, fabrication, electrical and engine work to do/done.

Extension finished......well as finished as such things ever get (given the wife now wants blinds in MY man cave!)

[Sir Tigger KC]

1959 108 DMU is the current big job, lots of welding, fabrication, electrical and engine work to do/done.

Extension finished......well as finished as such things ever get (given the wife now wants blinds in MY man cave!)

Is that so the neighbours can't see what you get up to in your man cave?     

[Marks DTM Calib]

1959 108 DMU is the current big job, lots of welding, fabrication, electrical and engine work to do/done.

Extension finished......well as finished as such things ever get (given the wife now wants blinds in MY man cave!)

Is that so the neighbours can't see what you get up to in your man cave?     

No, its so she cant see what the neighbours get up to in their bedroom  (apparently it gives me ideas)

[Kevin Wood]

1959 108 DMU is the current big job, lots of welding, fabrication, electrical and engine work to do/done.

Extension finished......well as finished as such things ever get (given the wife now wants blinds in MY man cave!)

You need a man cave like mine - accessed only by a rickety old loft ladder. 

Still, it can get hazardous lugging "boat anchor" oscilloscopes up there.

My project? Ermm.. there are one or two in the queue.

Mine is renovating a rural near ruin into some form of habitation. It really is more a life style as we have been doing it for thirteen years.

I'd say it was far from a ruin a couple of years back.

Progress might have been swifter if you'd left the pool and the beer 'fridge until last, mind.

[Varche]

We  have done a lot since then. Tiled the rear patio and put a roof on it 10 by 5 metres. Floored the last third upstairs and subdivided into three rooms, put a window in  and put a bathroom in one.  Built a second garage so we can get our second car in the other one. That was another project. Can't be many folk that spend 12 months searching for a car!

The priorities were right - you can't survive  the summer without a pool and a fridge. 

Kevin, have you thought of a small lift to get yourself and your oscilloscopes up there. Now that would be a great project

[TheBoy]

My current project is building yet another quad (drone).

I have the frame, motors, props, receiver.  Need to decide which flight controller and speed controllers I fancy, suspect the FPV camera will be another Runcam Swift Micro 2 (or Micro 3 due out very soon).

[STEMO]

My current project is building yet another quad (drone).

I have the frame, motors, props, receiver.  Need to decide which flight controller and speed controllers I fancy, suspect the FPV camera will be another Runcam Swift Micro 2 (or Micro 3 due out very soon).

Micro 3......deffo. 

[tunnie]

Looking for a new house, within walking distance of little Miss T’s school.

[biggriffin]

Looking for a new house, within walking distance of little Miss T’s school.

Just by a range rover for the school run,like everyone else in Surrey, be cheaper than a new house.

[BazaJT]

Building a wooden model of H.M.S.Victory.It took nearly 2yrs to gather all the bits I figured I'd need and nearly 4yrs from starting the build I've nearly got the hull finished-nearly 3ft from stem to stern post and not including the bowsprit which is not yet installed.

[Varche]

That sounds like a real project. Have you got a photo?

[Doctor Gollum]

Slowly building a balsa Cessna 177... It might fly one day

[Migv6 le Frog Fan]

Last month it was the main bedroom. Almost finished, but not quite.
This month the bathroom. Almost finished, but not quite.
This week if the rain stops, put new felt on the 8 x 16 shed as a matter of urgency, as rain is pissing in all over the electrical appliances.
Then  maybe another 6x4 shed to make it possible to tidy up the main shed, by storing a lot of crap in it which cant be chucked away, apparently. 
Then - start on the list of jobs on the cars.
In between going to work of course.
It wont be long before I'm too old to do this stuff. I feel like I already am half the time.