DIYers: ever gone back and done the job again...

[Globalti]

I installed a solar panel on my roof a month ago and it's working fine, it even picks up a bit of heat when the sun is out. However I've been looking at the pipework in the attic and have had several small insights into how it could have been better. I admit that when I first did the installation I was working from nothing and with no experience but now I've decided to take some of the pipework apart and redo it; luckily everything is done with compression fittings so it won't take long. The new layout will be more efficient, with much less liquid in the pipes and a shorter route from panel to coil. It will also look less amateurish.

Have you ever done this? I guess when companies do this it's called research and development!

 

[Black Sheep]

If it will make it more efficient and work better, then why not.

It depends what the job is, if I'd thought of a way to make something more secure then why not.

however, at our old house which was rented with furnature I found the bed's middle leg was missing causing it to sag in the middle - it was promptly propped up with an axle stand and I bought some T braces to fix a leg to it but never bothered, bringing the axle stand with me when I left!

 

[surfdude]

never gone back to a job ,but the wife is moaning cos i started a job last year and not finished it yet . i mean its 8 shelves and 6 doors you think she would have got to liking all my tools a piles of wood laying around the house by now .

 

[vernon]

never gone back to a job ,but the wife is moaning cos i started a job last year and not finished it yet . i mean its 8 shelves and 6 doors you think she would have got to liking all my tools a piles of wood laying around the house by now .

It took a couple of attempts before I managed to convince my wife that if she wanted a perfect job then I was not to be rushed and was best left uninterrupted to get on with a job.

My record was fifteen months between starting the rendering of the rear of the house and finishing it. The delay was caused by her insistence that I went on a hunt for vacuum cleaner bags just as I was getting to the last bit of a batch of render. It had gone off by the time I'd got back and I downed tools in a mega strop.

Another major strop was caused by my wife deciding that she didn't like the wallpaper that I'd laboriously trimmed and applied to a room with:
A bay window
A circular window
Two alcoves - one of them arched
Three doors
One gas fire

which resulted in eighteen corners to deal with and only one single full length of wallpaper that didn't need trimming.

Why didn't she like the wallpaper? - She couldn't find matching curtains.

What did I do about it? - Insisted that she paid a decorator to repaper the room.

What did she do about it? - Complained that he didn't do a job as good as me.

What did I do about it? - Refuse to do further wallpapering.

Result? - Domestic harmony.

 

[Night Train]

I will happily re do my work if I can see or find a better way. The problem is finding the time to re do it.

The other issue is finding the time to do the job in the first place so while working on it it may be forced through several iterations before it is complete. Designing my bedroom suite, for example; I vacated the room four years ago and the range of the suite has grown to the point where some of the walls I started building are being removed again before they were even finished. Good thing I didn't buy the hot tub early on as it will now be a sofa.

 

[Piemaster]

Not so much with DIY but at work there is a continous 'refinement' process.
Sometimes of stuff I've done, sometimes 'cos I think a way someone else has done it is crap. My way is always better of course

 

[Globalti]

It took a couple of attempts before I managed to convince my wife that if she wanted a perfect job then I was not to be rushed and was best left uninterrupted to get on with a job.

My record was fifteen months between starting the rendering of the rear of the house and finishing it. The delay was caused by her insistence that I went on a hunt for vacuum cleaner bags just as I was getting to the last bit of a batch of render. It had gone off by the time I'd got back and I downed tools in a mega strop.

Another major strop was caused by my wife deciding that she didn't like the wallpaper that I'd laboriously trimmed and applied to a room with:
A bay window
A circular window
Two alcoves - one of them arched
Three doors
One gas fire

which resulted in eighteen corners to deal with and only one single full length of wallpaper that didn't need trimming.

Why didn't she like the wallpaper? - She couldn't find matching curtains.

What did I do about it? - Insisted that she paid a decorator to repaper the room.

What did she do about it? - Complained that he didn't do a job as good as me.

What did I do about it? - Refuse to do further wallpapering.

Result? - Domestic harmony.

This is MY post of the day - excellent!

 

[dellzeqq]

Have you ever done this? I guess when companies do this it's called research and development!

no, it's called an unhealthy obsession. Don't you have a medicinal can of beer in the fridge that you can take to relieve you of this complaint?

 

[Mark_Robson]

When I was younger I begrudged paying anyone to do a job that I thought that I could do myself, whereas today I would rather pay people to jobs that I am quite capable of doing myself. My wife calls this laziness, I call it conservation of quality leisure time.

 

[steve52]

surfdude, on 23 November 2010 - 20:33:12, said:

never gone back to a job ,but the wife is moaning cos i started a job last year and not finished it yet . i mean its 8 shelves and 6 doors you think she would have got to liking all my tools a piles of wood laying around the house by now .


this has me thinking on the problem of untrained wives? do you think there is a poss market for a book,maybe a manal entilted a place for women and women in there place?

 

[tyred]

I often think about it but rarely do.

 

[asterix]

Shakespeare: Taming of the Shrew a.k.a Kiss me Kate (Middleton).

Not PC!

 

[gbb]

Not so much gone back to the job, but doing the same job on different cars, realised the second time theres a much simpler way of doing it that the Haynes manual instructed.
Replacing the drive shaft gaiter. The manual tells you to undo the brake hoses, remove this, remove that to free the drive shaft, etc etc. A right hoo haa.
Second time...just undo the steering joint from the hub, undo the nut/ nuts retaining the hub, swing the whole hub, brake hoses still attached and it moves free off the drive shaft. About 1/4 of the work. Can't imagine why Haynes hadn't thought of that !!!!

 

[surfdude]

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[surfdude]

surfdude, on 23 November 2010 - 20:33:12, said:

never gone back to a job ,but the wife is moaning cos i started a job last year and not finished it yet . i mean its 8 shelves and 6 doors you think she would have got to liking all my tools a piles of wood laying around the house by now .


this has me thinking on the problem of untrained wives? do you think there is a poss market for a book,maybe a manal entilted a place for women and women in there place?