{"id":1021,"date":"2013-05-31T17:37:50","date_gmt":"2013-05-31T17:37:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/idostuff.co.uk\/blogs\/?p=1021"},"modified":"2013-05-31T18:13:19","modified_gmt":"2013-05-31T18:13:19","slug":"cottage-bits-home-to-work-on","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/idostuff.co.uk\/blogs\/2013\/cottage-bits-home-to-work-on\/","title":{"rendered":"Cottage bits home to work on"},"content":{"rendered":"

I’m up at the cottage most weekends and working on the day job through the week. In the search for more time that leaves me with weekday nights.\u00a0 I spent a while on the copper radiator but with that out of the way there’s a few other things I could be getting on with.<\/p>\n

The Wash House window, a small sliding sash. Is a perfect example of how any window, no matter what the state, can be rebuilt or repaired.\u00a0 It is now in the workshop\/garage ready for some “extreme” DIY repairs.<\/p>\n

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Sliding sash window almost derelict but it can be repaired \/ rebuilt<\/p><\/div>\n

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The old outside toilet cistern hasn’t had any water in ever since the old lead piping was cut\u00a0 off many years ago.\u00a0 After getting a blow torch on the nut securing the flush pipe it was easy to lift off and bring home.<\/div>\n
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All it needed was a new pin in linkage to get the toilet cistern flushing again<\/p><\/div>\n

A water tightness test and a very easy fix on the flushing linkage revealed it’s in good order\u00a0 so just needs stripping,\u00a0 cleaning up, the iron painting and\u00a0 a filling ball cock adding.\u00a0 Not take me two minutes.<\/div>\n
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So with some time to spare!! I came up with a plan. We wanted a high flush\u00a0toilet\u00a0in the bathroom as well.\u00a0 But the modern ones are extremely expensive.\u00a0 The plan, currently underway, is to make a new cistern.\u00a0 It’s just a box I’m making out of re-cycled mahogany, which\u00a0I couldn’t resist\u00a0making with\u00a0dovetails at least to the front.\u00a0 This will be fibreglass lined and fitted with modern flushing and filling components.\u00a0 I’ve also found somewhere that can bend me the required flush pipe in stainless steel.<\/div>\n
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making a wooden toilet cistern, a simple construction but with dovetails on the front because I haven't done any for ages.<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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There’s also all the old light switches to clean up and test, scrap metal to sort and furniture to refinish.\u00a0 Never mind, the telly’s boring anyway.<\/div>\n
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I’m up at the cottage most weekends and working on the day job through the week. In the search for more time that leaves me with weekday nights.\u00a0 I spent a while on the copper radiator but with that out of the way there’s a few other things I could be getting on with. The […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,5,206],"tags":[386,201,232,123,387,388,31,205,230,88,57,385,207,318],"class_list":["post-1021","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ido-diy-stuff","category-ido-property-stuff","category-whitby-cottage","tag-cistern","tag-cottage","tag-how-to","tag-lead","tag-lead-lined","tag-make","tag-property","tag-renovation","tag-repair","tag-sliding-sash-windows","tag-timber","tag-toilet","tag-whitby","tag-wooden"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/idostuff.co.uk\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1021","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/idostuff.co.uk\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/idostuff.co.uk\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/idostuff.co.uk\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/idostuff.co.uk\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1021"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/idostuff.co.uk\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1021\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1027,"href":"https:\/\/idostuff.co.uk\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1021\/revisions\/1027"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/idostuff.co.uk\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1021"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/idostuff.co.uk\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1021"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/idostuff.co.uk\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1021"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}