Hello everyone!

So I am finally on leave and finally I don't need to wake up at 4am and work till 7pm and be exhausted. But besides all the work something else that makes me exhausted is seeing things in the house slowly deteriorate and I do not have time after hours or on a weekend to repair them!

So I took opportunity recently to fix some of the things that would usually just sit there getting worse!

Kitchen cupboard under the sink

This cupboard needed to be sorted out. The chipboard had started taking on moisture and swelling and coming apart slowly, bending with the weight of all the stuff stacked on the top of it.

Also, there was a lot of junk in there that the teenagers would never have been able to sort out or decide to rearrange and fix. It was time to clean it all out and to replace that board!

Additionally the tap was swiveling around and it was loose. I am worried that the kids are going to keep twisting and eventually snap something under the sink.

I have never done this before by I went under the sink. Saw the components, googled a bit to see the parts composition and how they go together and reseated and tightened the nut on the rod, clamping the whole tap more securely on the sink.

It does not 100% remove all movement, but it is a great improvement and it removed the possibility of an easily accidental twist to the piping.

After that I took my measurements to the hardware store to get some board. The one on top here is the one that I was going to use. The seats are down because I took all the offcuts which included a big board that I will use for a future project!

My measurements and the hardware store's cutting was accurate to a fine margin and the board fit like a glove!

I took this opportunity to strengthen the shelf. You see, it was held together by glue and a few nails so it came apart rather easily. This did not see teenager-proof to me so I replaced the nails with screws and added glue as well.

I added a support black and pillar at the top.

For the first time, the vertical plank is connected to the board with a screw. This gives mutual reinforcement!

Wooden Chair repair.

This chair has been broken for months. Someone stood on the decorative dowels and eventually to top, non-decorative dowel gave way and cracked due to a lack of support from the rest of the chair.

I bought a 25mm wooden hole cutting tool and it was Soooooo satisfying to cut the holes for the dowels.

So the top support I replaced in its entirety. The other two dowels I wanted to keep the design and so just replaced the broken parts with bits of dowel. I used nails and glue to join the dowels to the chair.

And then used glue and rope to glue the chair bits together.