Mum's and their son's it one of those time honoured traditions like an unwritten law, if mum wants something doing instead of asking husband to do it they alway's ask their son. I spent many years doing jobs around my parents house mainly because my dad was just totally useless at D.I.Y. this didn't stop until after my father passed away and if I'm being honest it only stopped because after my dad passed myself and my wife packed up all my mums belongings and made her move into our home to live with us. Great to see Matt that no job is too big or too small when it comes down to helping your mum and the finished product looks like they were there from the beginning, 💯% 👍.
Recently worked in a house with a boxed in consumer unit and homeowner wasn’t best pleased when I said it needed to come out. So tight the lid wouldn’t come off and had even been filled around. The CU itself even had newspaper stuffed in the top!
Hi Matt, that wax a grezt job you done for your mother, it just shows that you ard a good son, I hope she made you lunch and supplied you with cups of tea, all the very bedt for Christmas and a safe and Happy New Year, best regards from a Kiwi living in Australia.
The dis board may need work on it or changing completely , is there room to accommodate this in future . A retired electrical contractor , kind regards
Cheers Matt! That's the perfect illustration of just how fiddly these type of jobs are - especially in older houses where nothing is straight, plumb or true! I did a fair few of these back in the day, and I don't think I ever made money on any of them! 🤷♂ 👍
Every time I look at fuse board boxing in I think how I would do it differently now. It bugs me 😂. Yours turned out well. One small thing I would have scribed the end panel to the ceiling. But easy from the arm chair when watching other people
These are definitely tricky jobs! If I was doing anything differently I might use the push to open type latches instead of handles, and I might have been tempted to get the carcass up then scribe a panel to overlay and meet the walls so I could get a neat finish, but for a quick fix I think you did a great job!
Fascinated to watch this having just completed my own similar project. I learned some new possible approaches from you, so thank you! I needed to minimise the framing to allow access to the wiring - long story short, as part of this I used overlay doors. Because the overlay hinges are not adjustable (and I had to use double doors because of the width ) I ended up with the doors being marginally out of level with each other. But it seems that I am the only one who has noticed!
Gidday Matt. Fingers crossed that your Dad gets well again soon. Please cheer up about the green hue in the workshop. I still enjoy the work you offer from there. All good, mate.
Hi Matt. Thanks for this video. I'm doing something similar in my daughter's Reno in a couple of weeks. Although hers won't be as much an intricate design as your mum's, just a basic rectangle design I'll save this vid and work off it. Way cheaper than having the electric company move the whole thing to an outside cabinet . Thanks again
Whilst snapping your Tape Measure shut may appeal to your Boyish nature, doing so damages the Hook end, which over time will lead to inaccurate measurement.
I appreciate that it is Bosch and you have an affiliation with Bosch, but how good is the Stud Detector? I have tried a few and found them to be hit and miss. The latest one I have couldn't find the studding through half inch plasterboard
A nice job Matthew. I've a similar job to do at my Mam s house which I have been putting off. You've shamed me into starting it. It's nice to see you near your family again after your exile period up here in Durham. I listened to workshop banter this morning and have to say the vids in the tent /workshop look fine. Best wishes and i hope your dad is feeling better. Well done !👍
My stud detector must be from the same batch as yours as mine didn't work either. When I queried it the girl at the shop just said "looks like its working fine to me" ?
This was good. One improvement that could be made was to leave the right hand panel over long at the top which you could have them scribed to the ceiling for a gapless finish. My woodworking is of a similar level to yourself but I am always striving to improve like you.
@@erictheviking672 Once you get the hang of scribing, it really does make a difference. Caulk would crack in a gap that large. Better just to leave it, not the end of the world.
Well done. I thoroughly enjoy the soccer/football goal in the backyard. Doesnt happen in the states. Also, i just recently hung a shelf thing for my mother too. Hers was all ready made but similar. Family first.
Good wee job to do but definitely not as simple as it looks. It would look nice with a scaffold board shelf underneath the electric board side to balance the whole thing out. I did my parents as well and it was a nightmare with all the cable entries and conduit, walls all out of square and plumb. Took me a couple of days going back and forth.
You did great, Matt. Never doubted you, though it was a bit of a tongue twister construction. And no pin-prick holes from the forstner bit on the front of the doors - [I've been there AND cursed about it!]
Hi Matt, Nice job mate. Mum will be pleased. Watch out for all those up coming home cooked meals though. I could see a possible diet coming up in the future ! Onya mate !!
