Sock(s)??I used the same sock 3 times , every little helps .
Took up my Victorian wooden floor, repaired the joists, put in the pipe for a new water main, got some reclaimed boards to repair some damaged Ives, relaid / nailed the lot back down, sanded & stained it - no squeaks
I'm an accountant by trade. Kate and Wills popped over to sample my hand crafted cheese board wares just last week (clients), and they were both simply agahst with both my lack of squeak, and genuine sense of ironic parody... oh how we all laughed whilst sharing a glass of chateau le ponce.
All sounds a bit Fred West to me.Built a patio. Dug out 12 skips of earth by hand, wheelbarrowed dozens of bags of hardcore, then laid large slate tiles. Got to use a cement mixer and stuff.
MANLY.
Re-bedded paving stones on entrance step after lifting....and part cracking after driving into them FFS, guess who...
Came home tonight with shopping specifically for them and still got shit. Why you bought that, where we gonna keep them, don't need that....6 dumps in a day spells out a problem to to me, but no, dickie tummy....
Stripped the paint off, and sanded, and varnished a Victorian set of 3 doors and wall panelling so it looks like Winston Churchill's library. Took 5 weeks.
Landscaped a garden, planted a lawn by seed, nurtured it and kept it, over the last 25 years, looking as well trimmed and fluffed as Madonna's muff.