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the pan drawers in the kitchen are soft close self close thanks to a mechanism that looks like this: https://www.screwfix.com/p/hafele-soft-close-mechanism-for-roller-runners/3181J A plastic bogey travels along an L shaped slot as the drawer is pulled open then flicks out of the way as the end...

Pull out larder was slammed shut the other day and it appears to have broken a vital part off the soft closer I've since had to cut another plastic finger off it to get it off; it's a one way click fit Wondering if anyone recognises it so I can buy another? The only visible marks other than in...

not a standard calor, this bottle has "kosangas" written on and the valve head on the bottle is much larger than the calor regulator on the right- it looks to be about 28mm wide any ideas what I need to search for in order to buy a regulator for patio heater use?

Am I right in understanding that my knackered 2 way switch can be replaced by this intermediate one I have, Just by ignoring one of the L1 and using the other L1 as common?

I noted recently a difficulty with posting from an iPad; I'd written the post, then had to go away and do something. Returned and submitted, only to be asked to log in again. After logging in, I was taken to a "security error" page and advised to hit back, refresh, and try again. Hitting back...

At a recent wedding I was in conversation with the vicar about the apparent damp patches on the underside of the church roof - large sections of the ceiling plasterwork were black or discoloured, spreading down some walls. It wasn't particularly ornate plasterwork or woodwork, though apparently...

once upon a time, my heating system was to be like other underfloor systems - a bunch of thermostats connnected to a wiring centre, underfloor pump connected to wiring centre, air source heat pump also connected. Wiring centre runs off a ring final. Stat calls for heat, wiring centre sends power...

The office where I work has 6 banks of fluorescent tube lights on 6 switches (2 tubes per luminaire, 4 luminaires per bank, so 48 tubes/24 luminaires in total) that have developed a simultaneous flicker. Of late it has on occasions been so bad that the office briefly goes dark, and then the...

suppose I have two pieces of 2x2 that I want to join (like a butt join on the 2x2 end) in a manner that will resist an applied tension/compression along the full length of the 2x2. There's a bit of shear, but mainly tension/compression.. Lacking a finger jointer or any similar tool, i'm limited...

watched the water board repairing the road; at the end of the job they brought out a big roll of tape, like bitumen tape, cut a few sections, laid it on the road where they'd gone through the white lines and blow torched it to bake it on Anyone know what this product is called or where to get...

looking to put a floor deck into my garage to make a storage space above it. One end of the joist will be resting on top of a dividing wall, the other has to get support from an existing double skin engineering brick wall, higher than the joist level. I think my choices are thus: Masonry...

ive a timer and a thermostat in the cylinder; presuming that the thermostat is normally closed until temp reached, then switches open, and also presuming that the timer is normally open, and closed for the programmed period.. What other component would I need and how to wire it so that: If the...

i live fairly rurally and occasionally suffer a problem where the lighting flickers quite a lot in the evening. I'm not certain but suspect it may be due to fluctuations in the supply voltage or by devices in the house turning on and off; perhaps one of the neighbours on the same phase has a...

the building site I'm looking to landscape has, I assume, reasonable topsoil on already; it's certainly well covered with grass, brambles and other vegetation. There is quite bit of work to do with levels, a terracing to install, hardcore to be laid for driveway and paths etc. I assume that I...

I have a ventilation system in the loft, that came with a wired controller; a display and couple of buttons about the size of a light switch. It also had bundled with it approximately 10 metres of telephone cable terminated in a 4P4C connector at one end (intended to plug into the ventilation...

The side walls of my building are pebble dash over random stone with line mortar. Inside is engineering brick, EGW bonded to the stone every 3 courses, with a rubble fill. The building was built in 1926 and has a coursed stone (non dashed) front wall. At the corners are castellated large blocks...

laying some polyflor direct onto egger moisture resistant chipboard flooring, I spread and rollered the f46, let it dry to a permanent tack (with the aid of a fan heater on lukewarm setting) and fitted the flooring. I used the same technique to lay all of it(butt the short edge up to the last...

hi guys From reading various water company specs, it seems that in situations where a water pipe cannot be buried to 750mm (e.g because it's coming out of the ground) then it should be insulated and possibly ducted (when traversing a wall or if lying in a trench that is not lined with sand)...

..but I note at the forum topic list asserts that this post has 0 replies, when there is 1.. https://www.diynot.com/diy/threads/how-to-change-a-light-fitting.476687/

Thing is, I'm not entirely sure whose fault it is; DIYN's or Safari's When writing a post reply, if I go away somewhere, fetch an image, or even just de-focus the text box, then come back and re-focus it there are occasions when the text box isn't exactly where the browser wants it to be on...