Recent content by Bill Door

I was thinking along the lines of something rotary like those. But the grades seem very hard to find. I was originally put onto the idea by this video: But that product is USA and would take a couple of weeks to arrive. I'll check out all the suggestions above and keep looking :D

Thanks - food for thought. I should clarify it's not the normal decking grooves - I thought I had mentioned that but missed it - will edit.

I need to sand some reclaimed decking in the "grooves" between boards (marked red in photo). It's already well fixed down so needs to be done in place, and there's over 250m of groove to deal with so I'm hoping for something faster than hand sanding. The v-groove attachment for a mouse sander...

I'm afraid it doesn't really. :) Is your project 11m wide or 10ft wide? Could do with a drawing.

For softwood decking, reclaimed. Flat side up and will be sanded before application. Top priority is ease of re-treatment as it's in a very exposed location. I've read that solvent based oil is better, as it penetrates further, and if I read correctly, is simpler to re-treat in the future. But...

Why do you have two? Work expenses? Design your network with one network switch as the central point (the cable to the home office also, just a longer one). Then connect the broadband router to the switch. If you want to use both broadbands, obtain a router that can work with two WAN...

The airband or any kind of internet will happily expand to a LAN. Single cable from router to central switch, and then a secondary switch in each house is better than connecting two switches directly to the router. It will work, but then your router is doing the job of a switch. If the...

I need to replace some cladding on a dormer, which needs to match existing. It's 1960's house. 60mm face x 20mm thick. (2⅜" face x ¾” thick). As per pic. I've spent all morning on-line trying to find somewhere to buy this off the shelf without any luck. It's all 100mm+ face. I hope I'm...

Good point, I think that switching modes would be fine. This looks like it fits the bill, but it's quite expensive at £440 for the three zone version https://www.inspirehomeautomation.co.uk/holiday_lets_versions.php

If you can live with a few mm difference in height across the threshold, all the other upheaval is actually fairly trivial. You can tile around the toilet, you can plane the bottom of the door. If you want to tile under the toilet, then the pan connector should easily cope with a few mm. Basin...

I missed this. :) I would eliminate repeaters. They mess with your network purity as they bridge connections (mess with IP Addresses) and filter ports. People are desperate for more connectivity without adding wires, and big corporations sell snake oil and magic fairy dust on the promise you...

The Bluetooth on google mini / home etc is intended to allow it to improve audio by being able to connect more bluetooth speakers to the mini speaker. Just like wires, bluetooth doesn't care what sort of connection you make over it, and so of course it won't complain if you connect an audio...

It's actually modern advice to always change your router's SSIDs for both 2.4 and 5Ghz to be the same. Then you'll only see one. E.g. https://www.diynot.com/diy/threads/teaching-google-nest-mini.536427/page-2

Hi, I'm looking for a control system which will be best suited for a village hall, which has an oil boiler and radiator heating system. The building has WiFi and ethernet. The criteria: Must have a cloud / browser interface for control. Smartphone apps can be additional benefit, but, system...

Sorry for brevity, using phone. If you set both SSIDs to "Banana", then the 2.4 only devices will automatically join the 2.4 banana only, likewise with 5ghz only devices, will only join the 5ghz version of Banana. They will be incapable of joining the wrong one, and modern 5ghz devices will...