Recent content by endecotp

Return the TV and get a different one.

It’s a filler where you mix two components together. One is a “hardener” that is a catalyst that starts the reaction that makes it solidify. Example: “Everbuild 2-Part Wood Filler”.

Plantnet is free, and amazingly good IMO.

My first job after the new sill was installed was to fit an outside tap and socket: These outside sockets are amazingly badly designed. As reported by about a thousand screwfix reviews, the socket is off-centre because of the switch, but the waterproof flex outlet is central. No plug with any...

Soldering is not particularly difficult; watch a few videos and practice on some scrap. Honestly I find it harder to judge if I've tightened a compression fitting correctly.

That’s only 1%; I’d be surprised if you can’t stretch it that much. Not that I’ve ever tried.

How non-level is it currently? Typically, I think battens are unusual in this situation. Where you have two tapered edges, you normally use skrim tape. Use paper tape where you have a non-tapered joint.

Does the existing radiator keep the room warm enough? What is its output? (Measure it, and find a similar new one.)

Where do you believe the condensation would come from?

Have they taken away the old lead, by any chance?

3 months later.... Much of the slowness has been due to waiting for tradesmen. Last summer I decided that I'd get the cracked windowsill on the east window replaced. I got three quotes ranging from about £1500 to about £3000. I offered the work to the cheapest guy - and he disappeared. I didn't...

Right. This seems to be the standard procedure with EICRs where they are only being done as a legal requirement. The electrician walks around the property looking for easy jobs that he can do for a tidy profit, and writes a report to suit. The numbers - which 99% of the people who commission...

I’m guessing it’s not your own home, right? There is no requirement for regular inspections in your own home.

Why?

Well, do we know how they are currently? They must be connected together, somehow.