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My front door has a lift-to-lock multipoint locking system. To lock it, I have to lift the handle so all the locking points engage, then turn the key. If I don't lift the handle first, the key won't turn. Lately I've noticed that, every now and then, I'll lift the handle as far as it seems to...

Since the original post is still ok plan is to cut the remaining rot off and still have enough length to use the following pictured metal anchor instead. Plan is to mostly dig out most of the old post so the metal anchor goes mostly in freely then maybe just the final little bit hammer it in...

Yes it’s set in postcrete. I managed to use wood drill bit that’s 300mm long and just keep drilling and shaving it down have got to about 380mm deep so far. Need to get a long drill bit currently use the one pictured below that looks like a spade at the tip. I’ve come across long drill bits...

So I’m trying to dig out a wooden 100x100 post that was rotton it snapped off just below the ground level and was able to break a lot of the rot but off but half of the post on one side of the ground is still rock solid beneath the ground and I’ve only managed to dig around 25/30cm down and the...

Yes the female threaded but that will connect to this is a plastic connection with a rubber gasket and the depth of the female connector is less than the length of the male threads. I tightened it by hand and there is at least two lines of threads left visible on the male thread.

I have the following pushfit fitting: https://www.toolstation.com/jg-speedfit-cylinder-connector/p60385 Picture of the 1/2” face attached below. It looks pretty flat. Definitely not for olive fitting. Will I be able to fit rubber washer type fittings to this?

I think the bit from the ground level down is far gone it’s too soft.

Yes the stiffness is the same either open or closed position. I removed the handle and sprayed lots of silicone and kept lifting handle up and down it’s a lot better now but still a bit stiff. Might repeat the process again to see if it helps more

So I sprayed some silicon spray from the top and kept pulling handle up and down and it’s softened up a lot more and now it’s locking but it’s still not soft enough. What’s the correct way to grease these? The mechanism seems inside the door itself

I have a upvc patio door. It’s those two doors where you close one door and pull handle up and lock it. That door has to the rods up and down that go into the frame that holds that door shut. Then the other door locks against that door. I have an issue with the door that closes first with the...

Thank you. The Problem with this is I’d have to make the ground concrete then secure that down. Having inspected the rotting post the rot basically is just from about 10 to 20mm above ground level. I can actually poke screwdriver into the wood it just goes in but the rest of the post is still...

the pictured 750mm spike can this be installed by postcreting instead of the hammering them in method? Because my current post is postcreted in so when I remove it could I just attached the new post first to this and bolt it together then place this with the spike and the metal bit sticking...

I have a two pieces of 45x70mm c16 timber 2.4m long could prop up that corner with one of these in each side and place a concrete slab at the bottom so the timber is resting in solid surface then when replacing the post I’m thinking to use 750mm galvanised spike for 100x100post so the new post...

I have a wooden pergola with 4 100x100 wooden posts. It’s about 1.8m post to post one side and the long side is about 3.5m post to post. The pergola has been up for 12 years. Two of the posts are postcreted to the ground and the other two are bolted to the ground slab with the metal brackets...