Recent content by justigator

Bodging a join between tool outlet and workshop vac inlet hose is often tedious but can usually be done with copious use of duct tape if no stepped adaptor is on hand. Joining the 63mm dust extractor outlet of my new planer/thicknesser to the 100mm inlet of my new (used) dust extractor was a bit...

Sorry not here but on the website of Machine Mart, where I bought it. Posted under Anonymous but should have today's date (7 Oct). Summary: a bit crude and clearly DIY only, but relatively cheap and does the job.

These need slightly less room https://www.screwfix.com/p/pegler-pb300t-compression-full-bore-15mm-tee-ball-valve-with-blue-handle/21860

Cheap shelving unit (or units joined together) with legs at front and back and open sides. Add castors to feet. When wanting to add or remove timber, temporarily angle unit so that timber can be put through the side of the unit and out of the door? Push back against the wall when done.

Many thanks both; very helpful. In case it helps others: they also seem to be known as drill-in hinges and brands include Hafele Startec and Gedotec.

Wooden garden room, 2019 vintage. All fine until the recent weather seems to have slightly disorted the building or the base it sits on, causing the doors to stick. I should be able to adjust that out by the hinges (see second pic), but at least one of the Allen-headed screws has nearly rounded...

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True but multiple strong fixings into brick in a suitable location might do for me if the box can't be easily opened without knowing the combination. Any burglar would still have my alarm to contend with even with keys.

Just today I had to advise a relative who's just bought a new house with one of these outside the front door https://tinyurl.com/yez856vu not to use it, given how easy they are to break into (see YouTube). But are there any that are really secure?

Does anyone know? When I were a lad (dinosaurs roamed), you could get gloss paint or emulsion, that was it. Then came along kitchen and bathroom paint, which made some sense. Now some manufacturers - Dulux at least - have separate ranges of kitchen paint and bathroom paint. Why? Incidentally I...

I have just done precisely that, four times, with no problem.

I'm fitting a large porcelain tile behind a small cloakroom washbasin as a splashback. Whoever fitted the previous similar setup smeared an unnecessarily huge amount of adhesive all over the back of the tile, too far in for me to cut through with a blade or multitool, with the result that I had...

Can't you strip a good bit - say 300mm or so - of the armour off the SWA, then just fix the SWA to an external box with a gland and feed the conductors straight through a hole drilled in the wall through the back of the box? No need for any joints in the external box and once you've got the...

You obviously do not recall that it was mainly Bill Clinton's foot-dragging over Bosnia that hampered progress. The then Conservative UK government waffled and prevaricated endlessly, but no sensible Brit was under any delusion about the UK role: it was the US that really mattered. You may not...

I am not a plumber but I doubt a combi would work well for a 4-person household with three bathrooms. The North London semi I bought in 2019 (from a 4-person household) had a loft conversion in 2014 making it a 4-bed from a 3. At the same time, the hot water system was converted to mains...