Recent content by Laubi

Are you sure? I could have sworn the wrong in my photo was what's there originally (thought I had taken the photo before touching it). P.s. mystery just solved. Realised multimeter AC was faulty - I did a DC check to see if wires were working but didn't actually check AC. Got it working now so...

With the doorbell chime. I've just wired it to the original wiring when it was still working. With the transformer, I will try and wire the middle white wire to the left terminal? Will need to work out why multimeter is coming back with zero tho

Hi all, recently tried to change my parents old manual doorbell to a reolink video one. As per instructions, I jumped the chime cables, switched the new doorbell and gave it a try. It didn't work so I reverted everything back. Only to find out the old doorbell now didn't work. I then decided to...

Problem solved. As the screws were loose on the door side, the door is hanging and was creating force on the pin (the middle section of the hinge was pulling away from the frame side of the hinge). I jacked the door up and tried to position it so it wasn't generating much force on the pin...

Hi, I've tried Dremel but couldnt get it to bite with a screwdriver so proceeded to drill the grub nut out. I'm pretty sure I've drilled a big enough hole to get it all out and believe I've even hit the pin. But the ****er just won't come out. Ove hammered it from the bottom and it's not...

Similar to why I haven't dremeled it, I'm worried it'll damage the thread so I won't be able to screw in a new grub. Is there a high risk of it and if so, would it be a big loss not to have a grub screw holding that pin down in the future?

Yes, tried with a smallish flathead to fit the pin and hammered from below. It moved about a couple of mm but nothing now. That was with some 'good hammering strength'. Not hardest I can as I was afraid it would break the hinge or something.

Hi all, Door hasn't been closing properly only to discover the door is sagging a little as the screw has come loose at the top bracket/hinge. I can't access the screw due to the hinge. Problem is the grub was old and rusted. I cleaned it, tried Allen key, then used a screw extraction with no...

Wow. Firstly, when did I complain? I thought I was being quite polite and being understanding to the advice given. I was simply talking the cost difference between renewing the decking and porch rather than pulling the whole thing down and building a new (at which time, no mention of not using...

yes, totally get that and I did think it. but guessing the cost of timber to replace entire decking, base frame and couple of posts would roughly be £100-£200 as decking area is actually quite small. Cost to get someone to demolish the entire shed would be few to several hundreds? (if not over...

I know it looks bad but is it not rescuable? I am looking to replace all decking, middle two posts and probably beef up or replace where needed the base frame. I just didnt know best way to jack up the roof.

sorry to bump, but was hoping to get materials this week and get it done for the weekend. could you expand on how to set up and fix the inverted L support please? would seem unstable if not fixed to base and roof?

Yes, it's sagging as the centre-right post is completely rotted and doesn't actually bear weight!!

Just to be clear, is that two timbers (c16 ok?) joined by a bracket. And the screwed to the underside of the roof? Should I screw the bottom to the base frame to be safe?

Thanks, do you mean something like this?