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On a recent job I saw some dense grey foam tape/sheet being used in the cavities around door openings. Thing is it'd be really useful for tool trays and bags. Can anyone tell me what its called? Also out of curiosity whats it for? I don't know if it was being used correctly where I saw it...

My mum continually deadlocks the door and leaves the key in the lock which has resulted in neighbours having to break in. Sadly telling her not to hasn't changed things! (parents eh? Can't tell em, can't cart em off! : ) ) Can you get coded deadlocks for doors so it can be opened from outside...

Yes those. Can't tell if its aluminium anodised to look like s/steel or is actually stainless steel. If the former its a close match to s/s fittings so I guess a stainless steel product would be the one to go for.

Can anybody point me in the direction of a similar but bigger panel to Ikea‘s Fastbo panels? We're kind of stuck with that system but Ikea don't do a panel big enough for one area of the kitchen. The panels are a very thin steel/ali coating on what looks like melamine. about 2-3 mm in all...

Hope this is the right place for this. There's a building going up next door which will be using piling. Are there any things I can do now to put myself in a stronger position should the vibrations cause any damage? We have a pretty old house with shallow foundations. An excavator was doing...

Dual flush came from bathstore with the cistern. Way out of guarantee. May try and fix the dual flush but its basically a bit ****, it keeps sticking so toilet keeps flushing. Mechanism uses a sort of float which is supposed to drop with the cistern water as it flushes but instead it sticks...

Crimps are crimped shrunk wrapped and choc boxed. Thanks to everyone for your help on this. Marko

its a repair and under a floor running between joists . There's plenty of slack in the cable ends so i se no reason why it should come under any abnorma stress.

also how strong do the crimps have to be? the next to last practice piece just failed but only after putting my foot into thhe loop i'd made and pulling with both hands.

grrr just got to screwfix in time! to get some blue crimps when applying shrink tubes do you follow the colour of te wires or the colour of the crimps? Or do you just shrink wrap the whole lot?

CPC: is this what I would call the earth wire? What does t&e mean?

Don't think so. Last thing last night I did a loop with three staggered joints and the thing is way tight so i'll eave it. only one end on one of the three does this and its negligble. Getting it this AM. Thanks be to the forum. Its brlliiant

yes but not for the earth

See previous: //www.diynot.com/forums/viewtopic.php?p=838328#838328 Have purchased ratchet crimpers and yellow crimps and have been practising like a mutha. cable is 6 mm. Using red crims for connecting earth wires. Question: the crimps are very solid under strain from pulling...

thans for the repilies, and very lenient too considering,. Yes it was just on the other side of the joist, I thought i was clear and of course had completely misjudged the angle. Its inbetween floors so I'm proposing a surf`ce box that wil be accessible from the ceiling, that was why I...