Recent content by robinbanks

I’d go at it with the hoover in one hand and the grinder in the other, sucking where the wheel is exiting the cut. The vast majority of the dust will be collected. Wear eye, ear and breathing protection Might it be simpler to pull the floor boards up and replace them with a decent ply?

Seems reasonable. What do you earn, per day? How long would it take you to fit a door, as a noob, following YouTube tutorials, do you think? (Now double it.) How much would it cost you to buy the tools you don’t already own? (Hinge jig, router, mortiser, chisels, cordless drill, planer, level...

If that’s a concern, insulate the underside now, while you still can.. LVT aren’t inherently insulating, and will be the same temperature as the wood. The only thing that makes it feel slightly warmer is that it won’t suck the heat out of your feet quite as fast as tile will, but absent any...

When a beam deflects and adopts a curved shape it will only bear on the inner skin anyway if the two skins are the same height You’re worrying/obsessing over this unnecessarily; proceed as woody suggests. The 7N blocks of your inner skin are sufficient to carry your roof weight, and having the...

Amen I’ve a large pile of glass cubes in my garage now, picking up an 800x1900 screen, 10mm, to move it right by about a foot. As I was setting it down it exploded; still no idea how it happened as there wasn’t really anything obvious it rubbed on, and hadn’t even come into contact with a piece...

You could buy this £45 gearbox https://www.sparetoolparts.co.uk/makita-8391d-gear-assy-8391d-bhp453-125485-0-spare-part.html Or this sub £30 entire drill, case, charger and more batteries https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/406995790646 But it’s only £110 for a new warranted one that’s lighter and more...

Amusingly coincidentally on the heels of the thread about a pair of double sockets on T&E into a plug and whether it’s not/part of an installation, I pulled the washer out of a relatively newly fitted kitchen, during a friend’s house move and found this..

5kg per shelf is very light. You could easily just use toggle bolts/expanding wall anchors for that. Fixing into the central stud with an additional support would work well If you think one day you’ll put heavier stuff I would proceed as per my diagram for putting ply behind, and cut the...

Just a minor point, to avoid you generating confusion in terms - you said UC25 by which I guess you mean “universal column, 25kg/m” but columns are essentially a square cross section (look like an H) and and designed for installation in a vertical orientation; you also gave a pair of dimensions...

A four way, 2m extension lead bar (like you’d buy on Amazon for a tenner) is screwed to a wall (in such a way that the screw would have to be removed to take it away) and plugged into a regular socket A plug with some t&e running to a double socket screwed to a plastic back box, with more t&e...

Perhaps he was a plum/errr..

So, you claim a brick champion does 900 in an hour (more like 750; go look at the results of the SMBL500) and you say my claim of a rate of 1000 in a day (125 an hour) is unlikely?

If you create a cavity wall system with an warm room touching an insulated wall, touching a cavity, touching a cool uninsulated wall, touching the world.. and then allow warm moist air from the house side of the insulated leaf, to circulate into the cavity, you cause damp/mould/condensation in...

I find the best way to engage trades (that I don’t know) is to ask their price and pay them it, and don’t ask for a discount. I’ve even had such extensive problems after accepting a discount that they have offered that I don’t think I would accept it again Perhaps just ask your mate what his...

I’ve had filters look OK but seemingly cause problems by breaking up and having filter fibres block other aspects of the system. These were online filters from 2 stroke engines in power tools, subject to a far worse time, mind— a trench wacker being the first that springs to mind, the inline...