Recent content by wongryt

Weekend just gone, went ahead and replaced the cill. Treated 3 coats of stain/waterpoof before beginning the fit, used a hardwood cill When I cleared out the old cill I put wedges in which luckily held the partio door/frame up. Though when taking the the wedges out the centre of the patio...

Cheers for the advice cmother1, I'm not sure of the abbreviation D/G, I assume you mean the Double Glazing units. It looks like it's all one unit, I don't see any obvious means of taking the Double glazing out but then I haven't looked that hard yet. I'd agree with you about weight of the...

Hi all, Can anyone give me advice/tips on how to replace my patio door cill without ripping out the whole patio door? I'm renting in Exeter and the patio door is in Swindon so its a fair trek back and forth to try and fix it so I'd like to get as much info as I can as I haven't done this...

Cheers chippyphil, will have a look at the bar length. I cut it so that I had a good length in the latch. Didn't seem to stick though the length could be plausible. I definitely didn't turn it all the way round big_all, It would take longer than normal so I'm sure I would have noticed...

Hi all, Fitted a yale night latch about a year ago, no problems works fine. Couple of weeks ago we came down to go to work and couldn't get out!!. Had to go out round the back round to the front door and turn the key in the lock all the way round again. It's as if the lock deadlocked itself...