Recent content by zand108

Good thinking. I have seen pictures of the double ball catch online. I think they are well clever and will probably provide the sturdiness I am looking for. I will try some out tommorow. Many thanks again for the advice.

There will be 2 doors with a small open gap between them.

Thanks for responding. I had thought of magnetic catches at first but I figured that the magnetic ones would only be suitable for smaller cabinet type doors. I weighed each door and they are both 7.7kg I found these Hafele magnetic catches...

Hi, I am fitting two new 533x1981x35mm plywood doors onto a wide storage cupboard on my hallway. The old doors were held in place by steel hinges top and bottom. One door was secured with a sliding barrel bolt into the top of the cupboard and the second door was secured into the...

I realise that this is slightly late. but I stumbled across this thread and realised I hadn't returned as promised to update on my experience. Thinking better late than never... Here goes I did drill the joist & for the benefit of anyone else that might be interested here is what I used: A...

I see where your going with the 3 Core + Earth suggestion. However in my situation the ceiling rose sits directly underneath the part of the kitchen with a flat roof meaning the only way to run new cable between the switch & rose would mean cutting a path into the ceiling then having to get...

From further reading, this post in particular "kitchen cabinet lights". I can see that the method I described above for wiring the cabinet lights to the 2G switch is as I envisioned. But since these lights draw such small amounts of amps I am still unsure if it is ok for them to be...

:oops: Sorry people completely contradicting my original post I am now thinking of connecting my under cabinet lights to the main lighting circuit and replacing the 1G main lightswitch with a 2G lightswitch. which will control both the ceiling light and the under cabinet lights. A neater...

:idea: Ah I see what you mean. Thank you very much. Now if only the instruction manual could have been as helpful :D Do the connection blocks get wrapped in anything like insulation tape or something to protect searching fingers from accidently brushing against them? I will not be...

Hi, I am remodelling my kitchen. On one wall I intend to have a horizontal "feature" cabinet which uses recessed low energy cabinet downlights these: Surface Undershelf Lighting Kit 3 x 7W From reading other posts on this site I plan to have a single flex outlet positioned just above...