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Hhmmm, all seems to be parallel and correct, as far as I can tell... so can you adjust that pin at the top please?

Picture below. What happens is that the door jams at the top when the weather is very cold. I'm assuming it's the pointed pin on the top sticking up a tiny bit too high... I believe it's adjustable - can anybody tell me how please?

So I live in a bungalow, with 3 bedrooms at the rear end of a long hallway, and living room, dining room, bathroom, kitchen at the front end. The old mahogany window frames at the rear are the only ones I haven't had replaced with modern units, and they’re leaking etc – time to go I think. But...

Trying to save the daughter in law some money as usual... the seal on the bottom of her shower door started coming out in bits, which she chucked away, assuming it would be easy to get a new one. But the kind you can buy in SF etc seem to be different, having just a U-shaped top profile which...

Being a pessimist by nature, I'm assuming I already know the answer to my question, but... here in NI we mostly have oil boilers. However, they've just piped gas into our estate, and I'm thinking about lashing out for the conversion. The government will pay for getting the gas into the property...

I did, yes. You get two long blades (cut up to 1') and I think two short metal ones. At the end of the day, had I been able to get hold of a tree surgeon, he'd have charged more than I paid for it - the trees were in awkward positions, embedded in the middle of pyracantha bushes etc. So very...

Looks good, yeah :mrgreen:

Next day... Got the b*strds

Well, as so often as I advance in years, I bottled it and got a local guy who specialises in changing just panels to come and do it. Thanks for all your help :mrgreen:

I always like to post how things turned out, as people have been kind enough to help me, so here's what happened... I could not get a tree guy to do it, for love nor money. And I did feel that, being accident-prone, maybe a chainsaw wasn't the best plan - though they were temptingly cheap in...

Hi all – the bungalow I live in is about 30 years old now (I’ve only been here 7, so don’t know all the history), and some things are of course starting to deteriorate – in this case soffits and things. The soffits actually mostly seem OK, but some are starting to go at the ends, so I’d like to...

And finally Esther? (I'm guessing there are a few of you out there old enough to remember that)

Oh right? It's the phone cable I think, been here for 30 or so years since the house was built! But when I'm putting the wee camera up I'll be lashing the silicone around liberally, so will have a look (y)

Thanks everybody, for sharing your injuries with me - makes me feel less of a prat :LOL: Probably a good thing I took somebody's advice on another thread I created, about getting a chainsaw to cut a couple of tree trunks down, and decided to get the local tree man in instead :eek: I repaired...

Yes it does, but not powerful enough. Good thought though (y) Yes, I was working the bit back and forward - just there was a bit at the end of the hole that it kept catching on, I guess... Yes thanks, did a bit of that, and more and more twisting etc - came out eventually. Then I tried again...

Well, I've certainly answered my own question (the title of this thread). Believe it or not, I've been doing this sort of thing without major hassles for over 40 years - but with this (simple!) project, everything just keeps going wrong. I've now been at it on and off all day, trying to drill...

Thanks for all the replies. Yes, the SDS jobbie is a lot more brutal, and so effective - maybe I should buy a set of small bits for it and try those. *Update: the chuck on my old faithful Black & Decker has seized now, can't get bits in or out. And it can't be much more than 35 years old :LOL...

And then the other thing will be sourcing the panels - I expect that "excludes NI" too...

I've just tried to drill some small holes (like 3mm) for the screws and rawlplugs for the camera to go in, without success. It's like the bricks are made of cast iron, and the drill won't touch them. I've tried 3 different bits - and it's a 700W mains hammer drill, not some poxy cordless thing...

Thanks... but the more people posted, the more complicated it seemed! Things about routers etc, and: I don't even understand what some of that means :notworthy: I kind of think somebody with experience will understand exactly what to do, but to me it's all ελληνικά (Greek)...