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Are ceiling electrical boxes for light fixtures going to be the same whether they're in Canada or France? I essentially have some ceiling light fixtures I'd like to use in France that are from North America and I know the bulbs will need to be 220 and possibly need adapters for the socket but is...

I recently got a lovely swag lamp from someone (15lbs) that's meant to hang from a ceiling. I couldn't allow it to get discarded. But when I got it home I realised that it feels like something that's maybe too heavy to hang from our ceiling just from the drywall. It's meant to hang and be...

Best option for us I think.

Thank you all so much for your help and advice. Financially, and logistically, the only option open to us is to do a good job of caulking again more thoroughly and to install a thin splash guard on the outside of the glass (on the inside water could still get behind it and out). Thank you!

Ok, thanks. Unfortunately that's a project we just can't afford or have time to learn how to do right now. Luckily we have another bathroom with a shower, and this tub does do what it needs to do as a tub so I think we'll just have to pretend the shower isn't here on this one. For various...

Yeah, that's something I could try. I really think the water is only coming from that gap. When I look at all the areas on the inside that are all siliconed it's the only place I simply can't cover. I was hoping people had some kind of idea of what to try.

It does join firmly but you still get that one inch gap between the hinge pole and the start of the blade. It's very hard to water protect this.

Yes, they are siliconed where the tile meets the tub. I think this was a tub only that they then later on decided to add a shower to at some point. So the initial installation probably never planned for water showering from a height. Here's a photo of the whole thing...

We didn't do the installation but the inside of the shower is tiled, if that's what you're asking.

We noticed shortly after moving into our condo that this shower would leak out the side. We thought, probably us splashing too much water. Ok, so I removed some of the bad plaster, plastered it up again and sealed around the bottom of that door hinge joint with silicone. But somehow, the water...

I'm not drilling into the handrail. Plus, this is a co-op, can't do that.

Well it wasn't $2, and I'm not in the habit of intentionally damaging things I like. Anyway, thank you, your advice has been very helpful and I'll probably try something similar to what you're suggesting.

Ok, that's what I thought you meant. Unfortunately, just playing with a bit of wood, the way this reed fence is stitched together, the wood is going to crush the reeds because you have to squeeze against the railing firmly to keep the two pieces of wood together. Actually, even if the reeds...

I had to draw it out.. do you mean like this? The bottom is an overhead.

They're literally thin reeds as in the photo. The lattice off on the side is essentially purely decorative and simply zip tied to the balcony fence.

Hmm.. sounds doable then. So how would I bring these two pieces of wood together? Sorry, I'm having trouble visualising how screws would bring two pieces of wood together sandwiching the vertical rails to fix them strongly enough so they can take the weight of the birdbath...

I can't really go through those reeds because in the summer we have a lattice wall we place in front. I risk damaging the fragile reeds. I was hoping to do something that adheres to the top railing. Off to the side, I have a tree trunk, about 10cm in diameter that I attached a flat piece of wood...

If there is a more suitable forum, I couldn't find one. This isn't exactly "garden". We have this very simple heated birdbath we'd like to install on our balcony but I'm coming up against problems I don't know how to solve... The photos in that link will show the mounting options it comes...

Thank you so much everybody. Brackets installed, sink no longer hanging without support and everyone here contributed to helping me feel like it was doable. Much appreciated.

We've got a door to our balcony from our kitchen. We just bought this apartment a year ago and had our first winter here last year where we noticed something isn't right with the insulation. The door knob actually gets frost and it seems what was installed there by the previous owner just isn't...