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In the past, I have recommended that people hide keys in places several metres from their home. If someone finds the key, they will have no idea which property it belongs to. The/a downside is that you may need to hide more than key just incase a gardener/etc finds it and bins it. Years ago my...

It does. The job I was working on when I decided to purchase it had a mixture of tubular deadlocks and bathroom mortice locks. Previously, I would use a spade bit to fit the TBs but you had to drill two holes next to each other and then use two different chisels for the mortice and then 2...

Fair play, I have seen footage of guys walking up the house and then the ring going dark. It is relatively rare though. In the olden days you needed a orinoco gold wifi card in laptop (running linux) to flood the wifi network. I guess you can now purchase a dedicated device to do something...

Blimey, was that pigeons dropping off tiny TCP/IP packets?

Blimey, you may well be older than me. I recall that the first iMAC only had a 33.6k MODEM, even though 56K was becoming the de facto standard. That Jobs fellow was a tight git... but a canny salesman.

True, but there have been cases recently where professional toe rags have used WiFi jammers to knock the ring doorbell offline. With regards to your average crackhead, the doorbell is enough to discourage them.

My sister lives in one of those expensive gated communities, a free runner/parkour broke in through a neighbour's first floor window. The home owners were downstairs at the time.

Oh, the days of 56k MODEMS. I used to use the free 0800 Blueyonder number on my Nokia 7650 to get free internet access... at 9.6k. I paid for the bizarrely named Doris web browser by Anigraff- it used JAVA to emulate a proper HTML browser rather than WAP. When broadband first became a thing...

If doing a few doors, I would recommend paying just over £100 for a Souber DBB door lock mortiser. Not only will it create the mortice it will cut the face plate rebate at the correct depth. It auto centres, you just set the depth/height etc- changing the milling heads as required. The only...

Whenever fitting door furniture on doors where the standard screws are sufficient, I take "ownership" of the interconnecting screws. When working with chipboard cores, I tend to use the interconnecting screws. The supplied standard screws are normally 3mm and pants quality.

I don't see the problem with a high quality key safe if you have a house alarm and live in a busy city.

The plasterboard will hold up the lath and plaster. Over the years I have had a few customers who became fed up will lath and plaster ceilings committing suicide. Down sides? finding a way of marrying up the plasterboard with the cornice/coving. In the older houses the cornice was run in situ...

You could use a very long drill bit, drilling up at a steep angle through the metal channel, but how will to feed the com cable upwards? I would use an oscillating saw to cut a square in the plasterboard and then cut a smaller square in the plasterboard behind it. That will help you drill up...

Wouldn't there be timber (or a metal channel) at the top of the wall? Is it a single skin of PB or a double skin?

Photos would help.

I had to work in Northolt yesterday. The highlight was the opportunity to purchase the proper Kronenbourg from the local convenience store- the 5% stuff, not the 4.6% now brewed over here. Coffee- can't stand the stuff, not even the smell. Even entering the likes of Starbucks distresses me...

You might want to google capillary action. Absent of a DPC the ground moisture can wick upwards by upto 1.2m. And that is not a function of rain hitting the bricks. Have you never been in a property with rising damp on the party wall between the two properties? That has nothing to do with rain...

Thanks for the tube link. Hay fever- I have been told that if the body sees something it needs to fight, the immune system can go into overdrive. In your case it might have seen the rust and then noticed the pollen and decided both need to be dealt with. Equally, If you had a cold and ate...

Yeah, correct. The plasterers that I knew would just skim over it. I am not intentionally making light of the dangers of asbestos. Blue- yup super, super evil. White, steer clear. Brown, (often used in corrugated roofs)- soak it first to dampen the fibres. I grew up in a time when you could...

If they are simply applying PVA over the plater and then skimming it, I don't see what the risk to them is. knocking off high spots on the ceiling- that is a different matter- that said, as previously suggested,it would be a significantly less dangerous asbesto- that said, there is no "good" level.