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I have a similar sized vent in my kitchen to supply sufficient air for the floor-standing gas boiler. Now that the boiler has been removed (replacement now in the garage), I have stuffed up the vent with bubble wrap (full thickness of the wall) and then put gaffer tape on the inside of the inner...

1.6 Newton Metres is the same as 1.2 foot-pounds. This is actually quite a low torque, equivalent to having a lever 14 inches long and hanging a full jam jar on the end. So it sounds like just "nip it up".

Take a look at this thread, it has a number of good ideas... http://www.diynot.com/forums/viewtopic.php?p=1793424#1793424

I tend to stay logged in all the time and regularly visit the site, mostly during the day. When I go to the site in the morning and select "view posts since your last visit" there are usually about 150-200 posts. As I dip in and out this total adjusts itself. However, at some point, my "last...

Scribing to the floor means cutting the bottom edge of the skirting so it is the same shape as the floor below so that it fits for the whole length. To do it place the skirting onto the floor and then make it level with a spirit level. It may only touch the floor at one point or maybe several...

Do you know what the pipes are? If one gets hot but the other stays cold then they could well be the pipes from the hot cylinder and cold water tank heading for the bathroom. Step one is to identify them. A plumber would probably (after draining the pipe) cut a section out either side of the...

Would you put a wardrobe full of clothes in front of your fuse box? You will want to turn off your water from time to time, whether it is to fix a tap or ball valve or whatever or to stop a major flood if you get a burst pipe or even just to stop the stopcock from seizing up. Having to move a...

Using 4 x 50 as the example, the 4 is the diameter of the shank just below the head in mm and the 50 is the length of the shank in mm not including the head.

It's easy to gets runs or sags when painting smooth doors so if you can take the door off and lie it flat before painting you'll find you get a better finish.

How about these? 5th row down, centre column. http://www.wildwesthardware.com/clavos/clavos.htm

I wanted to fit 7 bolt-down metposts onto a concrete slab. That means 28 holes of about 10mm diameter. I started with my masonry bit in my mains-powered hammer drill. After about 5 minutes I has made one hole about 25mm deep! I went and hired a heavy duty SDS drill. It was like a hot knife...

Thanks chaps - I might just give it a try.

Can I assume that the tap you're repairing is a mains-fed kitchen tap? Is the toilet and bathroom taps fed from a tank in the loft or are they on mains as well? If they're tank fed and the tap you're working on is on the mains then a possibility is that wherever you've turned the water off...

(I'm peering around the edge of the wall as I write this in case you shoot me! :wink: :wink: ) My single garage is lit by two twin-five-foot fluorescent fittings which I got and fitted many (20?) years ago as they were being thrown out at work. They are wired in parallel on a two-way...

You're all wrong - Eric Clapton's version is best! I like listening to Sounds of the 60s on Radio 2 Saturday mornings and I am often surprised to find that songs which I had previously associated with other later groups were in fact covers of older songs. I guess today's generation will...

It's "technical" :wink: (Also, "prioritys" should be "priorities". The normal rule when making a word that ends in "y" into a plural is to replace the "y" with "ies" - UNLESS (and there's always an unless in english!) the word ends in "ey" when you just add an "s". So "valley" becomes...

You could put a horizontal strip on the other side of the railings - either wood or preferably metal - and then bolt through this into the post box.

I think Bill Gates may have registered that name - you might have to think again.

You may well find that the fridge thermostat has gone. Do you have separate temperature control knobs for fridge and freezer? I am a satisfied customer of www.fridgeshop.net which is a chap down in Cornwall who seems to know what he's talking about and supplied me with my fix - a new thermostat...

From a layman's point of view, if you've got a 3 inch diameter pipe with a hole the size of a 50p piece then are you sure it's mains? You'd have a pretty hefty fountain or, if the hole is pointing downwards, a very waterlogged bit of ground.