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    DIY-kitchens - side panel height different size to cabinets, is it normal?

    Not significantly, and you can't really argue that "putting doors on kitchen units looks bad" because most kitchen units have doors.. Naturally I don't mean to cut eg 78mm off a shaker door and screw it in place; I was referring to eg a handleless slab door
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    DIY-kitchens - side panel height different size to cabinets, is it normal?

    Fit a door, with the cut side to the wall if you can't get one bob on
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    ballast to concrete ratio please?

    Before I tell you that's nonsense, I'd like you to define "stronger"
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    Ethernet Cable Switch

    This is confusing; you can program Python but you don't understand the most basic networking device there is That's like saying you're a brain surgeon but struggle to work the toaster.. ? then your network setup should look like Internet router | Ethernet wire | Some cheap switch that is...
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    Ethernet Cable Switch

    But that might be totally unnecessary expenditure if the OP has a PoE injector that can be powered off by the same timer you propose using for your switch..
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    Grout has dried rough with little visible grains

    I've also had good results from Butech Colorstuk Rapid (Porcelanosa) - Manhattan Delivery from porcelanosa is 60 cos they pallet everything, expecting you to buy tiles too.. eBay has a few listings for this grout at about 15 a bag delivered
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    Ethernet Cable Switch

    Do you still want the camera to work and record images onto eg an on site DVR even though it's not on the net? If no, and the camera gets its power from the Ethernet cable via a poe injector, then sure just put one of those rotary dial timers where you push plastic segments in/out in between...
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    Grout has dried rough with little visible grains

    I edited the post above but generally if you've got a contrasting grout the way to get defined lines is to make sure there aren't any bumps in the grout that spill out sideways on the rounded edge of the tiles. Wipe diagonally for the most part so you're going across the grout line at an angle...
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    Grout has dried rough with little visible grains

    Rub it down with the corner of a sanding block, scraper or with a grout rake then go over it again Ensure the mixing bucket and mixer is immaculate. apply with a clean rubber grout float. How long to wait depends on internal temp, humidity and how wet the wall is. In the height of summer heat...
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    Why would I want to wire a pneumatic switch pair in a two-way configuration?

    I think that's the same manual, as it does have that exact diagram in (Elkay 400A) But interestingly, I found the manual: https://www.tlc-direct.co.uk/Technical/DataSheets/Elkay/EK400A_Instructions.pdf And the diagram I complain of is absent in that one, but present in this one...
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    Loft storage. New joists on pole plate

    Yeah in my mind it's the "getting them into the side of the joists, as you reach into the narrow space, lying on your side/stomach on a temporary board on the old joists, trying to align a screw magnetized onto the bit of your cordless, they try and apply enough force to keep it from slipping...
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    Why would I want to wire a pneumatic switch pair in a two-way configuration?

    I bought a couple of pneumatic switches for a corridor and my plan is to just wire them so that all the commons are on the same wire (which is permanently live) and all the "normally open" contacts are on the same wire, going to the load. You can then push any switch the light will turn on, you...
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    Loft storage. New joists on pole plate

    Nice, though fitting the ties probably isn't going to be fun. Perhaps attaching them to the end of the new timber first, before it's slid into place, will make subsequent screwing easier.. If it were my project and I weren't having to work to this spec I think I'd just wind a could of turbo...
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    Rivetted handles?

    Being a condescending douche isn't really an advantage, you know. Thankfully the two traits are only circumstantially linked, and with a bit of work one of them could be set aside
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    WC Soil Piping needs sorting :-(

    You'll come to appreciate the strap on.. Good stuff, bit of battening, insulation and plasterboard and it'll all be hidden anyway
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    Missing parts needed for (farm) metal gate

    DIYnot has started putting a page between links in a post and where the link goes, in an effort to funnel you to some other site that gives them a kickback. I dont mind that they're trying to raise some coin to help pay for the service but i strongly dislike that their page looks like one of...
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    Disaster in waiting?

    Hopefully it's bolted to the building
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    Has my engine seized

    You could also mark up one of the pulleys with a sticker, tippex etc, depress the clutch, then let the car roll away some, leave in gear 4, as it's rolling lift the clutch to the biting point and wait for the car to stop. If the pulley moved (as evidenced by the tippex) then the engine isn't...
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    Help with 4 colour wiring

    Arr, I thought I'd done that in my post.. New light wires are as per the old light wires New mirror wires are "brown in with browns/reds, blue in with the black/blue"
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    Plasterboard lifter

    What does your insulation detail look like?
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