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I just opened my meite MT7116LN pneumatic upholstery stapler all excited to get going with the 7m (25ft) 1/4inch hose I bought and I'm reading in the meite instructions that I can't use a hose longer than 5m (16ft) with it? Is that definitive? Can someone give me real world advice here? My...

Clearly whoever installed this thing just jammed it full of epoxy and called it a day. But it's tilting now, naturally. Is there any way to secure this better? The counter top is quartz. And that white bit below that is mdf or something like that. There doesn't seem to be enough room for a...

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...

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...

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...

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...

(In the interest of being on the same page, I'm in Canada. So some similiarities to the UK, some to the US with materials, etc) Our undermount kitchen sink appears to be separating one one side ever so slightly from the quartz countertop. There's an angle there that wasn't visible before. We...

We moved into the apartment we bought a year ago and after several other projects, we'd like to now set about replacing the infuriating kitchen faucet with one we used to use years ago and weren't able to install where we were renting. The questions are... Are kitchen faucets relatively easy...

I've got the chance to get 3 holophane lights but I don't know about their adaptability for residential use. Namely, are they run on regular household power (110v here)? And how would one hang these?

:!::!: Idiot alert :!::!: I drilled holes and installed the plastic toggle bolt anchors only to realise (stupidly) that what I'm hanging is a mirror. I was thinking I'd hang the mirror off d-hooks off of screws so I installed toggle anchors. But now I just realised... what the hell are the...

Trying to pick one of these up for DIY projects. Anyone have any knowledge of whether the WiFi models that display on your phone or tablet are better than the models that come with a screen of their own? 1080p screens are pretty much good quality now regardless of who makes them so I can see the...

Please keep in mind, I am just a notch above a basic at home diy person. So if you're asking yourself, "who doesn't know this?", the answer is people like me. :LOL: I have had a Bosch PSB 850-2 RE impact drill for about 9 years. I have always used the same type of drill bits I had always been...

I have a set of 5 French drill bits (Tivoly) numbered 4, 5, 6, 8, 10. Does anyone know what these are supposed to correspond to in mm or in fractions of inches? The packaging is of no help, it only talks about lengths.

Can I use plastic anchors to fasten a 35lb mirror to a concrete wall? I need two screws. I go online, I try to research what works best in concrete, I see half the sites saying plastic anchors are fine, the other half saying one must ONLY use metal anchors, wedge anchors, etc. Let me know if...