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    kitchen hood on top floor needs an open window to work

    Hi, I've had a kitchen hood installed, by a non professional. When the hood is on, the air appears to blow back through the walls(electrical sockets). I'm told that this is common if you live on the top floor of an appartment, which I do. The solution is further suggested that I should...
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    drilled hole too deep because wall is hollow.

    Hi, I'm trying to bolt a tv cabinet to the wall. the said wall is an inner wall between rooms, about 13cm thick. The idea was to drill 10x50mm holes and stick the wall plugs in. I did some drilling, however all the holes came out different and i hit a hollow part which makes the holes too...
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    Sticking glass (lacobel?) sheets to cupboard doors?

    Hi I'm about to build a wardrobe. I plan to use white melamine chipboards for everything including the doors. On top of these doors, i'd like to 'glue' decorative sheets of glass- lacobel to cover them up. Is this recommended? and would silicon do the trick? cheers, Xav
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    integrated fridge/freezer -not lined up to base cabinets

    Hi, We hired a kitchen dude to build our kitchen. In this kitchen there's an integrated fridge/freezer with the freezer at the bottom.... Turns out the kitchen dude made the freezer cabinet's door 8 mm shorter in height than the rest of the base cabinets, meaning the top of the freezer...
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    Island Kitchen hood duct

    Hi, We're installing an island kitchen hood, and have a few questions on the ducting: I hear its recommended to Not use flexible ducting, but a smooth duct. - Does it make a big difference to the airflow? The duct goes as follows: 1. straight up 2. right angle 3. right angle again. 4...
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    DIY jargon for noob

    I don't know the names of a few things: When fastening a plank adjacent to another plank... -the wooden connector bits which you glue to slot them together -the certain tool which helps evenly measure and mark where on the side of a plank to drill the hole to fit these wooden pieces When...
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    recirculating island hoods

    Hi, I heard that recirculating hoods are crap compared to vented ones. But some of these island ones look fantastic costing loads more ie the designish pendant like ones that are recirculating only. Surely these must work properly. I'm contemplating getting one since there's one on sale. Not...
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    converting a wall range cooker hood into an island one

    Hi, Basically I've opted an island type kitchen, but am avoiding having to pay for an island cooker hood. Especially since wall mount cooker hoods are about half the price, and so i wonder if anyone has or knows how to convert a wall range hood into an island hood? This goes for both...
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