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waterproof one coat paint that will make the mdf bench in the kitchen harder wearing. and also do the quickly knocked up bath panels we had done.
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Ah, I have some brush-on stuff for car door seals. Might be useable?

On the thermostat yes.

The 20ohms related to the resistance through the element. You need to check both.

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The 20ohms related to the resistance through the element. You need to check both.

Yes, I know. However, I'm confused.

You are measuring, from your picture, between Earth Connection and the element Live connection.

20 Ohms between those two points indicates that the element has shorted to ground. Meggering between the Live and Neutral should give you a 20 Ohm reading meaning the element hasn't gone open circuit.

While a multimeter can give you a reading, cold immersion elements can give weird resistance readings. Hence better to megger it with 500V.

Edit: Are you saying 200 Ohms or 20 Ohms. The '200hms' is confusing.

Thanks for the detailed explanation. I should be able to remember that now. :)

GT85 is a PTFE-based spray. Surely you have a can of that somewhere?

Also, the kitchen will have 'clean bike' smell. Win!

Yes, I do have GT85, but it's not my door that's squeaking! I have just about every type of spray or bottle liquid they sell. A mate of mine was a fireman, he reckoned my house would be an inferno in 3 minutes with the amount of paint/solvents/etc. I have in my basement.

Opps! My bad!

@JesperXT

A mate of mine was a fireman, he reckoned my house would be an inferno in 3 minutes with the amount of paint/solvents/etc. I have in my basement.

Meh. I have 20L of Coleman Fuel (distilled petrol) in the shed. It used to be in the basement in the last house...

We don't do GT85 in Denmark, unfortunately

I do have some WD-40 PTFE/Teflon somewhere though...

When Ikea writes '3cm' as the height of their Numerär wall edging strip, they actually mean 27mm. So do yourself a favour and measure before tiling at a certain height... 3mm oak shims to the rescue.

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Here's my bathroom window. I want to fit a powered extractor fan. There's no external wall space so the fan has to go in the window pane.

The existing window is a tilt-and-turn. I'm guessing I need to fork out for a new window with a fixed pane at the top, and have an electrician fit the fan to that?

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Do I have the wrong end of the, err, strip with this LED lighting? I assumed I should bridge across the end of the strips to complete the circuit, which I did by soldering from the end positive to negative terminals. But the only one that works is the one that isn't bridged. When I do touch these wires, the lights turn off...

Maybe they're already bridged and I'm just effectively shorting the circuit by touching the wires.

@Airhead @rodabod, sounded like you guys have some experience in using these things.

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The LED's complete the circuit, it doesn't need a soldered link.

Riiiight. Shit, OK nice one.

That seems so obvious now you say it.

You are correct. I meant to indicate the L and N on the element. 20 ohms (200 stated above was a typo)

3/4 blanking nuts to cap of the water supply whilst I remove the sink for about a week, that sound about right? Seems to measure up as that size.

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Put some 15mm isolation valves on the pipes instead. Then you can isolate them in the future.

Putting a new waste in my bath but the one I have doesn't seem to fit the UK standard waste pipes. Any idea how the hell I might get a converter or something?

@Diable - looks incredible you've good taste or a very good interior architect ;)

@heavisides - great job on the cork floor - looks great, would be interested to understand how well it wears...

In what way does it not fit?

Put some 15mm isolation valves on the pipes instead. Then you can isolate them in the future.

This. Whenever I have to isolate water at work a quarter turn valve gets put if it doesn't have one on nowadays.

Anyone know what this stuff is? - I presume ancient insulation? Made of what? House was built 1920, have found it under floorboards of 1st floor and in attic under old, knackered fibreglass insulation.

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