Home DIY

Only a maintenance free junction box like the wago boxes (sprung loaded connectors and box with strain relief for the cables). Usually it's easy enough if you're under the floorboards to get back to the nearest socket on the ring and wire directly from there using the existing cable to pull another longer one.

Or smash both of them and get some nice ones that are:
i) Adjustable
ii) Less shite than these
iii) Ones that clueless people haven't touched.

Or laser level cube thing.

Thanks.

You're like the 'tester of the DIY thread, except more polite.

You're welcome, I think it's just that Tester lives in a workshop so people bother him more :)

I still want to buy an electric paint sprayer and Airhead was right....but the I want one is growing strong.

Did you have a look at the 'Painters Pit Stop' forum. They have some great threads on spraying paint. I've been trying to turn a spare room into a spray booth for years but keep doing other things instead!

Would love to have a spray booth, big enough for a car....a big car. ;) Currently have access to two mains compressors and one three phase one. But like the idea of an electric one, the sealey one on offer at the mo.

Probably have better luck here than in the gardening thread..

Well, didn't manage to get the bog out without cracking the top bit of the clay pipe, but it seems to have a metal liner in the pipe and there's no damage below the floor level so hopefully something like this should get a horizontal outlet wc plumbed in with no additional work amirite?

Wish I could grow oranges that big.

That sort of thing will work, but you may have an issue depending on the toilet, especially if replacement is a close couple one.

Measurements all look fine - will be a concealed cistern and there's just enough space between the pipe and the wall to fit it all. Might go for a flexible waste though to give an extra couple of cm

Worktops are tacky after oiling. I wiped off the excess after the last coat, obviously not enough.
What next?
I haven't got time to sand and reoil....
Can I wax?
White spirit?
Burn the house down?

Also, how do you get it off tiles when it's dried?
You know, if.youd forgotten to mask. Not that you had.

DIY noob question. We really like a flat but haaate that its entirely kitted out in LED ceiling spotlights throughout.

How much of a PITA will this be to undo?

Turps over everything followed by mineral oil.

That sounds suspiciously like "wipe it all off and start again".

Yep

Fuck.

How long does the oil take to dry? Because in some patches it just feels rough and in others still tacky.
Went on >12 hours ago.10pm last night.

Sorry, I do go on about mineral oil vs drying oils or plastic finishes, but it really is a painless and foolproof method of finishing wood tops. It's not as protective as others but infinitely more renewable. You will get some staining from stronger liquids or whatever, but the wood will last and after the initial (or even factory) sanding, it's wipe on, wipe off forever.

The best kitchen worktops I have ever had were stainless steel. Why do people do this to themselves with wood?

I get it, I just know the people in my house....

Because it looks nice.
And I've worked in kitchens and don't want to be triggered in my house.

Right, back to my corner.
@Stonehedge: cost, looks, feel.
I like stainless but couldn't stand working in an entirely industrial one.

Yeah, steel would look pretty weird in a standard domestic kitchen.