Home DIY

She wants rid of the curtain.

This might work.

Thanks peeps.

We haz good windows here so that's not an issue.

Sleep in different rooms? lol

aka pass out on the sofa?

Again.

Not for a while. #dryjan #doublethecunt

Total black out is difficult, especially in london.

Got round it before by making a frame for the blind to sit behind so light can't leak round.

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Total black out is difficult

..aren't there things, like, rolling shutters you can mount inside the window?

Where I grew up all the things had rolling shutters and I remember it being super black.
Never liked it to be honest, just closing my eyes for the last 20 years and surprisingly this does work just fine!

That's gonna look amazing... I've seen a few recent renovation on Instagram paint it in dark colours...brave thing to do but it works.

It’s getting clear Omso - sapele spindles and mahogany hand rail should come up right nice. Most of them are in now, seems a bit excessive. Probably just need to get used to there being anything there at all. We’ve been spindal free for six months.

There's good height there and flooded with light.... gonna be amazing

That is a little light hearted.

Can affect some more than others.

what is the forum white matt paint of choice ? looking to re decorate a couple of rooms at home.

I’ve used Dulux Roman White for years. Warmer than Brilliant, dead flat, covers a lot of crap that you really should ‘get after’ but eeeesh.

oh my god you're right

I started fitting some skirting board beading last night and remembered what a ballache it is trying to pin it in place without bending the nails, etc (I'm blaming the fat fingers).

A quick google suggests that nail guns can be picked up relatively cheaply so I'm pondering one of these:

https://www.screwfix.com/p/titan-ttb517stp-25mm-corded-nailer-stapler-240v/71120

https://www.amazon.co.uk/VonHaus-Electric-Staple-Gun-Nailer/dp/B079T5SKL7/

Any thoughts? I seem to remember Titan stuff has had positive comments on here before.

Are they going to fire nails which are long enough? 25mm isn't much...

I have one of those titan ones, I don't think it would fire long enough pins to hold skirting board on, I think you would want 40mm ones for skirting.

I also have a couple of paslode nail guns (one first fix, one second), picked them up for £100 or so on facebook\ebay, if you could be bothered, you could pick one up, use it and sell it on without losing much money in all likelihood. You would want second fix for skirting.

Cable management.
Someone help me.

Also. Is there anyone who'd take an old desktop pc apart and clean it? I.e the dust.
It's filthy and I have no time.

I like these as an alternative to nails. Wee heads can be driven under the surface, leaving a small hole to fill. Drill a 3mm pilot / clearance hole.

https://www.screwfix.com/p/tongue-tite-screws-3-5-x-45mm-200-pack/85991

Ah, it's not the skirting I'm attaching, just some moulding to cover the laminate gaps. This kind of thing

25mm (or maybe even 20mm) is what I was using by hand and was fine

In that case... I reckon the titan one would do the job, my wife uses ours to upholster chairs, and it fires into pretty dense wood relatively easily. I assume it is just going into plaster etc. Are you using gripfill as well? in that case pins only have to hold it until the gripfill sets off anyway.