Home DIY

Anaglypta?

Possibly although it's slightly shiny and smooth.

Ours was definitely shiny, but patterned.

Any recommendations on how to best remove it?

I just painted over ours after washing it with TSP.

I wouldn’t worry too much about drilling / fixing into a fridge door. It’s just a block of polystyrene, galvanised steel skin on the outside and plastic skin on the inside. It certainly doesn’t have any coolant in it. Just use short self tapping sheet metal screws into a pilot hole.

ps. Don’t drill all the way through.

Whats wrong about drilling into a sheet of steel. Behind it will be 10 -20mm of polystyrene and the inner plastic moulding of your milk/egg shelf. Epoxy, self tapper, rivnut and machine screw, tucker rivet

Sliders could save you having an odd door, which you think only needs a couple of mm removing, whilst actually its likely to need the equivalent of the door thicknesses as mentioned by @Dugtheslug.

If sliders aren't going to solve the issue, is it actually worth the hassle and cost of devaluing your units to bodge this?
The sensible option would be to sell this and get one meant for the job. With a cupboard door over it, its not as if its a statement appliance as nobody's going to see it... its just a cold place for food and drink.

I've got an inset one on hinges in a space that used to have a slider. Inset hinges might be available for your current setup. The Hafele catalogue is a good starting point, lots of technical detail to find the right one though.

Some of the other suggestions are bang on though. You can add some material around the edge of the current door with a shadow gap so it looks like it's in the frame and then use the existing overlay hinges.

Are Banham 'the one'? Decent locks are on the cards for this house. Any other brands to look at?

If you have euro cylinders, I wouldn't fit the Banham which costs that price.

The small amount of metal at the screw hole/cam makes then just as vulnerable to snapping as a £8.99 lock from screwfix.

There's flaws to virtually every lock if you have some skill and practice, or the right tool. But cylinder snapping is easy for anyone with intent and a hammer or vice grips.

Anti snap cylinders have sacrificial weak points and/or the cam is retained in a steel section thats not simply broken

Avocet Attack
Avocet ABS
Yale platinum
Brisant Ultion . (Great anti snap and anti drill protection, but I picked a sample within 5 minutes of receiving it)

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Banham hinges arrived today. What lovely things! Everything necessary to hang the door now.
Here's the door resting on top of the current one. Why am I replacing a perfectly good door with an original 30s one with stained glass that you could probably blow through? Who the fuck knows but watch this space.

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Also started the mist coat on my eldests room today. Dulux Trade matt at 50:50 with water. Goes on a treat.
Got a bathroom installer mate coming to hang some new radiators in both daughters rooms and the hallway on Tuesday so need to get a move on. He's thorough so will be lifting the floor boards to ensure the tails are in the right place.

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One of the big selling points with Banham is keys that 'can't' be copied. So if you give a key to your cleaner/builder etc. and fall out with them they can't get a copy cut and have access to your property. It also stops the creep of keys being cut if you have tenants. On the down side it's a massive ball ache to get a key cut if you are not the registered gold card holder.

They are quite secure against picking but so are masterkey. The lock bodies look good and feel sturdy. I have them at home and lots of clients have them and they all have a similar problem. The night latch often doesn't fully retract when you open the door so when you go to close it it just bangs on the keep, it's a problem with most night latches with that design.

I think they look very smart on the front door, they are 'pretty' secure against picking and attack but they are very very expensive.

Thanks @user69121 and @Airhead

Not in a great rush so will read around.

is keys that 'can't' be copied.

If someone has access to a physical key, it can definitely be copied if they so wish. Even a decent photo of a key could be enough for someone to decode the cut depths and cut a key.

With their registration card and hopefully the integrity of the key cutter, Banham have removed the casual copying of keys by tenants who have lost one, or need a spare for a mate.

The Avocet ABS locks also come with a code card and keys can be cut to code through an authorised dealer which has the key blanks. The drawback of the magnetic ABS key, is occasionally pulling a 5p out of your pocket with the keys.

At the end of the day, locks only keep honest people out.

New loft hatch nearing completion after about 4 weeks and 1 false start.

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I went for Mul-T-Lock cylinders. Same idea as the others, card given out with purchase, can't have keys cut without card.

Treated myself to a wireless turntable setup yesterday:

Pro-ject debut carbon
Pro-ject phono box
Sonos connect

So I thought I’d spend today building myself a unit for it...

18mm birch ply with two record storage cubes, w little shelf for the connect and phono box and then the turntable on the top.

It’s also got a false back with a hidden recess for the extension lead and cables.

I’ve run out of osmo oil so it’ll need a final sand to 240 (180 at the moment) and oil next weekend.

I also need to fix some tear out on the top shelf if I can be bothered.

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Finally started on the patio... One half done!

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Those planters. Where from?

Please thank you

Got them off ebay a couple of years ago for our rental

Doesn’t wireless negate the point of turntables due to the necessary digitisation? Forgive my ignorance if wrong.

Yes and no.

There’s still more warmth but it’s not as good as analog.

I’ve gone this route for a couple of reasons:

1. I have a fairly decent collection of vinyl that I want to listen to
   
2. I really enjoy the event of playing vinyl; it makes me engage with the music more
   
3. I like being able to play that record across the entire house
   
4. I don’t have a spare room to set up speakers specifically for it
   
   

I might end up adding some speakers down the line but currently this is the best solution for me.

Cool, thanks for the info. Looks great anyway!