Home DIY

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That's top work on those stairs. I know from experience how hard that is!

Were they painted before? What grades of paper did you sand them with? It's taking an incredibly long time to do mine and I might just use peelaway.

When I ripped the carpet up they looked like the picture below.

I scraped the (probably lead) paint off with a Bahco paint scraper and then sanded it with a random orbital sander using 24-40-60-80-120 grit discs.

It was quite a laborious process but I got into a rhythm of it and it went fairly quickly.

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An iron and a tea towel I think might work

Daily and weekly timer

This. @tbc @withered_preacher it was part of an incredibly complicated and intricate system to control outdoor lights and window blinds, depending on the time and day as well as light and wind conditions, things would turn on and off. Also found a weird metal panel with lots of switches in the bedroom wall as well as a number of broken sensors here and there. Kind of like something from 'lost'.

Rear drains on fridges (neff fridge)
Is this a plastic pipe or gromit thing, that should be exposed?

Is there a way to recover it?

What are the consequences of loosing it?

Thanks

Snap, mine looked exactly like that, although with a few other layers of paint too, mostly in various disgusting shades of mint green. Currently still in the scraping stage!

H, ha, ha. Thank fuck for home automation and IFTTT routines!

As I understand it, the pipe drains out the fridge, and the water collects in a basin that the compressor users as a heat sink. At least, that's what it looked like was happening on my gran's fridge, which is fairly archaic come to think of it.

That's what I've seen too. Although I don't think the heat sink part is vital to the functioning, just saves having to get rid of the water and maybe a fraction cheaper.

This is the essence of 'frost-free' fridges.
Water vapour condenses on the internal back panel of the fridges and collects in the 'gutter' that drains out into the collector on top of the compressor.
Gunk eventually grows in the hole/grommit and prevents egress.
The 'frost-free' fridge then freezes up at the gutter.
Modern fridges have shelves with upstands at the rear edge to prevent stored food/containers contacting the back panel to allow the condensed moisture free drainage.

Literally just cleaned the gunk from my drain hole today. With it blocked the condensation pools at the bottom of the fridge.

I use a water bladder pipe brush to clean the drainage hole. It's long and small enough to fit the hole and reach all the way down.

This is the essence of 'frost-free' fridges.

You mean freezers :) they have a heating element in the back panel to melt any build up. The water as you say then escapes out the back. Common failure is the heating element failing.

Our ancient fridge freezer has a condensation collector in the fridge bit but as the back panel will not go zero or below obvs there’s no heater in there. If the outlet gets blocked water then collects at the bottom of the fridge. Gross. Of course the freezer bit freezes up like a bastard

Thanks for the fridge comments.

Hole was blocked and I used a pipe cleaner without looking and was worried that I've pushed a tube part of it down into the hole as it now just shows a hole.

There was some crud which looked like it could have been a pipe top that was pushed down.

Anyway there's not much I can do about it now. Google images doesn't show up anything useful, and I can't find a manual.

Guess we'll just have to wait and see.

That explains the hot spot at the back of our fridge that cooks things.

Recommendations for a cheap small circular saw for cutting up structural timbers and mdf boards please thanks... Currently have my neighbours Makita and its a bit overkill/a beast.

cleaned the gunk from my drain hole today

I use a water bladder pipe brush

Filth

Decking in a small but shaded area - is this a dreadful idea? I just can't come to terms with gravel/stones for some reason.

Grass would never really work due to the shaded nature of the area and it'll be a section off a small shed type thing so suspect heavy footfall.

'small' & 'structural' are dissonant.
240V/110V or battery powered?
My brushed battery Ryobi is good & light but only has around 35mm depth of cut,
(which is fine for trimming fencing panels).
My 110V Evolution is heavy but will cut 85mm depth all day long and the blade copes with stray nails.

lidl/aldi?

Sorry, meant non structural...

queue to get in is madness... think they'd be any good?

their tools are fine for DIY, I'd say. certainly for your use case. i wasn't aware of the queues.