Home DIY

Not a design to have if OCD about everything lining up. The part tiles being in different places on the bath would irritate me.

Yeah that detail I find odd, would have thought there was a way round that, maybe the tiler was just a bit crap and lazy when doing the bath.

There's quite a few details that make me lean towards 'a bit crap.' To start with I thought it was just my eyes/lens distortion.

this looks great, I wanted to put cedar shingles on my last shed but couldn't afford it

She sells cedar shingles on the sea shore?

(RIP Sean Connery...)

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part tiles being in different places on the bath

It's called wabi-sabi or le détail qui gâche tout*.

*I half made the last one up as I can't actually remember how you say it properly

la vache qui rit iirc

getting a gate built for my bike shed thing. I'll already have to unlock the bike itself - what is the easiest/least fussy lock i can fit on the gate whilst still remaining secure?

When do you think the crusty look will be back?

Apart from Argentinians (and Chileans or Spaniards pretending to be Argentinian), you never see young people rocking that look. You'd have expected XR to bring it back, but all the ones I saw just looked normal but with a bit more of festival gear.

@cozey - yes! that's it.

Keypad, but when I looked they're quite a bit more than a key lock and with less choice.

You can get ones with a small handle which would be easier to open if you've got a bike in one hand.

Edit: you've just prompted me to look at the office-style keyless ones. Not actually that expensive anymore. Pending someone saying to the contrary I'd have a look at those instead. Keypads seem to be a bit of a pointless middle ground given that it's only a bit more for something much more convenient.

Double edit: Apparently it's a shit idea.

These are the sorts of bathrooms people look back on in 20yrs and go; "OMG! Can you remember how awful that was? But in 2020 we thought it looked good." Then their grandkids go, "I can't believe our parents use to rip things like these out!"

Presume it has colour changing LEDs? If you changed them to blue it would look even more like a public toilet.

What nightlatch should I get to replace this one, with the minimum of hassle fitting? It's an Era, with a Yale cylinder, and both of them do very similar looking ones but only in 4 or 6 cm backset, and this appears to be 5...

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Odd problem with the dimmer switch @Airhead recommended recently:
https://www.tlc-direct.co.uk/Products/VLMKP100.html

We have a light with five 5w LED pendants. The dimmer switch is to replace one that died when one of the LED bulbs blew, tripping our consumer unit and frying the dimmer.

I got a replacement bulb and all five LEDs were working fine with a standard on/off switch.

Fitted the V-COM dimmer and now the dimming works but only four out of five LEDs are lighting up!

I haven't tested this by putting the standard switch back or swapping bulbs round, but I'm fairly sure another bulb didn't just blow... What gives?!

Is the measurement from keyhole to edge different?

No, the same

Spirit levels ?

As @stevo_com says, flip it over to see if it reads the same both ways. I built half a deck a few years ago with a cheap level that read differently depending on the way you laid it down. Was no fun unscrewing all the joists and starting over...

Obviously try replacing the bulb that doesn't light or test it for continuity before you try anything else. I'm at a loss to think of any other scientific reason why the dimmer would stop one bulb out of 5 from working.

so, keypad then? I was hoping for something with a fob but i guess those need power.

Cutting and capping the existing left branch of the T will probably cause future problems as the flow direction from above is directed towards the capped side.

Chopping out the T and fitting a 90deg elbow will be awkward as the pipes will be too short, although a long radiused elbow may work

A pair of 45deg elbows would save messing around with inline couplers to regain an inch

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Thanks so much, this makes total sense to a beginner like me. Much appreciated. If I don't have enough length with the pipe on the right for 2 x 45°s is there a way to remove the t piece and fit a 90° elbow?

If you were to cut the pipes close to the T, the removed left hand branch looks long enough to add between two 45s and extend as required to make up any shortness

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That's a good suggestion, thanks again!

Are all the bulbs the same? Not all led bulbs are dimmable.

Looking for some advice on doing a quick fix on a bathroom that will be getting ripped out in a few months.

These tiles finally gave way in the night, with something of a clatter. They seem to have been stuck partly on to old tiles and partly on to some sort of fibre board backing.

It doesn’t need to look nice. I just want something that is waterproof.

I was thinking about simply sticking some Perspex over that area and sealing with silicone.

Is there anything else is can use to seal it up? I suppose I could put the tiles back on and regrout. It looks like there’s a primer specifically for painting onto old tiles to create a key.

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