Home DIY

I found track for my sliding door project.
The boy has decided he wants a Japanese Shohi style thing.
Obviously an 11 year old will put a hole straight through rice paper.
Where can I get fibreglass alternative?

Acrylic from any building supplies shop plus two grades* of wire wool, gloves, and a couple hours easy parent and child DIY activity?
* fine for translucency, coarse for a bit of the long strand texture

Paper spraymounted to thin acrylic also works, but shiny on one side.

I've used this reeded glass vinyl before and it's surprisingly good, one of the frosted versions might work for you.

https://www.glassfilms.eu/shop/

Thanks for the reply.

Any room I paint gets emptied and taped/sheeted off due to roller splatter so there's no change to my process there.

The overspray on those Wagner's looks minimal so think I'll go for it. It's only money and I can always rent it to family. And it should be cheaper than getting someone in one room at a time. Plus as the kids grow up we can change room colours easily

Not sure if you've already done the deed but you need to consider the amount of paint that gets wasted when you clean the spray gun at the end of the job. It's one reason why I've stayed away from it, especially the larger machines that have bigger intestines.

Do you mind sharing what track you've gone for?

Thanks.
This sounds like the voice of experience
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https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Hercules-Sliding-Door-Track-Gear-System-60kg-1200mm-1-door-Top-Hung-Kit-Set-/171273630838?_trksid=p2349624.m46890.l49286

This is what I used before (I think) still working fine.

This is another contender.
https://www.sdslondon.co.uk/sds-economy-80-sliding-door-gear-kit/rollan-80-sliding-door-fittings-and-track-1650-mm.html?campaign=12067724157&content=491356305050&keyword=&gclid=Cj0KCQjwwLKFBhDPARIsAPzPi-I2IyMhfrbA3XJgU-ZMgb90wSqhNZYt-VO4IHjSV7saR9h97KMjdW4aAjluEALw_wcB

thinking about critters chewing it or walking on it

I don't have experience of fibreglass, it's just I know acrylic sheet is easy to get hold of and although I've never done it as a family activity I've been using it since I was a kid (14?) including plenty of wire wool shenanigans.

I wanted one single mesh network for the whole house - thick internal brick walls and garden size meant the three repeaters in the house weren’t getting a strong enough signal to the end of the garden. This should mean that everywhere has nice fast wireless all on one network.

Yeah, we have that, except instead of using cat5 we are using these things but obvs. having them gobble sockets isn't ideal. But then no extra cables other than to / from the socket.

5mm socket, hammer, get the fuck out!!!!! New one on order from eBay.

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having them gobble sockets isn't ideal

Get the passthrough versions then, for example: https://www.tp-link.com/uk/home-networking/powerline/tl-pa4022p-kit/

(Mind you, I'd be going for the gigabit versions rather than 100Mbps.)

Oh I had some and they would be different networks for each one which I found annoying. Maybe user error. Whatevs

Anything to watch out for when fitting new compression fittings/olives? Barring watching the manufacturers recommendations for mechanical tightening following hand tightening? Worth using jointing compound? If so, how much and where exactly?

Ooof!

Good job.
Is it in the socket for life?

Make sure everything is v clean.
Jointing compound helps everything to slip and tighten up evenly but I rarely use it on compression joints - only on BSP.

Probably some impenetrable setting on your router somewhere. Ours can see all the wifi stuff and vice versa.

Dunno, I just did what @spotter told me 😎😬

No, I managed to reverse the hammering in process with more hammering. The socket lives. Hoping now I've ordered the correct replacement.

This looked to be the closest match out of the 10 different styles.

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Cheers! I had some videos where it was smeared on the olive face, but that was fitting a new valve on an existing tail/olive. Planning to use the new tails that came with the new valves in the two rads I'm refurbing. So the new tail will be compression fit to the new valve with a new olive, avoiding mixing and matching (for no other reason than it sounds like the better thing to do in my head). The rad that's getting the TRV swap due to the leak, I'll leave that to the plumber's discretion.

From what I've seen you depressurise the system and squirt most of it back into the tub/pot. Then rinse through with lots of water.

Not bought anything yet as waiting on the house to complete.
Then it's sprayer, tracksaw, pocket hole jig, and I'll be building the new (temporary) kitchen.

If you can stretch to the Festool Domino it would be a great time to do it. Much easier than pocket holes and it's the kind of tool that keeps it's money or value to you whichever way you look at it.

I'll have to have a closer look at the sprayer. I'm always put off spraying by the amount of cleaning it takes but I'm a dab hand with a brush or roller. Most of the work is in the prep anyway.

Cool. If a hammer didn't fix it an angle grinder would've been my next idea!