Home DIY

Mind Blown. I would claim that I followed all the instructions and avoid blame, but chances are I just smashed it all together and started cutting. That looks much better.

I’ve got a downstairs loo that is single skin brick, its shit and small but not hugely important to us.

Can we use foil-backed insulated plasterboard board to give it more of a fighting chance at staying above freezing this winter? Say, attached with foam board adhesive like this? It’s too small of a space to do a full batten job annoyingly.

Could anyone use a Bosch 18V (green) power4all charger? (The older style one) I ‘lost’ mine so replaced it, then found it again.

Rather freecycle it then it go in the bin/gather dust.

That looks good. I'm going to investigate

To lower the tone somewhat. Lidl currently have a plunge saw for £80. I currently only have hand saws. Would it be useful or worthless?

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Pretty sure it gets good reviews (when dialled in properly)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kFyDGdH66HM

I have the Titan tracksaw. Needed to be dialed in, which I didn't do initially so ended up fucking the rubber strip. Just means I need to be doubly careful when setting up as I can't rely on the edge of the rubber to be the edge of the cut. Made all the difference too when I bought a new, higher tooth count blade for it. Much better finish. Another helpful purchase was track clamps. Even though the track is fairly grippy, it can move if not fully flat against the material. The clamps give an extra piece of mind and allow you to focus more on the cut than worrying about holding the track still.

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I'm going shopping......

You can buy neoprene strips for cheap on ebay.

I've found double sided carpet tape is the best thing to use to attach them to the track.

You can move the rubber strip out a bit and recut it with your new blade.

Not sure how much meat there is, will take a look when next in t' shed

Did you get the last one in catford lidl? :_(

I moved out of Sydenham/Crystal Palace 10 years ago. I'm certainly not going back to Catford.

I'll check my local Lidl on the way to work tomorrow if there's more than 1 I'll post up.

I have an Evolution Mitre saw currently on loan to Trunkie, who has been trying to give it back to me for ages. Decent saw, not much used. You can have it.

Thanks that's kind. But I'm one of those members no longer in London.

I’ll be joining your number soon!

This looks a great set up.

I wonder if a newer - battery - circular saw with track adapter is a better solution than a shitty track saw and a shitty circular saw.

Even with the 'wrong' setup, I've been able to get perfectly acceptable cuts. Have cut kitchen worktops and OSB to line the shed.

the downpipe at the back of the house splashes everywhere when it rains, and we’ve run out of money to re-do the backyard properly at this point.

how’s best to fill in the whole around the drain (circled) and maybe have a splashback of sorts?
the first 50cm from the wall along the back of the house is just earth at the mo (after digging it up to put new pipes in) so there’s more water than i’d like soaking in up against the house here in general. the yard does slope down on to brick/quarry tiles with a rainwater drain at the bottom of the yard (arrow) - so it only need be a fairly local solution until we can save up to take everything up, level, and re-tile/landscape.

also very aware the render needs sorting/removing/replaced with something..!

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Maybe take the grate off, add another 90 deg bend so that the pipe is now actually in the drain rather than sitting above it. Cut a hole in the grate to match the profile of the pipe then re-attach.

that's a very good plan, thank you very much!

Alternatively, something like this: https://www.amazon.co.uk/drain-tidy-cover/s?k=drain+tidy+cover

Wherever you're shopping for pipe will likely have something similar.

I'm not sure you're allowed to do that, are you?

Not from the perspective of knowing any regs, more that it's seems like such an obvious answer, why doesn't everyone do it all the time anyway.

Looking around other downpipes, there's often brick upstand around the drain. There was on ours (before I took a lump hammer to it), and there will be again when I get round to fixing it properly.