Home DIY

We have about 15 pallets, anyone want them or got a hot tip for the best tip in Hackney?

I’ve successfully donated dozens of pallets to my local allotments in the last couple of years. They bloody love a pallet. Worth asking your local chairperson.

That would be amazing, thanks - if you're in SE?

CR7 but ride back and forth to SW16 twice a day Mon - Thur, crossing Streatham Common if that's easier.

I have 2 heat guns for some reason, pls come take one, keep as long as you need, i’m in SE16. I’ll pm my number.

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will need a laser level to mark out some internal insulation which it the go-to model from the usual places without spending loads?

Done a cabinet for all the lounge shit - need to move painting - paint tv bezel white and tidy wires - minimal tools maximum swears.

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Can you rent? I bought a dewalt one for about 100 a year or so ago. Tried using it. Put it in a cupboard and have forgotten about it until seeing your post.

I just picked up one for £30 or so. Seems to be fine.

@CYOA first place i looked at was my local library of things but they don’t have one.
@aggi will probably get a £35 one from Amazon with the most reviews.

Quite satisfying

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That’s looks fantastic. Good job.

Think the main difference with the cheaper ones and expensive ones is the line is brighter. If it's bright sunlight I sometimes have to close the blinds a bit to see the ends of the line.

I bought a Stanley Cubix for £50 on the recommendation of the guy who fitted our kitchen worktop. He had a green line but I bought the red and its been fine

Lidl/Parkside cheapo job has been fine for me, even in bright light. The clamp it comes with has been super handy for attaching to random things like cupboard doors or step ladder rails.

Nah mate, that will be the shower leaking, no one would run pipes under there. Is it hot? It will be hot if there are heating pipes there.

5 mins of me cutting a hole in the ceiling....

Yeah, that's your problem, leaking push fit on the heating pipe.

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That's not been tightened when its been pushed on.

Homeserve guy couldn't get out quick enough, says he will report it back and someone will be back out. Can't do it now etc.

Anything I can try without making it worse?

I’ve had some new window sill installed. The only issue is there are some gaps below. Ordinarily I’d fill with poly filler. Is there anything else I could use?

Ive tightened the collar so the gap at the green arrow is tight, but I assume there should not be so much showing where the red arrow is?

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Hiya folks..

I'm working on a fixer upper.. and through interest rate rises, material cost hikes I'm turning into a semi reluctant DIY enthusiast..

Right now - I'm wondering if anyone here can help with the following please.

1. Sandblasting (I need to remove decades of old/miscellaneous layers of paint from some cast iron railings (removing with angle
   grinders (wire brush heads) is taking to long. Will obviously
   happily pay a rental fee!).
   
2. Welding. I need help fixing a 2nd hand cement mixer.. The drum has some small holes in it.. I'm hoping someone here might know a
   cycling friendly welder? (I also need to to some welding on a bike
   component at the same time). Again - Obviously, will pay!
   
   
   
   

Finally - I'm building up all manner of tools.. so not sure if there's a tool library on here.. or anything like that.. but I'd happy to lend things out (on the proviso if broken.. they're fixed or replaced)

If you take a circular saw to them.. they're good for making short lengths of Kindling wood (so long as not the fancy blue ones)

Fuck push fit fittings. I hate them. Often the pipe will not be properly seated into the fitting. This is incredibly easy to do and not realise. You have to push them on quite hard to get them seated properly and then tighten up the collar as you have done.

The end of the pipe should go right up inside to about the leftmost (faint) line coming out of the red arrow head on your pic. There's normally an internal lip for the pipe to butt up against but it's easy to think the fitting is on when the pipe has only butted up the the O ring that should seal around the outside of the pipe. In a tight gap like that you can understand why it would have not been fitted properly.

What’s your location?

Is it from your heating? If the heating is drained, you can demount them fittings quite easy, unscrew and put 2 fingers around the collar and full but it looks like its in a git of a place.

If you can get it from below, id cut a bigger hole out and get someone above to hold the fitting and try and push it in.

On they fittings once inserted and tightened right they are flush like the others, looks like a john guest fitting.