Home DIY

Meanwhile many newish builds have thumbturns. You can get British Standard 3* and police approved Secured by Design Diamond thumbturns.... so what gives!

With opaque/ frosted glass in the door and no direct view from another window , a potential burglar would be committed to breaking in before realising the task was a little bit easier.

Yes theres letterbox tools for retreiving keys and turning a key or snib. A thumbturn makes it easier, but I'm still quicker just drilling out the cylinder when someone is locked out.

My replacement (rather expensive) composite front door was installed with a BS 3* lock with thumb turn.

I’m going to have to check the insurances to have a look at what their minimum standard is.

I think have masonry bees emerging from under the skirting board in one of the kids rooms.
About 5 so far over the last few days.

Am I best off just leaving them to do their thing? looks like they're leaving and not coming back!

What drill bits do I need for my SDS to chase a thinnish 5m line in brick and plaster?

Getting a lot of noise when I search on line, and just want a simple answer I can pick up from Screwfix.

Just get a pointy one and a 25mm chisel bit. Sometimes they can be bought as a pair

Does your SDS allow chisel bits? Some don't have the facility to stop the rotation.

Otherwise just stitch drill a line with a masonry bit wide enough for your channel and cut the rest with a cold chisel.

Cheers.

I assume it allows chisel bits, as there's a chisel function.

I should have said allow for. The chisel function is what stops the rotation.

Depends if the kids are chill about it, I suppose. My other half always faffs and flails when a bee or wasp is near, but I'm of the school of thought that if you chill out they don't care about you and just bumble away.

Do you have access to a grinder?

Yes.

Would you suggest cutting a channel, then tapping out the waist?

Is there a trick to maintaining the correct depth?

I use a blunt multi tool blade instead of a grinder. I have a depth stop for my multi tool but it's pretty variable when you take into account the blade width and angle etc.

I've never done it for the application you are trying to achieve but 5m is quite a length for chiseling and not having a misshap or something cracking with the force. I've used diamond cutting discs on brick and concrete and they went through like butter. I have also used a chisel in my SDS and would definitely describe it as 'less precise'.

Anyone know what these are?

They appear to have appeared and mostly died in the rental house bathroom in one day.

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Look like ladybugs to me.

I use a blunt multi tool blade instead of a grinder.

Yeah. I've done something similar, but with a specific bit that's designed for making channels. Worked really well, felt super controllable and safe.

Any links to the blade? Sounds like a handy one for the box.

I would say young flies, maybe caught out by a cold snap, was there a noticeable temperature change on the day in question?

are they sort of zigzagged? look a bit like the carpet beetles we just found upon moving into our new place

despite the name, we found them only on the window cill underneath a curtain track, and in the bath

You know about the trick of putting two blades in at once to make a chase?

holy shit that's good!

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You can alter the relative position of the dust guard,
and use that as a depth gauge.

This guy.

That's what our builder said, when he saw them a week or two back.

I'm pretty sure looking online that they are carpet beatles trying to escape the house (now that its been renovated and less stuff for them to eat)

Fancy 🙂

I'll have to give it a try. Normally I'm using a blunt old blade and it slices like a knife through butter.