Home DIY

Aurora au-dlm843 kinda unsurprisingly.
The lamp holder has these little knobbies (preventing standard GU10 from fitting) and requiring shoulder cutouts on the lamp. @t.o. solution is perfect - as much as i just want to cut the knobbies off or just replace with a £1 standard GU10 lamp holder

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How changing a light bulb turned into this I don't know, I can't work out if any long barrel will work with the aurora patent

Kitten proofing the house today, so have been scouring every corner for small gaps and holes that need filling. Most are straight forward, but there’s a bathroom shower that the previous owners decided to install without anything to cover the bottom (see pic).
Is cutting a custom bit of mdf to sit flush in the gap the easiest solution? How would you fix it in place? Or can you buy something ready made? Not sure what the search term would be if I’m honest.

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Are the detent pins used to retain sockets on impact wrenches made from a special, or minimum strength, steel?
And, why don't they have a 'head' on one end to prevent them slipping straight through?

More than likely better ways than my bodge - but I’d imagine whichever upvc window trim/architrave would do the trick? Something a touch taller than the gap and fixing it to the tray with silicone?

Great shout. I hadn’t considered window trim

do you want to do a makeshift improvement and not buy the spare part?

I’m after recommendations for a circular saw blade to cut 18mm mdf.

I have this Makita saw

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I got a 60t Saxton blade off Amazon that was pretty cheap and did a good job on our kitchen. Sorry can’t find the link right now but it was about 12-13 quid.

Something like this?

TCT18560T Saxton TCT Circular Wood Saw Blade 185mm x 30mm x bore x 60T for Bosch Makita Dewalt Fits 190mm Saws https://amzn.eu/d/7MGtfBz

Is there a tiling kit for idiots? Walls first rather than the big hallway job I mentioned up thread.

Have nothing. Presume I need some kind of ridged spatula, some adhesive, some gap maker things, some grout, some kind of grouty application thing (that isn't a finger) and some sort of tile cutting device. I have a dewalt multitool but presume something else is preferred?

Anything else? Does somewhere sell it all as a job lot?

I've ordered tiles for two weeks time and included 20% extra just in case.

I was going to mention toppstiles because they have it all and it's on display in bricks and mortar shops

Thanks - there's one about 30 mins from me which is about average for Devon. Will book in a trip.

I would go with something plastic, MDF will swell with moisture.

Finding a roofer, in the meantime, emergency repairs with multiple layers of heavy duty polythene and duct tape:

The water leak was a lot worse and for longer than I had first thought :(

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Recent purchase of an impact wrench came with a set of three of differing length.
The likelihood is within 3-6 months the most frequently used one will be lost.
Agree there are many sources of spare parts, but none, that I have seen to date, have a head, leading to a repeat of the above.

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Well done on the emergency repair. Lofts are the worst place to be too

Modesty blocks would be traditional but fitting them may be awkward. I'd just super glue some offcuts to the floor to act as back stops to whatever you push in there.

I went with this in the end (please excuse the Amazon link)

White, 150mm UPVC Fascia Capping Board 9mm Thick x 5m Length Plastic Window Cill Cover https://amzn.eu/d/4L3Zhl8

I’ll silicone it on and should be enough to deter kitten from getting under the floor

It was pretty horrid, especially when I realised the ceiling plasterboard had degraded to the point where my hand went straight through the ceiling…

So once it’s confirmed dry and fixed, I need to replace that ceiling section, which is super awkward as it’s in the hot water tank cupboard.

I think I’ll have to add some battens and fix some ply instead of plasterboard.

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Could you glue some ply from above then fill with coving adhesive or some filler

Plasterboard is piss easy to work with and shape to fit, you just need a Stanley knife, jab saw and a sureform.

We've decided to go with Little Greene

If you can't get it locally, their delivery is good and the tins are well protected

How much of a problem is this?

That’s a condensation pipe from the boiler I think? It’s a pipe from the boiler and it’s not going into the black pipe and the black pipe just goes into the soil

Lots of damp brick.

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The boiler condensate might be contributing to the damp a but, but I reckon most will be runoff from whatever that brick thing on the right is - unflashed, unguttered sloping concrete "roof" without even a drip ledge.