Home DIY

Have you considered hiring one of the industrial dehumidifiers? I had a domestic one running for 6 weeks. Insurance company brought in industrial ones and pulled gallons of water out in about a week.

That looks perfect.

You floor looks a lot smoother than mine

I have a dehumidifier. We have an open plan kitchen, living room and dining room and it pulls about 5 litres every 2/3 days.

I don’t even think our house is damp. But still so much water.

I think my door is 50% filler. And prob the wrong kind.

Thinking:
Sand.
Fill.
Sand.
Paint.
Fill.
Sand.
Paint.

Zinnser ABC primer then maybe Farrow and Ball again, but prob gonna go water based rather than Matt oil which was hell on earth.

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existing filler doesn't look wrong from the image (wrong would reject the paint and also be rejected from the wood (absorbing the fillers water)),, it's all looking standard

get it right and get it right first time, is my best mantra to what is a very laborious process

My domestic knowledge is lacking,
This is rated to 105W right (Volt Amperes max = 105).
So what would be an appropriate replacement?

I seem to be struggling to find 12v ac 105w

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Solid mantra and that’s the plan.

Maybe the filler is just so old it’s falling apart rather than it being the wrong type.

https://www.savemylight.co.uk/product/huibolong-htv105l1-electronic-transformer/

Is this the same?

VA is not identical to watts but close enough for giggles.

Any 11.4-12v transformer with at least 105va should do

Loads

So a bit of reading tells me that 12v ac was the old halogen standard, some leds will work with old ax halogen drivers, but dc is the newer standard and most led bulbs will be dc.

This is why I hate domestic.

That was pretty much the approach asashrepair.co.uk took to ours. Used F&B water based exterior eggshell to finish.

If anyone here is a tradie or is about to undertake some big kid renovation work, I still have one of these, brand new in the box (got sent to me in error over a year ago) that I'd let go on here for not very much.

https://www.drapertools.com/product/56411/draper-expert-breaker-18-5kg-1700w/

The tool hoarder in me would love to keep it, but I'd likely never use it more than once. And it's in the way of where I keep my track pump...

Definitely interested - entire back garden is currently covered in paving slabs which need to go and I already know a lot of them won't come up without a fight!

The bit nearest to the house is two layers of paving slabs, a layer of concrete below that then ~8" down, the original concrete slab. lol.

PM me with how much you're thinking?

People are going for GU10 LED's now. If you need to change from 12v Halogen to LED and want a relatively cheap and simple pathway then the Integral Evofire frame is great, there's a version which works with insulation or one without.

They are IP65 and fire rated and also fit any hole from 70mm and have a 100mm bezel to cover the issues you get when pulling the old downlight frames out of a ceiling. Just add a GU10 led dimmable lamp in warm or cold white.

https://www.toolstation.com/integral-led-evofire-ip65-fire-rated-downlight/p58865?store=GA&utm_source=googleshopping&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=googleshoppingfeed&mkwid=_dc&pcrid=null&pkw=null&pmt=null&gad_source=1&gclid=CjwKCAiAlcyuBhBnEiwAOGZ2S9Ilg2OD0vVZccl1NF-yHU-ZoEZPTaHUZWFM3n31KhMTMY5GgsWf1RoCzzwQAvD_BwE&gclsrc=aw.ds

In my typical hording way, when we threw out the cot sides to my youngest's bed, I smashed out all the spindles to keep. You know just in case.

I also kept these big chunky posts from when we ripped out a fence.

after leaving our wellies in the rain by mistake I thought I'd knock up a quick wellie stand.

I tried quickly hand sanding a spindle and unsurprisingly for a children's bed, the paint finish is excellent. I was thinking about painting them black any way, when it occured to me I could speed things up by having a crack at Shou Sugi Ban. As I've got plenty I'm not worried about it going wrong.

Here we are after a quick (20min) sesh in the garden between calls. I ran out of time, so have to have another crack, but thought I'd give them a brush first to see where we are.

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Got some minor ingress here. Need to get pointing sorted, until then, anything I can do asap? I have some heavy duty waterproof gorilla tape, but don’t want to make things worse by using it.

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I’m just sorting it for a mate for nowt, I just want to replace the driver for now.

I wholeheartedly agree that GU10 spots would be better, but replacing all the spots rather than one driver is too much of a faff for me.

I’ll stick to fixing motors!

That tape will make a big sticky mess and likely pull everything apart when you come to take it off to do the repair properly.

If that damp patch is directly below the cracked / missing pointing above the 'flashing' you could do worse than getting some flash tape and doing a temp bodge until you can get it fixed properly.

Another alternative might be to fix the pointing with CT-1

Both of these bodges, done 'right' could last a good number of years.

Yeah, I don't want to use it tbh. I used it to good effect on some rotten sash windows, but can tell from how it applied that it could be a nightmare come the time to fix it properly.

I'm pulling out transformers from ceilings and have a box of them as spares but I used to buy them from ebay. They do seem to have gone up in price but 105ma is enough to drive a 50w halogen.

I used to use this brand but was getting three for this price:-

[https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/224205505678?

All LED MR16 bulbs have built-in rectifiers and will happily take 12V AC. The problem is the electronics in cheap drivers will only work properly with a halogen-sized load, and misbehave otherwise.

Transformers that are powerful enough to drive halogen but also stable enough to drive LED are rare and expensive, so you have to pick one or the other.

Interestingly it turns out that people on here with actual experience of Shou Sugi Ban were right, and the random punters on Reddit and YT are mistaken.

It's actually quite tricky.

Here's where we are after giving the front 5 a quick wire brush. I guess I'd call it a 20% success ratio?

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