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Any recs on filler? I have instal two part but prob need something finer….
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I use 2 different products for front doors these days. Repaircare for the moving joints that always open up with use or rot and wood filler for the dents, splits and holes.
To apply the repaircare you widen the joints before applying.
The wood filler is normally Toupret ready mixed wood filler or prestonett.
I stopped using 2 part filler years ago when I discovered repaircare, it's big advantage is it dries quickly, otherwise it's not got much to recommend it. Be careful using finer fillers like toupret fine filler on exterior woodwork.
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Argh. Wish I’d asked before lunch when I went to b and q as they have toupret.
Cheers for the recos, will give the regular toupret ago, my current two part dries daft quick and it’s hard to get smooth.
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Jeezus. Thats a tidy job. Will give both a go then.
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My front garden appears to have a concrete carpark under 8 inches of poor quality topsoil. Would one of these do me a job or should I just hire a man with a mini digger?
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Depends how much manual labour you want to do. I imagine it would do a very satisfying job. The landscaper (fellow forumenger) used a very similar if not identical one to remove 4-6" thick concrete from a couple of spots here. But the mini digger will be quicker/easier. @Fox has first dibs on this one.
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Anyone got any hot tips for insulating cupboard door (washing machine) for sound? There's not a lot of room between front of machine and inside of door so I figured just stapling something soft might help or gluing on some foam. Also need to add a strip to cover the bottom of it under the door as that's where most of the sound leakage is coming from.
No, it's not the spin cycle that's noisy so no point suggesting reducing spin RPM.
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I don’t think there’s magic to it- the sound comes through air and structure/material, so attack both. You could put the machine on something sound deadening, there are heavy black rubberised matts for the purpose but probably other things would do. Block all the gaps, brushes or foam in the door frame and under the floor. Then I don’t know if egg box/foam for airborne sounds or more weight for structurally-borne sounds would be more useful.
I had fire door blanks put in the double understairs doors I did, and sealed and overlapped as much as possible. You can watch TV or eat dinner in the room with the washing machine going under the stairs.
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They normally do, except when it's the little connector which is usually the first thing to fail due to heat.
They are available on ebay if you need them. I try and find the ones with the longer tails.
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I haven't quite followed other people's replies, but for a temp fix you could use "flashing tape" to cover the join between brick and upstand tile, it's malleable and intended to adhere to uneven surfaces. Get as good a job as you can along the top. When you get it fixed you could consider proper flashing which is chased into the mortar between bricks.
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you might need a different dimmer switch for halogen vs led (leading edge vs trailing edge)
https://www.wholesaleledlights.co.uk/trailing-edge-dimming-for-led-bulbs -
One for the electricians/lighting experts.
I bought this bulb as a replacement for our kitchen pendant, which had similar equivalency at about 250 watts. Worked for a bit, then would periodically turn itself off and on. 2nd one had the same result.
I wrote to the seller who put me in touch with the manufacturer (standard mo apparently, who knew). They are telling me that despite the E26 size and being 26 watts, it won't work because the lamps are intended to replace HID units.Educate me on why they won't work in our pendant please!
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I like the idea of fire doors. Not sure they sell them for kitchen cupboards though - Masterchef has gone horribly wrong if you need one of those! :D
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Yep, it's under round about where the third tile is in the external picture.
CT-1 was my FIL's suggestion. How thin does that come out? There's quite a thin gap for it to have to penetrate, and I'm not a tested pro at that, but reckon I can give it a go.