Home DIY

Ball cock will be stuck or passing. Easy to fix

Cheers, water continues to trickle into our basement with no rain today so it could be the source.

The house has been basically abandoned and has blocked drains/fucked gutters so although I’m not excited about inevitable renovation now that it has been sold but maybe it will solve the on off damp issues in the basement.

Thought about tiling it, we have just done this

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Can anyone recommend a 'under side of chair leg' pad that actually adheres for more than a few days? So frequently I've put them on chair legs to protect the floor and they never last

in being slightly crazy I think I used shoe contact adhesive with a bit of leather from an old pair of shoes on these,, that was 5 or so years ago, it doesn't give the soft pull of felt and is a larger surface area but it's still there - suppose it could have then been topped with felt & not just dirt

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Buy the screw in ones

Brass casters

Think I used that gorilla glue to get them to stick

From what you've said it just sounds like a way to add time and cost to the job for no upside.

The one thing finishing the wall might do is keep it cleaner and reduce dust. You can get breathable brick sealant for interior brick feature walls which isn't that expensive. So if keeping brick dust down is a consideration I'd be more tempted to go that route. But it looks. Like the current white wash is probably doing that job.

Soul is right. Team screw on forever.

We used sticky pads for the furniture that doesn't move. Turns out everything moves eventually and I should have just done them the same time as I did the moving furniture.

This sort of thing, but obvs measure and buy the size you need.
Felt Furniture Gliders. Screw in... https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B084JQR1YJ?ref=ppx_pop_mob_ap_share

Fitting a new radiator and I need the pipe to come up roughly where the red dot is. Any reason I can’t cut a chunk out the rafter? It’s ground floor, by the front door.

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Well that joist is helping to hold your suspended floor up; notching it for a pipe is usually fine, but it's not a big timber...
Obvs a plumber would just not worry about it, as the structure of the building is not as important as their pipes.

I'd just dig out a little of that shit under the joist and send the copper underneath and up into the gap. But presumably you're getting a deeper rad so the pipe centre is directly over it?

If you're being really fastidious you could notch the joist but then slap a bit of 4x2 on the side of it to reinforce the weakened bit

Yeah, predictably the rad needs to come up right in the middle. I’ve taken floorboards out either side then will brace across the cutout. Thanks

A good plumber should be able to put a couple of bends in, to avoid cutting the joist. Two of the bends would be above the finished floor, but will be something that largely goes unnoticed I would imagine.

I hate the brick layer who alternated different density of bricks at random on this wall. Started to make me not like the shelves half way through.

Also that fucking coving is doing my head in but feels like too big a job to do quickly.

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Can you not just put a bend in the copper?

Honestly, we already have more than enough bent coppers.

I have to replace our bedroom doors with fire-rated ones. I'm also looking to increase the soundproofing of all these doors whilst doing so.

Are there 'acoustic' doors which don't cost a bomb? Or will a normal solid-core 44mm fire door with seal strips around the edges be sufficient?

I know this is a how long is a piece of string question but I have a couple of broken winders on my stair case that need repairing, I've been having a nightmare trying to find someone to fix it (I'm not in London) and have now got a quote back of £400 all in, which is more than I was expecting but my expectations were based on nothing, he has great reviews, is this reasonable?

Guess it's important to know if the brokenness is only and reasonably located to those two, or if it's a really shoddy install that's hanging on an edge, ie good money after bad longer term

Big day. Old door out, new in. Which included using disc cutter to open out doorway. Not without the cluster fuck of cutting through a electric wire buried around the door frame. Making good to come later. Triple glazed, old door wasn't even airtight!

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you'ra'll living the dream,, is this the place in Spain?

Yeah Esterri d'Àneu. Any my pension fund/bank balance are not dreamy! Ha