Home DIY

Frog Tape has some tiny granules in the adhesive that react with water based paint to form a gel that creates the barrier.

I prob need to draw it out. But yeah, a splash back type thing of valchromat, going all the way round. I have wires running down from the wall mounted monitor that I want to hide.
Think I’ve got it worked out now…

Finally got around to fixing my kitchen tap.

The old cartridges were a bit knackered. Which is terrible quality when you consider we’ve only had the kitchen 3 years.

Replaced both just for the hell of it. The only issue with the cartridges that I bought blind is that the taps don’t quite go straight vertical. But I’ll live it.

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Surely you just rotate the handles on the splines to get a better position

Yeah you’d think so. It either goes slightly forward or slightly back. There seems to be less splines.

Could you try tightening the cartridge a little bit more to lose the angle?

That’s a good shout. I tightened it fairly tight so I’m resistant to over tightening it

we're keeping the ceiling white and going a relatively dark colour on the walls.

Obvs subjective but it might look better to keep the white down to picture rail height. Also easier to get a clean masked line on the wall than in the corner.

Yes I have thought this and discussed with my wife. I'm a bit ambivalent about it. How do you pick a height? We've got internal doors, a bifold door leading to outside, and a section of exposed beam and brick behind a log burner. I feel like it would be hard to pick a height that wouldn't look bad where it meets one of those mismatched things, unless I actually went lower than them all.

How should I go about doing a temporary repair on this?

Looks like water is leaking through the roof, and running down the pipe, causing the roof insulation to get wet and make part of the ceiling damp and wet.

I was thinking about getting some black plastic sheet and repair the felt, loads of duct tape and then see about getting a roofer to sort out the bit sticking through the tiles.

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Go straight to getting a roofer in.

Try to get the water to run in to a bucket or something in the meantime.

That will only seal properly from the outside. Roofer urgently.

Yeah, I know I need to get a roofer in, because at best the water will run on top of the roof felt.

It’s a flat we rent out so want to minimise damage tomorrow morning before a roofer can go out and sort from the outside.

Then I guess let it dry out, and replace any dodgy insulation with new rock wool.

We went with a third of the way up the wall which, with high ceilings, was about 1m.

It makes the decorating a lot easier

That's a dado height rather than a picture rail. If there are lots of tall things, slightly lower than the tops of them might work. Take a photo and draw a line on it, see how it looks.

Result! All I remember seeing was a video saying 'you'll never find the right part mate'.

I'm in a lamp lighting pickle..
SGU10 lamp fittings I've seven of them in the bathroom, the only compatible bulb I can find is by aurora and £10+postage a go, is there a safe standard to change them [probably not a knife to the fitting shoulders]

I want to fit a bin under this sink waste but it doesn’t quite fit. Can I make the drop on the waste shorter and if so how would I do that?

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Yes, but maybe not enough.

You can keep most of the pipework but shorten the white pipe between the two screw fittings (just to the left of your arrow) and lengthen the black pipe at the back. It looks like that would only save you a couple of CMs though.

Or you could use something like this to replace the lot.

That’s the first one I googled - “low profile sink waste” or “low profile sink trap” so that might not be perfect but you get the idea

Looks like you’re not the first person with the problem.

Is this a viable solution? Maybe not for physical space reasons, but maybe it would work?

That looks like the exact job, they are the long barrel type, (I was up for a cut and shunt job)

Oh amazing. Will grab on of those from Toolstation. Thanks!

I searched for the tap make and model online and was very lucky.

What’s the make and model of the fitting you have

https://www.tlc-direct.co.uk/Products/GULB3CW.html?source=adwords&ad_position=&ad_id=&placement=&kw=&network=x&matchtype=&ad_type=pla&product_id=GULB3CW&product_partition_id=&campaign=shopping&version=finalurl_v3&gad_source=1&gclid=Cj0KCQiA3uGqBhDdARIsAFeJ5r2jnCjO_pju3FX39JK8_c0IUIkfJH1KdhglbJYDpdeF9ejTcMvmz0waAkQ8EALw_wcB