Search results for:

@Airhead What's a good internal door brand for price:quality? 35mm but something with a bit of heft. Single panel/flat, primed, and ideally with large stiles and rails for trimming as a few are odd sizes. Thanks.

What's a good internal door brand for price:quality? Single panel/flat, primed, and ideally with large stiles and rails for trimming as a few are odd sizes. Thanks.

Massively delayed response - but thanks. I really did not like the acrylic eggshell I used when last decorating (Little Greene's Intelligent Eggshell); great going on and in the clean-up, but durability not a patch on oil IMO; marked really easily. Now using LG's Flat Oil Eggshell and it paints and smells like gloss paint should. Lovely finish, too.

Pro-Am decorators. Have I got my scheduling right?

1. Remove handles and shit
   
2. Sand down all woodwork and wipe clean
   
3. 1st coat ceiling, then walls (do clean walls and ceiling need any prep, e.g. wipe with sugar soap?)
   
4. 1st coat oil eggshell woodwork
   
5. 2nd coat ceiling
   
6. Light sand woodwork
   
7. 2nd coat walls
   
8. 2nd coat woodwork
   
9. Replace ironmongery
   
10. trauma-related alcohol binge
    
    

Also, we are eventually going to have the floor sanded and hard-wax-oiled. Will that fuck the decorating?

Fanks.

Radiators, and when to replace them. Scenario: just had two double-panel, single convector rads taken off the wall to remove wallpaper and replaster - probably 20 years old. Visually in good nick. Will I gain anything by replacing them with new ones?

Radiators, and when to replace them. Scenario: just had two double-panel, single convector rads taken off the wall to remove wallpaper and replaster - probably 20 years old. Visually in good nick. Will I gain anything by replacing them with new ones?

I am with you, man! If we ever get around to doing our bathrooms - which are both horrible and completely fine at the same time - I'm going for cork. Everyone thinks of the horrible square orange tiles from the 70s/80s, but it's moved on!

I know to expect this, but I always hope for better.

I've always believed the 'Macs don't need antivirus software schtick'. But I guess that only applies to people who know that Flash is dead and legit updates don't come from popups. Read lots that say that stuff slows machines down and is itself hard to get rid of.

Like a total fucking amateur (which I sort of am) I got had by a fake Adobe Flash update and got some stupid malware which was trying to sell me antivirus software. I've been thought the library and deleted everything I think it installed, problem seems gone and nothing suspicious in Activity Monitor, but is there anything I could or should do now to be sure that it hasn't installed a key logger or something? TIA.

Okay! Found a reasonably-priced, HETAS-approved installer for the log burner. Now how would I go about deconstructing this fireplace? Instinct says to hit it with a club hammer. Thoughts?

Hmmmm. Fucking stupid expensive everything! Thanks for info.

Possibly on the edge of what might be considered DIY, but seriously considering installing a wood burner if the other quotes are anything like this one! No chimney, so would need a twin-wall flue. Quote: 5kw stove - £800 plus VAT, twin wall insulated chimney system in silver - £1700 plus VAT, if in black 20% extra, installation of this and heath and stove, signing off with HETAS certificate - £960 plus VAT.

This look crazy expensive to anyone else? I know that stoves can be had cheaper but £3240 just for chimney and a fairly standard through-the-wall-and-roof installation? In Cambridge - or London-on-Fen as I am now calling it.

I'd put another section of architrave around that.

Found it! Insanely small, pin-prick puncture by the side of a nobble. Thanks for the suggestions.

Valve is submersed, too, and not a single bubble. New goo is only a month or two old.

Perplexing rear flatting issue. Submerged entire rear wheel - rim and tyre - in water and not a single bubble from anywhere at 60psi (G-one on converted rim) and yet it is virtually flat (under 20psi) after a 7-mile ride and a day sat outside the office. Have plugged a few holes and it had a fresh load of Stan's in after a recent issue. Plenty of life left in it I think, just very weird that I can't see where air is coming from. Ideas?

Thank you; that's ace info. Will definitely look into that though I'd be a bit anxious about the measuring - though I guess we could employ a fitter in advance and make that their problem.

Current reccos for double-glazing companies? Looking for timber or alu. Had a not unreasonable (I think) quote from Kloeber but would like something to compare to. Ta.

Was all that pimping just to sell it?

Tried to install Lightroom 5 on my newish machine after a bit of a break from organising and processing photos. Had a licence number registered with Adobe, and had upgraded successfully from 3 a few years back (admittedly never paid for; it was from someone on here, actually, who had a load of licences for their education institution). Fucking thing tells me that this licence is no longer valid and so I can't use it now! Probably shouldn't be cross, but am, as totally skint and need something to sort and edit.

Does Darktable, discussed upthread, handle the sorting/choosing/tagging stuff as well as RAW editing/output? Or should I just pony up for Photo Mechanic?

Probably means they will ultimately produce a medium-format body and these new lenses will be compatible with it.

That's more like it. Certainly agree on the film thing. If it didn't come with the cost I'd certainly shoot it, partly for nurturing the virtue of patience as one waits to fill a roll, send it off, receive prints/scans etc. That level of differed gratification is hard to achieve in the modern world.

An eloquent and considered response! I can see it from both POVs: in many situations (think weddings, fashion, sport and wildlife as mentioned), the client might want both film footage and stills. Why pay for both when very high quality stills can be extracted from high-frame-rate video, meaning you'll never miss the decisive moment? On the other hand, if your primary aim is stills, who wants to sift through hours of film footage, trying to decide between dozens of nearly identical frames?

Friend of mine - formerly a pro tog, now primarily doing video - reckons that still photography is going to be obsolete in a few years' time; says that rapidly-increasing video resolution means that we'll just film everything then pick high-res stills from the footage. Discuss.