repairing things

now

I wouldnt do it that way, now

turning into The Irish thread!

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doors are so fucking hard, harder than almost any other construction imho

wedge shims, try to close, repeat x1000

Doors are something I would not want to do myself because the cost of doing it wrong is so high.

Re: stud finders, I've had good luck with a free metal detector app on my phone, which I had no idea existed but which does a pretty good job finding nails.

2/3 screws on the bottom hinge of our bathroom door are stripped, so the door is not hanging true and is dragging across the tile. i know how to fix the stripped screws (plug with dowel/matchsticks, etc.) but i haven't done it because i'm scared of getting the door back on the hinges. if the hinges are already there and already in the right place, how hard will it be?

both of my exterior door frames are trapezoids

xp

It's not bad if it is a light, interior door.

yeah getting doors back on hinges is OK, it's building new doors that's hard

thanks. sounds good but if i'm shitting with the door open next week i'm going to blame this message board.

both of my exterior door frames are trapezoids

hwat

there is a gap above the door because the top of the frame is not quite horizontal

that is much less bonkers than i hoped it would be

I'm now almost into a week with a knackered boiler but i've remembered and relearned that a cooker is also central heating!

Is it possible I’ve got 1” drywall in my ca 1950 Southern California house? Trying to patch holes and the existing drywall seems extremely thick. I thought 1/2 or 5/8” was standard? Could it be two 1/2” sheets? This is ceiling and interior wall.

Never heard of 1" drywall, but with older houses, anything goes. Our house is from 1928 and when we gutted our bathroom years ago, you could see the label on the back of the adjoining walls and it had a label with the year 1928. Our contractor could not believe there was drywall that old.

I think it would be unusual for two sheets to be used back to back and that would be easy to figure out.

i was getting a roof resealed today but now the roofer guys say the wood underneath is soft and they have to entirely redo the roof :(

Oh no. Get a second opinion! We have two quotes for some roof repairs, one over 1700, one less than 600. It's a small flat section in front of a recessed dormer window, the second guy says it should be done with scaffolding but he can do it without... might have to get a third quote.

yeah we will. i’m almost more skeptical of low estimates than high. in any case i feel very much like i have zero leverage or knowledge to evaluate what’s been proposed

i fixed the cold tap and my bf's laptop

that little red/blue pvc tab on top of the tap can be a bugger to remove!

oh it was FAR more dramatic than that

you got the adjustable spanner of mass destruction out?

no

but i did try to change the cartridge without turning off the water at the mains (i did it with the other one on the other side but the pressure was much lower) as i thought the mains were under the bath and would require cutting a siliconed in panel out and i was hoping to avoid it.

lol nothing worse than water spurting everywhere combined with panic. It might have the potential to kill you 18 times, but at least electric current stays in the copper wire and behaves itself. Water spurting everywhere is just chaos!

and siliconed bath panels are bastards. Anything mechanical under a bath should be accessible via a panel that can be screwed on/off ffs

oh its just ridiculous!

but i did try to change the cartridge without turning off the water at the mains (i did it with the other one on the other side but the pressure was much lower) as i thought the mains were under the bath and would require cutting a siliconed in panel out and i was hoping to avoid it.

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Yikes, wet and wild.

We had to have a cartridge replaced in our shower (which is a bitch because of how the screws on the shower body have to be screwed in). The plumber recently did it wrong and it failed several days later when my wife turned the shower on. Luckily she hadn't stepped in yet, because it blew the entire handle and cartridge off the body and a firehose of scalding hot water shot everywhere. I had to fly down to the basement to shut off the main.

Lol dname

you know how people justify the high cost of Dualit toasters by telling you that they're easily repairable? well, the timer broke on our 20 y/o one the other day; I ordered a new part for £11, watched a video on youtube, and did the whole job in five miinutes.

i have a dualit and my heart rose in my throat after your first sentence.

Ya i dont even have one but was very shook by that intro

oh i hate my dualit toaster, literally the worst toaster i've ever had

I'm always planning on getting something else but i only do toast on the grill bc of it

classic plax kitchen utensil opinion, how does he do it

sounds too John Lewis for me as well, not the good John Lewis, the bebop neoclassicist with the golden fingers from the MJQ either. The cunt who sells toasters for 200 quid!

they are insanely expensive. but i went through three toasters in like… six or seven years? and was like, this is ridiculous.

american toasters are all massive and i hate them and miss £14.99 plastic argos toasters every day, but this is nice ...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1OfxlSG6q5Y

they mangle yr bread

like they look nice-ish but then they just pincer your toast to the side of the toaster when its finished

my £20-30 russell hobbs toaster is nearly 3 years old now and still going strong, and doesn't mess with my toast.

no honestly i used to have a tesco value one before and i wish i'd just bought another one after that died

i do like my fancy kettle though

it is true that fragile stuff does not fare well in a dualit. it will get mashed. i use tongs to get that stuff out.

Lads what’s the point of having an expensive toaster though

Heh. One of my neighbors asked my how everybody's favorite local watering hole prepared food. I asked another guy and he told me "I think they have a small toaster oven behind the bar." Then I was in there on Tuesday and saw what looked like a pretty extensive piece of equipment with the brand name Merrychef and later the owner proceeded to tell me all about it.