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  • Birthday 05/12/1967

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    I'm going to die in a cold, unfinished house and be eaten by rats! I can only dream of being thermally & financially insulated!
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    Fromunder, Kent

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  1. Do you work in HR per chance?
  2. Onoff

    Patio roof

    Insufficient imho. Our neighbour did similar for his fence posts. Cast concrete footings, let them set, then drilled and used expanding anchors for 4-hole metal post shows. Wind took the lot out. The kids tree house base here, 6+ 4x4 posts. I had galvanised brackets made up. 10mm side plates are bent at 90deg where they go into the concrete about a foot down. Then with my 100x100x6 steel gate posts, I cross drilled and put 20mm dia stainless bar to anchor into the concrete.
  3. "Pressure stops" as in rubber safety edges. The legislation applies to swing gates too. I think one of the unfortunate accidents was where a child leant through a closed swing gate to reach the button the other side. The attached sets it all out. documents8a.pdf
  4. I use this lot: https://www.easygates.co.uk/
  5. How about a layer of big bubble, bubble wrap under the joists, for the Rockwool to sit on? Air gaps between the bubbles and you could puncture it all over in between the bubbles for "drainage".
  6. LEDs Are Pants? https://www.kingfisher.com/en/own-exclusive-brand.html
  7. So much in common! 👍
  8. I reckon the pot hole repairs round here last longer than the LED stuff (all makes) I've fitted. Green washing the lot of it.
  9. And I thought my Mondeo was a pain needing a T30 torx and a Phillips to change a bulb.
  10. Don't forget matchsticks & PVA for filling wrongly drilled screw holes.
  11. Edit: My lad 3D printed the last lot of hinge shims I needed.
  12. Scaled up maybe? Give them a soak in Limelite.
  13. Dunno, someone else said don't take the rubbers out! So I took the windows out, clipped the rubbers back in, put the units in and banged the trims on with a rubber mallet. All good.
  14. This ref the "rubbers" that seal 2G units on an internally glazed door. I've changed the 28mm units from patterned to clear glass made up by a local place. To measure up I hooked out the rubbers, removed the internal plastic beads with a paint scraper and measured the glass. I then refitted the glass, refitted the beads inside and lastly, refitted the rubbers which tbh was a pita. The new units made, I again hook out the rubbers, then take out the internal beads. New unit fitted and trims in, rubbers last. What a pig, ten times worse than when I first did it! I've made a hash of if and in places the rubbers are irretrievably distorted. When I removed / refitted the second time the ambient temperature was warmer. I even used some silicone spray to help ease things in and worked my way along pushing the rubbers in with a screwdriver. New rubbers are the only option. What did I do wrong? I'm also having trouble matching the profile despite having ordered a sample pack off eBay:
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