Onoff

Love it!

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.

And I thought my Mondeo was a pain needing a T30 torx and a Phillips to change a bulb.

Don't forget matchsticks & PVA for filling wrongly drilled screw holes.

Edit: My lad 3D printed the last lot of hinge shims I needed.

Scaled up maybe? Give them a soak in Limelite.

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.

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:

Semi-detached bungalow built in 1960. Has a rear dormer extension. There's an unused chimney stack comes up about 2/3 of the way along the dormer. This for the old fireplace and at one time solid fuel boiler. Now a modern gas boiler with the flue to the rear of the property through a downstairs wall. I think the stack goes up through the flat dormer roof. (Photo angle makes it look like the ceiling is sloped, it's not). The question is is this likely to be structural as in could it come out and the roof be patched? Cheers

Whoops, I posted in the wrong thread. Should have gone in "How Does Your Garden Grow?" Mods, can this and @SteamyTea's comment be moved please?

Managed to get out and start digging over my little veg patch. Dug in the couple of bags of manure I'd had sat in the bags a couple of years. Put a jumbo bag's worth of cherry leaves through a shredder plus the old bean vines. A bit clumpy so I'll finish the digging today maybe now it's dried out a bit. Really need to knock up a little tool shed. This year the aim is to double the veg patch size with another, sleeper bordered section to the right. Beans are a given this year, in the same spot. Probably more beans up the side and squash again in the L shape but earlier. I really want to do some spuds. Got to decide whether to re-erect the frame over the whole lot. Every 3D printed connector failed when the wind blew it over. My own fault as I'd not finished fitting the metal plates at all the joins. There was really little planning went into this. I decided to "grow beans" when my Dad died as the Tubeclamp bean frame I made him needed a home. I had the bean trench dug then realised I should have had it all dug. Added the side and L shaped trenches by hand. The hatched area is still made up ground full of builders rubble, old bottles and chalk from the house build in the 30's:

The little key in the pump was worn and not engaging. Roughly 9.5x3x2. Rang the BiL and asked if he had any. He said no, he usually makes them out of the end of a file. So I did (Draper). Quick job in the dark outside with a Fakita grinder, head torch out on the patio and a damaged pinky from the tree felling Not perfect but it seems to work.

I have...

Got in yesterday and happened to say it felt a bit cold. "Oh yes, it was warm this morning but not as warm as it usually is!" said SWMBO. That plus she thought she could "smell oil" by the boiler. Oil boiler was starting then locking out, the 90-120 Riello RDB2 burner. Checked the cap, first, AOK. Photocell clean, solenoid ok. Plenty of oil. Traced to the pump. Chucked a pressure gauge on and zilch. Took the pump off and rotating the shaft it felt a bit gritty. Somehow I found what appeared to be a brand new pump sat in the garage! Chucked it on, set to 8bar and happy days! Last night everything working. Just came in today from a day's tree felling and and the bloody thing is locking out again.

Not going to go there.

Over to you @Pocster

A link would help!

@Pocster doesn't have a gate, prefers to use the back door.

This is my one: This I think: https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/284650164954

I got all my gate gear from here: https://www.easygates.co.uk/

I've definitely got rising moisture. The substrate aka felt is totally shot. Mind the other side is worse, I've just slung a bit of weighted down DPM over the whole lot.

The paint on one I used last I'm sure used to say can be applied to damp surfaces. They've I think changed the can wording to on the lines it can be but better if the substrate is dry.

I've used most of the grey, acrylic, single pack repair paints. Cromapol, Flexacryl, Acrypol, Evercryl etc. All much of a muchness.