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  1. Onoff
    Try a smear over that fixing?
  2. Onoff
    For local steel suppliers have a look through these pages here, might be useful to someone: https://www.mig-welding.co.uk/forum/threads/steel-suppliers-your-help-please.4311/
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    Did you ever buy a welder? If you want a good stick welder then this so far ahead of the heavy old buzz boxes it's like sci-fi: https://www.weldequip.com/parweld-xts-162.htm Buy the case if you get one. Optional TIG kit too.
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    Lidl Parkside one all day long. I couldn't find either of mine recently when I put the daughters TV bracket up so asked the BiL. Gave me his Aldi one saying he couldn't get on with it. https://www.aldi.co.uk/workzone-stud-detector/p/011334263945200 Absolute doddle to use. Tried getting one but couldn't other than online so got the Lidl Parkside one below. Incidentally this looks and acts pretty much identical. Just for you I've arisen from my deathbed: Clamped a stud to a bit of mrpb: I've only tried it on the stud setting and NOT read the instructions: As you reach the side of the stud the arrows peak, make a mark: The arrow tails off as you reach the other side of the stud. Come back from the other direction to make sure and make a second mark. Centreline of the joist is in the middle of the two marks. I'll do a little video:
  5. Onoff
    Could be worse, you could be known as "that bloke who's fitted upskirt glass". Eh, @pocster?
  6. Onoff
    Mark the joist centres in case it doesn't work and you have to screw later. Spax flooring screws all day long for me in 22mm T&G chipboard. Superb design. https://tradefixdirect.com/woodscrews/flooring-screws?
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    Their default is the customer is at fault and that any investigation will be chargeable. Case in point: My BT line was playing up. I reported it and their response was that line testing indicated the fault in or near my property. Furthermore to investigate and sort any such fault would be at my cost. From memory I had to agree to I think to an over £100 minimum charge. Making sure that no overhead lines (their lines) were snagged by (my) trees I disconnected the overheads at the box on the wall and insulation resistance tested the surface mounted cabling running from the box along the house and through the wall to the master socket. Tbh I'm pretty sure it's their cable anyway (maybe the old "Dropwire No.1"?). Plugged in a known good phone and still dead. Even tried another master socket. It was pretty clear it was their side so I wrote back with the IR results and that I wouldn't agree to the minimum charge. Fault was found 2km away at the local exchange. So much for in or near my property!
  8. Onoff
    Has someone made a serious pricing faux pas here? Get in quick! https://www.screwfix.com/p/dulux-trade-diamond-quick-drying-matt-emulsion-paint-pure-brilliant-white-5ltr/6180g EDIT: IF you can find any store with it in. I've hunted high and low to no avail.
  9. Onoff
    Find your local galvaniser: https://www.galvanizing.org.uk/find-a-galvanizer/
  10. Onoff
    Seems it's not going too well there: https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.forbes.com/sites/brittainladd/2018/07/08/lidl-usa-what-went-wrong-and-what-it-can-do-to-recover/amp/
  11. Onoff
    How about the Roman equivalent Vulcan? He made slave girls from gold to do his every bidding. ...was a very ugly baby too!
  12. Onoff
    You NEVER told us you had a mentor! I had visions of you lashing it together thinking it was great and then grandchidren or such like running into it with disastrous results. I remember the shipping container welding attempts! Go for it then but I stand by my finishing comments. It'll be bloody annoying having rust streaks down your render in a few years time. Galvanize then paint or ppc would be my first choice. Shot blast to Swedish standard SA2.5, zinc flame spray then paint or ppc the second choice. A quick home wire brushing and painting won't last imo. And don't be tempted to have it powder coated over bare steel even if clean, if not galvanised or zinc flame sprayed first. I looked at some stuff I put in 32 years ago the other week. 5 floors up the side of a building. That was zfs/ppc. Still looks good.
  13. Onoff
    +1 to a jig.
  14. Onoff
    How wide is it out of interest?
  15. Onoff
    It's a European thing, they leap up out of bed and throw the doors open then do their morning exercises in all their naked glory.
  16. Onoff
    My flat coated retriever would have been straight in that!
  17. Onoff
    Imho 12 dia verticals are too small and will flex. Something like 16x16mm sq would be better I think.
  18. Onoff
    Hats off to you having a go but if it were me I wouldn't dream of making one unless it was galvanised before painting. You'll regret it when water gets into your crap welding holes and rust streaks. Even worse where it fixes to the wall. At the very least zinc flame sprayed then powder coated. Just saying. https://bearmetals.co.uk/juliet-balconies?
  19. Onoff
    What sections are the verticals and horizontal?
  20. Onoff
    I'm ill and not doing anything so fingers crossed nothing goes wrong! Crazy with thread pitches and I feel your pain. When I changed the two 2-port and one 3-port valves here from Tower brand to the Honeywell ones, only the nuts/olives on the 3-port were the same. I then didn't have a 22mm olive splitter!
  21. Onoff
    Don't know. The tank level drops below the outlet and the burner must suck through what's left in the pipe. The pipe is now empty. I then get +2000L of oil delivered. You'd expect it to flow freely through the pipe (about 25m long). Not a dribble without some help. It's a copper pipe maybe 8-10mm, not coated or anything. Maybe kinked by a root?
  22. Onoff
    The outlet on my oil tank must be a good 2m above the (Riello) burner. Guaranteed though if I run out completely I have to disconnect the feed pipe at the fire valve (level with the burner) and "suck" the oil through with one of these:
  23. Onoff
    Oil level lower than the burner? Isn't this is is what a tiger loop is for?
  24. Onoff
    Water bar...who knew, never heard of them before now. Before this my thought would have been, if anything, that there's something in a can you coat the join with before the next pour. Everyday's a school day!
  25. Onoff
    Ok for chipping the old stuff off but a pita to keep moving when you re-render.
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