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  1. daiking
    Considering my typical household waste products, I imagine that 4 pint milk bottles will supply me a steady stream of loft ventilators.
  2. daiking
    This is something I am keeping an eye on in my own new extension loft. There is condensation but as yet it is not dripping. The existing roof was re-felted and tiled at the same time and is (still) noticeably draughty and apparently without the same problem. The new loft section is not draughty at all, neither it is properly sealed from the bedroom and bathroom beneath it so I will be approaching this first. It did not help to leave some metal crawl boards in that loft.
  3. daiking
    Deffo brackets
  4. daiking
    You'd love these then.
  5. daiking
    I'm a mechanical engineer for an industrial site (largest of its type in Europe) about 60(?) miles north west of you. I can't get away with asking the office cleaners if they think my calcs look ok or whether a weld procedure meets the necessary quality requirement. But I only did 3 years so what do I know? (And many of our good designers don't even have that)
  6. daiking
    Special flowers, innit? how often does your doctor ask you for your unprofessional opinion?
  7. daiking
    Straight. the other one just looks wrong. don't ask me why, I don't have 7 years of special flower training behind me, it just looks wrong.
  8. daiking
    I ended up on youtube watching a man cook a turkey with an incandescent lamp and 4 DL DVDs.
  9. daiking
    I notice you're no tidier than anyone else.
  10. daiking
    Minimum of 50, you cheapskate. top tip, I keep a 20 (euro) cent coin in the car for use as a trolley token in lieu of a pound coin. That way I can't spend it.
  11. daiking
    I'm selling Euros at the moment for 1.2/£ - I doubt they will beat that.
  12. daiking
    I take it back, THAT is ugly as sin.
  13. daiking
    And they look ugly as sin but this is the "office" so I don't care.
  14. daiking
    They are pretty good for a pile of sawdust and glue, wrapped in fablon. As these are over 6 foot long they also have 4 conventional shelf brackets on each of the shelves so I can sleep easily that whatever family put on them they won't come down before the whole wall does
  15. daiking
    Brackets every time. The only good thing about the floaters is their chunkiness.
  16. daiking
    It will make less mess to pull the shelf off the wall than putting M20 resin anchors in.
  17. daiking
    15? 20mm? Frame about 1m long, 50mm wide, with 3 'dowels'. Suggests 2 fixings above each dowel and a single fixing in the gaps in a zig zag.
  18. daiking
    I don’t trust floating shelves, not on dot and dab to brick. So I’m going to use brackets too, http://www.screwfix.com/p/hi-load-bracket-147kg-white-200-x-200mm-10-pack/30268 and 14 of these bad boys http://www.screwfix.com/p/rawlplug-rawl-4-all-mixed-wall-plugs-blue-200-pcs/8467g in the plasterboard. I just hope I can get all the holes level and lined up.
  19. daiking
    I wonder how air tight that bath window was? what about wheelchair access ability? As you say bear at 60 but 80? Expect a for sale sign soon and some other poor bugger can delight in the silent transforming mechanisms.
  20. daiking
    I thought the red oxide house was a hideous carbuncle. But what do I know? I'm not a 'playful' architect. as far as I could see, architects play with borescopes
  21. daiking
    Of course. Kevin McCloud is the Clarkson of houses and all these shows are his Top Gear.
  22. daiking
    All the major appliances have their own sockets/circuits so that's 5 for portable appliances which is more than enough. I don't know how you manage to fit 26 different items in a small kitchen to be used at the same time and still have space to move, let alone cook. As ever, the problem with sockets is not the hardware, its the wetware.
  23. daiking
    Looks like you'll be sorted in time for Christmas. 2018...
  24. daiking
    Got a new code, valid till the 19th for T'station, £5 off £40 SAVE5DEC16
  25. daiking
    We use a pop up socket in the kitchen with USBs. Same 2.1A problem which is fine. The advantage of the pop up socket over these wall sockets is that the USBs on the Kengo have an on/off switch. And we only have 5 double sockets in the kitchen (inc. pop up) ?
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