None at all, If its -5 outside its -5 in the garage.
What "man jobs" have you done today?
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Its horrendous really, there's 8 more houses like this on our estate alone, I'd love to insulate each floor but its such a big job I just cant.. As a temp measure I've hung a sheet up over the garage door.
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That's what mines like, it's amazing how much difference the floor being insulated makes to your feet (utility floor has about 6-10 inches of height on the garage). Does it count as a man job if I reported some pot holes that actually got fixed, or should that go in a rare encounters thread
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I painted over this wallpaper
Just find it an odd paper for a bedroom feature wall. Ideally the room needs fully skimmed and the ceiling boarding (currently wallpapered) but the logistics of this with a 2 year old and 5 year old....
Means we have just changed this wall to a dark green, Made the rest of the room, white.
I need to cut some blinds to size which I am dreading doing.
Just find it an odd paper for a bedroom feature wall. Ideally the room needs fully skimmed and the ceiling boarding (currently wallpapered) but the logistics of this with a 2 year old and 5 year old....
Means we have just changed this wall to a dark green, Made the rest of the room, white.
I need to cut some blinds to size which I am dreading doing.
SHMBO.Please, no question.
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Poor Plants
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Swapped out my Eufy doorbell for a Unifi one today. In the process I wanted to move it up as it was far too low, forever opening the app and seeing someone's croctch is not fun But wanted to switch due to having Unifi cameras as well has having just upgraded to a Unifi Protect NVR from the old Unifi Video system I was self-hosting. Plus the lack of rtsp from the Eufy was an annoyance.
A fair difference in size.
Now this part genuinely took me just shy of 2 hours lol. The insulation was a nightmare to get past, got close to giving up and suddenly it appeared! I had to make another hook out of some twin&earth to finally pull it though. My original plan was to hook onto the wire in the cavity on its way down and pull it through, but evidently it actually goes all the way through the wall and is behind the plasterboard instead, so no chance of that. I joined on some extra wire and all was good.
Really pelased with the Unifi doorbell though, it's a neat unit and video quality is great. FOV is much much wider than the Eufy also which is a plus.
But wanted to switch due to having Unifi cameras as well has having just upgraded to a Unifi Protect NVR from the old Unifi Video system I was self-hosting. Plus the lack of rtsp from the Eufy was an annoyance.A fair difference in size.
Now this part genuinely took me just shy of 2 hours lol. The insulation was a nightmare to get past, got close to giving up and suddenly it appeared! I had to make another hook out of some twin&earth to finally pull it though. My original plan was to hook onto the wire in the cavity on its way down and pull it through, but evidently it actually goes all the way through the wall and is behind the plasterboard instead, so no chance of that. I joined on some extra wire and all was good.
Really pelased with the Unifi doorbell though, it's a neat unit and video quality is great. FOV is much much wider than the Eufy also which is a plus.
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Oh dear lol
Thankfully OR did a decent job of my fibre install, the duct comes to the left of the front door, fibre comes straight through into the hallway where there's handily an ethernet port that goes upstairs, it did go into the bedroom but I moved it to the other side of the wall into the cubboard which is where my router is.
Thankfully OR did a decent job of my fibre install, the duct comes to the left of the front door, fibre comes straight through into the hallway where there's handily an ethernet port that goes upstairs, it did go into the bedroom but I moved it to the other side of the wall into the cubboard which is where my router is.
Good Job, I have one of those. I did mine with door normal bell wire, I ended up having to make a few holes in the plasterboard to re-run the door bell wire back to the chime box behind it. The old wiring was really quite poor and went to the wrong place, it was bodged through between the door frame and the wall. To be honest, the hardest part was finding a bell box in the UK that could handle the voltage that the US door bells run on (16V rather than the 8V used in the UK).
Did you wire it with network cable?
Yeah that's given me a great idea tbf. I can pull the whole lot of fibre backthrough, and route it into the attic and then drop a CAT5 to the router. Thanks!
Chaps,
Help me understand plastic waste pipes... I have a selection in the shed that have been from past failed Wickes trips. I am now at junction in my life where I need to extend a waste pipe to where one wasn't before...
I have measured the bit I want to tee off, and it is precisely 40mm. It seems to fit roughly okay in a FloPlast 40mm junction I have handy, but clearly the 40mm junction prefers the 'advertised' 40mm FloPlast stuff which actually measures 42/3mm.
I'll probably end up in Wickes with a bit of off cut anyway, but could someone shed light on why 40mm pipe isn't 40mm, and how to recognise what kind of fitting I need? e.g. compression, push-fit, solvent...
I'm tempted to just buy one of each size/type from Wickes for future reference!
Help me understand plastic waste pipes... I have a selection in the shed that have been from past failed Wickes trips. I am now at junction in my life where I need to extend a waste pipe to where one wasn't before...
I have measured the bit I want to tee off, and it is precisely 40mm. It seems to fit roughly okay in a FloPlast 40mm junction I have handy, but clearly the 40mm junction prefers the 'advertised' 40mm FloPlast stuff which actually measures 42/3mm.
I'll probably end up in Wickes with a bit of off cut anyway, but could someone shed light on why 40mm pipe isn't 40mm, and how to recognise what kind of fitting I need? e.g. compression, push-fit, solvent...
I'm tempted to just buy one of each size/type from Wickes for future reference!
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It's a fairly new build house, already had network cable from the original chime to the doorbell, so I've just extended the cable and replaced the chime with a transformer. I don't want the chime as all the notifications will be handled by home assistant.
There are different types, solvent weld and push fit. I think push fit has a smaller diameter to account for the o-rings etc. The solvent weld stuff also works with compression fittings, not sure about the push fit stuff but I expect it does.
If it’s going under the floor, use solvent weld pipe and fittings, they are never coming apart if done correctly.
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Aremy some of them still based on the stupid bsp measurement where its the internal diameter too?
