Have a look for cosplay supplies - somewhere like Tyges? The thickest they do is 10mm, and a 500x500mm sheet is only a fiver. Of course, there'd be nothing to stop you buying a pack of 2mm sheets and gluing them together as another option - as long as you didn't mind a rainbow of colours
Yeah I bought some of the Sealey Easy Peel, it worked really well. The stuff is never cheap but Sealey is accessible in the UK, and I had no bother with it.
Have a look at home insulation sheets like Celotex or Kingspan. If you peel off the foil backing, it’s just a closed cell foam type stuff. And I’ve seen it in varying thicknesses up to 150mm
Katsu trimmer/routers are very good. Contrary to what most people think, it is the original, and the Makita is actually the clone. Made and badged for Makita, by Katsu.
Thanks guys ill look into all of these. Shadow Foam on you tube is what made me aware of such a thing
No. There's a reason I keep all the ethelene foam used in packaging. Holy flaking ship. That was an event. Apparently the original plumber was Godzilla. The little bit was what was left sticking out of the elbow in the wall. It was crushing instead of unscrewing. I had to remove the internal elbow which involved two wrenches with 2' pipes on the handles, and some significant force. The original 70's era threads were pristine, so, yeah, they were sealed pretty danged tight. My contractors' comment when he heard what I was up to: "That's gonna be a BOOGER." So I hope today will involve bricking the hole up.
Easy mode DIY, but I still hate it: finally got the Ring alarm out of the storage box I put it in when I bought it in November 2022(!) and installed it. The sensors and stuff are easy, just peel and stick - though the conservatory one needed screwing in owing to an uneven surface and I've somehow stuck the sensor for the office window skew-wiff, and *that's* the one I'll be staring at all day! The outdoor siren, though... I hate DIY, and DIY at height is worse by far. I know it's only four holes (in the densest brick in the world), but I didn't enjoy any of that in the least. Still, it's done now - would have been nice to wire it in so it glows at night (and so I don't have to climb the sodding ladder again each time the batteries run out) but it'll serve its purpose.
I never had a fear of heights growing up or in early adulthood, use to shimmy up a ladder to dig a tennis ball out the guttering without a second thought, climb up or over anything. Until I went to Vegas. We'd been walking round either. Ceasers palace or the belagio, getting lost around their conference rooms admiring the art dotted round, we finally got back to casino main and saw a balcony that looked over the casino floor with the start of a very large chandelier, so we walked over to see where we were. We were approx 3 stories up, so I unexpectedly was looking down a very long way down a very long chandelier and my inner ear and knees said "noooooope". Ever since I can't do heights. Weirdest thing.
I know the feeling, I got hammered on a night out once when we were students. Woke up on someone's sofa, walked over to look out the window and as I approached the vista developed beyond my imagination. Turns out I was in an office on the fifth floor of the Strathclyde student union, to this day no-one knows how I got in there.
Can anyone recommend a workbench for very occasional use with relatively small items? In the past I probably would have bought a Black and Decker Workmate but I'm reading a few reviews chiefly mentioning poor quality compared to the ones from years ago. It'll be used for dismantling/cleaning small parts e.g. currently working on my KTM disc caliper (and I'm now banned from using the Kitchen worktop). I will probably occasionally use it with a small Stanley Multi-Angle vice to hold things for cleaning/polishing but won't be sawing large boards or anything like that. Any suggestions?
Nothing is as good as it was back in the day, so if it's only for light occasional use go with the Workmate, they're cheap, cheerful and do the job
I bought one of these from Costco a while ago when they were on offer for about £50: https://www.toolstation.com/keter-folding-work-bench/p10910 Can highly recommend!
Here's a nice example of one of the many joys of DIY in a Victorian terrace. Just put up some new shelves in a bedroom alcove....looked at the ceiling above the top shelf...damn I must have put them up wonky...the shelf is higher on the right. Nope - they are dead level, the ceiling is lower on the right (PS, good books are kept on the main shelves downstairs, these shelves are strictly for the embarrassing trash ) 1716293095139 by MiNiMaL_FuSS posted 21 May 2024 at 13:07
This is my house. Nothing is square or perpendicular, although some of that is thanks to the shonkey bodge jobs done by the previous owners. Classic example of this is when I measured the kitchen and dining room for the refurb, measured extremely carefully and accurately as possible, gave the measurements to wren. Wren lady says "oh I think these are off by a fair bit. But we have to have someone measure anyway as part of our process", I tried telling her but they gotta do it anywah. Next meeting "oh yeh you're measurements were perfect, our guy was really impressed, it's just a really odd shape
Had our kitchen redone a couple of years ago...same situation. Builders had to build all sorts of plinths and extra frames behind the wall mounted cupboards to square them. Most swearing I've ever hear in my life!
You'd be a bit wonky after ~120 years as well, they still made houses to last them Victorian's. Same in my Vic semi, I just assume nothing is square to begin with and there are no surprises.
