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My dad would be ashamed of me, were he alive, given I used to hang doors with him for a living but I’ve forgotten the methods and this one has me. Usually it’s just adjustments at the hinge screws shifting a few mil here and there to get it right. I can’t understand which bit is wrong...is the...

The pipe to the cold water tap in the downstairs toilet has recently developed a slow leak (one drip every few seconds). How difficult is this going to be to fix myself? I know where the stopcock is, I can take a bike (or a computer) apart and reassemble it correctly, but I have never plumbed...

So I've got about 40 bricks, 52 white bathroom tiles and 18 brick-shaped white tiles. I've got a few pieces of pine wood, wood from old furniture and almost unlimited sticks and branches...oh and white, black, pink and blue paint. Any ideas what I could make with them? Something for the...

I was doing some undercover work for the Rand Corporation Freedom Alliance trying to infiltrate the lefties at The Guardian, trying to identify those with communist leanings (which is all of them) when I came across this little gem of an article...

Apologies if repost; some people are just plain mad :) View: https://youtu.be/HIhfwjWuj-I?t=669

I will be putting a T&G pine ceiling in my shed to replace the existing plaster board one , tomorrow. Forecast is rain so I doubt I will take the bike out . Don't know about Sunday yet.

I am having a clear out of my bikes, I have 3 for sale. Here's 1. Here is my DIY electric bike, I made this as a bit of fun with a mountain bike I was given. You can adjust the settings so it drops to 250w road legal, then put them back to 1000w for proper off road power. It has a thumb...

so you own a timeless classic car , would you consider this ? http://www.bosch-presse.de/pressportal/de/en/the-start-up-powertrain-for-electric-cars-the-bosch-e-axle-offers-greater-range-121216.html

I've never tried it in my entire life but I couldn't face grilling meat in the tail end of this spell of hot weather. 1) A cheap Lidl fillet steak . A similar type would cost over £100 a kilo in RBKC, but we live on the wrong side of the tracks. 2) onion 3) garlic 4) capers 5) anchovy fillets...

Anyone got any good diy solutions for creating mudguard stay caps?

hi all, as some of you know i bought a Trek bicycle a while ago there is a few questions i would like to raise on here. firstly, how do i know when the chain needs lubing, also when it comes to self maintaining the bike is there anything else i should be doing?? and lastly, i know this...

Just listening to this on the radio. Apparently Easter is (one of) the busiest times of the year in A&E One guy mowing the lawn while earing flip flops..........mowed his feet. Another was drilling some timber and in order to get more "purchase" leaned on the wood and drilled towards...

I have bought a new groupset (Shimano Tiarga) and want to put it on my bike. The most mechanical experience I have previous to this is indexing and fitting mudguards, so my question is: Should I buy a tool set and do it myself using books/internet/resources or just pay the LBS to do it for me...

I'm about to embark in a garden storage project. Basically it will be large cupboards along a wall around 5m long I have not decided on depth yet as looking at options. The question is what position to store or hand bikes. There are 4 of us 2 kids 2 adults I have 2 bikes but would like room...

One of the walls in my kitchen is finished with something that's more like concrete than plaster... it's very dusty. I'm not going to put a skim of plaster over it, but it does need sealing... but what with? A watered down PVA mix? Wallpaper paste? Something else?

EDIT*** I am (thinking) of having some speaker stands made out of marble...........to match the new fire-place. The base plate will be 20mm thick. I want to mount the stands on 'spikes'. These spikes have 6mm** threaded male sections to insert them..........as this link...

So i've just made a simple internal bike carrier which is basically a length of timber with a fork mount bolted to it...

Good morning all, I was hoping for a little advice/help. I have just had the hot water tank removed from under our stairs and knocked through a plasterboard wall to made it bigger. I now have a mix of painted plaster at the front and bare wood and brick at the back. I want to paint it all...

Not mine! This was on one of the subreddits I subscribe to. (/r/engineering) http://imgur.com/a/fiX89 It is quite an impressive build gallery of a very nice DIY beer bike, though it may be of some interest here.

Hi again, I don't really want to get the plumber back to do this work and so was looking online for some instructions to do this. I've found information on how to fit a flat panel but not a curved one. I do have some plastic fittings for this. do I still need to fit a piece of baton to the...

I bought some a couple of weeks ago (£12.99) to do the hall cornice, I didn't like the way it went on, watery, but seeing as I had 3/4 of the tub left, I bought another to do a bedroom. 2 days off work and f.o.u.r coats later, over a light grey original colour......... looking at it......... by...

So last week this happened: defailleur by jahlive905 posted 29 Sep 2015 at 19:56 I'm in no major rush to fix it and want to learn more about how to look after my bike anyway. I'm still new to cycling and bikes. I can change an inner, brake pads and the brake cable but that's about it. So my...