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Re: Home and garden projects
Originally Posted by Boiler
(Post 11840654)
Never mind, you can watch them next week, .....
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Re: Home and garden projects
Does North Carolina have a team?
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Re: Home and garden projects
Originally Posted by Boiler
(Post 11840698)
Does North Carolina have a team?
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Re: Home and garden projects
Originally Posted by newadventure
(Post 11834331)
Thanks Pulaski
RE: thermostat - i was told that if there were more than 3-4 deg between room temp and set temp, the aux heating would come on and as this is by heated wire, you would lose any savings made due to lowering the temp. i think i will use the timer to drop it by a couple of degs when no-one is in the house but leave it running the whole time. RE: microwave - it is plugged into the mains circuit in the kitchen, so that means that the whole circuit must be shared with the lighting circuit. I assume they ran out of breakers but i will check. Also will check upgrading to a 20A breaker - i hadn't thought of that |
Re: Home and garden projects
So I decided a couple of weeks ago to slap a bit of lipstick on the pig that is my kitchen.
Biggest change is the countertops, getting rid of the cr@p laminate and replacing with a decent butchers block. As always, nothing seems to go to plan - came to remove the countertop expecting it to be screwed/brackets... nope, just a sh!te load of construction glue. Same for the backsplash, which caused a couple of smaller holes in the dry wall... not to worry, I'm planning on tiling over that, anyway! So I bought a reciprocating saw and sawed the edges off the laminate and have screwed the new countertop on top, looks great. Bit of moulding to hide any blemishes, and the previous counter was too low so it all worked out. I've gone to look at the tiling and just realized that there are a couple of plug sockets (switch plates removed). So how on earth does one 'bring forward' the socket so that it sits flush with the tiles once they're on there? Any ideas fellow BE'ers? http://i.imgur.com/c8mQ4FW.jpg |
Re: Home and garden projects
You can buy add ons, not sure what the term is to bring the box forward, they come in different depths.
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Re: Home and garden projects
Originally Posted by Boiler
(Post 11841473)
You can buy add ons, not sure what the term is to bring the box forward, they come in different depths.
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Re: Home and garden projects
Originally Posted by username.exe
(Post 11841470)
.... I've gone to look at the tiling and just realized that there are a couple of plug sockets (switch plates removed). So how on earth does one 'bring forward' the socket so that it sits flush with the tiles once they're on there? Any ideas fellow BE'ers? .....
Disconnect the power, unscrew the sockets top and bottom - you can remove them entirely if you're going to replace them, otherwise just tuck them end-in to the back box. Then tile around the hole, making sure that the tile is very close to the edge of the box and the screw holes, then screw the sockets back in place using the longer screws.
Originally Posted by sir_eccles
(Post 11841497)
..... Only trick will be making sure they are properly grounded once moved out as they might get their grounding from being screwed to the original metal box.
Originally Posted by Boiler
(Post 11841473)
You can buy add ons, not sure what the term is to bring the box forward, they come in different depths.
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Re: Home and garden projects
Originally Posted by Pulaski
(Post 11841502)
Longer screws, that's all.
Disconnect the power, unscrew the sockets top and bottom - you can remove them entirely if you're going to replace them, otherwise just tuck them end-in to the back box. Then tile around the hole, making sure that the tile is very close to the edge of the box and the screw holes, then screw the sockets back in place using the longer screws. |
Re: Home and garden projects
Originally Posted by sir_eccles
(Post 11841512)
it protects the intervening wall from the outlet should it spark or over heat. ....
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Re: Home and garden projects
Flammable tiles?
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Re: Home and garden projects
Originally Posted by Pulaski
(Post 11841502)
You can? :unsure: I have never seen any for sale, and I have certainly never seen any installed, though I have seen many "sunken" boxes behind tile or additional drywall layers.
Raco Add-a-Depth Switch Box Ring-976 - The Home Depot I used a couple a while back when I added some beadboard/wainscotting which is quite obviously combustible and must be protected. In the above example it isn't clear what material the exposed wall opening is made of. To be safe it should be protected. |
Re: Home and garden projects
Originally Posted by sir_eccles
(Post 11841529)
I used a couple a while back when I added some beadboard/wainscotting which is quite obviously combustible and must be protected. In the above example it isn't clear what material the exposed wall opening is made of. To be safe it should be protected.
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Re: Home and garden projects
Originally Posted by sir_eccles
(Post 11841529)
You don't look very hard do you.
Raco Add-a-Depth Switch Box Ring-976 - The Home Depot I used a couple a while back when I added some beadboard/wainscotting which is quite obviously combustible and must be protected. In the above example it isn't clear what material the exposed wall opening is made of. To be safe it should be protected. |
Re: Home and garden projects
Ok Guys..... I am incredibly pleased with myself right now...
I have just added some kerfed weather sealing to the outside of my back door!!! No more cold draughts, yay!! I had to figure out what I could do to seal the gaps up. I'd never heard of this procedure called weather stripping so I went and bought some new stick on insulation stuff. This wasn't wide enough for the gaps, so then I bought some of those sticky things you put on the corners but all that did was create gaps where they ended... So then, I started googling and realised that my old door didn't have this stuff around the frame called kerfed weather stripping so I investigated that. Managed to buy some white aluminium strips to match the door. I've just spent 2 hours, measuring, cutting (needed to buy a hacksaw - do you have any idea how many different ones of those there are??) and then drilling (with an electric drill no less) the screw holes to get everything in place. No more light shining through, no more draughts. This woman who has done very, very little diy is very proud of herself. Next project is wiring up a timer to the garage light since we all seem to leave the lights on in there. |
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