The Home Improvement Thread

[Capricorn]

Have you tried Baltic Timbers?

i haven't!  Their website doesn't hint at window hardware, but i'll check with them next week. Thanks! 

[greys]

useful thread, I'm also planning to start home renovation, want to install new hvac system in the house. I found local HVAC specialists to choose and install the best heat pump system for my house. Also I found many heat pumps models on https://www.thefurnaceoutlet.com/ at affordable prices. 

Edited March 5, 2021 by greys

[travisza]

Anyone have any experience / knowledge with Texecom home alarm systems? I want to wire an LED into the system so that I can see when the passive sensors outside are armed. There is already an LED that does this visible from the driveway so you can arm\disarm when you leave or come back. But I want another in the house so I can tell when we have armed the sensors that cover the garden.

Thought it would be relatively simple as all I have to do is replicate the LED already wired in but looking at the panel its beyond me.

I have tried google/youtube without much success

[Long Wheel Base]

On 7/24/2021 at 10:39 AM, travisza said:

Anyone have any experience / knowledge with Texecom home alarm systems? I want to wire an LED into the system so that I can see when the passive sensors outside are armed. There is already an LED that does this visible from the driveway so you can arm\disarm when you leave or come back. But I want another in the house so I can tell when we have armed the sensors that cover the garden.

Thought it would be relatively simple as all I have to do is replicate the LED already wired in but looking at the panel its beyond me.

I have tried google/youtube without much success

Did you come right?

I want to add a LED to my system(Different to yours-DSC) that I can see from my driveway because when I arm/disarm mine I can't really hear the flipping siren in my roof. Everyone in the car needs to keep very quite but then even the birds prevent me from hearing it sometimes and if it's raining well then I just push the button and hope it is on or off. BUT I don't want the light visible all the time. Ideally it needs to stay on for like 5s after arm or disarm. I am not sure if this is possible and if it is I am not sure I will be able to program it.

[travisza]

1 hour ago, Long Wheel Base said:

Did you come right?

I want to add a LED to my system(Different to yours-DSC) that I can see from my driveway because when I arm/disarm mine I can't really hear the flipping siren in my roof. Everyone in the car needs to keep very quite but then even the birds prevent me from hearing it sometimes and if it's raining well then I just push the button and hope it is on or off. BUT I don't want the light visible all the time. Ideally it needs to stay on for like 5s after arm or disarm. I am not sure if this is possible and if it is I am not sure I will be able to program it.

Yeah I did thanks. All I did was find the wiring that connected the LED I currently have, and then split that cable wiring the new LED into it too.

Ours is permanently on or off so no idea how you'd go about introducing a timer into the equation.

[Long Wheel Base]

51 minutes ago, travisza said:

Yeah I did thanks. All I did was find the wiring that connected the LED I currently have, and then split that cable wiring the new LED into it too.

Ours is permanently on or off so no idea how you'd go about introducing a timer into the equation.

Thing I don't like about permanent on or off is, if these okes know you have an alarm they can easily see if its off. 

[Thug]

Busy re-doing my garage.

Shelving and workbenches from The Garage Guys with PVC interlocking floor tiles.

Will probably finish it over the weekend.

[Carmichael]

Sold our house , bought a guesthouse, it currently has 11 rooms and 9 bathrooms, gutting it , leaving 6 bedrooms 4 bathrooms, and making new indoor entertainment areas etc... Fun times ahead starting 2 dec , new kicthen,  floors, ceilings etc etc.. lovely ........not

Edited November 9, 2021 by Carmichael

[l4y3rcake]

22 hours ago, Carmichael said:

Sold our house , bought a guesthouse, it currently has 11 rooms and 9 bathrooms, gutting it , leaving 6 bedrooms 4 bathrooms, and making new indoor entertainment areas etc... Fun times ahead starting 2 dec , new kicthen,  floors, ceilings etc etc.. lovely ........not

Jinx...Also just bought a guesthouse. Breaking down quite a few walls and building an indoor entertainment area and a 7mx7m double garage. We moving in next week. I feel your pain.

[Carmichael]

20 minutes ago, BaGearA said:

why did you do this ? Guest houses just going for cheap now that Tourism is dead ? 

 

Sounds like a solid idea but after being involved with the building of a  few houses I never want to be near something like that again 

Howzit, jip got it for a good deal and got a good deal for our house. They were struggling after covid and no guests for a while. House size 540m2 and erf 1700. My wife likes the process. PS. I am in contracting (QS)

[greys]

useful thread. I bought new house recently

[Carmichael]

At last after a few months of really k*k living with floors chopped out, holes in walls for doors and house unlockable at night we are 99% done , doing last bit of painting outside, the transformation lets me forget about all the pain we went through... 

[mecheng89]

To all the painting fundies out there - to dry indoor paint faster. 

Heat the room up, or blow a fan on the wall(s)? 

[Frosty]

On 6/14/2022 at 8:46 AM, mecheng89 said:

To all the painting fundies out there - to dry indoor paint faster. 

Heat the room up, or blow a fan on the wall(s)? 

You need to keep moisture away from the paint, so a gas heater creates dry air which is better than a fan blowing cold air.

[The Ouzo]

20 hours ago, BaGearA said:

Mr's 

 

I have been asked to install a Dishwasher Monday 

 

I'm pretty handy ( could almost pass as an electrician ) but my plumbing skills are the sum of replacing 3 toilet fill valves and replacing that bendy pipe under the kitchen sink.

 

So first it looks like 3 things , electrical connection , fill pipe and drainage/discharge pipe 

 

I thought it would be 4 cause i was expecting to fit a pipe from the geyser as well but turns out not.

 

Now I have a few questions ( i have not seen the house or dishwasher yet ) 

 

Electrical I'm planning to do with 2.5mm multipurpose and an industrial plug to an outlet , issues ? 

 

There might not be an opening to connect the discharge to a runoff so would it be a problem if i run the hose over the sink like some older houses do with their washing machines ? 

 

Anything else I might not be thinking of ? 

 

I'm going to take all the basics with , plumbing tape , hose clamps , adjustable spanners , multimeter , core cutter , screwdrivers ect....

That is an option, but not ideal. 
If you can get it near a 50mm drain pipe it’s pretty easy to tap into that, you even get T pieces that accommodate the dishwasher outlet into one side on them.