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Anyone know where I can purchase replacement friction stay window hinges

Specs are top hung, 300mm length, 17mm width (channel width = 18mm), stack height 13mm, 90 deg opening.

 

https://www.premiumaluminium.co.za/wp-content/uploads/2017/11/top-hung-friction-stay.png

 

there is a place up in gauteng that sells it, quite cheap, but the shipping is almost triple the price of the hinge pair alone! overall, not expensive tbh, but it's pretty meh, So looking for cape town suppliers.

Have you tried Baltic Timbers?

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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! 

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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. 

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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

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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.

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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.

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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. 

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Busy re-doing my garage.

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

Will probably finish it over the weekend.

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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

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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.

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On 11/9/2021 at 3:44 AM, 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

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 

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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)

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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... 

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

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

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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.

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