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Serious flies in Cornwall, you need chain mail to keep 'em out.Painted the gate and now the step tile red, in best scouse tradition from 'Bread.' (Eat yer heart out Michelangelo.)
(Put the hammer in the picture for @proactive)
Building up to doing the walls ..
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I can recommend the Englesea Brook Chapel and Museum of Primitive Methodism near Crewe.he's currently researching methodist churches to visit after lockdown
Well I like a cafe! Not sure about this visiting churches though, I may well burst into flames as I walk through the door, being a confirmed non-believer.I can recommend the Englesea Brook Chapel and Museum of Primitive Methodism near Crewe.
https://engleseabrook.org.uk/
It's got a very nice cafe!
I'm going to assume that was 'in Ilam'....Well I like a cafe! Not sure about this visiting churches though, I may well burst into flames as I walk through the door, being a confirmed non-believer.
I think the only other one we went to was in Islam, and I'm not sure that was Methodist.
fixed the front door with WD40 the other day
Thought we'd fixed the front door with WD40 the other day when the locking mechanism jammed. Gone again today and no fixing it this time.... got emergency locksmith coming out. They say it comes in threes...last 3 days we've had sons loo, sons kitchen tap and now our front door. Hoping this is the last payout for a while and it's not 3 in each house!
Turns out it was the whole part of the mechanism needed replacing as metal sheared inside and lever inside kept getting stuck (or something like that) ...at least the actual lock was ok, so don't need to replace the keys.Graphite powder better than oil or WD40 - long term it doesn't gum them up - if you can find s DIY store that's selling it at the moment.
Graphite powder better than oil or WD40 - long term it doesn't gum them up - if you can find s DIY store that's selling it at the moment.
Turns out it was the whole part of the mechanism needed replacing as metal sheared inside and lever inside kept getting stuck (or something like that) ...at least the actual lock was ok, so don't need to replace the keys.
Money for the holiday in Albufiera , which we should have gone on in a fortnights time , is coming in useful for paying all these workmen instead.
Would much rather have spent it supping cocktails by a hotel swimming pool though !
Couldn't even close it today, never mind lock it so definitely wouldn't have been covered by the insurance .At least having it sorted by a licenced locksmith wont invalidate any house insurance .
Its surprising how many overlook this when they do a DIY job and havent used the correct locks , door replacement etc.
The materials used in some uPVC window/door locking mechanisms can be remarkably shoddy. I got involved in a window which was 'locked' shut, as moving the handle didn't allow the locking pins to withdraw from the slots.
Didn't you have to go in through the garage....That's what happened with our previous front door years ago. It was locked shut with the 5 locking bolts stuck inside the slots and couldn't get into the house as I'd left a key inside the back door as well. Blokes coming out to repair it had to climb up and take out an upstairs window at the time (scary how quick and so easily they got in , the way double glazed windows were installed those days)