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Well done to Sue's eldest son. It'll be great to bask in mum glory at the awards ceremony.
Fantastic news Lydia..... seeing your dream coming closer and closer.
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lostinrates wrote: »Ooooh, I need door knobs. And window latches that lock. we have a mismatch of styles of architecture here, so I can't just get matching ones for the whole house. Atm I'm looking for something really good fun for the back door because I'm fed up of using a screw driver.
Just tried looking up my old door knob shop, but sadly it seems to have closed in the decade since I lived near it.
I always did wonder how much demand there really could be for it.
Maybe it was just a money laundering operation?
Shame, though - I think I always fantasised about having the kind of budget where I could afford to be picky about door handles.
Still, anything must be better than a screwdriver. 0 -
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Oh dear.
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On the subject of door handles...
DD has been standing on ours and swinging on the doors. I've made her stop now that she's broken one. I am clearly a bad mother for not stopping her before she broke one. It didn't seem important - she's the kind of child that's always climbing something, and since the hinges seemed up to the job, I didn't worry about it. It never occurred to me that she'd break the handle.
The handle itself is fine if you slot it all back into the hole it came out from. The problem is where the screws join the plate thing onto the door. There are two screws. I have found the top screw but it's useless - the screw hole now has no thread inside is as the screw has pulled out of the MDF or whatever cheap material the door is made of (Barrett's new build). The bottom screw is nowhere to be seen. I suspect that the head has sheared off and the rest of it is stuck in the hole. I've tried finding another screw the same size and screwing it into the hole but it seems to hit something hard a couple of millimetres into the hole, which is why I think the bottom end of the screw is still in there.
Advice please - what do I do now?Do you know anyone who's bereaved? Point them to https://www.AtaLoss.org which does for bereavement support what MSE does for financial services, providing links to support organisations relevant to the circumstances of the loss & the local area. (Link permitted by forum team)
Tyre performance in the wet deteriorates rapidly below about 3mm tread - change yours when they get dangerous, not just when they are nearly illegal (1.6mm).
Oh, and wear your seatbelt. My kids are only alive because they were wearing theirs when somebody else was driving in wet weather with worn tyres.0 -
PasturesNew wrote: »Didn't have awards ceremonies when I was at school. I do remember Bomb Scares though - and evacuating several times. All that old 1970s IRA stuff.
That sounded like my old school. It was really strange, the IRA always wanted to blow up the school when the fifth formers had PE.PasturesNew wrote: »Woodwork/metalwork was for boys, not for girls.
Girls weren't even allowed to play football.
That wound me up too. I liked football but was really bad at Hockey and the boots were so ugly. In reality I didn't like any sport that involved mud very much, so that leaves netball, swimming and running on a track. I was a conscientious objector to cross country.I did something similar to Design technology for a term at school, it was more about drawing out the plans for something rather than actually building it but can't for the life of me remember what the initials were for the subject.
That sounds fun, wish we had that.Please stay safe in the sun and learn the A-E of melanoma: A = asymmetry, B = irregular borders, C= different colours, D= diameter, larger than 6mm, E = evolving, is your mole changing? Most moles are not cancerous, any doubts, please check next time you visit your GP.
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On the subject of door handles...
DD has been standing on ours and swinging on the doors. I've made her stop now that she's broken one. I am clearly a bad mother for not stopping her before she broke one. It didn't seem important - she's the kind of child that's always climbing something, and since the hinges seemed up to the job, I didn't worry about it. It never occurred to me that she'd break the handle.
The handle itself is fine if you slot it all back into the hole it came out from. The problem is where the screws join the plate thing onto the door. There are two screws. I have found the top screw but it's useless - the screw hole now has no thread inside is as the screw has pulled out of the MDF or whatever cheap material the door is made of (Barrett's new build). The bottom screw is nowhere to be seen. I suspect that the head has sheared off and the rest of it is stuck in the hole. I've tried finding another screw the same size and screwing it into the hole but it seems to hit something hard a couple of millimetres into the hole, which is why I think the bottom end of the screw is still in there.
Advice please - what do I do now?
Can you see in the hole of you look with torch? Can you try and grab the lost screw with stout tweezers? otherwise can you resite the screw so the handle is going in same place but screw is rotated..? I'm guessing not, because its a handle not a knob, right?0 -
lostinrates wrote: »Can you see in the hole of you look with torch? Can you try and grab the lost screw with stout tweezers? otherwise can you resite the screw so the handle is going in same place but screw is rotated..? I'm guessing not, because its a handle not a knob, right?
Can't see anything in the screw hole. It's quite small, and the MDF-or-whatever-it-is has kind of frayed all round the hole. I don't think the bottom screw would come out just by pulling - it would need unscrewing but there's now no screw head to put the screwdriver into.
You're right I can't just rotate everything. The plate is long and thin and goes parallel to the door edge.
I have been pondering it and wonder if it might be possible to fit a rawlplug into the frayed hole where the upper screw is supposed to go. I'm sure it would be fine with just one screw as long as she doesn't swing on it again. I'll give it a try and let you know if it works.
ETA Rawlplug idea seems better than nothing. The handle doesn't fall out now, although it's still very wobbly. I'll see whether it breaks again.Do you know anyone who's bereaved? Point them to https://www.AtaLoss.org which does for bereavement support what MSE does for financial services, providing links to support organisations relevant to the circumstances of the loss & the local area. (Link permitted by forum team)
Tyre performance in the wet deteriorates rapidly below about 3mm tread - change yours when they get dangerous, not just when they are nearly illegal (1.6mm).
Oh, and wear your seatbelt. My kids are only alive because they were wearing theirs when somebody else was driving in wet weather with worn tyres.0 -
lostinrates wrote: »edit: sheesh, now my post makes no sense...so deleted
Sorry if that was a reply to my post, deleted super-quick in case it seemed rude - was that why your post made no sense? 0
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