• ParanoidPizzas
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    When I was 15, my dad purchased me a plaster saw (still have it) and handed me his drill.

    Then told me to make it look neat, but “don’t fuck up because your mother will kill us both”.

    I ran about 4 network points through the house.

    Nothing like fear to produce a 100% perfect finish 😉

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      And then there’s me who just screwed up installing a new door knob. I stripped the threads on the screws cause I used the wrong size screws drilling. Now if the new knob fails in the future, I need to buy a new door lmao

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        If it’s a wooden door that you’re screwing into, dab some match sticks with a little bit of liquid nails and gently hammer them into the stripped-out screw hole, and cut them flush with the hole. Once the glue dries, you can drive the screw back into the matches and it’ll have enough wood to bite into.

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          People are getting hung up on the “liquid nails” when I think any old carpenter’s glue would work.

          You don’t even need any adhesive if you simply shove in a toothpick or two before screwing in the screw. Remember: you don’t need to completely fill the hole, just enough to fill in the space between the too-big screw and the right-sized screw

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            This is true in many cases - just break up some toothpicks or matchsticks to partially fill the over enlarged hole, and drive the screw right in.

            Often for small repairs like that, the pressure and friction of the wood being compressed is more than enough to hold.

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          assuming liquid nails means molten metal, I don’t think that’s easily accessible in most homes

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          I’m new to DIY home fixes. Will try this out cause I am, using a wooden door. Thanks for the tip!

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        If you can, re-use existing sockets! Old telephone or antenna lines can work! You tie the cable to the end of the old cable and pull it through the existing PVC pipe.

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          That’s exactly what I am about to do in the house we’re signing for in few weeks (waiting for the attorney to give us an appointment).

          When I saw the phone jack’s in every room, all terminating down in the garage, I just figured it would be rude not too. Seeing as we will have 2Gb fibre, it makes sense

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          Using old phone lines is exactly what I did for my parents house, worked like a charm. Highly recommend if you don’t need the phone lines anymore.

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            Even if you do need a couple, run Cat6 anyway. RJ15 is a subset of RJ45, so it is simply a question of how you patch it at the other end.

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        This was an older stumped house. The way I did it was to remove a power point, look in the wall cavity for where the cable came up out of the floor in the cavity space, and then assuming there was no obstruction, I then got under the floor and drilled up. In most cases I was able to stay a good 20cm or so away from the power cable. Worked a charm. I was paranoid if I got it wrong I’d be drilling right up through the actual floor.

        Nowadays, doing the same at my own house… Cut the plaster. Run cable. Patch plaster. No stuffing around with the slowly slowly approach 🤷‍♂️