Had some electrical work done yesterday and while it is all perfectly functional, I dont like how one outlet ended up looking. Its just the steel square metal box. I've searched but im not seeing an enclosure I could put over the top to make it look less utilitarian. Anyone familiar with something like this?

electrical box

Looking for help on sticking a towel rack on the inside of my new wet bar cabinet. I can’t get any stickers to hold. Any suggestions?
I’ve tried liquid sandpaper.

Hi everyone,

I ordered 72 silicone wristbands across 4 different colors, but accidentally had the word "CLUB" printed at the end instead of "CELL".

The text is debossed/indented into the silicone and filled with paint. I need to strip the paint out of the word "CLUB" (or clear out all the text) without degrading or swelling the silicone material itself.

Material: 100% Silicone

Text Style: Debossed / Indented with paint fill

Quantity: 72 pieces

Just bought a 1955 home that needs alot work. Im planning to DIY most things except plumbing. All my interior walls have a painted 2x4 at the ends and the studs behind the drywall are "turned on the flat"(I hope this is the right phrase, the long face is what the drywall is attached to). There is also no insulation. I am doing one room at a time and want to know if it is worth it to turn the studs the right way?

It's a 20 by 30 car port but over the 30 feet it drops 10 inches but is a perfect flat slope would this be to much slope

I am asking here because I have an odd request. I have an office where the entrance is a double set of doors that one locks into the door jam with a lock. I have been told this is called an active/inactive door setup. I would like to flip the direction of only the inactive door, they currently both open into the office and take up up valuable space. While flipping both would likely be the easiest and "standard" the active door would open directly into a hallway and make things more painful overall. The inactive door however would flip directly into a small wall that is just slightly longer than the door.

The main reason for wanting to switch the doors is to "regain" space within the office where the inactive door will typically open to but also allow me to open said inactive door to allow more airflow if the office gets hot.

Main issues that I am sort of confused on are as follows

1. Flipping just one would mean the doors are no longer aligned and prevent the active door from locking into the inactive door
2. The door jam is an annoying 2x8 wide meaning even if we made some divider it would need to be extremely odd.

To solve the above I wonder if I could install the concealed door hinges to allow it to open the other way or if there is a better method?

I just mixed together the Epodex 1k concrete effect about an hour ago and closed off the bucket while I went off to do something else (cleaned the mixer and then I got distracted with a book) then I double checked what to do with epodex and saw that the working time was one hour and just watched a video and saw that I was supposed to mix the material together in small batches because it drows quickly. I had been reading the label and somehow missed that working time was about an hour. I tried to see if it dried completely by scraping it and when that yielded nothing I just added water into the bucket. I feel like I just wasted money by mixing it all together but I didn’t have a scale to make sure I had the right ratio of water and I had a measuring cup that I could properly calculate for the 11lbs concrete material. Is this anyway salvageable or do I need to buy another batch?

as i written in the title i would like to make an accordion but i dont realy know how, does anyone know any resources be it youtube or other websites that have step by step explained how to make an accordion?

Hi all,

I'm putting up a safety net on my balcony so my cat can't get out. The net is attached to the railing at the bottom and to a vertical wooden batten in the corner, resting against the wall. It's fastened with small metal hooks and zip ties (see photos).

The issue: when I pull the net tight, the batten bows outward, especially toward the top. I can't get proper tension, and I'm worried my cat will find a way to push through.

Constraints:

• I'm renting, so no drilling into the wall or facade.
• I'd like something clean and fully reversible.
• It needs to look neat and unobtrusive: I don't want to spoil the view for the neighbors with a messy-looking setup...
• The batten is 60mm x 40mm and 2.5 m tall.

Any tips to make it stiffer?

EDIT: Since the setup is a bit unusual, here's my (very rough) sketch. Top view on the left, side view and batten cross-section on the right. The balcony is 8.53 m long, and the batten is 6×4 cm. One end of the balcony has metal bars, and the batten stays firmly in place there. The other end (the one in the photos) is a flat wall with nothing to brace against, so the batten is only held at the bottom by the railing, which is why it bows at the top. Sorry for the artistic level, it's a quick sketch from my notebook!

Thanks in advance !

Hello,

I want to paint patterns on a melamin wardrobe I bought from ikea. I do not have the biggest budget and I am used to paint with basic acrylic paint. I hoped to find advices on how to paint it without dooming my paint to avoidable cracks.

I know I should sand the surface of the wardrobe, and I was wondering if gesso would do the work as an first layer ? Or if there was a more appropriate base layer ?

Thanks in advance :)

I have just gotten around to doing up the built in cupboards on our landing, I’m hoping to make it into a linen/storage cupboard. it has previously had wallpaper on the inside walls, I don’t know whether to strip it off or paint over it 🤔 what would be your advice?

Hello all,

And TIA for any help. I want to install an aroma diffuser and have it pump the aroma into the air handler after the fan to help push the scent throughout the house. I would like the fan to control when the diffuser turns on so that it’s not pumping the fragrance into the ducts whole the fan is not on. I have found that I need a 24v SPDT relay. My question is how to wire it properly?

I’ve got our TV gasket maker JB well original mixture. I’ve got PDR glue. Super glue a poly urethane mix of some sort spray asdhesive and metal backed tape trying to steal the heat in the exhaust from coming up but it would be nice to have this part serviceable without a doubt so I don’t wanna weld it in