The Home Improvements Thread (2)

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Steamy Tom said:
I have 2 cr@ppy "window" bays joining 2 rooms, they are an odd shape as well, like this <> (think like a diamond shape) and the old owners must have had glass bricks in them but decided to take them out leaving them empty.

it looks terrible to say the least. I hastily bought glass bricks to replace it over a year ago, but on realising the mission it would be to chisel it out etc i kind of just left it and focused on other things.

i took another look today, the glass bricks are about 5mm bigger than the ones from that time and thus it isnt going to fit unless i sink the edges. I also kind of think it is just going to look kak.

Do you guys have any opinions on what i should do? i could custom make a wooden frame and put like frosted glass in (the room it goes to is very sunny and also kind of not secure at the moment thus it was one plus for the glass bricks) or i could go commando and get someone in to effectively break it out and make them more regular shaped and be able to put real windows or something in.

for more context the room it goes into is a sun room, this the brightness and why i say it is not really that secure. I am planning to convert this sun room into more of a bar with a solid roof and possibly stacking doors.

I think if i were to close them up completely it would make the room very dark.

thoughts?
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InternetLuddite said:
Pics would help
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will try take some later, im kind leaning now towards definitely ditching the glass brick idea.

possibly even thinking to just close them up, or close them smaller to be more square and like shelfs for an ornamental peice kind of thing.
 
So a random question I thought I'd ask here rather than starting a new thread...

We're looking at buying a place and it has two single automated garage doors (the roll up kind). They don't currently work and the owner said they wanted to rather replace them with one double garage door.
My question is why would they want to do that? What's the benefit of one big door compared to two small ones? Cost? Half as much chance of something going wrong?
Didn't think to ask them at the time.
 
Sepeng said:
So a random question I thought I'd ask here rather than starting a new thread...

We're looking at buying a place and it has two single automated garage doors (the roll up kind). They don't currently work and the owner said they wanted to rather replace them with one double garage door.
My question is why would they want to do that? What's the benefit of one big door compared to two small ones? Cost? Half as much chance of something going wrong?
Didn't think to ask them at the time.
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some people prefer the look. I am almost sure it wont be cheaper given the fact that he will need to probably break out the separating wall piece which will need a support beam or lintel. If it was not for that then sure it might be mildly cheaper, frankly i prefer being able to open the doors independently.

I also don't think I have ever seen a double wide residential roll up door, only a tip up or a more common sectioned door, most likely he would be wanting to go for a sectioned door.
 
Sepeng said:
So a random question I thought I'd ask here rather than starting a new thread...

We're looking at buying a place and it has two single automated garage doors (the roll up kind). They don't currently work and the owner said they wanted to rather replace them with one double garage door.
My question is why would they want to do that? What's the benefit of one big door compared to two small ones? Cost? Half as much chance of something going wrong?
Didn't think to ask them at the time.
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Personally I would leave two seperate doors. The motors have less strain on them etc and in my opinion, having the option of opening each independently is actually nice. At least if one bombs out you still have axcess via the other one! Plus, as mentioned now now, the seperating wall will not be cheap to take down as it is a supporting column. More fuss than benefit to combine if you ask me
 
Steamy Tom said:
some people prefer the look. I am almost sure it wont be cheaper given the fact that he will need to probably break out the separating wall piece which will need a support beam or lintel. If it was not for that then sure it might be mildly cheaper, frankly i prefer being able to open the doors independently.

I also don't think I have ever seen a double wide residential roll up door, only a tip up or a more common sectioned door, most likely he would be wanting to go for a sectioned door.
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Thanks and yeah, I meant sectioned.
 
Shannon88 said:
Personally I would leave two seperate doors. The motors have less strain on them etc and in my opinion, having the option of opening each independently is actually nice. At least if one bombs out you still have axcess via the other one! Plus, as mentioned now now, the seperating wall will not be cheap to take down as it is a supporting column. More fuss than benefit to combine if you ask me
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Thanks, ja was thinking if we do get the place I'd simply fix the existing doors.
 
Sepeng said:
Thanks and yeah, I meant sectioned.
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Would also have to check if the width opening with the 2 doors is too wide for a double sectional door. Even if the centre column is removed, the opening may be too wide and require tied-in brickwork on the sides.
 
howardb said:
Would also have to check if the width opening with the 2 doors is too wide for a double sectional door. Even if the centre column is removed, the opening may be too wide and require tied-in brickwork on the sides.
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yeah very good point, otherwise a custom door. I do beleive though that a double door it wider than 2 singles
 
howardb said:
Would also have to check if the width opening with the 2 doors is too wide for a double sectional door. Even if the centre column is removed, the opening may be too wide and require tied-in brickwork on the sides.
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Hadn't thought of that. Pretty much seals the deal then - we definitely wouldn't go this route. Agree that it might look a bit better but seems quite a bit of work.
 
Anyone know what concrete mix is used to fill in these gaps?

The concrete between my bricks have erroded and I need to redo it

I have a ton of left over building sand Screenshot_20190918-084234_Facebook.jpg
 
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alqassam said:
Anyone know what concrete mix is used to fill in these gaps?

The concrete between my bricks have erroded and I need to redo it

I have a ton of left over building sand View attachment 714573
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erroded? jirre looks like there wasn't any to begin with -it must have been done really poorly to have all come out so consistently.

mix sand with cement, sweep it in, water lightly.
 
Steamy Tom said:
erroded? jirre looks like there wasn't any to begin with -it must have been done really poorly to have all come out so consistently.

mix sand with cement, sweep it in, water lightly.
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xrapidx said:
The gaps are bigger than my paving, but I mixed concrete and sand - and swept it in - then lightly soaked with water
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That's an internet pic . Didn't have a driveway one on hand.

Brilliant will just mix building sand cement sweep and water.
 
Sepeng said:
Hadn't thought of that. Pretty much seals the deal then - we definitely wouldn't go this route. Agree that it might look a bit better but seems quite a bit of work.
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If you have 2 existing singles, then keep it that way. You will spend upwards of R20k just converting to a double width space more than likely, then the new door and and and....

I have a double width door, and whilst its nice, its not nice enough to justify the cost of changing from 2 singles in my opinion.
 
Pho3nix said:
Hi guys, does anyone know a good engineer in JHB region. Kinda urgent :|
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i really think it depends what you want to do?

i am a "software engineer" how can i help you? <- this is sarcasm, my point is what type of engineer or problem do you have? structural?
 
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