Do-It-Yourself - Tips & Tricks

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Do NOT attempt disassembling a wardrobe by yourself, moving it into another room and then assembling it.....you'll just die or get squished :skeleton:

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^ no thats actually very easy to do.

You just need to take pictures of how it looked before you disassemble it and then keep EVERY NAIL IN A BAG <--- veery important !
 
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^^ Assembling it is difficult....you need more than just one pair of hands :skeleton: AND its heavy....AND I couldnt get the doors back on. My solution: Rent-an-older-brother....if you havnt already got one *grin*

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assembling a wardrobe can be difficult as well!!
figuring out the screws that look soo similar to one another is a task itself!
took me and ma sis a good 3 hrs to join a big old wardrobe!
 
^ yeah it is heavy. But then again most of DIY involves heavy stuff.


btw does anyone know how to fix those wall fans? the one in our bathroom has stopped spinning, it doesnt turn on! my brother opened it up and couldnt find anything wrong. its one of those fans built into the wall and connected to the light switch ie whenever you turn on the light the fan turns on.



this is probably the wrong place to look for advice tho lol :|
 
IbnAbdulHakim said:
^ yeah it is heavy. But then again most of DIY involves heavy stuff.


btw does anyone know how to fix those wall fans? the one in our bathroom has stopped spinning, it doesnt turn on! my brother opened it up and couldnt find anything wrong. its one of those fans built into the wall and connected to the light switch ie whenever you turn on the light the fan turns on.



this is probably the wrong place to look for advice tho lol :|
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But yeah...get somebody in to take a look insha'Allah

And at the sis....its not that....pretty simple to fix it up again....its just having somebody to hold it and support it whilst you're fixing it etc etc

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Muslimah_Sis said:
asalam alaikum wr wb,

Being a big fan of DIY myself, I thought I'd make a thread hwere we could share our tips and tricks and ask any related questions :D



Here's a good tip if you have to drill holes in ceramic tiles to hang bathroom cabinets, toilet roll holders etc..

If anyone's ever tried this, you'd have noticed it's quite a job to stop your drill from slipping on the slippery tile surface. To make the job easy, put two strips of masking tape in an X shape on the target.

Now using a carbide-tipped masonry bit drill through the tape and into the tile. You'll hear the tile grind as it goes through the glazing. Just keep drilling until you've made an appropriate sized hole for your fixtures.

Note: Keep drill horizontal or you'll end up with a sloping hole which will make it hard for the fixtures to go in.


wa alaikum asalam wr wb.
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Thanks that very useful.
 
Fixing Taps
Main Tip always remember to turn off the mains power supply unlike what i did the other day unscrewed the tap and got totally soaked and had no chance of just leaving it so i had to finish screwing BOTH the Taps on which water was flying thru the pipes :|
 
^ be honest you only did that coz you felt hot and wanted a splash :p


yeah good advice akhee, except it can be veeery irritating when the mains happens to be below the floorboards which means you have to take off tiles/wooden flooring just to reach it which could mean you have ruined your floor to fix your tap !!
 
asalam alaikum wr wb,

:haha: some funny comments! using knives as screw drivers lol.. I think we all done that at some 'point' :p

Btw, if you havent got anyone to give you a hand with fixing a wardrobe, you can do it on the floor. Then stand it upright, stand the door where it's gonna be fixed and wedge something under it to carry the weight while you screw in the fixtures.


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u'll need a hand to get it upright tho..
and u still need a hand if its twice as big as u...
 
asalam alaikum wr wb,

^I don't recall a wardrobe door being that heavy lol. Then again it probably would be if you weigh under 7 stones :p

wa alaikum asalam wr wb.
 
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lol, ^^ My wardrobe door was heavy since it had a full-length mirror on it :exhausted the other one wasnt too bad though...

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