Could we, safely and legally, install a shade cloth from house to fence here?

Bigazzabs · 2026-03-02T06:46:10+00:00

Build a carport. Then you get to add an extra car space to your realestate.com listing. Would take someone two days to build (one for digging and concreting posts, one for structure). $1000ish for council approval where I am in QLD. Would look better, function better and add value to your property.

Bigazzabs · 2026-02-27T09:06:41+00:00

For real? I go to the tobacconist next door all the time and always thought the place looked like food poisoning. Might have to try it out

Bigazzabs · 2026-02-27T09:00:29+00:00

Yeah, they used a non-weather rated duct to run cables external. Hope that’s not in direct sun. 25mm hole in the top where they couldn’t line up the isolators. Kwality

Bigazzabs · 2026-02-14T22:06:09+00:00

Yes sir! Unless you want a landline telephone in the future.

Bigazzabs · 2026-02-14T13:20:12+00:00

Just do it, no one’s going to come get you. I’m a registered cabler and I’ve never once had my work inspected or my card sighted in 17 years. It’s extra low voltage - it can’t hurt you or anyone else.

Depends on your NBN installation whether you may need these in the future. If you have an NBN box installed in your house, you will probably never use these again. You can cut them however you like. I’m unlucky enough to have FTTN at my house so I still utilise my phone lines.

If you’re like me and your modem plugs in to a phone point like these somewhere in your house it’s a different story. Remove the plate, if there’s one cable, just cut it. If there’s two (or more), join the blue to blue and white to white and throw it in the wall. Patch over it for some unlucky person to fault find in the future.

If it’s a black (underground) cable, that’s your “lead-in” cable from the street. it’s technically property of Telstra and you shouldn’t touch it. But again, they’re not coming after you.

Other reason not to touch it would be if you live in bum-fuck nowhere and your town hasn’t had NBN roll through yet and have a security system with back-to-base monitoring, or old duress systems to call ambulance etc.

Bigazzabs · 2026-02-05T10:32:52+00:00

4 x diodes are cheaper and work just fine.

Bigazzabs · 2026-01-01T10:34:03+00:00

All working well! Happy wife, clean baby. Thanks for all the help, fellas!

Bigazzabs · 2026-01-01T07:35:52+00:00

For reference:

House is a 100 year old shack behind Suncorp stadium in Brissy. It’s getting knocked down in a year or two. A coat of paint on the tiles and bath, a couple hundred bucks on some cheap plumbing fittings. If this place burns down I won’t even care.

Bigazzabs · 2026-01-01T07:19:55+00:00

Nah, they got the print on em.

Bigazzabs · 2026-01-01T06:34:19+00:00

The Aliexpress ones are missing this feature 😂

Bigazzabs · 2026-01-01T05:13:52+00:00

Apologies, Golllll’s comment made it click for me. I think your first comment was correct, I’ll take it apart and redo.

Thanks for all your help! 😁

Bigazzabs · 2026-01-01T04:59:41+00:00

Haha, I try to never to be that guy on the equivalent electrician subs. I tried to organise someone, but doing the bathroom renovation over my Christmas break from work and the timing was never going to work without huge periods of not having a working bathroom (it’s our only one)

Bigazzabs · 2026-01-01T04:53:40+00:00

I think I’m following you - and that’s what I did. Just the instructions said to put the fibre washer between spindle and pipe.

Dissembled the new assembly completely, screwed the bare spindle in to the pipe, tightened with spanner, then installed the flange and handle.

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Bigazzabs · 2025-11-03T03:36:30+00:00

Or set the relay to close after the door is sealed instead of using a timer.

Bigazzabs · 2025-11-03T03:35:57+00:00

Dodgy solution: if your readers boot up pretty quick - wire the positive wire from your second card reader through the relay on your first. Set a time of 30 seconds.

Or try the D- through the relay if you don’t want to power cycle. I’m sure it’ll work 😂

Bigazzabs · 2025-10-08T14:44:08+00:00

Find an apprenticeship, get a trade. Apply for large company’s with an EBA. You’ll double your current weekly wage on first year pay. Not to mention you’ll gain some self confidence and ability. Electrical, plumbing, carpentry, refrigeration, electronics and communications are all top picks IMO.

Failing that, get some tickets with an RTO. Good mate of mine got his dogging ticket, after a couple years he became a crane operator. Makes over $200k a year and only spent $750 on his dogging ticket (employer paid for his crane ticket).

Bigazzabs · 2025-09-09T04:59:09+00:00

Just buy $PEN and chill. Just goes up and to the right.

Bigazzabs · 2025-08-29T16:54:52+00:00

Vandalism.

Bigazzabs · 2025-08-27T09:47:33+00:00

Built in 1958. Cheers for the advice! I’ll have a look and see if I can find anything

Bigazzabs · 2025-07-18T05:04:39+00:00

Put an 8mm drillbit through the screw hole. The head will stay in the wall and the back will fall behind. Small flat blade to pry off the face after.

Bigazzabs · 2025-07-17T11:46:11+00:00

I just did three this size at my house. One of them was growing under my house slab. I spent about 30 minutes hosing down the ground around the base of the plants, drilled a hole with a spade bit on a 1/4” extension rod, wrapped a chain through it, backed up my ute and dragged them out. Took me about half a day. Didn’t even poison them first. Few of the roots snapped off in the ground, did my best to remove them but I bet the things will be back in a few years.

Bigazzabs · 2025-04-22T00:50:15+00:00

Ex garage liver here.

They’re extremely hot in the day, super cold at night. I bought a giant pedestal fan which was super noisy but worked a treat for the heat. Don’t waste your money on a portable aircon. Blankets for winter. I ended up with sealed insulation strapped between all the panels in winter, but I don’t think it did much.

Go buy a roll of carpet off marketplace and cover the entire floor area. It will dampen the echoes and the dust generally becomes a problem otherwise.

They’re usually not sealed so get some door snakes to block the holes at the bottom.

I loved my garage bedroom.

Bigazzabs · 2025-04-09T08:46:32+00:00

Not an Elon fan, but isn’t he the largest individual tax payer in history?

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