u/Lendios

How do you colour match replacement parking sensors?
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How do you colour match replacement parking sensors?

My outer two parking sensors have failed according to service health check. Replacement part no. Is 32271066 however all the Bosch sensors I see online come in black instead of the same colour as the car (blue for me). Can I just paint them?

u/Lendios — 1 day ago
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I was thinking zinsser bin but any other primer recommendations would be appreciated.

I know a lot of people will say keep it wood, however our entire house already has loads of oak with the flooring upstairs and downstairs, bannister and stairs, windowboards and we want to add some colour.

Thanks

u/Lendios — 16 days ago

I've been trying to stain our engineered oak stair cladding to match our engineered wood floor and the stain isn't matching, I've used the exact same stain from the flooring manufacturer and had good results on our solid oak window boards, visible in the last couple pics. 3rd pic is the cladding before staining.

The stair cladding (risers) have become a grey tone and not the warm rich oak.

Can we rectify this or put a different stain ontop to bring it closer? It doesn't have to be a perfect match.

The stain was broadleaf rich hardwax oil

u/Lendios — 18 days ago

I've been trying to stain our engineered oak stair cladding to match our engineered wood floor and the stain isn't matching, I've used the exact same stain from the flooring manufacturer and had good results on our solid oak window boards, visible in the last couple pics. 3rd pic is the cladding before staining.

The stair cladding (risers) have become a grey tone and not the warm rich oak.

Can we rectify this or put a different stain ontop to bring it closer? It doesn't have to be a perfect match.

The stain was broadleaf rich hardwax oil

u/Lendios — 18 days ago
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Previous window boards had wood underneath them nailed into the brick to pack them up. They were all warped and cracked and im wondering if that was because the wood hadn't covered all the surface under the windowboard.

I was thinking if I protect the cavity with some offcut ply, run a string line, hammer some plasterboard screws to the brickwork and just fill up to line leaving a small gap under windowboard to fix with low expansion foam adhesive.

Another question is, should the cavity insulation be full as in topped up and up to the windowboard? Or is it fine as is being 10cm ish lower as it is now?

Thanks

u/Lendios — 20 days ago