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Spring Clips on Downlights
What is the best technique with the viscious things? The seem to damage the
plasterboard when removing the lamp. Why are they so damned fierce? |
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JohnP posted
What is the best technique with the viscious things? The seem to damage the plasterboard when removing the lamp. Why are they so damned fierce? Apparently in the decorating trade it's called "being mouse-trapped". -- Algernon |
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Algernon Goss-Custard wrote in
: JohnP posted What is the best technique with the viscious things? The seem to damage the plasterboard when removing the lamp. Why are they so damned fierce? Apparently in the decorating trade it's called "being mouse-trapped". I like to remove fittings when painting - but I ain't touching these again" |
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On 15/06/2021 13:25, JohnP wrote:
Algernon Goss-Custard wrote in : JohnP posted What is the best technique with the viscious things? The seem to damage the plasterboard when removing the lamp. Why are they so damned fierce? Apparently in the decorating trade it's called "being mouse-trapped". I like to remove fittings when painting - but I ain't touching these again" For mine, I just pull them part way down, put a finger and thumb around the clips and pull them the rest of the way out. |
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