Any handyman out there that can help with a DIY question?

[CountValentine]

Replace a small tile in my kitchen floor. It cracked and was easy to remove.  What do I use to glue the new one down? cement?

Ceramic tile?
Thinset Tile Mortar

[etech0]

A room has LED lights set to 3500k. There's also a light fixture in the middle. I can't seem to find the right light bulbs at 3500k, should I go with 4000k or 3000k?

[Yo ssi]

A room has LED lights set to 3500k. There's also a light fixture in the middle. I can't seem to find the right light bulbs at 3500k, should I go with 4000k or 3000k?

Even if you find a 3500k very likely it won't be a perfect match

[EliJelly]

A room has LED lights set to 3500k. There's also a light fixture in the middle. I can't seem to find the right light bulbs at 3500k, should I go with 4000k or 3000k?

Both can probably work and blend, it's about to which light shade you want to tip the scale.

[etech0]

Even if you find a 3500k very likely it won't be a perfect match

I did find one but it's super expensive

Both can probably work and blend, it's about to which light shade you want to tip the scale.

hmm I guess we can try one and if we don't like it, try the other one next time

Thanks!

[notyettaken]

A room has LED lights set to 3500k. There's also a light fixture in the middle. I can't seem to find the right light bulbs at 3500k, should I go with 4000k or 3000k?

4000k is closer to 3500k

[etech0]

4000k is closer to 3500k

Interesting! Thanks!

[CountValentine]

A room has LED lights set to 3500k. There's also a light fixture in the middle. I can't seem to find the right light bulbs at 3500k, should I go with 4000k or 3000k?

What type of bulb? A19 w/E26 base?

[etech0]

What type of bulb? A19 w/E26 base?

The fixture says it needs G9

[CountValentine]

The fixture says it needs G9

One of those new styles. They are not cheap.

[etech0]

One of those new styles. They are not cheap.

I hear!

I found 4000k for much cheaper than 3500 so just going with that.

Thanks!

[CountValentine]

4000k is closer to 3500k

3500K is a blend between a 3000K warm white and a 4000K cool white, including a little more blue in the white light mix than the 3000K, becoming a neutral white as it’s exactly half way between the two.

In context to the whole Kelvin scale, both 3000K and 3500K are regarded as warm whites, before the intermediate cool white 4000K and above become cold whites and daylight color temperatures.

[notyettaken]

It's not a linear scale, as the numbers get higher there is less of a difference, hence 4000 looks closer to 3500 than 3000 does, even though they are both 500 apart.

The number Kelvin is CCT (Correlated Color Temperature) which is the color light an object that temperature (in Kelvin*) will emit, so something that has a CCT of 3000K emits light similar to something that is 3000 "degrees" Kelvin. (it is not really degrees because Kelvin is an absolute scale...)


*Kelvin is a scale similar to Celsius but instead of 0 being the temperature water freezes at 0 is the coldest something can get.

[CountValentine]

It's not a linear scale, as the numbers get higher there is less of a difference, hence 4000 looks closer to 3500 than 3000 does, even though they are both 500 apart.

I thought it was based on the Kelvin scale which is linear. I guess not.

[TzviR]

My dining room chair leg came out (6 months ago...)

It seems the problem is that one of the holes became too big and now the screw just comes right out.

Any safe (and hopefully not too difficult) DIY ways to fix it?

[notyettaken]

glue in a dowel and put the screw into the dowel

[ushdadude]

My dining room chair leg came out (6 months ago...)

It seems the problem is that one of the holes became too big and now the screw just comes right out.

Any safe (and hopefully not too difficult) DIY ways to fix it?

glue in a dowel and put the screw into the dowel

this. or use a bigger screw?

[TzviR]

glue in a dowel and put the screw into the dowel

Thanks! Any specific type of glue I need to use?

[CountValentine]

[~King Lake~]

If you don’t have a dowel handy break in a few toothpicks/matches instead