Home DIY

If you want to fight the powers that be, DIY would be pretty straight forward.

I had the same situation recently, also with some shelf brackets, because they were the only shop I could find that did brackets for a sloping wall.

I tried to buy them from the Edmonton branch first. Checked they were in online, then rode up the Lea to the shop. This was 45 minutes before closing on a Saturday. Nobody knew where the brackets were, or made any sense. I was literally running around the shop as closing time approached looking for the sodding things, being sent from department to department. I was getting hotter and hotter and more and more stressed. I began to think I was in some strange nightmare. Nobody made any sense and they kept asking me for the model name (EKBY RISET) and typing things into a computer, which I could see wasn't helping. There was a lot of debate about whether they should be in home organisation or some department upstairs. I began not even being able to find the departments that staff suggested. I began to understand what it feels like to wander in a dessert for days without water, lost and confused, or suffer terrible snow blindness and eventually freeze to death.

Eventually I found a nice Scottish lady who actually made sense and I think could tell from my demeanour that if I didn't have someone help me imminently I was actually going to have some kind of episode. She established where they should be, but warned me that this section of the shop was being refurbished so they may be in storage, high up storage in the warehouse, which would mean that we wouldn't be able to get at them as they'd need a forklift and they wouldn't do that until the refurb was finished. Having exhaustively checked, she confirmed this, apologised and said I could go to another branch or buy them online - she suggested the latter. She also told me that she hardly ever leaves her department - nobody does - because when they do they get lost. Yes, even if you work there, it's just as bad. Ikea staff possess no magical skills and get lost just like we do whenever they venture around the shop. She also told me the website is rubbish and can't be trusted and even if it says they have stock it might not be true anyway.

In the end it only cost a fiver to get six of them delivered, but the words EKBY RISET are forever indelibly marked on my brain.

Buy them online...

Ekby

Riset

Fuck shelves come and fix my boiler over the internet!

anyone any experience in making chicken runs? just considering my options. A decent one online will cost me £80 so is it worth me spending the same money making a bigger one, or just keeping my lady happy by getting her a flat pack that'll be done before the end of the month (we're on hols from the 22nd til the 29th) or suck it up, and find some rough designs and do it bigger and possibly cheaper with my own fair hands etc?

This is what i was looking at getting: http://www.chickencoopsdirect.com/hen-run.htm

Thanks Fox, didn't realise you could get them online, that's sorted

PeterMaxwell - the buy vs build conundrum really depends on a) how much time you've got and b) whether you need a 'custom' shape or design. re cost, I reckon you could spend maybe £50 buying the bits so I reckon £80 is a fair price. However if you do want to build something I've got a load of good quality chicken wire from my last cable-tied bodge of a run, free but you would need to pick up from High Wycombe

Well the boiler is on the blink. Pretty sure it's either the ignition thing or the pcb thing as I can hear the fan and pump just no clicky fire thing.

Need to go and give out some hand jobs to find a decent plumber round here.

Is it a Vaillant by any chance?
I recommend this guy if it is.
http://vaillantservice.co.uk/VAILLANT/Vailliant_Home_Boiler_Repairs_Servicing_Faults.html

No it isn't and I'm well out his area. But thanks.

Just had to ring a chap I got from checkatrade.

I've never had to ring a plumber before, I felt like I was flying Ryanair and was going to charge me for ringing him.

Fuck shelves come and fix my boiler over the internet!

Hah, I did fix my own boiler recently actually. I couldn't bring myself to pay someone so I identified the problem (faulty PCB), ordered a new one from eBay, job's a good 'un.

I suspect I saved rather a lot of money.

If yours is anything like mine it would be completely dead if the main PCB had gone.

This is what i was looking at getting: http://www.chickencoopsdirect.com/hen-run.htm

I could get into that in seconds. Just sayin'.

Nah it's just not firing so probably the ignition electrodes. It makes all the sounds but soon as it tries to fire it goes into ignition lockout.

I would have had a prod about but the wife said no because I will make it worse.

Got a grown up coming round in the morning.

The grown up came and said you have to remove the cupboard it was in as the casing wouldn't come off. I'll be back in a few hours.

Hour later half the fucking kitchen is dismantled because the chap who installed the kitchen units is a shitcunt. bodgeit and leggit sort.

This is why I prefer to do the work myself- at least then they're MY bodges, and I have not paid someone else to do a job that makes my blood pressure rise to fangerous levels.

fangerous

Fucking dangerous?
Fatally dangeous?

Or possibly something to do with fangs?

Genuine typo, but I quite like the new word actually.

I like it, too.

It should be pronounced with a 'g' like in 'banger' and not like in 'danger', though, shouldn't it?

It's not safe I have to rehang the cupboard as it turn out it was just screwed in tom some baton and a piece of old counter top at the back was load bearing it.

What cupboard was it? The glass one of course.

More fucking work. I wouldnt mind but I want out of this shithole area.

I was thinking of a French-style pronunciation like "Fanjeroos!"

Need to unblock a dunny. Worth bothering with a plunger or some chemicals first or should I just call a plumber? I'd prefer spending more on a plumber than buying stuff that takes up space and gets used once in a blue moon.

OneShot and a plunger will clear almost everything.

Thanks

dunny clearing?

get your hands dirty!

Find a carrier bag that ideally has none of those tiny safety holes in it. Wrap the bag round your hand, stick aforementioned hand down the bog and plunge up and down until the blockage clears. You could try it bareback if you're feeling really brave but the bag both help with hygene and makes a good seal for the plunging action.