Home DIY

Hoover will repair it for £119 one-off, or sell me a years labour cover for £156.

Parts are covered for 5 years, apparently.

Can I ask for them to just send me the parts and I'll fit them?

They told me to fuck off.

buy from espares

I find it odd that hardware stores don't sell boring extension leads like you get in Oz. I know your plugs are silly and square but is it so hard to stick a male and female version on each end of 20m of cable?

You mean 1-gang extension leads?

I bought a 10m 2-gang. All the longer ones were on big reels.

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These are common as muck back home. They seem to be some kind of weird choice here. Well, you're all weird. And wrong. And smell.

Dammit, my washing. Machine is a Zanussi that cost £350 back in 1999. It still works perfectly. Hoover are shite made down to the lowest price. I chose mine because the same machine with a different panel on it sold as a AEG for a hundred quid more, so I figured it must be good enough to get away with that price.

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Thought I'd investigate to see if I can work out why my bog doesn't flush very enthusiastically. It does work, but either button has to be pressed sharply and with a lot of force. Took the top off the cistern and found this, the likes of which I've never seen before. At least not outside that Die Hard movie with the liquid bomb thing.

It looks to me like the tubes are loads longer than they need to be. Will shortening them give me a more responsive toilet?

Are those the Hans Grohe air-push things?

They're definitely pneumatic. Only indication of the manufacturer is a tiny Ideal Standard sticker on the inside of the cabinet.

Bit the bullet and cut about half the length off each one. Happy to say it's made a world of difference, Alan Partridge would be impressed.

Makes you wonder what idiot installed it in the first place.

Bike storage options. Outside. On a private balcony. Nothing to obtrusive. Any solutions people have used, other than hooks and things?
I don't want to have to use a lock up to store bikes in, but I would like to be able to sit on my balcony and not see my bikes everywhere.

Very good.

Yep, I've done that very thing. Kept checking it when the wind blew (3rd floor) so brought it back in.

Not overly keen on that option tbh.

Garage, aka Room Of Suffering, aka bikes+turbo storage.

How many bikes? How big is the balcony? What sort of construction is it (i.e. what sort of weight will it comfortably take?)

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Loft?

fraid not.

is the balcony big enough to fit one of those bike shed things?

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