Home DIY

Although, having just read the the last few (faintly nasty and not very funny) posts now I'm wishing I hadn't just resurrected it.

Fuck me, leave off with the "Ooh i'm scared of candles" shit will you? The bloke's obviously had a traumatic experience that involves a friend being horribly injured; you don't have to agree with him, but you certainly don't have to openly mock him.

You're coming across like a bunch of minor league school bullies who didn't join in till you saw the big boys doing it... and you're doing it wrong. Dammit, TW2 and greenhell were making with the funny without directing it at Sparky. Subsequent posts are basically just taking the p*ss out of a guy who's had a nasty experience.

Would you treat someone who'd been put off cycling after witnessing a friends accident with the same casual lack of empathy? For laughs?

Oh fuck! Mine are at home right now and no one is there!

Although I must admit, this made me laugh.

In stove related news I spoke to Croydon Fireplaces and they have quoted ~£1,800 for stove, flue, gubbins and install.

This is sight-unseen, going on my description, but it should be reasonably accurate opines the (pleasant) chap with whom I spoke on the blower.

sounds a good deal, will it be defra approved/signed off?

Yarp

I do need to get the fireplace (AKA brick wall) built before they can come and install the stove, which will be an additional pile of ackers.

Anyone ever put up coving/cornicing?

I think I've got my head around the theory but, any tips?

New debate: tea lights or coffee lights?

Anyone ever put up coving/cornicing?

I think I've got my head around the theory but, any tips?

1. Measure twice, cut once.

2. Make sure you remember if it's an internal or external angle and take that into account when measuring to cut the angles.

3. Old rooms won't have nice and neat 90 degree corners.

Fuck me, leave off with the "Ooh i'm scared of candles" shit will you? The bloke's obviously had a traumatic experience that involves a friend being horribly injured; you don't have to agree with him, but you certainly don't have to openly mock him.

You're coming across like a bunch of minor league school bullies who didn't join in till you saw the big boys doing it... and you're doing it wrong. Dammit, TW2 and greenhell were making with the funny without directing it at Sparky. Subsequent posts are basically just taking the p*ss out of a guy who's had a nasty experience. Not cool.

Would you treat someone who'd been put off cycling after witnessing a friends horrible accident with the same casual lack of empathy? For laughs?

Thanks for all joining my trainwreck, but I seriously wanted to know why Sparky was just repeating his candlephobic attitude rather than addressing a sensible risk-management point I was trying to make.

I was being (probably not very obviously) facetious with the bath banter. Adjusting the linkage for the plug mechanism is sound advise. I had the same problem with a sink plug that was closed by pulling up a knob connected to the taps. It wasn't moving the plug enough to seal the plug hole but could be adjusted.

Yeah sorry, just been for a run. seems much less like the sort of thing worth arguing about on the internet now.. Plus, MY DRILL IS HERE.

I am ALL THAT IS MAN

pah, you're not a man until you've 'found' that live 230V ring main buried in the wall with it..

This is why real men only use a drill after dipping both feet in a bucket of water.

Done that. With a lump hammer and Bolster chisel. Thank fuck the trip worked and that the spark wasn't around.

I accidentally* cut through a thick 30 amp cable in the cellar with a pair of wire cutters.

I was fine but the metal jaws of the wire cutters kind of melted a bit. At the time I was stood on a plastic box and I was glad the wire cutters had plastic coated handles. There was a very large bang.

I've never actually hit anything bad with my drill.

*Well, deliberately, but I didn't know think it was live.

In stove related news I spoke to Croydon Fireplaces and they have quoted ~£1,800 for stove, flue, gubbins and install.

This is sight-unseen, going on my description, but it should be reasonably accurate opines the (pleasant) chap with whom I spoke on the blower.

If you're looking in that area, there's a little stove shop near Croydon. I've not used them (just been in with someone who was getting an idea of stove prices).
http://stova.co.uk/

Yeah sorry, just been for a run. seems much less like the sort of thing worth arguing about on the internet now.. Plus, MY DRILL IS HERE.

I am ALL THAT IS MAN
Trepanning?

Late to the Candle Party™

In stove related news I spoke to Croydon Fireplaces and they have quoted ~£1,800 for stove, flue, gubbins and install.

This is sight-unseen, going on my description, but it should be reasonably accurate opines the (pleasant) chap with whom I spoke on the blower.

Good price that. I'm actually surprised it's so cheap. What KW stove is that?

Bear in mind that it's very much TBC, although the chap seemed confident.

I think we're looking at a 7Kw stove as the room is 5x11m

Why?

I was putting in a junction box to install a 2 gang plug in the cellar. The wiring in our house is a nightmare, suffice to say it's definitely not Part P compliant but I thought I'd worked out the out and return to our kitchen which run through our cellar under the floor.

This was the one time I forgot to point my little live wire detecting pen at a wire before fiddling with it. I learnt my lesson :/

It turns out our whole kitchen seems to be on a spur - at least if there is a return I can't find it - which is well dodgy as you should only have one 2 gang off a spur, not your whole kitchen, but it hasn't spontaneously combusted.

Yet.

Wardrobes. Pax hacks from Ikea.
Any really interesting examples anyone has seen?

http://www.ikeahackers.net/category/hacks/bedroom/wardrobes