The working from home thread: tips and advice

@HatBeard looking very preppy there.

Haaaa

fuck that outfit is VERY slimming on me.

I'm not carrying the fucker up the stairs!

My shelves aren't level.

I could place a tennis ball on one side and it would roll immediately and with speed. The floor is sloped so badly in this Victorian house that on a 60cm wide shelf the left hand side is 1-2 cm lower in height 🙄

So... adjust the feet or legs! Nope, String shelving doesn't have adjustable feet.

The answer then is a platform for the feet to stand on. The feet are 30mm wide, and it so happens that you can buy stainless steel washers that are precisely 30mm wide and that have a hole just fractionally larger than 8mm in the middle.

Those numbers are magic... because the washer is the width of the feet, and I can shove a standard bit of 8mm dowel in the middle to turn a stack of washers into a block platform.

This is my next minor thing to solve.

On the major thing to solve... the Humanscale Float desk from John Lewis has an issue, the brackets that hold the worktop were manufactured incorrectly and don't fit. So now I have to go through support to get new ones. What is annoying is that I could fix this myself by cutting the brackets a little but it would void warranty, etc.

String shelving doesn't have adjustable feet.

I ordered machined discs from ebay then used super strong 3M double sided tape (vs string's own leg extenders that I linked above).

You can get these discs in varying thicknesses.

I purchased washers yesterday to try them out for adjustment, they work perfectly. All I need to do is prevent them slipping and they're good.

But just in case... do you have links?

https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/362829285374

Hmm. TBH washers + dowel + black electrical tape is going to look cleaner and give me more precision over the level. I'm going to stick with this until I learn it's dumb.

I installed mine using a spirit level and a few beer coasters under each foot until it was level… with the intention of removing the coasters when everything was level and drilled and replacing with something else.

so far the coasters are still there

I put up one of those same Ikea peg boards using a phone app as a level, looked fine until I hung stuff off it and they dangled a couple of degrees to the left.

I think you are underestimating how shit victorian houses are

I have an almost 2 degrees slope across the room, resulting in an almost 7cm height difference from one wall to the other in a room under 2m wide.

7cm in 2m... that's a crazy height difference, but when you stand back it looks straight (without the shelves) as everything was built by eye and everything also slopes accordingly.

It's only with shelves in there that it's obvious how sloped this part of the house is.

I had a choice of either making the shelves completely level (and not being level with the ceiling/ at all) or making them level with the slopey floors and ceilings and not really serving their purpose as a shelf...

Ah yes, I had a wall mounted TV in my old place, looked wonky as fuck. In reality it was level and the ceiling and mantle piece were way out.

resulting in an almost 7cm height difference from one wall to the other in a room under 2m wide.

ceramic bearings in your office chair rollers could make for entertaining wfh.

or making them level with the slopey floors and ceilings and not really serving their purpose as a shelf...

...when storing perfect spheres on frictionless surfaces

I put the roller blade wheel castors on mine. In the spare room I would creep away from the desk over time. Not so bad in the new office as the rug stops it a lot.

Not so bad in the new office as the rug stops it a lot

This will also be my solution to the chair having a life of it's own.

Inspired by this thread I'm upgrading to a flexispot standing desk and now have a Varidesk CubePlus 40 to flog if anyone's looking for a desk converter for dual monitors

I think you are underestimating how shit victorian houses are

Bit harsh. All houses move over time. Mine is only 25 years old or so, but Derek the Decorator who's doing the hall, stairs and landing is still having to use a fair bit of filler and caulk.

Derek the Decorator

that has a nice ring to it

It's getting there

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I prefer Derek the Destroyer