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Same here. Powder coat masking tape is much easier to use and much more reliable in use.

It’s probably gore-tex pro which is the far more durable than ordinary gore-tex and what guides in climbing/ski places wear as consumer stuff can’t take the wear.

You may well be right, which makes it even more mystifying why they haven't made a big play on this in the description. Or, indeed, explicitly mentioned it at all. It's like they don't actually want to sell any.

They’re utter cunts.

The fact they called their professional organisation "The Pyramus & Thisbe Society" tells you everything you need to know.

There's a bewildering amount of stuff in the manual, fuck knows when I'll get round to reading it properly. I just like playing with the knob!

I'm still trying to get over the fact that my new and as-yet-unused Nef induction hob has Wifi and Bluetooth connectivity, and may require firmware upgrades. WTAF.

The AGM is £111 an the GEL is £73 (plus any postage costs)
Is AGM 50% better?

Quite possibly not, but having gone cheap on batteries in the past, and having had them die on me at really, really inconvenient times (like on the grid at Donington Park for example, just before a race) I always go for Yuasa these days if I can.

Mortimer & Whitehouse Gone Fishing is in the same vein, I bloody love it!

Yep, very similar feel. I've watched Gone Fishing from the start. "Where's my briefcase? Muppets."

Where have you been?

Living under a rock, apparently.

Wish I could watch it all again for the first time. So good.

Agreed. Funny and heartwarming.

Why have I never watched Detectorists before? It's wonderful. Which is probably not news to anyone other than me.

I now have hob envy, and I haven't even used mine yet. I didn't even realise that was possible. Very nice.

One down, three to go. Note the lack of cardboard.

Recommended by multiple friends. Annoyingly, I know they can do a good job, as I've seen examples of their work elsewhere, and it's quality work. It appears to just be with me that they're half-arsing and bodging it. I'm trying not to take it personally.

That was for the top radiator brackets. The bottom ones were held in place by innovative floating noggins, where one end is attached to a stud, and the other one is held in place by thin air, hope and expectation.

I've started undoing the general bodgery and hackery carried out by the person who fitted my kitchen, who is from Tuesday officially sacked from the job. I think this is my favourite so far. Structural shims installed with silicone sealant because the noggins installed to mount the radiator brackets to weren't fitted flush with the studs. Yes, they're bits of cardboard.

Anyone laid self leveling. I've got to do it next week. ... Slightly concerned

Don't be. It's very easy. Mix it up, spread it around, leave to settle. Just don't do what I did at an ex's flat, and lay it all over the hall floor without working out how you're going to leave the flat while it's drying.

sad for your knives

Chopping boards that won't be chopped on. Wasn't sure what else to really call them, other than 'slab of thing that you use to put on the worktop to put other things on that you don't want to go directly on the worktop but which looks like the worktop' and that's rather wordy.

I used adhesive rubber feet when I did similar (presuming this is for base). In combination with the weight gave plenty of grip, and slight clearance from worktop makes them much easier to pick up when you are want to move.

I like this plan. I was going to use sheets of chequer plate effect rubber I've got loads of, due to a cm/mm mix-up on my part, but feet would definitely make them easier to pick up.

Did you rescue it from the skip?!

Not me, no. In the end they managed to reuse one of the four pieces, decided that one was potentially reusable, but the other two weren't worth keeping due to the cut-outs for the hob and sink, so they made them into a couple of chopping boards for me to make up for having cocked it up first time round.

I am glad that it wasn't me having to attach them to the wall tbh

You could use the chaps who fitted the radiator in my new kitchen. This is their second attempt, having been bollocked for fucking it up the first time.

Any tips on the best adhesive to stick a sheet of rubber to a bit of quartz worktop? Making some chunky quartz cutting boards.

R Pidders on his way to Italy?

No.

Me too, but the backsplash is going to be glass, and the quartz on the window sill is a different thickness, and also needs to be recut. Apparently there's only one piece which is potentially reusable, and they don't think there's any real chance of finding it a home. It probably doesn't help being out in the wilderness of the Fens. Limited market.

I’ve a supernova E3 triple

Let me know if you're planning on selling it. I could do with another one and as you probably know they don't make them any more.

First name Margaret?

I've already paid for the 8yd skip. If there's space then they might as well use it.

I'm trying to remain calm, pleasant and polite, despite dealing with a whole litany of fuckwittery.

That's what I assumed would happen, but apparently if there's space in the skip, that's where they're heading.

In happier news, the electrician did at least remember to bring his tester when he came to test the wiring and new consumer unit. Unlike the last time...