DanClarke · Sep 10, 2020

Morning All

Bad news from "The House of Doom" last night, The 600 x 300 tiles were too much for the old wall surface and they began pulling the bonding off the wall.

Thom's going to bail on tiling as a tile-slide isn't pretty, just pretty dangerous. The wall will have to be taken back to blockwork and re-plastered.

Thom has a "paying" job to start on Monday so he has a hard stop of COB Friday. Means a tough time for the son & family with no usable bathroom.

But they are NOT moving back here.

derwendolly · Sep 10, 2020

DanClarke said:
Morning All
Bad news from "The House of Doom" last night, The 600 x 300 tiles were too much for the old wall surface and they began pulling the bonding off the wall.
Thom's going to bail on tiling as a tile-slide isn't pretty, just pretty dangerous. The wall will have to be taken back to blockwork and re-plastered.
Thom has a "paying" job to start on Monday so he has a hard stop of COB Friday. Means a tough time for the son & family with no usable bathroom.
But they are NOT moving back here.

Interestingly, I was warned about this by the tile shop when I selected a similar style. After reading your post I'm glad I listened to their advice!

kevstar · Sep 10, 2020

Glasgie said:
Guid morn
Indian summer, AGAIN TODAY, if a bit chilly, so had a great 70 mile commute on my Aprilia RSV Mille this morning
Really looking forward to the return journey this evening

Indian summer ???

I can see right up the Clyde aint no feckn sun here lol
My wee bro had a RSV Mille race track bike ran like a burst ar$e unless it was being
hammered mental thing.

Shimsteriom · Sep 10, 2020

DanClarke said:
But they are NOT moving back here.

We'll see

kevstar · Sep 10, 2020

Morning folks overcast & a wee nip in the air....
I can here the council making a mess of the grass cutting in the distance
they trail cuttings all over the pathways then you drag it into the car & house.

Suppose I'll go & mess about with some boats today for some pocket money.
Enjoy yer day folks.

Hicap phill · Sep 10, 2020

@Turktowner over in bootle then heading towards Ringwood.
I should listen to wave 105....The joys of the Havant delivery’s.
Loving the sun

Glasgie · Sep 10, 2020

kevstar said:
Indian summer ??? I can see right up the Clyde aint no feckn sun here lol
My wee bro had a RSV Mille race track bike ran like a burst ar$e unless it was being
hammered mental thing.

The big ball of fire has risen in the east, Im looking at it from my office in Sunny Methil, Its on its way to the west.

Wimblowdriver · Sep 10, 2020

Fender had its MOT this morning. Passed. Thats 6 passes in a row with no advisories

.

My Old Landy · Sep 10, 2020

Wimblowdriver said:
Fender had its MOT this morning. Passed. Thats 6 passes in a row with no advisories .

That is superb!

My Old Landy · Sep 10, 2020

When in the office, if I ran out of work I would go and chat to the technicians. At home I just watch YouTube

marjon · Sep 10, 2020

Afternoon folks

I had the day to myself yesterday as M took her friend to see Plovdiv, it’s a bit of a drive but worth it.they enjoyed their girls day out too. On the way back they went to see the Bulgarian UFO.

Sounds like they maybe fixing in up for the tourist which is nice to here.
And with this as a view

Loads of history to this country we still want/need to go see

, and I am pretty sure there’s cheap wine to taste too

Not going to mention the suns out in force,

I just did sorry

Why is it the grass is brown and burnt but the bloody weeds still come up green

?

J

Wimblowdriver · Sep 10, 2020

marjon said:
they went to see the Bulgarian UFO.

I think I saw that on that Abandoned Engineering telly prog. Derelict and vandalised to bitz.

Stanleysteamer · Sep 10, 2020

DanClarke said:
Morning All
Bad news from "The House of Doom" last night, The 600 x 300 tiles were too much for the old wall surface and they began pulling the bonding off the wall.
Thom's going to bail on tiling as a tile-slide isn't pretty, just pretty dangerous. The wall will have to be taken back to blockwork and re-plastered.
Thom has a "paying" job to start on Monday so he has a hard stop of COB Friday. Means a tough time for the son & family with no usable bathroom.
But they are NOT moving back here.

Well that really is a shit isn't it?
Happened to some friends of ours in a new house, one tile fell off and smashed their new bath, so definitely sympathise.
Bathroom won't be entirely unusable will it? If the work is done in sections? We have a bathroom with only two walls tiled, (not grouted yet) as work is ongoing, but we still use the bog and a basin. That wall has no tiles on it at all. But then we ain't splashy kids!

Stanleysteamer · Sep 10, 2020

Mornin/affo to all!
Post brought good news and bad, from Blighty and Frogland!
EDF owe us €93, whooppee!
RBoS have made a cock up so some bills have not been paid as they should, when wifey rang them up, this happens sometimes, so glad they record all calls!
And she got an unexpected payment as the same bank has miscalculated shedloads of transactions £s to €s. £2.50 odd, but they'll have done this to tons of peeps so it'll cost them about half that amount in postage just to let peeps know! Idiots!
(Wifey has just apologised for the mouthful she gave me over phone calls allegedly made by me to Tesco credit card. Will note this in the diary!)
@kermit_rr How did the meeting go?
Enjoy the rest of the day, folks!

marjon · Sep 10, 2020

Wimblowdriver said:
I think I saw that on that Abandoned Engineering telly prog. Derelict and vandalised to bitz.

it is definitely not in its finished condition now, but was impressive, regardless of reason to build or who built/paid for it. the Bulgarians are not tearing down their history they are now understanding it is worth restoring for tourism.

http://buzludzha-monument.com/history/

J

kermit_rr · Sep 10, 2020

Stanleysteamer said:
@kermit_rr How did the meeting go?
Enjoy the rest of the day, folks!

you must have missed a bit lol... the short of it was, gov said you can go back to the office, so which bit of that dont you understand? lol!! non negotiable
they're pulling employees from another office one day a week to help with numbers in my office, says it all really

My Old Landy · Sep 10, 2020

kermit_rr said:
you must have missed a bit lol... the short of it was, gov said you can go back to the office, so which bit of that dont you understand? lol!! non negotiable
they're pulling employees from another office one day a week to help with numbers in my office, says it all really

That is happening at our place too. Some like me they see as high risk so don't want back but everybody else pile in

kermit_rr · Sep 10, 2020

My Old Landy said:
That is happening at our place too. Some like me they see as high risk so don't want back but everybody else pile in

they're quite happy to call me when i'm on holiday to fix something, yet i'm not able to work remotely.. go figure

Hicap phill · Sep 10, 2020

Good evening from Llangollen.
Hopefully I can unload early in the morning , drive to collection point(easy load 3bucket fulls for 26.5T)then head south towards home.
Bet it goes wrong... Tis a foot down friday

DanClarke · Sep 10, 2020

I was at the house of doom all day today and we managed to complete a few more small jobs.

Kitchen extractor unit wired-up installed and working.
Broken washing machine repaired, tested and working fine
Sticking Bedroom-Door taken off, trimmed and re-hung.
4 new dimmable LED downlighters wired in and installed into the bathroom ceiling.
False floor constructed to cover the Underfloor heating pipes as they exit the main floor and head out under the stairs and into the garage.
Front door PIR light installed.

I'm aching like a ba$tard and ready for some G&T, TV watching and bed.

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