Club card knocked 6 quid off
WhiskyLassie
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Almost a free breakfast thenClub card knocked 6 quid off
WhiskyLassie
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Don't have to put real details in.
Almost two breakfasts around here
I've had one since they were invented more or less. Never had a problem down to it.
And formerly the divvy type things more or less paid for Christmas. Those days are long gone sadly but still got the Xmas booze well cheaper than otherwise.
myfirstl322
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Almost, but not quite...
not quite being the actual mark it hit when I had one a couple of days ago, there was something rather unusual about the oil used.
#veryputoffingIthinktheygotitfromHalfords
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myfirstl322
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And to cap it all there was a bloke server who did not weight around, literally... not a pick on him, clearly he knew what I had yet to learn.
Bet you got green shield stamps back in the dayI've had one since they were invented more or less. Never had a problem down to it.
And formerly the divvy type things more or less paid for Christmas. Those days are long gone sadly but still got the Xmas booze well cheaper than otherwise.
myfirstl322
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I think it's the acetylene burns he got from lighting his headlights that he remembers the most vividly.Bet you got green shield stamps back in the day
WhiskyLassie
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myfirstl322
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That was pretty much my summation too.
I have been out for far too many beers with my lad.
Tears have been spilled. He is really upset about the situation.
His "EX" has asked if he can help her with the additional £4k of debt she has accrued.
Strangely he said...NO.
This whole family $hit-show is all because she cannot stop spending money she does not have.
#councilhousetrash
Tears have been spilled. He is really upset about the situation.
His "EX" has asked if he can help her with the additional £4k of debt she has accrued.
Strangely he said...NO.
This whole family $hit-show is all because she cannot stop spending money she does not have.
#councilhousetrash
BikerB
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Gland pliers don't get enough grip on compression fittings, plus you need to wrap a bit of ptfe around the olive first.My God I HATE plumbering!!!
You think, "I don't want any leaks as this configuration of bits and pieces to go in that there 'ole is so tight and so hard to do up, I'll test all the "wet" bits first before final assembly."
So you do just that. To all the joints of various types, put your special plumber's grease on the O rings etc ensure it is all on, take a deep breath, open the isolating valves and ........... see tiny drips just below one.
So you re-isolate, tighten the compression fitting on the lower and upper part of the isolating valve, tighten up the rings on the "push fit" connection elbow right below it, (I didn't fit this remember!), and try it again.
Yippee! dry!!!!!
So you proceed to the monumentally flipping awkward placement of the rubber gasket the horseshoe sort of shaped flat metal bit through which the threaded rod goes up into the base of the tap, With its blasted 7/16" nut on, in a place where no normal spanner will fit cos of the proximity of the two copper pipes that come down right next to it, (not flexis obviously, thanks chum).
Struggle like flip to do it up tight.
Then try to position the plug opening and closing rod therough its lickle 'ole.
Won't go, tap too far back.
So you drag the whole business forward a tad, eventually get the whole shooting match working, and open the isolators again.
Ever so slowly a drip appears, but of course in a different place, when it has never dripped before. The very top of one of the copper pipes which are supposedly only supposed to go "hand tight" into the base of the tap.
Of course you cannot get any sort of a grip or wrench onto the solid fitting part right at the top as it is buried inside the hole in the top of the basin. And of course it is round not hex.
So you loosen the compression fitting in the top of the isolator, and do the best you can with water pump pliers on the thickest part of the copper pipe just above the isolator, to tighten it up inside the tap. It moves a hairsbreadth.
Then you retighten the compression fitting, open the isolator and ........... it is still weeping.
So you do this twice more, each time the weep improves fractionally.
But is still there.
By now my back and neck are aching and I cannot face taking the whole flipping thing apart to enable me to lift the tap up above the sink just enough to get a mole grip on the top fitting.
So I turn the isolator off again and resign myself, with choice language, to yet another attempt yet another day.
How do plumberists ever make any money at this game?
Rant over.
(Give me electrics any time. And I dislike them strongly! And I am too tight to buy anything else to make the job easier, like a flexi or even two.)
Have an enjoyable Friday Evening folks.
I just finished putting in a whole CH system and replumbing to get an unvented tank in place of the vented water tank. I had one leak, where I put a mounting screw through a pipe for a rad.
I don't use pushfits though, always solder ring or compression depending on whether it is new or old pipe I am connecting to
Hippo
Lord Hippo
Wots that in sovs?Club card knocked 6 quid off
Hippo
Lord Hippo
Me castle has big gates on the side to stop yer going down the drive past me castle. As yer go past the back of me castle there be ma hippo's garage. Its about 5 foot behind me castle. Linking this is a 6 foot tall fence wiv a gate. Both about equal in width. When me squirrel climbs over this way he has a wooden trellis fing to climb on the inner side. Nowt on the ootside so he uses me castle corner. He's slowly knocking oft the pebble dash. Eye calls it burd **** as eye dun't like it.
Now eye want to help me squirrel by putting somefink on the side of me fence so he dunt need to climb me castle. Eye has to consider security. There be trellis across the top as the police says its a deterrent assits noisy to remove. What option does yer fink is bestist?
1.Another strip if trellis for him to climb. Will be flimsy so no good for burglar bill. Attach at top only and hang down. Just like the other side.
2. Wodden tree stake 6 foot tall. This would be fixed to the fence wiv screws. Eye would cut it in arf and attach it to said fence as if it were one piece. Me finking is it would be less use to burgalar bill if cut in arf. Yer can gerrum 80mm diameter which should be a nice climb for him.
Now eye want to help me squirrel by putting somefink on the side of me fence so he dunt need to climb me castle. Eye has to consider security. There be trellis across the top as the police says its a deterrent assits noisy to remove. What option does yer fink is bestist?
1.Another strip if trellis for him to climb. Will be flimsy so no good for burglar bill. Attach at top only and hang down. Just like the other side.
2. Wodden tree stake 6 foot tall. This would be fixed to the fence wiv screws. Eye would cut it in arf and attach it to said fence as if it were one piece. Me finking is it would be less use to burgalar bill if cut in arf. Yer can gerrum 80mm diameter which should be a nice climb for him.
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WhiskyLassie
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Good morning, hope all is well.
Izzat our Kev?
