difflock
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Everything posted by difflock
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Yes, in hindsight I could/should have simply ordered the unit and fitted it myself, having watched "yer man" do it, there is nowt to it. Lesson learned.
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Our replaced front door double glazed unit. After the original unit spontaneously "imploded". By a "reputable" local glazier, with whom I carefully checked that he could get a unit to match the high spec Argon filled "K" glass originals. I even quoted the Baskil spec to him. He has "promised" to come out and look at it. Sigh!
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She is the landlord.
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Either, but with functioning brain activated, and an interest in actually finding and fixing the problem. This dysfunctional fornicator that calls himself a plumber had already bent the daughter over with the central heating leak, from a simple coal fired back boiler system, again in this tiny conventional terrace house, and again he had to come back a 2nd time, because "air was getting in". Not because he failed to check or add Fernox or other such treatment. And he charged her exhorbinately. I had forgotten that episode. P.S. (i)She is trying to be independant, and (ii) does not wish to get me involved, cos I aint actually a "plumber", this because of insurance/liability reasons in a rental property. She is very particular like that, needlessly so probably.
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The daughter phoned me yesterday, about another leak from the shower in her rental house. She had had a so-called "plumber" in already, who insisted in bringing in a "specialist" leakfinder. In a terrace house where the leak was showing absolutely directly below the shower. Twice. But the leak was still there. Me, a non plumber went and looked this afternoon, first a hole pure hagged in the kitchen ceiling, and the trashed plasterboard and other shite left up there on top of the nits behind the pelmet! Anyway a very very cursory look, and brief test with the shower rose found the source of the leak, between the shower tray and the trim at the bottom of the tiles, easy seen with even my fornicated poor middle aged eyesight, which leak clear Stixall then fixxed. FFS!
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Most probably, but short of a good camera with a stupendous macro lens, not a mission of capturing an image. Literally just about discernable to the human eye. O.K. My middle aged shortsighted human eye.
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I can only surmise they are mites=creepie crawlies as opposed to flying, but so so so microscpoic tiny. And yes, the daughter found the epicentre of the infestation in a bag of flour.
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He could take a leaf out of Mr. Hitlers book and confiscate the wealth from those of the Jewish faith, or, hey! any of the rest of us that have dared to work hard , be thrifty and accrue.
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Not ours, the daughters kitchen, no idea how to identify them, since they are so tiny as to be almost invisible, but the are causing the daughter serious stress, and she has already emptied cupboards and thoroughly cleaned several times. Suggestions please. P.S. She has loads of house plants, and dogs, if that is any odds. Marcus
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Shades of a certain bloke called Andrew.
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I always associated "cords" and "cordwood" with the US, but never thought to ponder wot ussens here in the old sod called firewood in its various forms.
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And? I not unreasonably suspect the Putin would allow that scarficing a couple of loyal pilots and planes would be a price well worth paying to identify his wannabe usurpers. And as a "for instance" I know a couple of ex RUC/UDR men who calmly or bitterly relate as being used as unwitting bait for IRA ops . . .
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Back to yer man, the leader of the Wagner group, and his uprising and march on Moscow, with zero reprecussions? The only plausible explanation I have seen suggested it was a set-up to draw out the revolutinary minded malcontents within Putins inner circle and the wider military. Which appears to be the only logical explanation.
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I have a car mad cousin, whose father bought a Fiat Miaforia 132 way back about 1978-1980, went like stink, but basically dissolved in the N.I. rain. Anyway he maintained that(and a whole lot like the woes of British Leyland, in that in so far as I am aware the Communists/Unions held sway in the factories) that the Fiat steel plant was in a coastal location and the coils of steel were sprayed with seawater to cool them(which I simply dont believe could be the case!), more like the coils sat on open rail cars and got a liberal coating of salt from the wind off the sea, and nobody cared. Cos Dad bought a Regetta, with a bullet proof diesel engine, but the bodywork needed a full respray inside of a 12month, due to rust bubbling through, but it still melted away, despite the local respray..
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About the only 2 religions I have time for would be the Sikhs and the Bahais, hmmm, wondering if I could Buddhism?
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Ony fule knoes . . .
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I was lucky that the rats that built a nest in the 461 van, totally ate the big heavy rubber grommet that goes through the bulkhead/firewall, but did not touch the PVC insulated cables that ran through it.
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We have always been very cautious with borrowing, but that aside, I am totally perplexed or bemused that anyone, young or old, having functioned well enough to be in a position to purchase a house, could NOT see that interest rates were stupidly stupidly artifically low and could and would only go one way, and therefore "game" the numbers to understand the possible additional monthly costs. As I seem to recall we did any time we considered borrowing money. Or lock in to fixed rates for 3 to 5 years, even if it meant paying a fraction more each month. Also, re increasing material prosperity, the number, or percentage of Range Rovers, and other such luxury vehicles on the roads is as staggering as the prices I see displayed on the windscreens at a local dealership. Ditto the growth in the number of coffee shops, and people using them. etc etc etc
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Forestry winch recommendations
difflock replied to Martin du Preez's topic in Forestry and Woodland management
I am now suffering from winch envy, thanks for that mates! -
Forestry winch recommendations
difflock replied to Martin du Preez's topic in Forestry and Woodland management
I observed my father, on the saw, with his brother on the International B250 tractor, cutting down large ash trees some 50+ year ago, and the urgency of the "GO GO GO" at the crucial moment. A gear low enough to prevent inadvertent catostrophic stalling made for somewhat limited "get-away" speed. And was educational. -
Forestry winch recommendations
difflock replied to Martin du Preez's topic in Forestry and Woodland management
Being aware of that constraint, I would only therefore climb just over 1/2 as high up the tree. Which in itself is surely a safety advantage? Eh! OSM A good point about lack of line speed resulting in the force of gravity outpacing the winch line. -
Forestry winch recommendations
difflock replied to Martin du Preez's topic in Forestry and Woodland management
Surely part of the optitum line pull capacity is what size/weight of a tractor the winch is for to be mounted on? Bigger aint necessarily always better. Sometimes a "wee handy" is easier lived with day to day. And if only for an occassional extra heavy pull, a snatch block might be worth considering? -
Good God! You should have told her to add Fairy Liquid to the hot water, to get those salad greens properly clean.
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Anyway I recall that 50 odd year ago, a local lad that had went to work on the building sites in London, and was home visiting family gave us a turn in the hay field, he turned up wearing a lovely and clearly expensive 3 piece suit. When ribbed about his attire he said they bought these wonderfully tailored hard wearing suits for labouring in, plus one could then wear them to pubs and clubs, or even sleep rough in them! Then skip them and buy another.
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