deptfordmarmoset
Full time tea drinker
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- Armonmy Way
Crikey! I'm now considering doing the lottery.
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Crikey! I'm now considering doing the lottery.
Illaveago
Guru
- Location
- Chippenham,Wiltshire.
I am sitting quietly trying to calm down after trying to replace a flush in our upstairs toilet.
B***Dy designers! !!!
I had to replace our old unit as the fitting for the outlet was the wrong size. Can't buy fittings to fill the large outlet.
All was going well! I turned off the water next to the unit. Ah! I thought that would be a good idea! I emptied the close coupled cistern and drained the remains with a sponge .
I then set about unscrewing it from the all . I used Stainless Steel screws. No corroding ! Good idea! Then I started heaping loads of praise on the designers! *******! ********! They put the inlet right in front of one of the screws!!!!! Eventually I managed to undo both screws . I had the new flush with the remote push button out of the packaging ready to install. I unscrewed the last 2 plastic retaining screws and lifted the cistern off and started to unscrew the flush. More praise was heaped on the designers when I discovered that they were different sizes ! ******* ********! The new unit has a large diameter size outlet!
All of this work was to try to resolve the push button flush. The flush will work properly with the lid removed and by just touching the buttons with your fingers . Once the lid is fitted the flush refuses to operate correctly! It will just do a very short flush, not even what it is supposed to do. We have to hold the button down .
Perhaps I should cut the designers fingers off and fit them ?
B***Dy designers! !!!
I had to replace our old unit as the fitting for the outlet was the wrong size. Can't buy fittings to fill the large outlet.
All was going well! I turned off the water next to the unit. Ah! I thought that would be a good idea! I emptied the close coupled cistern and drained the remains with a sponge .
I then set about unscrewing it from the all . I used Stainless Steel screws. No corroding ! Good idea! Then I started heaping loads of praise on the designers! *******! ********! They put the inlet right in front of one of the screws!!!!! Eventually I managed to undo both screws . I had the new flush with the remote push button out of the packaging ready to install. I unscrewed the last 2 plastic retaining screws and lifted the cistern off and started to unscrew the flush. More praise was heaped on the designers when I discovered that they were different sizes ! ******* ********! The new unit has a large diameter size outlet!
All of this work was to try to resolve the push button flush. The flush will work properly with the lid removed and by just touching the buttons with your fingers . Once the lid is fitted the flush refuses to operate correctly! It will just do a very short flush, not even what it is supposed to do. We have to hold the button down .
Perhaps I should cut the designers fingers off and fit them ?
classic33
Leg End Member
The Fred Dibnah Appreciation Society was formed in Halifax!
Fred only came twice to their meetings.
Mine always needs holding down. Suppose to have a short and a long. Two buttons both short.
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cookiemonster
Squire
- Location
- Hong Kong
Just cleaned out 2 of my 3 fish tanks.
New plants, cleaned the filter, and bought a new one for one of the tanks, and a new cooling fan for one of the tanks too.
However, I had to get rid of 2 fish. They were not doing great and it was a precaution in case they were ill and could pass any illnes onto the other fish in that tank.
I had those 2 fish for quite a while, a couple of years, so old age may've got to them.
I'll sort out the biggest of the tanks tomorrow but that doesn't need much doing to it.
New plants, cleaned the filter, and bought a new one for one of the tanks, and a new cooling fan for one of the tanks too.
However, I had to get rid of 2 fish. They were not doing great and it was a precaution in case they were ill and could pass any illnes onto the other fish in that tank.
I had those 2 fish for quite a while, a couple of years, so old age may've got to them.
I'll sort out the biggest of the tanks tomorrow but that doesn't need much doing to it.
Luckily it's next Tuesday for black bins here.I went for a run this morning and then boxed up more books to sell.
Illaveago
Guru
- Location
- Chippenham,Wiltshire.
I could remove the buttons and just have a stick sticking out but I don't think it would look very good in the bathroom .
Gwylan
Guru
- Location
- All at sea⛵
Cycked to the station, brief train ride. Cycled to my Tuesday class.
Nice morning, skipped the train and cycled home. Only 20k, but I feel virtuous.
Now a shower and lunch which will include the fresh bread made overnight.
Nice morning, skipped the train and cycled home. Only 20k, but I feel virtuous.
Now a shower and lunch which will include the fresh bread made overnight.
rockyroller
Guru
- Location
- 20 miles northwest of Boston, MA
playing with a new light pad
Wifey wants one too, so I guess I'll get another for her Mothers' Day gift. the kids better get her something tho, because she's not MY Mother
Wifey wants one too, so I guess I'll get another for her Mothers' Day gift. the kids better get her something tho, because she's not MY Mother
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Reynard
Guru
- Location
- Cambridgeshire, UK
A humid and currently sunny day here chez Casa Reynard, but it rained overnight and thunderstorms are forecast for the afternoon.
Slept well, and have had something of a kitchen morning, sorting out the mountain of groceries. A friend popped by to pick up her share of yesterday's bargains.
Our usual postie (a lovely Jamaican chap) delivered the parcel that didn't get delivered on Saturday. He was most apologetic, as it would have fitted in my letter box, but it wasn't him doing the round that day. No harm done though.
It is time for luncheon.
Slept well, and have had something of a kitchen morning, sorting out the mountain of groceries. A friend popped by to pick up her share of yesterday's bargains.
Our usual postie (a lovely Jamaican chap) delivered the parcel that didn't get delivered on Saturday. He was most apologetic, as it would have fitted in my letter box, but it wasn't him doing the round that day. No harm done though.
It is time for luncheon.
rockyroller
Guru
- Location
- 20 miles northwest of Boston, MA
A little while ago I thought I would join a Vintage bicycle group on FB . I filled in their form but never heard back from them !
Perhaps they didn't want a subversive element in their group!
maybe it's a ploy, to collect personal information, so they can sell it
Andy in Germany
Guru
- Location
- Rottenburg am Neckar
A colleague from my Cabinet maker training went on to study at a design school. He said it was astonishing how often other students came up with hopelessly unworkable ideas because they hadn't the first clue how things worked and assumed "glue" could hold up anything.
I've had to learn to write and read dates as mm/DD/yyyy to please my American Lords and Masters.
The end result is that I constantly confuse myself with the more usual DD/mm/yyyy that we use here so I confuse myself and everyone else by doing silly things like writing one of my extremely infrequent cheques and dating in several months in advance!
The end result is that I constantly confuse myself with the more usual DD/mm/yyyy that we use here so I confuse myself and everyone else by doing silly things like writing one of my extremely infrequent cheques and dating in several months in advance!