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You got the blow drier working!?

Instead of getting on with the big flow and return ducts. I decided to have a beer and share the monstrosity that is my mvhr manifolds ?

Can't remember how your steel work goes but don't forget to use the correct board around it. I also can't remember if fire or sound board is heavier but you will know about it after a day of moving those around

Afraid I'm with the majority on this one. Buy the board lifter anyway because it will make everything a lot easier, But you will need help on this and unless Debbie is deceptively strong. Ideally you need someone that can lift the board from the pile and put it on the lifter alone. Annoyingly your height means that with the extension you won't be able to load the lifter from the ground. So you will need to grab the board from a small scaffold to load it. Then climb back up to the top and screw it while the other person winds the lifter and adjusts it. There's no sugar coating it. This will not be fun. The lifter and scaffold will have to be constantly moved and there will be a lot of ladder work. Let me know when you plan to start and I'll make sure I'm busy ?

Also the customer walked in almost perfectly at 4:26 NSFW*

How are you punching them? Iv done my fair share of pissing about with slates and I really do feel your pain..... Have you ever tried cleaning bricks ?

It's a little ironic to be covering concrete with imitation concrete tiles. ?

Why not a very narrow windowboard? I bet even if it's only 2" wide it will still accumulate loads of "things"

Yay me ? only took 3 evenings ?

Whenever you get that feeling. "that's going to hit me" /"that's going to slip and cut me" /"ill trip over that later" /"I bet there's a pipe or cable behind there" Listen to that feeling.

Either that or I'll pay for any advantage I can get ?

He got brought up earlier this week and a college was showing me a song I hadn't heard before called "the kid". The customer turned up in perfect time to hear Mrs brown going mental at the end ? luckily she saw the funny side of it and asked what it was so she could show her husband... I can think of a lot of previous customers that wouldn't have taken it so well ?

Once I'd calmed down I did manage to lay 3 whole tiles ? planned for 4 but I couldn't be arsed to mix any more gear. You only got the polite and post pint rant. Poor old faye got the full brunt of it. Kevin Wilson would have blushed by the language involved ?

So the story goes as such. Today I hoped to finish installing my radial ducting. Let's ignore the fact I left the core drills at work so I would have to leave out 2 runs until Monday evening and that they sent out the wrong manifolds so I can't finish the big duct runs properly. Everything was going well, Faye is here so it made life a lot easier. Then my second roll of strap has gone missing, I took it out of the van yesterday, spent 30mins looking..... Its gone! Nevermind the bathroom is done so I can finally board the ceiling and get the sun tunnel in.... Hang on, I still need to get the 15mm feed up to the toilet... Might as well put the lino down first so I can drill a nice neat hole through it..... That bit went well. Perfect amount of adhesive. Done. Dry run the toilet. Mark where the pipe needs to come up. Done. Get the hole saw, drill the floorboard 10 seconds and we'll be ready.... Oh no no no, there's a steel. Knowing full well I should just go and get the mag drill I decided to percevere with the hole saw, 10 mins later I give in. Get the mag drill out of the van and it's got the standard end on it not the broach... Grrr but nvm. Change the end... Then start drilling. Now because of all my messing about a load of swarf has made a mound under the lino so I run out of depth. Lino comes back up and I need the hoover. Obviously that's full up and in the workshop. Finally the swarf pile is cleaned up, I got through the steel and the lino is back down. 10 second job ended up taking the best part of 40 mins. F*ck it Faye were going to the pub. Rant over..... I told you it was pointless

I'm a bit late to the party but £1/hinge is just not going to happen on anything worth buying. Bearings are obviously they way forwards unless it's on a shed. Only issue I have found with cheap bb hinges is the grease tends to leak out of them after a few months. But saying that once the grease is wiped away I'm pretty bloody sure they will still work better than a washer hinge for at least a couple of decades.

YORKSHIRE FITTINGS! ?

Thanks for that. I will keep an eye on ebay until I really need to buy them. The annoying thing is I could have easily stored them if I bought them on sale but it just wasn't high on my list of things to do at the time.

Hi everyone. A while ago I found the tile we liked on floorsofstone. Honed and polished ivory Travertine. It was on sale at £22/m. Which was fine but because I have taken too long its now £25-29 from anywhere. I seem to remember someone on here ( @JSHarris iirc) sourced it directly from abroard. Where and how did you do this? Or does anyone else have a secret supplier that is selling at a lower price? Tia Ed

Thanks. I just looked through a few of them and they don't seem to advertise as a "booster"

Anyone know of such a product? I'm going to need both and as the detectors are already well spaced for the job it would be nice to combine the two.. Tia Ed

I think "making good use of" might be a bit of a stretch ?

Looks tidy from here. What's left to do after the basin? And have you christened the bath and throne yet?

It's never stopped us before. It flows better when it's warmer but that's the only difference iv really noticed. It's 17 deg down here at the moment ? so I suggest you crack on.

I take it you have flappy pockets on your work trousers? I use one of these to get over the issue of emptying pockets for the dreaded "wash", its no substitute for a proper nail bag but they're good for the everyday stuff like what you appear to have accumulated, (you seem to be missing a small adjustable wide mouth spanner and a small multitool (leatherman ect,) ) https://www.engelbert-strauss.co.uk/workwear-accessories/work-bag-e-s-motion-3400460-6315710-1.html

bit of both really, technically I suppose it's for expansion, but physically you'll need it to get the last board in. it also stops a potential squeak if there is any deflection in the floor and they were hard against a timber wall