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Tennentslager

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  1. Been trying to work out a comparative explanation using everyday objects. The sugar cubes would be about half the size of the Milky Way which is about 100,000 light years in diameter So, if the Milky Way is a Basketball and the sun is a tiny tiny grain of dust...the earth would be the size of a microbes bollocks...then Then answer is a football! Easy???
  2. Been trying to work out a comparative explanation using everyday objects. The sugar cubes would be about half the size of the Milky Way which is about 100,000 light years in diameter So, if the Milky Way is a Basketball and the sun is a tiny tiny grain of dust...the earth would be the size of a microbes bollocks...then Then answer is a football! Easy???
  3. Naw...far too big
  4. Hard hard work to remove, skim on top and repaint it will look like new
  5. Story about it here http://www.edinburghnews.scotsman.com/news/cannabis-to-be-grown-in-east-lothian-for-building-materials-1-4603351
  6. No jokers...
  7. That's too many km for my head, can you not simplify to light years???
  8. Please don't think I make these up, I'm not nearly clever enough, just borrow from various sites across the net. This one from Twitter feed of @wingsoverscotland
  9. Saturday morning nonsense now... No 50 digit answers please, I'd like size of a whale, size of Wales, size of the moon or similar.
  10. Pictures would help too?
  11. Your never going to be able to describe this with words alone. A sketch on a bit of paper, take a picture with your phone and upload it and I'm sure plenty of folk will help.? Use the attachment paperclip icon ??
  12. Super tidy...lots of 'face' type aspects which I like. Brick curved lintels look like eyebrows and the rooflines are nicely juxtaposed. Very nice.
  13. The ex Labour leader? Best PM we never had...?
  14. Similarly I like the banter with passers by. Being 10m from the West Highland Way guarantees plenty of international ramblers passing by. On a summer weekend its like Sauchiehall Street out there! Noteable ones include 5 middle aged Irish farmers who had an amazing amount of knowledge about building. a couple of young nurses from Surrey who helped me lift a wall panel into place 3 ladies from Palm Beach walking the Way, all in their nineties and all with full make up on. a dozen German scouts who stopped on a foul evening and had their dinner in the hut. After cooking noodle (spaghetti) they gave the place an amazing deep clean before offering me a dram from the whiskey they had bought from Germany...they were Ranger Scouts so around 20 years old. And none of the Americans ever, ever said they would vote Trump
  15. Congratulations...we want pictures of the nice build before you mess it up with all your stuff??
  16. Looks fantastic...good luck. Just an aside but my old neighbour ran a high end curtain making business, told me about a small church conversion he did. Nearly £4k he charged for that job although I think the fabric was tapestry style and expensive and there was lots of it for the big arched window.
  17. Saw it on a Facebook add tonight https://walabot.com/diy?utm_source=FB_Nov_EU_NewLAL_5%+_Amazon&utm_medium=Facebook+ads 100 quid though, for what looks like a con...what dya science fiends say?
  18. My old man was a plumber and told me in the 70s they used stainless steel in new builds because of a copper shortage. He didn't like it because the olives didn't bite as well and it split on the weld if frozen. He was old school though and thought plastic was the work of the ?
  19. In which case don't wear your AC/DC t-shirt, wash your hands and wear a tank top over your waistcoat. Or you could just do the fifty quid note thing, unhelpful though it may be. It's a hard one, how to influence strangers...(expletive deleted) it, I'd just be myself...bet you are a lovely lot anyway
  20. That's a fantastic view, is there a nice English pub nearby...idealic
  21. Hard wired smoke alarm has gone off again by itself (no smoke or fire) this time at 3am. It's my boys flat, he has autism and the alarm caused him to kick off big style. Worked on duty couldn't get it to stop so pulled it off the ceiling. What to do now? Does it run off a transformer? Can I buy a new one and fit it? Or let the landlord do it... Tough night for everyone the damned thing is commercial and wakes up half the street.
  22. Copper looks better if it's on *display* otherwise plastic is faster, easier and the modern stuff is bombproof. Many on here like Hepworth fittings the best. I've also used copper push fit like these, expensive but neat looking
  23. Considering two turbines. Each with built in dumpload and it’s own immersion. Brutal simplicity Oh you boys...talking all technical. I might Google dumpload and immersion but not at the same time or I'll be arrested. Never mind the bloody multiple jets too
  24. I reckon the answer lies not in physics but in how much the water board will charge. Guess they have the monopoly and can call the shots. How much do they want to answer your question?
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