Perils of self-building. Concrete in my tea

[ToughButterCup]

I have a habit of drinking tea on the job. And not drinking all of it because I let it go cold. Doing a lot of concreting at the moment

 

Imagine my surprise then when I took the mug out of the dishwasher to find concrete spatters all over the inside at the bottom of the mug - even after a hot wash. 

Reusing the mug, the concrete makes no difference.

 

Better keep this one quiet before the HSE gets in on the act

[Ferdinand]

An appropriate Construction Cocktail would dissolve the concrete into something that would reinforce your teeth and give you a sultry beatific smile .

 

Just like Steptoe.

[Onoff]

I'd be careful about ingesting too much. Some concrete additives can render you quite ill...

Edited October 29, 2017 by Onoff
I'll / ill

[curlewhouse]

Yes, my tea habit too when working on the house or our vehicles - I've drunk many a tea-drowned fly on a summers day, cue coughing and spluttering, and god only knows how much plaster, bits of rust, weld spatter etc I've ingested, though I have to say since the waxoil I've not suffered any internal corrosion as far as I know   Must learn to look at it before drinking.

[Ferdinand]

The solution is perhaps an insulated lorry-driver's travel cup.

Edited October 28, 2017 by Ferdinand

[ToughButterCup]

1 hour ago, curlewhouse said:

[...]  Must learn to look at it before drinking.

 

But that's exactly the problem : when you do look, you can't see it - because it's sticking to the bottom of the inside of the partly full mug. And, if like me you never get to the end of a mug of tea, yer stuffed. The last bit of tea is camouflaging the concrete.

 

I like the idea of the  Tommee Tippee mug, though.   Just need the grandad version.

[curlewhouse]

Lets hope your household porcelain survives the "clunk" when that concrete passes through you 

[Construction Channel]

1 hour ago, Ferdinand said:

The solution is perhaps an insulated lorry-driver's travel cup.

it's all I drink from on site, 

a) the tea (coffee in my case) stays warm

b) you can see all the crap on the lid 

c) they're about £2.50 from QD 

d) you can drive with them

e) they're bigger

f) you can drop them

g) you can hang them from a scaffold pole by the handle

h) the handle hangs on your belt 

i) someone is usually giving them away free

........... why would you use a normal mug????

 

i was going to get some printed up but there was a minimum order of 100  

[Ferdinand]

39 minutes ago, recoveringacademic said:

 

But that's exactly the problem : when you do look, you can't see it - because it's sticking to the bottom of the inside of the partly full mug. And, if like me you never get to the end of a mug of tea, yer stuffed. The last bit of tea is camouflaging the concrete.

 

I like the idea of the  Tommee Tippee mug, though.   Just need the grandad version.

 

Herb tea or a glass mug.

Edited October 28, 2017 by Ferdinand

[curlewhouse]

 As demonstrated here CC ?  

30 minutes ago, Construction Channel said:

it's all I drink from on site, 

a) the tea (coffee in my case) stays warm

b) you can see all the crap on the lid 

c) they're about £2.50 from QD 

d) you can drive with them

e) they're bigger

f) you can drop them

g) you can hang them from a scaffold pole by the handle

h) the handle hangs on your belt 

i) someone is usually giving them away free

........... why would you use a normal mug????

 

i was going to get some printed up but there was a minimum order of 100  

 

Edited October 28, 2017 by curlewhouse

[Construction Channel]

3 minutes ago, curlewhouse said:

 As demonstrated here CC ?  

 

1

exactly

[MikeSharp01]

2 hours ago, Ferdinand said:

beatific

Now there is a word to conjure with - what could it mean - why would anybody use such a word, first known in the 15th century, as in beatification to describe a blissful smile - oh now I get it.

[MikeSharp01]

1 hour ago, curlewhouse said:

Lets hope your household porcelain survives

I am not allow household porcelain on site (its all Emma Bridgewater) I have £1 mugs from Lidl - but lots of them so when one gets dirty I just pile it up and have a wash up at the end of the week - oh hang on have I reacted to the first part of of this post and missed the contextual confirmation at the end.... Anyway I have some stuff that eats concrete but not mugs so if I get any splashes I can clean it off...

[SteamyTea]

My overriding impression of my first trip to Nova Scotia in nearly 30 years is that every drink is served in a paper cup.

Taken me 10 days to find a cafe that sells in a porcelain mug.  Coffee was dreadful, bleeding organic.

Give me the sweat of uneducated child labour any day.

Mind you, it is only C$2.15, or around £1.30 in real money with the Queen's head on it.

[MikeSharp01]

3 hours ago, SteamyTea said:

My overriding impression of my first trip to Nova Scotia in nearly 30 years is that every drink is served in a paper cup.

Taken me 10 days to find a cafe that sells in a porcelain mug.  Coffee was dreadful, bleeding organic.

How uncivilised.

 

[SteamyTea]

7 minutes ago, MikeSharp01 said:

How uncivilised.

Yes, but the are so nice about it, I can almost forgive them.

Even my bacon and egg sandwich came on a paper place.  It was nothing like a bacon and egg sandwich though.  And no HP sauce that I could see.

 

[Roundtuit]

10 hours ago, Construction Channel said:

 

i was going to get some printed up but there was a minimum order of 100  

 

I'm in! Build hub logo one one side, DIY SOS phone number on the other? ?

[Bitpipe]

As anyone with a MBC build knows, when the Warmcell insulation is being pumped then everything gets coated in it - tea, sandwiches, pets etc...