Random Irritations

[Red devil]

We had a new carpet fitted in my daughter's bedroom a month or so ago. She doesn't live with us anymore but she'll be back for Christmas. The new carpet is quite thick in comparison to the previous one and the door is effectively wedged.

After ignoring this today is the day to sort it. I was going to remove the door and sand the bottom until it is okay but laying in bed last night I thought I could simply swap the door with another one which I know we sanded some years ago. Much easier.

Both doors removed, I carry the sanded door up. The joiner fitted the hinges at different heights .

Best laid plans of mice and men.......

 

[Red devil]

My father-in-law hung a door for us. You could open and close the door with a featherlight touch. He’d been a cabinet maker. I’ve never seen so many different planes & chisels.

Some of the toys he knocked out for the grandkids were an absolute delight, and many look like he did them yesterday, not 35 years ago.

There’s diyer’s, like me, and then there’s craftsmen.

Mate of mine learnt his trade at the feet of two old boys. His work is perfection, never had an issue in all the work he's done for me.
He's much in demand and even our friendship of over 50yrs doesn't bump me up the queue!

 

[jim8flog]

We had a new carpet fitted in my daughter's bedroom a month or so ago. She doesn't live with us anymore but she'll be back for Christmas. The new carpet is quite thick in comparison to the previous one and the door is effectively wedged.

After ignoring this today is the day to sort it. I was going to remove the door and sand the bottom until it is okay but laying in bed last night I thought I could simply swap the door with another one which I know we sanded some years ago. Much easier.

Both doors removed, I carry the sanded door up. The joiner fitted the hinges at different heights .

Probably easier to change the hinges to rising butts (as the door opens the hinges raise the door).

What you do have to watch out for is if the doors are faced doors not solid there is a limit to how much can be shaved off the bottom and you do not know how much the joiner took off when fitting it.

 

[venger]

Do you not partake? Or has the Eagle gone downhill? I haven’t been in it since 2013 ish.

Not a great drinker but the eagle has always struck me a “tourist pub” if such a thing exists

 

[Hobbit]

Guess who has just done a tip run, and grabbed a bag next to the rubbish bags with the wife’s bowling shoes & jacket… ? I may be missing for some time…

 

[irip]

Guess who has just done a tip run, and grabbed a bag next to the rubbish bags with the wife’s bowling shoes & jacket… ? I may be missing for some time…

Good move Brian.
Next time she wants stuff taking to the tip she won’t ask you

 

[Neilds]

Guess who has just done a tip run, and grabbed a bag next to the rubbish bags with the wife’s bowling shoes & jacket… ? I may be missing for some time…

Thought women didn’t need an excuse to buy new things?

 

[Hobbit]

Thought women didn’t need an excuse to buy new things?

She’s already surfing the net. However, she also said she’s got another two pairs of bowls shoes in the cupboard… she has her own, huge double wardrobe - there’s probably several lost tribes in there.

 

[jim8flog]

Using a TV remote to access apps, the net , type user names and passwords on the TV.

grr

My remote has the exit function immediately next the move arrows and it has tiny buttons. Half an hour yesterday to get on to one app (partly because the TV would not allow me to to use the show password button).

 

[Lord Tyrion]

Using a TV remote to access apps, the net , type user names and passwords on the TV.

grr

My remote has the exit function immediately next the move arrows and it has tiny buttons. Half an hour yesterday to get on to one app (partly because the TV would not allow me to to use the show password button).

Is it possible to get an app on your phone that can act as a remote? That can make things easier. Not always an option but it can be.

 

[NearHull]

Not a great drinker but the eagle has always struck me a “tourist pub” if such a thing exists

True. We often took visitors to see the ceiling.

Once went in with another local friend, and it being packed, ended up sharing a table with Peter Davison ( Dr Who) and another actor. We declined to acknowledge who he was. He loudly regaled the immediacy with lovey dovey acting snippets. Self important *****.

 

[jim8flog]

Is it possible to get an app on your phone that can act as a remote? That can make things easier. Not always an option but it can be.

The apps on phones usually only do the basic stuff in my experience.
I have bought a non OEM remote but the problem of some of the buttons being very small for my fingers.
I did buy the same make of TV for another room but that has a remote for the phone you can download and voice activation but it is a smaller TV than my main one so cannot swap them over.

 

[Arthur Wedge]

Tomorrow is the return of Buddy - little

 

[Neilds]

The amount of school age kids at Bristol airport who are obviously on their trips to Lapland.

 

[Beezerk]

An idiot who has parked their car so it half blocks our driveway, I got off ok this morning but I won’t be able to get back on it if the car is still there when I get home. The missus has to go into the office this morning, luckily she gets the bus, there’s no way she can get her car off the driveway as it stands so she’d have been knackered had she needed to drive in
Strange thing is there’s absolutely loads of space in the street to park to avoid this. Very very weird
I can see a passive aggressive note being left on the windscreen if it’s still there later

 

[Sid Rixon IV]

An idiot who has parked their car so it half blocks our driveway, I got off ok this morning but I won’t be able to get back on it if the car is still there when I get home. The missus has to go into the office this morning, luckily she gets the bus, there’s no way she can get her car off the driveway as it stands so she’d have been knackered had she needed to drive in
Strange thing is there’s absolutely loads of space in the street to park to avoid this. Very very weird
I can see a passive aggressive note being left on the windscreen if it’s still there later

I once had one left on mine when I parked badly, in a hurry, and ran across to my son's house. I was in there for about a minute.
The note said "Nice parking, Stevie Wonder".
I couldn't believe the speed at which they'd reacted
I thought they must be watching so I looked up and down with a thumbs up before I drove off.

 

[Lord Tyrion]

An idiot who has parked their car so it half blocks our driveway, I got off ok this morning but I won’t be able to get back on it if the car is still there when I get home. The missus has to go into the office this morning, luckily she gets the bus, there’s no way she can get her car off the driveway as it stands so she’d have been knackered had she needed to drive in
Strange thing is there’s absolutely loads of space in the street to park to avoid this. Very very weird
I can see a passive aggressive note being left on the windscreen if it’s still there later

My FB is full of these types of events, okay I'm a sucker for them . It's really poor and any resolution really relies on the person not being a door handle. If we were in America you could call a tow truck,very satisfying, but in the UK it is more problematic. Good luck

 

[irip]

An idiot who has parked their car so it half blocks our driveway, I got off ok this morning but I won’t be able to get back on it if the car is still there when I get home. The missus has to go into the office this morning, luckily she gets the bus, there’s no way she can get her car off the driveway as it stands so she’d have been knackered had she needed to drive in
Strange thing is there’s absolutely loads of space in the street to park to avoid this. Very very weird
I can see a passive aggressive note being left on the windscreen if it’s still there later

If it’s still there when you get home block it in using both your cars
Then when they knock say the wife has gone out with the keys to both cars we will move them when she gets home.

 

[Lord Tyrion]

If it’s still there when you get home block it in using both your cars
Then when they knock say the wife has gone out with the keys to both cars we will move them when she gets home.

What if they are built like a S African prop? That move only works if the other person is ineffective.

 

[Beezerk]

If it’s still there when you get home block it in using both your cars
Then when they knock say the wife has gone out with the keys to both cars we will move them when she gets home.

That would be a good idea…if I could get the wife’s car off the driveway
I’ve not seen the car before so fingers crossed it has gone when I get home