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Jaded Burnout posted:Nevermind. Plucky little fella.
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He just likes to be tall.
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Oct 27, 2023 20:54
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Also having just been doing something not dissimilar, I can't remember if you considered... and it might sound horrible... But for your skirting, pre drill through it to mark the wall behind. Remove and set a rawl plug in there. use a countersunk or headless screw to pull the skirting into the wall tightly then a bit of filler over the screw head sanded neatly and painted over?
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Oct 27, 2023 21:55
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Jaded Burnout posted:Yeah that poo poo's tenacious. The whole thing has been scalped twice and it grows back all on its own. Man you are still cutting the grass over in the UK? Can't believe how green that lawn looks. Our lawn's covered in ice and snow right now. Just waiting for some temperatures on the other side of freezing so I can wash the car.
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Oct 28, 2023 06:34
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His Divine Shadow posted:Man you are still cutting the grass over in the UK? Can't believe how green that lawn looks. Our lawn's covered in ice and snow right now. Just waiting for some temperatures on the other side of freezing so I can wash the car. It's been unseasonably warm going into October, and now has been raining for about 3 weeks solid so grass is living it, and is also too wet to cut.
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Oct 28, 2023 06:57
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NotJustANumber99 posted:Also having just been doing something not dissimilar, I can't remember if you considered... and it might sound horrible... I did consider it but this largely seems to work and I'm lazy.
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Oct 28, 2023 17:34
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Caulking time!    Good enough.  Getting better.  Architrave went fine.     Normal wall skirting also went fine.    The brick was always going to be trouble.    Could've been worse. The tape helped a bit.   I'll give it a quick sand once it's all set to remove the most eye-catching strays, but generally it's OK that the interface will be a bit wobbly. It was for the walls there, too. All in all not bad for a first timer.
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Oct 28, 2023 17:42
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Between the additional glue and caulk, that corner should be good, but you could always drive in a few brad nails.
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Oct 28, 2023 18:04
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Lucid Nonsense posted:Between the additional glue and caulk, that corner should be good, but you could always drive in a few brad nails. Not into that brick I can't, but maybe into the floor below the carpet line if needed.
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Oct 28, 2023 18:52
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Or into the abutting skirting.
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Oct 28, 2023 19:07
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Jaded Burnout posted:I did consider it but this largely seems to work and I'm lazy. Nah mate you arent lazy, you've gone above and beyond multiple times.
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Oct 28, 2023 21:21
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Grass update for all you grassholes out there: grass still growing
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Went out moving a few things around in prep for tomorrow's big storm, and when I came in noticed a big damp circle on the mat. Looked up and.. OK who remembers when the builders put on the extension's roof but did such a bad job it leaked loads and they had to build another one over the top? Well this is one of the leak spots where the water had gathered. The roof still looks to generally be in good shape..  .. and only one of the spots has started leaking again, so I think it's localised and it's probably from the lack of coping on the parapet wall. I "fixed" this on the other extension by sealing down a run of DPM over it, but that was only ever a stop-gap and the proper solution is to buy proper coping and fit it. Problem is there seems to be exactly one product (aluminium coping) by one manufacturer (alumasc) and they know it and it's very expensive. Seemingly no PVC product exists. I guess I have no choice, so this weekend I'll be measuring up and placing an order, of course immediately after a storm is the worst time to do that. Speaking of which, guess I should put a bucket under that leak tonight. Jaded Burnout fucked around with this message at 17:49 on Nov 1, 2023 |
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Nov 1, 2023 17:47
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So you need some sort of coping mechanism?
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Okay JB is in England, is this an off-color painting or a picture with some lovely camera filters of the White Cliffs of Dover from out at sea? Oh, no... (sorry, I hope that makes sense but in some sort of context it's honestly the first thing I saw in my mind, I hope it's at least mildly amusing in a bad situation)
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Looks to be pretty low slant on that roof? If so it's what I term a "risk construction", high risk of leaks with flat or flat-ish roofs. Afraid it might be a recurring issue with time.
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His Divine Shadow posted:Looks to be pretty low slant on that roof? If so it's what I term a "risk construction", high risk of leaks with flat or flat-ish roofs. Afraid it might be a recurring issue with time. The slope on it looks ok to me, I'm guessing (hoping!) There are decent drains in each corner? That open edging is a right mess though. It looks like it's wood?
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Powerful Two-Hander posted:I'm guessing (hoping!) There are decent drains in each corner? More on that this weekend. Powerful Two-Hander posted:That open edging is a right mess though. It looks like it's wood? Yeah, that’s what the coping goes over.
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Nov 2, 2023 14:10
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Get some sheet metal and make your own coping? Or get a couple of gutters and sit them on top upside down.
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A row of tiny umbrellas, each one nailed into the edging.Jaded Burnout posted:More on that this weekend. 
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I have absolutely got to declutter this house. We're at the point now where I can't even start projects because I can't find the materials, or can't access the areas that might have them in. I didn't want to do guttering work today and I'm absolutely not going to do it if I can't even find the stuff to do it. It's massively demotivating. I know I can get at my painting tools so at some point I'll dig those up and get the bedroom trim painted as planned, get the carpet fitted there, move bedrooms, and then refocus on finishing the workshop enough to move stuff into it. Rain will have to wait.
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If only you’d finished the stairs you’d be able to store stuff upstairs
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Jaded Burnout posted:I have absolutely got to declutter this house. We're at the point now where I can't even start projects because I can't find the materials, or can't access the areas that might have them in. I didn't want to do guttering work today and I'm absolutely not going to do it if I can't even find the stuff to do it. It's massively demotivating. Definitely feel this. We are wrapping up some major renovations and a ton of our stuff is still in boxes or strewn about the garage etc. As you say it's massively demotivating when a simple task like making breakfast is a huge yak shave of moving boxes, opening boxes, realizing it's the wrong box and looking for another, before you can do the thing you wanted to accomplish in the first place. Also a lot of questioning why I thought labeling 10 different boxes as "kitchen" would help me remember where the hell a specific thing was 6 months later
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I’m going to have a brief whinge about British Gas now. They’ve been hassling me for weeks about replacing my smart meter. I finally call them back today, they have a dedicated option on the phone tree, but a 6 minute wait. Okay. They answer, confirm my name, transfer me to the “correct department” (what was that phone tree option for then?) where I get a message saying they’re all about to go home (it’s 16:30) and if you’re not a vulnerable individual then please gently caress off. Then silence and then it hung up. Sorry, vulnerable individuals.
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Nov 8, 2023 17:36
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Something I've noticed since moving to this island is that companies really do not want to hear from you.
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British gas are famously extremely bad. Octopus energy moved my meter for free within about two weeks and upgraded both to new models at the same time. Jokes on me though because the old gas meter was actually stuck somehow and hadn't updated the reading for abouttwo months so I wasn't actually paying for usage.
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I may not be from the UK, but at least where I live a broken meter means the gas company will (eventually) bill you on what they ~estimate~ you used. A recipe for getting turbo hosed with no leg to stand on and little, if any, recourse.
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Just Winging It posted:I may not be from the UK, but at least where I live a broken meter means the gas company will (eventually) bill you on what they ~estimate~ you used. A recipe for getting turbo hosed with no leg to stand on and little, if any, recourse. This is usually what happens yes, but seeing as that meter is now gone and the final amount was logged on the system as the closeout to switch to a new one it's all official. It wouldn't have actually been much money anyway, but it's odd that apparently nobody was checking if the smart meter was actually doing anything.
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That's usually the case in my experience. Once something gets automated people just assume it works, and it's not their problem if it doesn't.
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There's currently a mild scandal in Ireland with smart meters not being close enough to each other to report back (because they're all peer-to-peer apparently?) resulting in rural customers getting hosed on the bills and charged for manual readings. People are, fairly, pounting out that this is basically false advertising on the part of the various utilities and it looks like they're going to get hosed by the government for misleading the public.
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Turns out it’s likely due to some form of data migration hell as I’m in the middle of being moved (without being asked) to their “new energy platform” at the same time as they’re shutting off the old smart meters so half their systems say one thing and the others say another. “It says here you don’t have any smart meters” “When was the last meter reading you received?” “October 31st.. from a smart meter.. oh”
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Jaded Burnout posted:Turns out it’s likely due to some form of data migration hell as I’m in the middle of being moved (without being asked) to their “new energy platform” at the same time as they’re shutting off the old smart meters so half their systems say one thing and the others say another. Oh lol now you're hosed!
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Check the website in a month, was their advice.
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Alright today I put the first coat of paint on the architrave and got about 10cm into doing the skirting before concluding absolutely gently caress doing this myself I'm hiring a painter. So I'll do that at some point.
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And then get grumpy at the painter for doing a poo poo job, fire him, and spend the next five years planning sanding and repainting your skirting?
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£340 quote. Maybe I can suffer through doing it myself after all.
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It’s a poo poo of a job Do you have knee pads?
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Could you put a paintbrush on the robo mower? e: or pay a teenager to do it as I was one summer because my dad didn't want to pay a professional to do the job
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Update for you grasspeepers; the grass is no longer growing and the mower will be going into hibernation shortly.
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If you've not got a union jack imprinted in your paint trays, what's even the point. 1? 2? year old satinwood, "white".  Better.  First coat all round.  Might do the second coat tomorrow. Not fun but not that bad in the end. The area around the brickwork was a real pain to do without going up on the bricks.
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