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redleader posted:you should Trees need water. Wood is made of trees. Therefore wood needs water
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I wish I had a room solely dedicated to my pants.
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I would like to formally welcome NJAN to the 100 Club
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Because 99 bought old cat 5 cable out of a van for all his networking needs?
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Dead Goon posted:I wish I had a room solely dedicated to my pants. No no, pant room. It's where you recover from exercise.
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EasilyConfused posted:No no, pant room. It's where you recover from exercise. It's actually where you sort your Swedish recycling
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still colourblindly vaguely painting some colours on some walls? needed to reconnect my basin waste to the AAV in a way that didnt gently caress it up and actually it was kind of tricky and a new tiny one was only like a couple of quid so it gets its own. (The white upward T in the middle with the grey dirgo on top)  My oak vanity thing needs staining/protecting whatever as everyone has pointed out. Danish oil seems fine? Need a bunch of coats and sanding and oh god everyone is so anal about everything  so thats one coat (out of five!) plus I've fitted the tap now. So apparently always the hot goes on the left lol oh dear  actually simplify a bit  where should a tap come out into a sink?  here? well theres not many other options so yeah here 
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Maybe put a bag over your smoke alarm. There might be one in the packet that looks a bit like a shower cap. If it's the radioactive type of detector they get really pissy about dust, especially from construction work.
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Endjinneer posted:Maybe put a bag over your smoke alarm. There might be one in the packet that looks a bit like a shower cap. If it's the radioactive type of detector they get really pissy about dust, especially from construction work. Do this, or you'll be replacing those before long.
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hmm i cold just remove it again I can't really remember why I put it up like to feel like progress probably
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NotJustANumber99 posted:But having the heat on is defo causing some drying out. Definitely not related. Be sure to rest the floor in the space for a while before installing. Engineered hardwood less susceptible but I’d do it anyways.
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That's a lovely blue, is it for the pants room?
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Technically yes. That bit through the not a door is the walk in wardrobe. BT have woken me up so had to drive up to site to move the smart car. Been waiting I dunno a month for them. They haven't got the manhole lid lifter thing so can't do anything.
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Can't you just lift a manhole lid with an old coathanger bent into a hook
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It's a heavy one.
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Mar 14, 2024 10:40
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Just get some manhole lifters on eBay: https://www.ebay.co.uk/p/1445350180?iid=303289283019
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It’s taking about the amount of time I expected it to given the circumstances but should be done on the next try. I like that paint colour.
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Let's just reminisce once again about the distant past when the foundations for the big L were being laid: https://i.imgur.com/4hiG3sn.mp4 from here: quote:OSHA Thread Loki Kunti fucked around with this message at 23:30 on Mar 15, 2024 |
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NotJustANumber99 posted:It's a heavy one. Just use two coat hangers then. Bent into an L. Obviously.
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Loki Kunti posted:Let's just reminisce once again about the distant past when the foundations for the big L were being laid: dangit I clicked through and lost my bookmarked spot in the osha thread 
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Leperflesh posted:dangit I clicked through and lost my bookmarked spot in the osha thread Glad I'm not the only one this happened to!
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I was like two or three or four thousand posts behind, not sure where exactly was totally gonna catch up one of these days for sure i wish crosslinking threads would auto-insert the noseen=1 flag, it works that way in the reports forum and I sometimes forget that if I click a random crossthread link anywhere else, I'm taking my precious bookmarks into perilous waters
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If you’re on a browser you can check your history and find what page it was, then reset your marker and load that page. If you’re fully an app user I have no help for you.
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The last time I looked in the thread was more than a year ago, it's not gonna be findeable in my history lol
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Sorry... 
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Ok so those bt dudes that came the other day were eventually able to open the manhole. Not that they did anything down there. just looked in it. They have dug down at the foot of the post. SO it had an old cast iron 90 bend under the protruding plastic bit of pipe that was all gummed up. So they've bypassed that altogether and put a plastic bend in instead. They havent pulled the fibre through. But theyre like yeah someone else can totally do that now. Hmmm.  It all seems like aggressively bodgy. But whatever. So now we wait for one of the other engineers to return to pull through the fibre. Climb the pole, terminate the fibre. then go round onto site and splice internal and external fibres together and were good. lol. believe it when i see it. So the price of the oak worktops has weirdly (not weirdly) gone up. Deffo gonna recover the bits I've hosed and get it to work Which means clamping and glueing together the big splitter bits of oak  hmmm.... actually seems to work  the base peice though keeps buckling. not enough clamps. can use weight  that seems to work  you can't tell me what to do I've blued the ground  Prepare en suite for second cantilevered vanity. Laser wood nails  More tapagge  oh and rewind to first vanity. put shaver socket inside it. Wire not long enough. adapt. overcome   Second one easier get right first time  rout back of socket as doesnt fit fat wood  hmmm, looks ok?  course t loving does. I'm a pro at whatever this is now  had to bend my poo stack over backwards mind  Finished insulating heatpump outdoor pipes.  getting kinky
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Are you getting a bidet in that toilet, if I was spending however many years making a house I would make sure I had a bidet.
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I am not having a bidet. Had a bidet for years. Never used it. My parents built a house and put in a bidet in... 1993/4. It has yet to be used. Plus if I had a bidet Jose might want to come round. Heres a new fun thing I've discovered just this morning.  All the in ceiling supply air vents have suddenly, like I think overnight, developed a tide mark about an inch out all the way around.   So theory is, where I've cut the metal duct in the ceiling it has lost its galvanisation. The air in the house is relatively warm and when the colder, fresher air sucked from outside has been vented through into the room the metalwork has been chilled, moisture has condensed on it and rusted the cut ends. This tide mark of rust has then spread out into the plaster ceiling where it touches the cut metal. I dunno why this has happened suddenly and not straight away. I need to check the relative humidity levels on the MVHR maybe to see if anything weird has happened.
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This seems to line up with everything I've heard about construction and moisture being the most constant and greatest enemy of anything you ever do.
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NotJustANumber99 posted:So theory is, where I've cut the metal duct in the ceiling it has lost its galvanisation. The air in the house is relatively warm and when the colder, fresher air sucked from outside has been vented through into the room the metalwork has been chilled, moisture has condensed on it and rusted the cut ends. This tide mark of rust has then spread out into the plaster ceiling where it touches the cut metal. I dunno why this has happened suddenly and not straight away. I need to check the relative humidity levels on the MVHR maybe to see if anything weird has happened. You're probably overthinking this and it's just dust/dirt/moisture that formed a ring as it was being carried out of (into?) your round vents. Or condensation that formed from the temperature gradient. Either way, it's probably from air moving through the vent and not rust wicking through the walls.
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This thread has a lot of funny, amusing, or head scratching moments but the bidet comments are going a little too far.
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Not sure why you'd have a separate bidet when you could wire in a SmartToilet seat or just T a bumgun off the cistern supply. I went for the bumgun and I gotta say 
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Fidelitious posted:This seems to line up with everything I've heard about construction and moisture being the most constant and greatest enemy of anything you ever do. I suppose you're speaking in the general "you" but I like the idea of construction and moisture being personal enemies of NJAN99
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It's op really not going to get a washlet toilet seat? Embarrassing
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NotJustANumber99 posted:
Can you wipe it clean with a cloth? From the picture it looks like dirt/debris from whatever work you’ve been doing.
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MetaJew posted:It's op really not going to get a washlet toilet seat? JunkDeluxe posted:Can you wipe it clean with a cloth?
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The Dave posted:This thread has a lot of funny, amusing, or head scratching moments but the bidet comments are going a little too far. I was wondering why someone would install a bidet and then not use it. If you're interested enough to get one wouldn't you use it and either like it or decide it isn't for you? OP talks like it's a pressure washer they never have an opportunity to use as if they never poo poo at home.
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Cat Hatter posted:You're probably overthinking this and it's just dust/dirt/moisture that formed a ring as it was being carried out of (into?) your round vents. Or condensation that formed from the temperature gradient. Either way, it's probably from air moving through the vent and not rust wicking through the walls. Look mate, I've been doing this a while now. I'm pretty sure I know what I'm talking about JunkDeluxe posted:Can you wipe it clean with a cloth? Pretty sure I would have thought about this before posting some long winded nonsense that makes me look like a total fool? So anyway, I put a little stepladder under the vent and stomped up it to prove a point and blew at the rust stained ceiling and it all disappeared. As I always suspected it was just dust and debris from the oak worktop I literally bragged about cutting up. So thats ultimately good isnt it? Like havent got to deal with all that imagined poo poo. I guess I was so used to finding other elements of rust on the paintwork from the washers and edge pieces that I was pre... pre something pre configured? to assume the worst. lol I started this project partly with fun in mind and I should try to get back to that in the closing stages. Not everything is destined to go horribly wrong. So I turned on my hot/cold basin pipes for the ensuite bathroom prior to closing that up mainly to check the waste under the basin was done up ok.  Water pours through the ceiling down the wall.  yeah  probably hosed up this oak thing all over again. ideal. Turned it all back off. It was the hot one wot done it. Luckily I have documented everything so can look back through my photos to remind myself what the gently caress is likely to have gone wrong   pretty sure its that lowest hep20 joint between the plastic and copper. Its tight to the wooden joist and the bend, a bit fiddly, and is the kind of thing that a lazy workman could have gone "oh for ffs" and just pushed on a bit and called it a day.  This is why you do things yourself. Problem here is I did this myself. ffs Its not the end of the world but to get back at that is going to involve cutting into the professionally plastered foot of the wall upstairs and then somehow making good. Completely avoidable. Anyway, Back on the ventilation rust/dust rings. I have no idea how thats actually happened? So i checked the filters in the MVHR unit. And yeah the internal suck filter is pretty sawdusted up as I guess to be expected  But the external suck, as in feed to the house is fine? So I don't get how the internal supply vents suddenly farted out a ring of sawdust after I did some woodwork? The system is: internal rooms -> extract vents -> extract manifold -> filter -> heat exchanger(no physical overlap) -> outside -> heat exchanger(no physical overlap) -> filter -> supply manifold -> supply vents -> internal rooms So how did sawdust get sucked up in the big room and deposited on the ceilings of all the other rooms? Its unpossible.
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quote:Its not the end of the world but to get back at that is going to involve cutting into the professionally plastered foot of the wall upstairs and then somehow making good. Completely avoidable. Just plumb both the hot tap and the cold tap to the cold water pipe. They'll both still work, you just won't get hot water. Who cares about that?
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