Graham's Top Tips

[AMc]

You are a stronger man than me. I can't lift even one when full ...

Sequentially, not simultaneously I guess it depends on how big your cylinders and your arms are - mine are only 19KG (the cylinders obviously )- . If I can't lift one easily it's probably quite full, if I can lift both of them easily then call I calor...

My Top Tips for today...
Regardless of the material, your builders are going to run out sooner than you think and probably before they ask you to order more. e.g. It is possible for a carpenter to use the last screw in the box before asking you to order another 800 to finish the job.

- If you want 4 boxes of 200 screws then the Screwfix store will have 3 boxes at the length you want and you will have to buy longer or shorter to make up the difference. You will curse not ordering online, waiting the extra day and saving the petrol and hour of your life on the trip.

- You can't take all the slate off your roof and put it all back on again without needing to buy some more - no matter what your builders say and no matter how often you check with them there won't be enough (I appreciate that this is obvious in retrospect).

Anyone know a good source for 260, 24"x12" welsh slates in East Anglia - no one seems to have any in stock?

 

[Pford75]

Anyone know a good source for 260, 24"x12" welsh slates in East Anglia - no one seems to have any in stock?

Have you tried Aspect Roofing in East Harling?

 

[Schoolmarm]

Aaah, this thread was just what I needed. 8)

 

[AMc]

Have you tried Aspect Roofing in East Harling?

I have, they have new Spanish slate at £1.80 a slate which is the best I've found locally. Lots of companies further afield but it seems odd/weird/wrong to ship reclaimed slate from Northern Ireland or new slate from Spain, China etc. I have a few days grace as the roof is watertight but I'll have to bite the bullet next week one way or another. Thanks for the suggestion.

 

[Penners]

AMc - perhaps a bit of a trek for you, but probably the largest in East Anglia:

http://www.solopark.co.uk/

 

[Penners]

Aaah, this thread was just what I needed. 8)

You make it sound like a gin-and-tonic!

 

[DaveBrigg]

I was searching online recently for a reasonably priced 'paper brick' maker. The type where mashed up newspaper is squeezed into a brick shape, left a couple of years to dry and then burnt in a solid fuel stove. They all seemed expensive, but then my wife suggested I try the Argos catalogue. Brilliant! With the air vents half closed it burnt for half an hour, and it has the added advantage that our local store has a pallet load in the entrance, with an instruction to 'Please help yourself'. I'm going to pop back later with the trailer.

(P.S. If you do try to make newspaper bricks, I'm told that the News Of The World is completely unsuitable, but that a fresh edition, mixed with a little straw and sand, makes an ideal wattle and daub mixture.)

 

[Flyfisher]

Interesting idea. I've got a pallet fork attachment for my tractor - I could go to my local store and collect a whole pallet load of cata-"logs"

If you do try to make newspaper bricks, I'm told that the News Of The World is completely unsuitable

Not even any good for burning then!

 

[Penners]

It's an interesting cycle:

Get some wood and turn it into paper.

Get some paper and turn it into wood.

It somehow seems a long way round to arrive at firewood!

 

[Penners]

cata-"logs"

Boo - groan!

:wink:

 

[Bitstreams]

When you jam the barrel lock that locks the top half of your stable door to the bottom half of your stable door, don't fetch your chisel set and start burrowing towards the lock through splintering wood.

Especially if your wife is about to walk in to the kitchen and suggest that if you take the door off its hinges you'll be able to lift the top half from the bottom.

Embarrassing that one.

Simon

 

[Pford75]

Slippers are not suitable footwear for assembling gym equipment

 

[Penners]

Ooh - ouch! :x

 

[skier-hughes]

Same goes for open toed sandals and strimming grass.

 

[Penners]

Before you dismantle the tumble-dryer into kit form, looking for the reason why it won't dry clothes, check to see whether there's a load of fluff blocking the exhaust air pipe.

:roll:

 

[fjpdesigns]

Happy birthday to Graham's top tips.

 

[FamilyWiggs]

When rodding blocked drains, take care when the rods are under high tension. Unscrewing them in this state is likely to cause a significant "bounce" with the result that you spend the next few days explaining to your work colleagues that the lacerations around your eye and bruising do not mean you've been in a pub brawl. Ouch.

 

[Penners]

That sounds like a flimsy and very unlikely excuse. :wink:

 

[FamilyWiggs]

When lacerating eye with said soiled drain rods, remember to wash out the wound quickly and well. Otherwise you'll spend the next day at work confirming to your work colleagues that yes you do know it looks infected.

 

[Gareth Hughes]

Just passing this on from a former colleague who is "3 years into a nine month project"-

Lime plaster sticks best when it's been on the floor twice.