Insignificant/ Significant things that BYP or just wind you up a little

[Yorick]

I found out my live wall reading was false so I started drilling, all good until I tried the wall plugs and found the SDS 7mm bit makes a slightly bigger hole than a normal 7mm bit and it all ends up spinning in the hole.
Did some reading and saw people recommending a smaller bit, I went to 6mm and it's a bit small even when I jiggle the it around in the hole. I've used the plugs many times before, the difference is the DeWalt bit.
Trying some PVA glue now to see if it lets the screws do up.

I jam a few matchsticks in when that happens.

[Rockburner]

I found out my live wall reading was false so I started drilling, all good until I tried the wall plugs and found the SDS 7mm bit makes a slightly bigger hole than a normal 7mm bit and it all ends up spinning in the hole.
Did some reading and saw people recommending a smaller bit, I went to 6mm and it's a bit small even when I jiggle the it around in the hole. I've used the plugs many times before, the difference is the DeWalt bit.
Trying some PVA glue now to see if it lets the screws do up.

I tend to drill a slightly smaller hole (0.5mm if have the bit, 1mm if working with a reduced set), then LIGHTLY* tap the plastic plug into the wall - given that a hammer drill and 5mm (say) masonry bit is NEVER going to create an exactly 5mm hole I can get a 6mm plug in relatively easily and it's nice and tight in the wall.



* Literally just rocking the hammer back and forth onto the plug using it's own weight - the plug will eventually just be eased into the hole.

[Horse]

I tried the wall plugs and found the SDS 7mm bit makes a slightly bigger hole than a normal 7mm bit and it all ends up spinning in the hole.

From fittings into soft brick experience.

Hold the plug in a pair of pliers, screw in to start the 'arms' of the plug opening.

Remove screw, tap widened plug into hole. I add a blob of gripfill for luck.

Arms will (should) grip to stop spinning.

[Horse]

And one other thing is to drill a slightly larger hole in just the plaster. Otherwise the plug can cause cracking.

[Mussels]

Thanks chaps, half a yellow plug in each hole seems to do the trick.

[Jody]

I think I've covered this before but it might have been at the old place.....
It's when someone asks something of me, waits for me to agree then keeps trying to sell me on the idea. Literally becoming the thing that stops me from doing what they want.

Bloke " this sensor isn't working, the lights don't come on"

Me " Ohh well, I have spoken to the management company this morning about an issue in my chalet, I'll give them a call and get them to ask the electrician to come fix that sensor at the same time "

Bloke " It needs doing "

Me " Yes, as I just said, I'll call them "

Bloke " make sure you tell them it's dangerous "

Me " Yes, as I just said I'll call them "

Bloke " It's right there on the stairs, someone could fall "

Me " yes, I'll call them "

Bloke " My kids are here at the moment, so it has to be safe "

Me " Yes, I'll call them "

Bloke " make sure you do, coz it needs fixing "

Me in my head " Ohh do fuck off you utter cnut, your kids being here makes fukk all difference to whether it needs to be done and if you had shut the fuck up after I told you I would do it, it would be done by now "

[Count Steer]

I think I've covered this before but it might have been at the old place.....
It's when someone asks something of me, waits for me to agree then keeps trying to sell me on the idea. Literally becoming the thing that stops me from doing what they want.

Bloke " this sensor isn't working, the lights don't come on"

Me " Ohh well, I have spoken to the management company this morning about an issue in my chalet, I'll give them a call and get them to ask the electrician to come fix that sensor at the same time "

Bloke " It needs doing "

Me " Yes, as I just said, I'll call them "

Bloke " make sure you tell them it's dangerous "

Me " Yes, as I just said I'll call them "

Bloke " It's right there on the stairs, someone could fall "

Me " yes, I'll call them "

Bloke " My kids are here at the moment, so it has to be safe "

Me " Yes, I'll call them "

Bloke " make sure you do, coz it needs fixing "

Me in my head " Ohh do fuck off you utter cnut, your kids being here makes fukk all difference to whether it needs to be done and if you had shut the fuck up after I told you I would do it, it would be done by now "

He's probably throwing the kids down the stairs right now. His wife is on the phone to the 'no win, no fee' people. By the time the electrician turns up he'll have put the fuse back in too.

PS He recorded your conversation.

[Ant]

Well at least he's in good hands of customer service

[Mussels]

My water getting cut off thirty minutes after the water station handing out bottles closed for the night.
No idea if or when it will open again as they aren't bothering to update the website.

[Felix]

My water getting cut off thirty minutes after the water station handing out bottles closed for the night.
No idea if or when it will open again as they aren't bothering to update the website.

Funny as i was thinking the other day how much we take water for granted. I was jet washing a customers slabbing what must be 20' wide and wraps round the house. Half way in i was thinking about all the poor wee buggers living in droughts. Gallon after gallon im just sending down the drain them i thought, Fuck it. I need the money.

[Mussels]

My water getting cut off thirty minutes after the water station handing out bottles closed for the night.
No idea if or when it will open again as they aren't bothering to update the website.

Funny as i was thinking the other day how much we take water for granted. I was jet washing a customers slabbing what must be 20' wide and wraps round the house. Half way in i was thinking about all the poor wee buggers living in droughts. Gallon after gallon im just sending down the drain them i thought, Fuck it. I need the money.

I'm used to it here, last year we had 3 days without water and some areas in town are now on their fourth. The most awkward problem is lack of toilet flushing, water butts are invaluable then.
I can stop complaining, we have enough pressure for a shower now.

[Count Steer]

When we moved to this house we had to buy a UPS because the electricity supply was up and down like fiddler's elbow. They seem to have got that sorted but now it's water that requires a strategic approach. 3 lots of trooping off to a car park to get bottles so far this year, then, recently several Guildford central-ish postcodes had to go to places like G-Live for bottles for several days I think.

Water leaks all over the place, for months at a time. Using bowsers to fill the local mini-reservoir. The waste pumping station at the village edge has people working on it almost constantly. They keep pumping sewage into the local river, not far away and it's a health hazard (people take their kids to where they used to swim and the kids get sick). 1000s of houses built in the area and no infrastructure improvements so it keeps breaking.

Can't say water privatisation has been a success.

[636mick]

One of the problems of village life, my water goes off about once a week. Old Infrastructure can’t cope. Still, I can shower at work if all else fails.
During the recent cold spell, Anglian water decided to cone off one lane on one of the B roads and put traffic lights in due to a water leak turning to ice on a bad bend. Can’t help thinking they should fix the leak instead!!
Mick

[Rockburner]

During the recent cold spell, Anglian water decided to cone off one lane on one of the B roads and put traffic lights in due to a water leak turning to ice on a bad bend. Can’t help thinking they should fix the leak instead!!
Mick

We have exactly that situation down here right now - about a mile up the road from us. The fields flooded so much that the road-drains on a set of tight bends choked up solid. Then it froze.

The road surface got pitted and potholed really badly, one of the potholes was about 2 feet deep - you could easily see about 3 different 'levels' of tarmac, but of course most of the numpties round here were still charging through the floods at full speed. One day we passed 4 cars within a 300 yard stretch with punctures!

So the council have simply setup a 'temporary' one-way system with lights to direct traffic over the least damaged areas of the tarmac, oh and they filled in the really deep hole.

Obviously no-ones going to bother to actually un-choke the flood drains!

[gremlin]

Mice.

Opened the cupboard under the kitchen sink about a week ago to find the food waste bags, sponges, etc had been royally chewed. Mouse/mice must have found a way in, though I'm bugger if I can out where. Reluctantly I put some poison down under the cupboards before we went away for a few days.
Came back last night to a distinctly dead rodent whiff in the air. Had the boards off this morning and no sign of any mouse corpse, so must be somewhere inaccessible. Just have to wait for it to go, I suppose....

[MrLongbeard]

Mice...... mouse corpse,........ Just have to wait for it to go, I suppose....

Bugger, zombie mice are the worst

[Horse]

Came back last night to a distinctly dead rodent whiff in the air. Had the boards off this morning and no sign of any mouse corpse, so must be somewhere inaccessible. Just have to wait for it to go, I suppose....

Neighbours had a rat visiting them. Rat man kindly fed it some special food. Rat, very considerately, decided to die under our kitchen floor. That was awful.

A few years later, the builder found it. Rather put him off his lunch.

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[the_priest]

My phones motherboard (iPhone XS) has died... annoying especially as I have people contacting me for urgent pastoral support etc... ho hum. Going to see if I can get it repaired as replacement cost is rather spicy after having bought wife a new phone for Christmas (she does not know yet)....

[Horse]

My phones motherboard (iPhone XS) has died... annoying especially as I have people contacting me for urgent pastoral support etc... ho hum. Going to see if I can get it repaired as replacement cost is rather spicy after having bought wife a new phone for Christmas (she does not know yet)....

Pragmatic thought: she has present early, you put your sim in her old phone?

[the_priest]

My phones motherboard (iPhone XS) has died... annoying especially as I have people contacting me for urgent pastoral support etc... ho hum. Going to see if I can get it repaired as replacement cost is rather spicy after having bought wife a new phone for Christmas (she does not know yet)....

Pragmatic thought: she has present early, you put your sim in her old phone?

Good thinking, but I need a phone that connects to my hearing aid. iPhones just work so well with my type of hearing aid, and I don't like putting money in Apple's pockets.... also have a backup of phone on iTunes, so would be able to get up and running quickly once phone repaired.