I am man: hear me roar!!!

[niallers]

1 hour ago, El Rojo said:

Not the only sticky sunroof you lubricated that night I’d say.

You'd think, but Mrs Niallers, being a woman person,is unaware of the difficulty of those mechanical fixes and as such wasn't the least bit impressed, even though I was being badgered for weeks to get it sorted as she has the car all the time ,as I cycle to work.

Fucking squaws!

[Mudface]

2 hours ago, TheHowieLama said:

30 fuckin hedgehogs!!

 

What becomes of them?

They fatten them up and sell them to Tescos. There's good eating on one of them. 

[VladimirIlyich]

9 hours ago, Mudface said:

They fatten them up and sell them to Tescos. There's good eating on one of them. 

 

[Mudface]

5 minutes ago, VladimirIlyich said:

 

 

Essential reading- https://www.globalchefs.com/article/current/art123bak.htm

 

Also- https://www.theguardian.com/uk/2007/sep/14/britishidentity.lifeandhealth

[Redder Lurtz]

Just fitted the new toilet seat she's been nagging me for a year to fit. It's a little loose but I'll probably get round to sorting that over the summer. 

 

[Ne Moe Imya]

Last night the neighbor came over to say that the car in our drive had the brakelights still on, despite being off and without a key.

Go outside, sure enough, they weren't making it up. I thought I'd have to take it to the mechanic and pay an arm and a leg to sort it. But on a whim, I googled the problem and figured out it was the small plastic bushing that keeps the brake switch depressed that had broken. Popped off to the parts store, 5 quid later I had the bushing. Spent 10 minutes removing panels, getting it press-fit into place, and putting everything back the way it should be.

 

Very short job but felt like I had conquered the world when I was done!

[Furmedge]

I've told everyone else in my life, so may as well share it here.  I'm taking the shed down over the weekend.  Told her to get the beers in.

[Bob]

I’m doing a new bathroom. It was the one room in the house most in need of bringing up to date in style when I bought the house 8 or 9 years ago.

 

Money, separation, divorce, lockdowns and other things have meant I never did, but now I am.

 

I started whacking the tiles off when I was sad and angry earlier in the year - that’s how and why I began my stair banister project at the start of lockdown too - but I really started to progress things about 3 weeks ago when I removed the shower. Last week the bath went too.

 

final job of phase 1 is removing these stubborn as fuck floor tiles.

 

new bathroom is ordered, and arrives in 2 weeks, by when I need to have done all the plastering and tiling. 
 

it’s taking me forever, to be honest, and I sort of wish I’d never started.

[sir roger]

We've been getting our bathroom done ( I did the rip out but am not competent enough for any of the installation ) and I share your pain. Our local store, Booths has been renamed Pooths as it has been our go-to loo for a fortnight.

[VladimirIlyich]

1 hour ago, Furmedge said:

I've told everyone else in my life, so may as well share it here.  I'm taking the shed down over the weekend.  Told her to get the beers in.

Your wife is such a unit you call her The Shed? You're braver than me!

[Bob]

3 hours ago, sir roger said:

We've been getting our bathroom done ( I did the rip out but am not competent enough for any of the installation ) and I share your pain. Our local store, Booths has been renamed Pooths as it has been our go-to loo for a fortnight.

My toilet is a separate room, plus one downstairs, which is possibly why it’s still ongoing!

[Furmedge]

On 15/06/2023 at 10:14, VladimirIlyich said:

Your wife is such a unit you call her The Shed? You're braver than me!

 

I told her this as a joke.  I woke up to a lovely view from the fracture clinic.

[Bob]

I’m fitting a new bathroom. I started months ago. I’ve not had a working shower in the house for 3 months. The bath went 2 months ago. I’ve been showering at my parents, my girlfriends, or at work.

 

and for a long while I was only ever going backwards. Destruction. Removal. Further and further from a working bathroom.

 

about 3 weeks ago that crossed over to be more positive. Construction. Installation. Closer and closer to a working bathroom.

 

Right now, within the last 10 minutes, I got the bath trap to hold water with no leaks. At the third time of asking.

 

now I can start tiling. 
 

im fucking knackered.

[Poor Scouser T]

19 minutes ago, Bob Spunkmouse said:

I’m fitting a new bathroom. I started months ago. I’ve not had a working shower in the house for 3 months. The bath went 2 months ago. I’ve been showering at my parents, my girlfriends, or at work.

 

and for a long while I was only ever going backwards. Destruction. Removal. Further and further from a working bathroom.

 

about 3 weeks ago that crossed over to be more positive. Construction. Installation. Closer and closer to a working bathroom.

 

Right now, within the last 10 minutes, I got the bath trap to hold water with no leaks. At the third time of asking.

 

now I can start tiling. 
 

im fucking knackered.

Thinking of doing similar. I've had one bath since getting this place and I don't fit (fat bastard) Rip it out but can't do an over the taps shower so thinking of a self contained cubicle. You look into that?

[Stouffer]

On 15/06/2023 at 09:17, sir roger said:

We've been getting our bathroom done ( I did the rip out but am not competent enough for any of the installation ) and I share your pain. Our local store, Booths has been renamed Pooths as it has been our go-to loo for a fortnight.

Booths rep.

[Bob]

Have I fuck got a bath trap that doesn’t leak. I’ve got one that oboe leaks a bit and leaks slowly. Fucks sake.

 

just launched another £200 at b&q as well for stuff I didn’t know I needed until today.

[sir roger]

Fuck sake Bob, you haven't got time to be playing the oboe when you have a bathroom to finish !

[TheHowieLama]

Don't worry Spunker - it'll be finished bassoon enough.

[Harry's Lad]

Are you sure you've connected the tuba correctly?

[Bob]

Thanks lads. Cheered me up. Put a Boro of wind (section) back in my sails. 
 

gonna eat chicken wings for tea now at least.

[Bob]

Some progress eventually made over the weekend. Worked like a dog all day sat and Sunday but finally moved to a point where it looks like a bathroom is emerging.

 

 

[Bob]

That, my friends, is a second wall.

 

boom.

[TheHowieLama]

@Remmie in two days time

 

 

[Bob]

Running water in the bathroom for the first time in eons.

 

the shower/bath controls now work.

 

only some of the pipe work leaks.

 

shower screen the latest “it’d be a lot fucking easier if you wrote the occasional words alongside your hieroglyphics” part of the project.

 

I go off on holiday Wednesday, so progress will stall, but I’ll be able to have a shower at home to tonight and that felt a long way off even this time last week, so I’m pleased with the sudden progress.

[A Red]

My mrs sent me to the shed to get a screwdriver yesterday. I fuckin found one.