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Re: UK Whitegoods Meeting 5
kwatt wrote:Don’t forget the can opener, a real one.
Should we all bring one?
and what was ‘the panties incident’?
BTW, will UKW be dead tonight while you are all in Sibson drinkng? I suppose someone will be taking a laptop for you all to huddle around. 😉
Re: Thomson local are they any good
It all depends on the area.
Some towns/cities never pick up the thompson, were others swear by it. 😕
Around here, nobody picks it up, so that’s a little advertising money saved for us. 🙂
Have we discussed the whole BT classified thing before?
As in, they sold the yellow pages years ago, then put a classified section in the phone book. Cheeky **** monkeys!
Re: Which make should I choose?
I’d concur with Dave.
If you have to go budget, get the tricity. The Hotpoint stuff is fatally flawed IMHO (and in many others HO).
Re: UK Whitegoods Meeting 5
😆 😆 😆
Errrr….thank you?
I just traveling by myself though; and do you remember what Bill said? Us goats will eat anything. So I’m loading my glove-box up with bottles of coke, red-meat butties and crisps. 😛
Thanks for the heads-up Kevin :tup:
Re: UK Whitegoods Meeting 5
Alex wrote:Have you considered either Woodhead Pass to Sheffield, down M1 leave at Castle Donnington just below Nottingham to A42. Turn left at A5 near Tamworth. Or maybe M62 & Down M1. I Find Woodhead pass is quicker from Hyde to Bristol. But to be honest the best way is the M6 Toll from Cannock.
Cheers Alex!
It’s 20 min to the M6 for me, but about 1 hour an 20 min to the M1 🙁
I think the toll road sounds best. I’ll have a look on multimap later.
Re: UK Whitegoods Meeting 5
OK, so I was going to get up early on Friday, and drive down to Sibson.
Probably joining the M6 near Preston about 7ish.
What’s the traffic like around Brum on a Friday morning?
Re: websites
I went round last night to put the old carcass in the new hole. But the hole has been filled with tins of paint, and carrier bags full of junk.
She’s very happy with just a big hole there. 😀
It’s like a ‘Carry-On’ forum sometimes around here. 😉
Re: websites
Dreamweaver? Arrrggghhhh!!!!!
Dreamweaver brings me out in a cold sweat. It was so complicated, I gave up on it. You must be a very clever man Kenny 😉
Re: websites
Microsoft Frontpage is OK for making something simple. But I use a firewall to keep an eye on it. It usually comes with stuff like ‘microsoft office’.
And I’d recommend ‘Swish2’ for a falsh site.
Re: Tales From The Front Lines
Lawrence wrote:I think it was Goatboy that once said “customers ,you can’t beat em shame really ” oh how I was tempted
Twasn’t me! Sounds like NWAR to me. 😉
Re: Tales From The Front Lines
Yeah! It needs editing for spelling as well.
Maybe you could change it to ‘I like her.’
kwatt wrote:And really, next time take the “phone a friend” option! 😆
I’m not taking one of those wierdos round to her flat either
Re: Tales From The Front Lines
Martin wrote:Such a pity some of the brilliant tales from past postings cannot be added 🙁
Why not?
We have to have Penguin nearly drowning.
And to Dave, I might be able to laugh about it by next week, not now. 😕 I can still see the blood, smell the sweat, and taste the tears. My friend ‘Miss Stella’ will help me forget about it tonight. 😉
Re: Tales From The Front Lines
kwatt wrote:…I was looking for some fresh meat for the grinder.
Fresh? This happened last night!
Goatboy’s night of pain – By Goatboy
————————————————————-When I met my girlfriend afew months back, one of the first things I noticed about her, was that she had a Servis washer (tis the nature of the beast). Nevermind, I thought, she has a nice bum. ‘That’ll break! They’re cr*p Servis!’ I told her, not knowing how right I was.
A couple of months later, the relationship is doing fine, then the washer breaks. The drum has completely collapsed. Maybe your thinking I should of heard this comming, being an appliance engineer, but the washer has never been running when I’ve been at her place before.
So, she needs a new washer.
Problem 1 – She lives in a flat, on the third floor.
Problem 2 – No elevator
Problem 3 – No strong neighbours or relatives, or anyone to give me a hand carrying a new machine up there; and I’m not going to show any of the wierdos that I work with, where my girlfriend lives.
So, I have an ingenious idea (tis the nature of the beast). Back at HQ, I’ve got a lovely Zannusi washer, 7 years old maybe, with noisey bearings. So, I can strip down that machine, put new bearings and a shaft in the tub, and take it round to her flat in pieces, therefore making it easy to carry up the stairs, and re-assemble it in her kitchen.
So yesterday, I gets this Zannusi ready. I load up the van with the two halves of the tub (sharing the concrete load), the front half of the cabinet, the back half of the cabinet, the top, and a bag of screws, drum springs, etc.
So, I arrive at her flat, at about 6.30pm. First things first, get rid of this Servis. So I carries my trolley upstairs, to remove the old pile of cr*p.
Problem 4 – The biggest problem of all! Her step-father designed + built the kitchen.
In the corner, is the washer, with the oven (built-in) adjacent.
Problem 5 – The oven over-laps the washer space, so the oven must come out first. Easy! Except for…
Problem 6 – She just cooked her tea, and the oven is very hot. Owww!
Problem 7 – The flex is too short for the oven to come out, because…
Problem 8 – The flex is plastered into the wall where it goes behind the work-top.
So, I manages to get the oven out just enough, so I can remove the back panel and dissconnect the flex (power off, of course). Bye bye oven!
Problem 9 – The kitchen-fitter has built the unit…around the washer, not allowing for the wood to expand, so the washer is very stuck. Heave!!!!
Problem 10 – When the machine does finally start moving, it’s not for long. The pipes are to tight for me to pull the washer fully out. No problem, dissconnect the pipes.
Problem 11 – The cupboard under the sink is full of junk! That’s standard right? No problem there really, but…
Problem 12 – The cupboard has a back on it, and guess where the taps are? Sonnova…
So, eventually, I trolley the Servis out her flat, and dump it on the landing outside. I’m hoping someone will steal it, or at worst, she can phone the council and get them to carry it downstairs. Whatever, I’m not doing it!
This is the part I actually planned. I get all the bits of the Zannusi, and easily carry them upstairs, and into her flat.
While I’m assembling the machine, I’m watching some guy on ‘Rogue Traders’ get £150 for reseting a boiler stat! Why do I have to be such a nice guy?
The machine is now ready to go. Did anybody see this problem comming?
Problem 13 – The Zanussi is deeper that the Servis!!!!! Why didn’t I just fix the Servis? I could answer that in detail, so nevermind. No matter how I try to do it, the washer sticks out too far to put the cooker back in. SONNOVA…
So, after much deliberation, I decided to rip the carcass out next to the sink. This way, it won’t need longer fill pipes and the drain hose won’t need extending; and the washer will be well away from the oven.
The carcass comes out easy enough, but when it does it reveals…
Problem 14 – There’s a giant trench in the concrete floor, where the feet of the machine need to go. So that gets filled in with bits of wood and rubble.
Then the machine goes in, it’s connected and the back of the cupboard goes on. The machine works, and everything is great, until I try to put the carcass in the empty space where the washer was.
Problem 15 – The floor isn’t level, and the carass is too tall now, and needs a couple of centimetre shaving off the top.
This is where I called it a night, and said I’ll sort that carcass out some other time.
I was doing all this work at a leisurely pace, but it was over four hours worth of messing around. How will this affecect my realationship with my girlfriend? I cosidered walking out and dumping her a couple of times during the night; but instead, I’ve just told her, I never want to see her kitchen again, and if I ever meet her step-father that designed and installed the kitchen…
