The angry thread

[Newportnobby]

Is that the one where you pump 3-6 x doses from the inhaler into a perspex cylinder and then inhale from the cylinder, Jon?

[Jon898]

Bloody FORDS, but the good news they have all the parts

I was told that FORD stood for Fix Or Repair Daily, so of course they have the parts.

[jonclox]

Is that the one where you pump 3-6 x doses from the inhaler into a perspex cylinder and then inhale from the cylinder, Jon?

No.
That I could .....and have ......coped with that.
This one has a button (trigger) on the top which turns a window below it green.
You then inhale until the window turns back to red You then know you have taken the whole dose
I just cant inhale strongly enough and the dam thing refuses you a second chance

[Newportnobby]

Why is it that just when I've spent some dosh on a necessity (in this case a Western from Kernow ) that just a few hours later I manage to break the lock on my front door so now I have to find a locksmith who will no doubt charge some exorbitant call out fee

[Yet_Another]

Just use the back door?

Sorry. My sympathies. I cut my arm open breaking in to my own house in similar circumstances.

[Newportnobby]

I'm having to use the back door as a temporary measure but if anyone comes to visit that door leads into my 'office', the state of which makes a pigsty look the very model of neatness

[Newportnobby]

Why is it that just when I've spent some dosh on a necessity (in this case a Western from Kernow ) that just a few hours later I manage to break the lock on my front door so now I have to find a locksmith who will no doubt charge some exorbitant call out fee

At £79 per hour labour and an £85 door mechanism + VAT for the  Treasury my door is fixed but that's 2 locos!!!!!!!!
Looks like I'l be down Preston docks (again) for a few nights

[austinbob]

Just been running my Dapol Hall with a rake of chocolate and cream coaches - lubbly jubbly - on my test track. Test track is not fixed to base board and one of the track joints parted and the whole train dropped about 3 or 4ft on to the carpet. Ohh My Goddd!!
Hall bogie fixing got wrenched out of the chassis. Buffer beam broken, buffer snapped off. Rear NEM coupling snapped off and disappeared into the unknown.
Fortunately managed to repair all with a bit of careful refitting and a bit of superglue. Almost as good as new and still runs ok. One or two minor bits of damage still remain but no one would know unless I pointed them out. Pheww!! Luckily all the coaches survived without damage - no doubt down to Farish good product design.

[MikeDunn]

At £79 per hour labour and an £85 door mechanism + VAT for the  Treasury my door is fixed but that's 2 locos!!!!!!!!

Couldn't you just replace it yourself 

[daveg]

Why is it that just when I've spent some dosh on a necessity (in this case a Western from Kernow ) that just a few hours later I manage to break the lock on my front door so now I have to find a locksmith who will no doubt charge some exorbitant call out fee

At £79 per hour labour and an £85 door mechanism + VAT for the  Treasury my door is fixed but that's 2 locos!!!!!!!!
Looks like I'l be down Preston docks (again) for a few nights

No, Mick, No! Please don't lower the tone of the area (again)! 

Dave G

[FeelixTC]

Boiler (Baxi - not 'er indoors) has been playing up.

Engineer told me I needed a new pcb - £120 
Internet search proved him correct, until...........
Found a 'refurbished' pcb for £30. Now, I must admit, I was sceptical; how can you 'refurbish' a pcb? Took the gamble anyway.
Fitted pcb Saturday and boiler springs back into normal operation, high fives all round.

Until this morning, when I had no hot water again.

So here's the conundrum - It's either a) Not the pcb, or b) I got stiffed with my cheap alternative. Which way to go??

I hate having tradesmen in the house 

[daveg]

Had a similar problem with my boiler some time back.

Recall it had a chip of some sort on the card that had lost its mind. No way to fix it so had to fork out for a new one. £80 odd back then. Bet the thing cost no more than a tenner to make it the first place but what can you do?

Good luck TC!

Dave G

[Skyline2uk]

My recent experience with tradesman has been broadly positive.

But I will post the following on here as it seems more of a rant.

We are having a package of work done on the house at the moment (sorry, that's the engineering world coming out again) as it was far less hassle doing it all in one than separately.

This work includes new kitchen work tops, new overn hood, new bedroom cupboard doors and all new led lights in the kitchen and living room.

Apart from the biggest work surface revealing one of our walls is as straight as a not very straight thing (to be fair, nothing in our house is), the lights put up one hell of a fight.

I warned the sparky that there was a socking great transformer in the ceiling for the old halogen lights in the kitchen and probably the same in the living room (though that I had not seen myself). He assured me that was fine and he could replace circuit with minimal effort. Hmmmm. Got a text at lunch time Tuesday telling me all of my upstairs floors were up whilst he tried to locate said transformers!

Anyway, he found them and has now finished installing lovely new lights which should save me some dosh on electricity. However, the process revealed that whoever installed the old set up (our neighbour believes a pro sparky!) used "Industrial grade" kit which, in the kitchen at least, was starting to burn itself. Oh, and in the living room, had no earth.

Makes me wonder why the hell I bothered with any survey or mountain of paperwork at all when buying this place!

Anyway, happy with outcome, rant off.

Skyline2uk

[FeelixTC]

My recent experience with tradesman has been broadly positive.

But I will post the following on here as it seems more of a rant.

We are having a package of work done on the house at the moment (sorry, that's the engineering world coming out again) as it was far less hassle doing it all in one than separately.

This work includes new kitchen work tops, new overn hood, new bedroom cupboard doors and all new led lights in the kitchen and living room.

Apart from the biggest work surface revealing one of our walls is as straight as a not very straight thing (to be fair, nothing in our house is), the lights put up one hell of a fight.

I warned the sparky that there was a socking great transformer in the ceiling for the old halogen lights in the kitchen and probably the same in the living room (though that I had not seen myself). He assured me that was fine and he could replace circuit with minimal effort. Hmmmm. Got a text at lunch time Tuesday telling me all of my upstairs floors were up whilst he tried to locate said transformers!

Anyway, he found them and has now finished installing lovely new lights which should save me some dosh on electricity. However, the process revealed that whoever installed the old set up (our neighbour believes a pro sparky!) used "Industrial grade" kit which, in the kitchen at least, was starting to burn itself. Oh, and in the living room, had no earth.

Makes me wonder why the hell I bothered with any survey or mountain of paperwork at all when buying this place!

Anyway, happy with outcome, rant off.

Skyline2uk

See this? ~~~>   ..........That's my case, resting.

[Skyline2uk]

 

Skyline2uk