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The new kitchen

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chrismpw said:
I genuinely think I'm taken for granted. She seems to think that what she does tapping on a computer upstairs for Honda all day is work, while the unpaid manual labour I do 8 hours a day isn't .... so why haven't I done the washing up?

She spent 4 days of a long weekend just putting undercoat onto the kitchen units ... 4 days and they're not all done yet .... and the moaning and groaning I hear about how hard it is makes me laugh.

Her sister's husband is bone idle and doesn't even walk the dog. You'd think I should get some sort of hero worship in comparison.
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A famous quote from a mate years ago
'Wives moan when you do stuff,moan when you don't'.
Yes,he's divorced now,never been happier.
 
Alanbileysfeathercut said:
A famous quote from a mate years ago
'Wives moan when you do stuff,moan when you don't'.
Yes,he's divorced now,never been happier.
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Some of the 'gems' they spew forth are priceless.

Last week, pre finger removal, I had spent 2 days ripping a full 32m² timber floor apart, floorboards skirting joists meter cupboards etc and renewing the lot. Got home after finishing it and had the sheer audacity to get a bath and sit down for half hour. She, in a moment of enlightenment, asked if I'd cook the tea that night as I'd 'sat round all day' after my bath.

She had been 'busy' shopping online all day for Christmas. Poor mite.


If I hadn't finished the floor she would now be under the 'kin thing.
 

The pullout mechanism for the two units I made arrived today. Installed the first one.... minimum width 25cm it says. I left a 26cm gap to make it comfortable. The caddies literally lightly scrape both walls coming in and out. What us the point of product specifications?

Its going to have to do im not building it a third time!!
 
chrismpw said:
The pullout mechanism for the two units I made arrived today. Installed the first one.... minimum width 25cm it says. I left a 26cm gap to make it comfortable. The caddies literally lightly scrape both walls coming in and out. What us the point of product specifications?

Its going to have to do im not building it a third time!!
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You say that..... But from what I have read so far is you like things spot on.

This is going to eat away at you.

You'll redo it. Sooner or later, you'll redo it.

I feel for you, I really do. But I also admire your standards.
 
@tommye , back in the 60’s my old man had to have his finger amputated. He dislocated it at work and as he always fancied himself as a competent first aider he put it back himself. Five operations later they took it off. The only good thing to happen from all of that was 30 years later, when his grandson ( the Blue) was examining the hand and noticed the finger missing, decided to go rummaging around in grandads pocket, convinced it was hidden in there. (Along with 40 Sovereign).
Hope you are still up to the old Phil Neville impression.?
 
Alan Whittle said:
@tommye , back in the 60’s my old man had to have his finger amputated. He dislocated it at work and as he always fancied himself as a competent first aider he put it back himself. Five operations later they took it off. The only good thing to happen from all of that was 30 years later, when his grandson ( the Blue) was examining the hand and noticed the finger missing, decided to go rummaging around in grandads pocket, convinced it was hidden in there. (Along with 40 Sovereign).
Hope you are still up to the old Phil Neville impression.?
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Little finger of my right hand was dislocated playing basketball - staff v Y11 - after I received a "friendly" nudge in the back that pushed me against the gym wall, using the ball I'd just caught to cushion me. Finger bent back 90 degrees in the middle. I lobbed the ball forward and took a moment to assess ... my choice was pop it back before it hurt, or go and wait 8 hours in casualty while it swelled and became really sore. I popped it back and played on fir the remaining 10 minutes - only one kid, a spectator, had noticed and showed concern.

The head of pe was basketball mad and embarrasingly overly competitive (think the pe teacher in Kes). We had won the game, as he always made sure we did, with dodgy foul calls, but afterwards berated the staff and me for not doing enough towards the end. (I always viewed basketball as a dumbed down easy version of netball and only did it to keep fit). I showed him my hand, by now the knuckle was the size of a squash ball and asked him if he'd noticed that I'd played most of the game catching and passing with only my left hand. (He thought I'd been showboating). Never quite heard what he muttered as he walked off.

Guess I was fortunate to avoid amputation with my own first aid!
 
chrismpw said:
The pullout mechanism for the two units I made arrived today. Installed the first one.... minimum width 25cm it says. I left a 26cm gap to make it comfortable. The caddies literally lightly scrape both walls coming in and out. What us the point of product specifications?

Its going to have to do im not building it a third time!!
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Good afternoon Chris.
 

The oven repair man knocked on the door at 7.50. With the missus missing the start of a meeting st 7.30 the other day I find myself wondering what happened to the 9 to 5 hours. Then I remembered Thatcher and the decline of union representation. What a brave new world if exploitation of the many by the few she brought in. The repair man looked about fifteen so I doubt he's ever heard about what are reasonable working hours from his parents even.

Anyway - you could bet any money that we could not recreate the fault that had plunged the house into darkness in three occasions. He tested everything and all the elements checked out ok. He suggested that it may have been down to damp where its been stored and I can see his reasoning. If I can work out how to work the ruddy thing (I think the apollo lander may have been simpler) I might bake some biscuits later to test it out. Anyone taking bets?

I fitted the pull out shelf internals into mt new unit. Turns out they're adjustable height wise so no cutting and welding needed fir the shorter unit. The taller unit, however, I adjusted and made to spec so it would accommodate the height of the mechanism. Now obviously its a but tall and there's a foot of wasted space above the top most tray.

The household female suggested adding a shelf to utilise the space. The glare she received conveyed that I'd actually constructed and dismantled this unit three times. It conveyed the fact that at two foot deep and 26 cm wide I could barely reach in to turn a screw and that she'd better drop this idea instantly.

Today I'm addressing a disagreement between a bought unit and my unit as to what constitutes vertical. A half inch gap grows from the base up to a 90cm height. BOTH units register as vertical with my spirit levels.
 

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