Minor complaints thread (12 Viewers)

[7 - No tomorrow]

Maybe you'll get one of those hipster plumbers who only learnt plumbing because it was the next step after their classic anchor tattoo and you'll be re-masculated.

I think I'm superior to anyone that got a tattoo that they're not embarrassed about.
So it might even out.

I also won't get a cleaner, because it feels like failure.

 

[Cornu Ammonis]

I'm quite happy to pay someone to do something I don't want to do and better than I could do it myself.

 

[Unicron]

I'm fine with electrical stuff but plumbing is a dark art. Part of the problem was that the cistern was quite old and none of the new valves would fit into the cistern so we had to hack it up and MacGuyver it. And the original inflow pipe had fused with the porcelain, my uncle is very handy and it tested his limits too.

I generally wouldn't fuck around with electricity, however last year the switch that controls the power to my shower shorted/burned out and my dad and I bought a new one and replaced it within 45 minutes. The hardest bit was lining the screws up.

Good bonding experience with the auld fella too I suppose.

 

[Cornu Ammonis]

I generally wouldn't fuck around with electricity, however last year the switch that controls the power to my shower shorted/burned out and my dad and I bought a new one and replaced it within 45 minutes. The hardest bit was lining the screws up.

Good bonding experience with the auld fella too I suppose.

It's only from spending the last 5 years working with a lot of electronics that I've gotten the confidence to work with electricity. Previously even changing a plug worried me.

 

[тхеодоре кацзынски]

Electricity frightens the shite out of me, I hesitate even to change a bulb. I think it dates back to the time I stuck a screwdriver into something connected to a live wire.
Plumbing I'll try anytime.

 

[Scientician 0.8]

I am comically inept at fixing mechanical things. I totally and utterly fucked up a toilet one time while trying to replace the ballcock. I had to call a plumber and he was very polite about the ridiculous scene he found. "Well, you were right, the problem was with the ballcock..." sez he, surveying the wreckage.

 

[Unicron]

It's only from spending the last 5 years working with a lot of electronics that I've gotten the confidence to work with electricity. Previously even changing a plug worried me.

I only went near it because I was confident I could isolate the switch before starting, even then I went into overkill mode and turned off all the power to the house. In that case I was happy enough to be working away on it but the concern was more that I'd do it wrong and blow it up again when I sent the power through it.

The neighbour kid cut my parents phone line last year while he was cutting his hedge, I fixed that instead of waiting for eircom to come out.

 

[JohnnyRaz]

I'm fine with electrical stuff but plumbing is a dark art. Part of the problem was that the cistern was quite old and none of the new valves would fit into the cistern so we had to hack it up and MacGuyver it. And the original inflow pipe had fused with the porcelain, my uncle is very handy and it tested his limits too.

we have an old 1950's jax in our house. Im terrified to go near it - and replacing it will entail a big spend..its so old the ballcock is made out of a sphere of copper!

 

[pete]

we have an old 1950's jax in our house. Im terrified to go near it

Inconvenient.

 

[Unknown Convict]

My tenants asked for a fridge. I told them to go to D.I.D. and pick one out and have it delivered and I would pay.
This was 8 months ago and they haven't bothered, so neither have I.

Washing Machines|Fridge Freezers|Appliances Delivered

 

[7 - No tomorrow]

Washing Machines|Fridge Freezers|Appliances Delivered

SSSSHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!

 

[7 - No tomorrow]

Washing Machines|Fridge Freezers|Appliances Delivered

Love the Stig guy

 

[Unknown Convict]

How hard can plumbing and electrical really be?

i've replaced the toilet siphon, grill element, a few other things. only mains electricity worries me (only 'man' i ever got was to replace the immersion). usually, the threat from my wife of calling her father in is enough to spur me to action.

 

[Unknown Convict]

SSSSHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!

just in case of emergency. plus you can approve the purchase before they buy.

enough of this 'man' talk. i'm off to bake some coconut egg-white macaroons.

 

[7 - No tomorrow]

just in case of emergency. plus you can approve the purchase before they buy.

enough of this 'man' talk. i'm off to bake some coconut egg-white macaroons.

Thanks

I also told them they have to make sure it fits.

Adding finding a tape measure to walking for 15 minutes to DID means this will likely never happen

 

[Denny Oubidoux]

I didn't realise I was commenting in the article comments section when I posted in that Willis Earls Beal thread. I have a personal policy against ever commenting on articles. And the cursing! totally morto

 

[pete]

I didn't realise I was commenting in the article comments section when I posted in that Willis Earls Beal thread. I have a personal policy against ever commenting on articles. And the cursing! totally morto

MAGIC INTERNET

 

[JohnnyRaz]

Inconvenient.

just as well we have a decent back garden (wha!, yer ma!)

 

[Lili Marlene]

My new manager has decided to have the team meeting at 5-6PM on Friday afternoons.

 

[Scientician 0.8]

Businessman Martin Gear, who owns the jewellers right next to the lane, toldTheJournal.ie that this has been an ongoing issue for a number of years.

“There’s a constant presence of homeless people there. There’s drug dealing, people meeting there, once or twice people having sex in the lane, fighting and people living there basically. There is between four and six people who live there on a permanent basis,” he said.

“You’d get people occasionally and they would have a syringe in their hand and that’s a sort of menacing thing to see – you don’t know what they’re going to do with it.”

Gear said he has suggested the alcove at the back of one of the buildings be closed off, as that is the space in which drug users tend to congregate.