The grumpy thread

[New POD]

3 hours ago, cobblers said:

In the business center where we work, every radiator in all the communal areas and most of the offices (25000+ sq ft total) has a TRV. Every TRV is turned up to full. They have all the windows open because it's too warm.

Every few days I will walk past the rads in the communal areas and turn the TRVs down. By the next day they're all turned back up to full by the fucking numbskulls who work in the offices.

Give me fucking strength.

Glue them to position 2.5. 

[cobblers]

35 minutes ago, New POD said:

Glue them to position 2.5. 

I'm half tempted to just shut the balancing valves completely

[iainrcz]

Fitted a new soil pipe on the toilet. Had to lift it out of the way to do it. Isolated and unhooked the filler. 

Fitted new soil pipe, connected all back up and managed to chowder the threads on the bottom of the filler. So obviously it now leaks, even with half a roll of PTFE tape on it 🙄

New part it is then. 

[grogee]

I've received a £50 Halfords voucher, which isn't making me grumpy - far from it, it's a thoughtful gift.

No, it's the fact that those robbing bastards are trying to charge £113 for something that is exactly the same kit as I bought a couple of years back for £25.

[EyesWeldedShut]

5 hours ago, cobblers said:

I'm half tempted to just shut the balancing valves completely

I'd do that - gluing the other valves up could be construed as criminininal damage - shutting the balancer (on every other one maybe ??) may be the way to go.
Or perhaps print off a few notices 'wear a cardigan'; 'get more clothes on'; 'it's feckin Autumn dress appropriately'

[beko1987]

2 hours ago, grogee said:

I've received a £50 Halfords voucher, which isn't making me grumpy - far from it, it's a thoughtful gift.

No, it's the fact that those robbing bastards are trying to charge £113 for something that is exactly the same kit as I bought a couple of years back for £25.

Looks identical to my £11.99 ebay rewind kit, bar the casing is red and all the tools are very surface rusty from being rained on mid job 😂

[grogee]

2 hours ago, beko1987 said:

Looks identical to my £11.99 ebay rewind kit, bar the casing is red and all the tools are very surface rusty from being rained on mid job 😂

Same, same

[neil1971]

Well this is subtle.

[sheffcortinacentre]

10 hours ago, cobblers said:

I have never, not even once seen those matrix signs showing any accurate or useful information, and I used to drive up and down the M1 every day for 8+ years

Sorry, I tell a lie. I was once in the most incredibly thick fog with visibility about 40 feet, crawling along in traffic. I got underneath one of the signs and you could just about make out the word "fog" on it. Thanks guys.

 

Passed one recently that was just constantly changing/trying to show all combinations of lights/ signs at once.

Another on a 4 lane stretch had 3 showing 50 while lane 3 was blank.

[New POD]

10 hours ago, sheffcortinacentre said:

Passed one recently that was just constantly changing/trying to show all combinations of lights/ signs at once.

Another on a 4 lane stretch had 3 showing 50 while lane 3 was blank.

So legally you can go 70 in lane 3 but not undertake the dweeb doing 48 in Lane 4, but if you can move to Lane 4 and get said dweeb to move to Lane 3 he can now speed up to 70 but you have to slow to 50. And therefore can't overtake. I think that sounds like fun. 

[New POD]

My S7 has always had a dodgy connector, so I usually charge it up by magic. Yesterday the screen frooze, so I thought I'd leave it to go to 0 charge.  But it won't take a magic charge. And won't charge via the wire. 

I am on my work phone. It has a dual sim. Must work out how to use it. 

[Lankytim]

We're having the bathroom at home refurbished. Everything out, toilet and sink moved e.t.c The company doing it seem alright but the finish date was yesterday and the room is still empty, no tiles on the walls or anything. The guys said they'd be in this morning (Saturday) to do some tiling but haven't shown due to an upset stomach (I'll take his word for that). Weird that he took all his tools home on Friday afternoon instead of leaving them like he usually does.  Earlier in the week all three of the workmen apparently needed to take the day off to take the van for MOT, I looked up the reg and there's still 10 months remaining on the current one, so presumably it was BS and they were on another job or something, that's on top of a no show last weekend after ripping everything out the previous Friday, When they are here they tend to arrive around 9am and bugger off around 3pm. The entire job was meant to take 5 days max but I think it's going to be more like  10, the wife and kids are getting pretty fed up at being without proper washing facilities and having to make do. 

Oh, and the doorway, which is in a stud wall was meant to be moved 10cm over to allow room for a shower enclosure, which they decided not to do without any consultation as "it should just about fit" I'm not amazing at maths but a 700mm shower tray won't fit inside a 680mm gap. obv moving the doorway was included in the initial quote so we'll have to see how that works out.

[cobblers]

6 minutes ago, Lankytim said:

tradesmen

Out heating packed up 'tother day. I'd have a look at it myself but the landlady had a plumber booked to do a boiler service on Monday anyway so I just let her know, to let the plumber know.

Mrs had all day off work monday, plumber didn't show up. Apparently he had crashed his van but he didn't think to let any of the bookings for that day know. Landlady very apologetic, she booked another guy to come out on Wednesday afternoon.

Mrs finished work at 11:30 and went home to let the guy in. Landlady rang him up at 5pm, and he said "yes I'll be there in half an hour"

6PM we called him "Sorry, I was just leaving my previous job and I have drove my van into a bollard and broke my nose"

 

So just fixed the heating myself. (2 port valve)

[grogee]

19 hours ago, grogee said:

I've received a £50 Halfords voucher, which isn't making me grumpy - far from it, it's a thoughtful gift.

No, it's the fact that those robbing bastards are trying to charge £113 for something that is exactly the same kit as I bought a couple of years back for £25.

Here's another one. £50 heat shrink.

[Metal Guru]

12 minutes ago, grogee said:

Here's another one. £50 heat shrink.

That’s “only” 33p per piece. Similar pack £3.99 on eBay.

[Yoss]

1 hour ago, grogee said:

Here's another one. £50 heat shrink.

I thought the first one was ridiculous but defies belief. I'd want a heat gun as well at that price. Not that it needs a heat gun, the stuff I I have upstairs for the model railway shrinks perfectly well with a hair dryer but a heat gun might come in handy for other stuff. 

There doesn't even look like there's that much in it. I bought a box about double that size with five colours for a fraction of that price. 

[High Jetter]

2 hours ago, Lankytim said:

We're having the bathroom at home refurbished

I do hope you haven't paid in full upfront. It sounds like they're stringing you along TBH.

[Kiltox]

Laser tools have become a massive rip off. Same Chinese crap you can get on eBay in a blue box. 
 

 

[reb]

22 hours ago, grogee said:

I've received a £50 Halfords voucher, which isn't making me grumpy - far from it, it's a thoughtful gift.

No, it's the fact that those robbing bastards are trying to charge £113 for something that is exactly the same kit as I bought a couple of years back for £25.

I'll echo the sentiment that that's identical to the sub £15 set I have.

For more generic tools (like a screwdriver or whatever) Halfords are actually quite reasonably priced for the quality, especially with a trade card.

There's no chance that the checkout person believed me that I was a trader, but they still gave me the card, it's all good.

[Lankytim]

1 hour ago, High Jetter said:

I do hope you haven't paid in full upfront. It sounds like they're stringing you along TBH.

We’ve paid half up to now, it’s a priced job rather than a day rate, although they’re acting like it’s a day rate. 

[High Jetter]

I'd be hesitant about paying any more until the job's finished, then.

[grogee]

16 minutes ago, reb said:

I'll echo the sentiment that that's identical to the sub £15 set I have.

For more generic tools (like a screwdriver or whatever) Halfords are actually quite reasonably priced for the quality, especially with a trade card.

There's no chance that the checkout person believed me that I was a trader, but they still gave me the card, it's all good.

+1 on the generic tools, and they're lifetime warranty (or they were). 

Think I'll use my voucher to get some old fashioned 10w40 for the Maestro and maybe a rachet or summat.

I think the oil filters and stuff were reasonably priced last time I checked. 10-20% more than the Bay, but open on a Sundii when you're actually balls deep in car grease.

[Jerzy Woking]

On 10/1/2022 at 2:21 AM, Zelandeth said:

Christ on a bike, travel insurance has got expensive.  Last time we went to the US in 2018 it was ~£300 for the four of us.  This trip: Just over a bloody grand!  Not like it's something you can just chose not to have and the providers have a captive audience...so just a case of grimacing and dealing with it.  

Definitely more ammunition for me saying I'll just stay home next time I think!

What you need to do is go without insurance  then, when it all goes tits up, get someone to set up a JustGiving /GoFundMe page asking for contributions to pay your medical bills or fly your body home, like this

https://www.leicestermercury.co.uk/news/leicester-news/i-just-want-baby-home-7091363

[reb]

Ordered a fuel cap for a 2011 MiTo from ECP, collected it and the box says it's for a 1999 145...

The part number matches and it looks sort of like it might fit, but I'm not holding out much hope.

[RoverFolkUs]

Fan bloody tastic

At least it was repairable, most punctures I've had in recent years have all been too close to the sidewall 

[reb]

Update; the fuel cap fit perfectly, better than the original in fact.

[artdjones]

Great week, now the boiler has expired, terminally.

[PhilA]

News: Car event in Mississippi

People driving a 57 Chevy get side swiped by a truck, die in hospital

Car flips over after old man driving like horny teenager exceeds his skill and tries to take out half the crowd

Road closed after collision between road racers

Police car wrecks into car in effort to break record number of tickets written in one day

 

My wife: Hell no we aren't going to that

 

Sigh. Third year running I get to miss Cruisin' The Coast. This year because of g'damn Facebook

[andy18s]

On 10/8/2022 at 1:40 PM, grogee said:

Here's another one. £50 heat shrink.

1 of our diy stores sell these straight off the roll at around 3p for 250mm,or buy the whole 10m roll for £1.

[Zelandeth]

Ah, nothing like coming down with a stinking head cold in the middle of a holiday.