Good Morning Thread - Come say good morning, tell us what you've got on today. :)

We have this thread on TilersForums.com and it's just been restarted because the old thread had 20,000 replies and 500,000 views. And there were 700 pages. Started to lag a bit on slow connections.

I think we had a bash of this before, but I can't find the thread, so thought I'd start another one off.

If you have time in the mornings, come post in the thread before you head off to work, let us know what you've got on and what the weather is like in your area etc. Anything at all is fine.

Posts and likes get counted towards your total stats in this thread.

So GOOOD MORNING PEOPLE - WEATHER IS NICE TODAY IN STOKE. I'M THANKFUL IT'S FRIDAY, HAD A RUBBISH WEEK. THANK GOD IT'S OVER.

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[littlespark]

You be careful. All that foreign work. Watch the border control doesn't catch you

It’s ok…. I took a small dinghy from Eyemouth harbour into Berwick docks.

 

[Moley]

Next to shell garage and McDonald’s?
if so, it’s where I have just come from!

Yup, that's the one. If I remember right it's got 2 parts. The main one on the left of the car park and a seconf building behind the restaraunt. I'm a really sad git. I'm getting to be a Premier Inn spotter

 

[Moley]

It’s ok…. I took a small dinghy from Eyemouth harbour into Berwick docks.

So it's you that's been shipping in illegal imigrants is it?

 

[littlespark]

So it's you that's been shipping in illegal imigrants is it?

Might be the only way to get to maccys if Silly Sturgeon gets her way.

 

[Mike Johnson]

Finally got to the stage of fitting the new shower screen in the en-suite, its just 1800m high by 800m wide by 10mm so quite heavy, got it up stairs and into the en-suite before it exploded into a million bits, was not hit or rested on anything just in my hands, yes I did have gloves on and took the rest of the day sweeping it all into a couple of cardboard box's, just got it all into the box's and out the back door when the bin men arrived and took it all away, trouble was its a bespoke size and shape and will take time to replace, time to get into the crawl space above the shower and complete the electrics and extract, what fun.

 

[littlespark]

So what happened? Did you kick it, or bang it against the wall or something?

 

[nicebutdim]

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[Mike Johnson]

So what happened? Did you kick it, or bang it against the wall or something?

Nope, never hit anything or even rested whilst being moved, it just exploded with a very loud bang, it had been stored for a couple of weeks laying horizontal against a wall with foam protection on the wall and floor, carrying it vertically may have something to do with the change in orientation disrupting the flow/grain of the glass, don't know enough about the molecular structure of glass, but may look it up as a matter of interest.

 

[Mike Johnson]

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Thanks for the thought, but the manufacturer of the bespoke panel are a well regarded structural glass manufacturer and would have done all they could to avoid this, I did not notice any butterfly effect when it exploded, just a very loud bang, I don't know if that is indicative of some stress, will contact the manufacturer and ask.

 

[nicebutdim]

Thanks for the thought, but the manufacturer of the bespoke panel are a well regarded structural glass manufacturer and would have done all they could to avoid this, I did not notice any butterfly effect when it exploded, just a very loud bang, I don't know if that is indicative of some stress, will contact the manufacturer and ask.

It's not a subject on which I have significant knowledge, but believe this can happen even under the strictest of manufacturing conditions.

 

[Mike Johnson]

Still it's given me time to complete the extract fan, Humidistat and shower lights, all working, now to get back into the craw space and make the temporary wiring permanent.

 

[littlespark]

Today I’m going to attempt some outside decorations… although it’s a bit wet and cold just now.
Through last week, we managed to get the trees up… but none of the other things.

The dog looks so proud

The old tree. As old as our marriage.

And it wouldn’t be my tree without this little guy.

 

[nicebutdim]

What size of holesaw did you need to get that tree through the ceiling?

 

[littlespark]

What size of holesaw did you need to get that tree through the ceiling?

It’s a newish extension on the house. We just had it built around the tree….

 

[littlespark]

This morning first job. A little route making to add some sockets to an upstairs room. Gate onto drive was shut, so I just carried my tools, a drum of 2.5 and fishing rods… rather than open gate, drive in, close gate, repeat….
Quick enough job… so finished off, packed up and walked back to the van….
Although the temperature up here was hitting double figures, the ground is still icy, and it was raining.
I slipped, dropped the tool box and landed on my arse.

You wouldn’t think I am a fairly proficient ice skater.


Second job. Under sink water heater not working. This is in a granny flat adjoining a family home, where the elderly father had died last year sometime, and the mum is bedridden.
Found the problem and reset the thermal cutout.
Obviously this has happened before, as the old boy had helpfully cut a hole in the heaters cover, so he could reset it himself.
The ingenuity of an OAP!

And, yes, that’s the other cover screw sellotaped to it.

30 odd quid for a new cover, or patch it over with some flat plastic??