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Post by scorp on Nov 5, 2013 16:49:48 GMT
Yes, I know what you mean, scorp but this hotel (Timanfaya Palace, Playa Blanca) is very popular with retired Brits - just like us! Also, we brought some tea bags with us and a trip to the local supermarket yielded the remaining essentials - a carton of mik and a packet of digestive biscuits. Two out of three ain't bad I suppose! ;D TJ I was merely attempting to be satirical! A great believer in 'when in Rome' actually...
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Post by thejanitor on Nov 5, 2013 16:58:59 GMT
Have a lovely time TJ. Thanks, norty but I'm not sure having wi-fi available in the sunbathing/pool area is such a good idea - I keep borowing my wife's iPad to see if anyone's posted in the Oldies forum.
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Post by thejanitor on Nov 5, 2013 17:05:02 GMT
I was merely attempting to be satirical! A great believer in 'when in Rome' actually... Ah, well, I've never been to Rome so such advanced concepts are way beyond my simple mind - I thought you were cracking a joke. Tj
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Post by scorp on Nov 11, 2013 15:14:27 GMT
Yes - of course I was! I had a weekend in Rome once... we had a charming guide called Antonella. Naturally our lot (it was a company outing) referred to her as Auntie Nelly. We had to see the Vatican, of course and my main memory is of the Sistine Chapel, where you are asked not to talk - I sat down to contemplate the ceiling, and a fat cardinal came and sat down, and held court - people kissing his ring and all that - you've never heard such a gabby lot! We non-theists are better behaved...
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Post by ARENA on Nov 12, 2013 8:39:48 GMT
Today (noon) I am off to sample some Sri Lankan food. A local retaurant has booked a guest cook from Sri Lanka.
If you have never tasted it, I'll tell you what it's like.
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Post by Deleted on Nov 12, 2013 9:34:30 GMT
I spent yesterday watching in disgust a 'carpenter' fit my new and (once) beautiful hand made front door. The only reason he wasemployed is becasue I cant see to do fine work for a litle while.
'Do you need all three hinges?' (fabulous brass hinges that cost me an addition the the mortgage. My reply is unprintable
Then the key on the chubb lock would not turn and I caght him attemting to fit a 'Union' lock oput of his van that would not keep a cat out
Finished up lending him tools, his chisels I think were sharpened about 5 years ago.
And he cut the bloody ears off the weather bar as opposed to letting them into the styles.
I will leave it, and in time do the job again, properly.
But in a pretty bad place right now.
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Post by Prue on Nov 12, 2013 10:01:36 GMT
I spent yesterday watching in disgust a 'carpenter' fit my new and (once) beautiful hand made front door. The only reason he wasemployed is becasue I cant see to do fine work for a litle while. 'Do you need all three hinges?' (fabulous brass hinges that cost me an addition the the mortgage. My reply is unprintable Then the key on the chubb lock would not turn and I caght him attemting to fit a 'Union' lock oput of his van that would not keep a cat out Finished up lending him tools, his chisels I think were sharpened about 5 years ago. And he cut the bloody ears off the weather bar as opposed to letting them into the styles. I will leave it, and in time do the job again, properly. But in a pretty bad place right now. Jonjel, that's well horrible. Sounds like a v. bad experience, mate. Do please tell more about the weather bar with bloody ears and other sundry building/engineering/house building secret mysteries. but I'm mostly interested in the weather bar with bloody ears
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Post by Deleted on Nov 12, 2013 11:02:12 GMT
It would take too long, and methinks thou is taking the piss!
Blooody carpenter should have had bloody ears, and a bloody nose as well.
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Post by Prue on Nov 13, 2013 8:36:40 GMT
Taking the piss? Me?! Well, OK, it's possible I've been known to do so. Occasionally. Maybe. But I'm honestly not taking it out of you: I just have no idea what a weather bar is, or why it has ears It does sound like a very frustrating and depressing experience, and you have my sympathy It would take too long, and methinks thou is taking the piss! Blooody carpenter should have had bloody ears, and a bloody nose as well.
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Post by Deleted on Nov 13, 2013 12:06:49 GMT
Pru
I will try and explain. We are talking a wooden door, not one made by tupperware. It opens inwards.
An outside door has to be weather tight, and apart from being a good fit to the frame has two defence mechanisms against rain at the bottom. One is the weather strip fitted to the bottom of the door, usually a scrolling shape of wood screwed and glued to the door. The other is a weather bar set into the doorstep, which is not the problem.
If you think about how water hits a door then you need to make the path as difficult as possible.
With an inward opening door the correct way to do it is to leave the weather strip the full width of the door and to carefully set that into a corresponding shape which is cut into the door frame, so that any water running down the gap between door and frame or the frame itself runs onto the weather bar, then outwards.
It is a bit of a skilled job, and in the old days you did it with a chisel and perhaps a gouge. I have done a few in my time (but it is not my profession) Now it is a lot easier to grind a jig saw blade off short so it cuts to exactly the right depth.
What muppet sh*t for brains did was simply cut the ends of the weather bar off (the weather bar which I had so carefully fitted to the door) so it fitted inside the narrow part of the frame, as opposed to cutting the frame so it fitted inside the widest part of the frame.
I have perhaps not explained it too well, but hope it helps.
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Post by ARENA on Nov 13, 2013 12:20:56 GMT
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Post by Deleted on Nov 13, 2013 14:38:47 GMT
A little Arena. You have a section through the weatherboard, though that one is a bit ugly. Mine is S shaped to a degree - there is a mathmatical name for it which I forget.
Imagine an S which has been flattened a bit and you have it. I made my own but you can buy them if you want rubbish timber.
Their weatherbar looks over complicated, and expensive. Maybe for use on a small boat?
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Post by scorp on Nov 13, 2013 18:27:27 GMT
Wot I have been up to is being measured for a couple of hearing aids... tests today, followed by impressions being taken of my lug 'ole canals, for the fitted part of the aids. Nice girl - S African, reminded me a little of Olive Oyl... I get the aids in three weeks time, and I'm hoping I'll be able to stop using those crappy TV sub-titles.
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Post by Deleted on Nov 13, 2013 23:23:26 GMT
Today (noon) I am off to sample some Sri Lankan food. A local retaurant has booked a guest cook from Sri Lanka. If you have never tasted it, I'll tell you what it's like. Very tasty and spicy from what I can remember. My mum had a Sri Lankan friend when we lived in Hong Kong and we'd often be round there for supper.
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Post by ARENA on Nov 14, 2013 9:04:38 GMT
Much use of coconut, which I love. Very nicey sweet and spicy.
Great for vegetarians ,most of the recipes have no meat (she said)
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