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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[Lou]

Oh God I would LOVE a PremBrek this morning! It is super windy here and pouring down so I had to stick with my All Bran and fat free strawberry yoghurt. I'm on a health kick at the moment - which means @Dan is too. He was only up until 3am this morning working - so progress is being made!!

 

[Moley]

Well, I would offer to buy you one tomorrow but it would probably be too far to drive. I'm afraid you'll have to get Dan to cook you a breakfast.

 

[Lou]

He does cook a good breakfast usually when we are on holiday somewhere! I at least want to see a photo of it in the morning!

 

[Moley]

No no no no NO!!! I always take the pi55 out of people who photograph their food. Sorry, can't lower myself to that level
I'm currently eating my evening meal. Just finished the mushroom starter and now moving on to the salmon

 

[Lou]

No no no no NO!!! I always take the pi55 out of people who photograph their food. Sorry, can't lower myself to that level
I'm currently eating my evening meal. Just finished the mushroom starter and now moving on to the salmon

Yuk don't envy you there! Mushrooms and fish.

Well I see your lovely prem brek and raise you honey cheerios!

I was looking forward to looking at your breakfast!

Today I am doing the usual stuff. Dan was up till 6am. We're basically working day and night shifts at the moment!

 

[Lou]

Morning all!

It is the start of another week! Hopefully it is not too cold where you are. Anyone starting any new jobs today?

I will be mainly hanging about here but I have an appointment later to see if I need an operation on my knee after falling on it in spectacular fashion in a street full of people a few months ago.

 

[littlespark]

Is that actual cctv footage of the fall, @Lou ?

 

[Lou]

Is that actual cctv footage of the fall, @Lou ?

Haha I wish I looked like that even falling flat on my face! It was in front of loads of people though!

 

[Aurai]

Morning all and thanks Lou, time clock and a bathroom light today!

 

[cliffed]

Good morning everyone day off … floorboards replacement @ home … Please help Me

 

[mktdeeping]

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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Morning Dan, not got much on today, just ordering parts for tomorrows job…Connie t a new boiler to an existing supply but the client wants a minor works cerfificate.

 

[Lou]

Morning Everyone! Hope all your jobs are straight forward! Roll on lunchtime!

 

[littlespark]

Morning Everyone! Hope all your jobs are straight forward! Roll on lunchtime!

Bacon roll?


Late start this morning…. Took middle daughter to a job interview. Spent rest of the morning going round wholesalers trying to find a match for a replacement socket for a job. No branding on the socket, but it’s flat plate, brass, grey inserts.

Maybe the hive mind might know??

 

[Dan]

Bacon roll?


Late start this morning…. Took middle daughter to a job interview. Spent rest of the morning going round wholesalers trying to find a match for a replacement socket for a job. No branding on the socket, but it’s flat plate, brass, grey inserts.

Maybe the hive mind might know??

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I'll make a notice for you mate but you must remember to tell me remove it once the hive has answered.

 

[LukeD]

Ikea...... to buy kitchen cabinets !

 

[Dan]

Ikea...... to buy kitchen cabinets !

BOOOOOOO although depends whether they're your own and you need to fit them, or it's for a mate who needs a lift and a van lol

 

[albi]

Morning all today I will be conducting underwater tech investigations in jolly beach Antigua 🏝🏖

 

[littlespark]

IKEA?
I hope you realise ikea cabinets aren’t standard sizes like every other manufacturer out there…. Or have they changed?

 

[DPG]

IKEA?
I hope you realise ikea cabinets aren’t standard sizes like every other manufacturer out there…. Or have they changed?

That's interesting, wonder if it's still true?

 

[littlespark]

That's interesting, wonder if it's still true?

It was something to do with door heights, or fixing points for the hinges or something. Can’t recall now.

 

[brianmoooore]

Spent the morning terminating a few data cables, then out for a long pub lunch 'cause its the missus's birthday. Just got in and too stuffed to do much more today.

 

[Lou]

Spent the morning terminating a few data cables, then out for a long pub lunch 'cause its the missus's birthday. Just got in and too stuffed to do much more today.

Mmmmmm Pub lunch! What did you have?

Why do all my posts seem to revolve around food?

Had a bit of a break and went swimming yay!

 

[brianmoooore]

Started with something that was essentially a prawn cocktail, but laid out differently and called something else, followed by their 8oz burger. Normally go for something a bit more exotic, but it had been recommended by the restaurant manager of a rival pub. Wasn't wrong either - not just the burger, but it was served with all the right bits accompanying it.
All I could manage for the third course was chocolate ice cream.

 

[nicebutdim]

BOOOOOOO although depends whether they're your own and you need to fit them, or it's for a mate who needs a lift and a van lol

Smart people have vans racked out, with raised floors, and can then say 'I'd really like to help, but...'.

 

[Lou]

Morning Everyone!

I am on a field trip for breakfast this morning! I am coming to you from a table in an establishment next to some award winning gardens in town!

Unfortunately because it is winter there are no flowers though!

 

[Moley]

Well, yesterday was replacing a Calisto C2 online gas analyser with an all singing, all dancing Calisto C9 analyser. Today was finishing commissioning the C9 and comparing the readings to a recent DGA analysis. That was followed by putting the C2 I took off yesterday onto another transformer to replace a C2 which had been showing flat lined readings for a few months. It had already had a new sensor cell and that didn't bring it back to life. I suspect a faulty I/O card.

 

[Moley]

Today is a pain. Drive from S.Wales to Romford. Do a harness course (yes, been using then for over 20 years, already qualified to inspect them) and then drive back to Wales. Another box ticking excercise for this bloody useless company that I work for. Currently stopped in the services for a pee.

 

[Lou]

We are at a tile painting night.. here's my first one primed and done..

 

[littlespark]

Are those cocktails or mocktails?

 

[Lou]

They were slushy mocktails, the pink ones were not ours! Delicious though!

Had a fun time, now up early to catch up on emails and forum posts since an email went out over the weekend!

Seems loads lighter this morning!! YAAAAAYYYYY

 

[Lou]

Morning everyone, Happy Hump Day!

I posted a thread about this on TF but I wondered if any of you could shed some light on this (what I think is from the 50s) decorative wall ceramic cat. It was in my Grandma's kitchen forever and ever since she died about 10 years ago I have had it but sadly the tail broke so it has been in a drawer.

Just interested to see if anyone knows any thing about it.

Here is the thread on TF for ref

 

[littlespark]

I did a google image search, and it crops up on this page….
Don’t know if it’s from the same designer - James Matthew’s- or just in similar style.

 

[Lou]

Oh my gosh @littlespark theres one on the page exactly the same!!! The posts are a bit confusing though so I'm not much wiser, I'll have to see if anyone replied on tf. Bloody forums are amazing!!!

 

[littlespark]

Oh my gosh @littlespark theres one on the page exactly the same!!! The posts are a bit confusing though so I'm not much wiser, I'll have to see if anyone replied on tf. Bloody forums are amazing!!!

yes they are... and that particular one was choc full of ads.... even worse than this one!

 

[Lou]

yes they are... and that particular one was choc full of ads.... even worse than this one!

Haha was thinking that myself!

 

[Lou]

Its FRI-YAY!

And completely pouring down. got some running about to do before a night out at the theatre - The most not refined show ever - the Leigh Francis one (bloke who does Keith Lemon - big in the 00s. Should be a hoot!

Have you got any Friday night plans or weekend plans?

 

[littlespark]

So is this Leigh Francis as Leigh Francis? Or as Lemon??
He was also Avid Merrion from Bo Selecta… came up with one of the best modern classic Christmas songs “proper crimbo”

 

[Moley]

This weekend is expensive. My son passed his driving test last week. Saw a car he liked so,

Tomorrow Car £995
Tonight Insurance £2300
Tomorrow Roadtax £180
Tomorrow, 1st tank of petrol £????

Looks like I need some overtime :-(

 

[Lou]

So is this Leigh Francis as Leigh Francis? Or as Lemon??
He was also Avid Merrion from Bo Selecta… came up with one of the best modern classic Christmas songs “proper crimbo”

Haha yeah the best ever song at Christmas. He was doing a selection of his characters - it was pretty good!

How is everyone doing this morning?

 

[littlespark]

I couldn’t get onto forum this morning…. Seems ok now.


Over the past weekend, I’ve had to push my DIY skills to the limit.

Mechanic; the girls’ little Kia had a broken windscreen washer bottle. Had to remove the wheel and the plastic liner out the wheel arch to access the bottle, which is in the most awkward position actually inside the wing. Its sat on its jack, minus a wheel, for a few days until a replacement pump turned up.

Joinery; rear door to house wouldn’t lock. It’s a multipoint locking mechanism, and a broken part within the lock gears stopped the top and bottom bolts from moving. Had to remove entire lock from door, dismantle the gear box to remove the broken part… put it all back together and manage with only the centre dead lock working.
Bought a new gear box that fitted the existing workings and got it all working… but now really stiff to lock compared with how it was.

Plumbing; main bathroom toilet cistern hissing and taking an age to fill. Messed around with the diaphragm washer… replaced with what I thought was a spare new one, to find it was a split one that I had replaced before and didn’t throw away. All the fiddling with the isolator valve, opening and closing, and it develops a leak…. So a trip to screwfix on a Sunday for a new valve and a whole replacement filling assembly.


And this is why I don’t mind helping non electricians with simple stuff in our DIY section.

 

[nicebutdim]

Joinery; rear door to house wouldn’t lock. It’s a multipoint locking mechanism, and a broken part within the lock gears stopped the top and bottom bolts from moving. Had to remove entire lock from door, dismantle the gear box to remove the broken part… put it all back together and manage with only the centre dead lock working.
Bought a new gear box that fitted the existing workings and got it all working… but now really stiff to lock compared with how it was.

That's not joinery.

Any self-respecting joiner would have thrown the whole lot out and chiselled in something of completely different dimensions, leaving a huge gaping hole where the old one had been.

 

[Lou]

It is Friday again!

@littlespark that was a lot of DIY you did there, are you having a weekend off?

 

[pirate]

Today is recovery day for me after a long day yesterday giving a helping pair of hands to another forum member who was installing an EV charger. Long cable runs up an external wall into the attic and much crawling about up there, so my old bones and knees need a day or two to recover.
Later today it's shopping time in preparation for Pie Day tomorrow with 2 friends. To clarify, we are celebrating Pi day which as you may know is officially March 14th, but my friends can't make that mid-week date so we have brought it forward to tomorrow.
The star of the show is of course a fabulous steak pie with all the usual trimmings, but we will have a soup starter and a dessert of Magnums!
We will be wearing our special Pi inspired t-shirts!
We will start the day with 9 holes of golf, and there will be some wine consumed...
Incidentally, on the topic of food, I was trying some Genetically Modified grub last week, and I can report that the leg of salmon was disgusting!
On Sunday I am going to the Rufus Wainwright concert with my sister, whose hubby has a broken leg so can't attend. Wouldn't be my choice albeit I am a fan of Rufus's father Loudon Wainwright the third. Fun Fact, omitting the details, Rufus's daughter is the granddaughter of Leonard Cohen...

 

[littlespark]

It is Friday again!

@littlespark that was a lot of DIY you did there, are you having a weekend off?

I wish!

We are going into town tomorrow morning to look at bathroom showrooms.

Another DIY job was to change the shower door in the en-suite.
That has now become: “we could wet wall the shower cubicle…..”
Which then became: “why don’t we wet wall the entire room”
Add in: “can we change the radiator to a towel rail”
And my own fault, I added : “electric underfloor heating and new downlights and fan….”


So a couple hundred quid on a new shower door has escalated somewhat.


“We could do the same in the main bathroom next year”…..

Now…. Does anyone know a good tiler for the floor?

 

[Rockingit]

So on a Friday we have a little tradition that neither of us can say when we started it - 2p's friday: Prosecco & Pizza. Nothing elaborate or expensive, but the end of every week we find something positive that's happened, or some other reason, to toast the end of the week. Sometimes it's something obvious, sometimes it's as little as not having actually killed each other over an argument and still being together, but it's just a moment of stillness and acknowledgement of the challenges that life brings along with the joy of succeeding. And that's something that we can do even when I'm away - a quick video call, each of us with a glass of something (always interesting if it happens to be breakfast in my time zone...). And then when I'm home we do the Pizza bit - I'll be knocking up some dough to start proving in a bit, and then we each have a pizza-off as to who can make the prettiest or tastiest pizza whilst doing some kitchen disco. Before then collapsing in front of some boxset!

 

[pirate]

Prosecco and Pizza! Go for it!
Always go for a goal...food and drink!
Living the dream...

 

[Dan]

Morning everyone! Hope you're all doing okay. Monday. Boooooo. Roll on friday.

What work have you got on this week?
Anything interesting?

 

[Moley]

Well, left home (S.Wales) around 6.15. Drove to Kent. Took an oil sample from a transformer. Now driving to Sheffield for the night. Should get to the hotel around 6pm. Tomorrow is similar. Power station in Sheffield, take an oil sample. Give a bit of training on an online gas analyser then drive to Runcorn. Wednesday, take 3 oil samples, analyse them on site then drive to Birminham.

 

[littlespark]

What is your annual mileage, @Moley ?
And hence, carbon footprint?

You’de be better off with a full EV

 

[Moley]

Annual isn't too bad. Usually around 25k. Most of the time I drive to a hotel Sunday/Monday and then it's just short trips hotel to site and back then Friday drive home. Full EV would be no good. I would spend too much time charging. Plus, not sure if there is a full EV Transit Custom