Shark vacuum and 'right to repair'! Plus bonus ebay rant.

Horses for courses I'd say, or try to say to my wife but she doesn't accept it!

We've (well, I've) got:

1. Henry - Perfect for DIY around the house. Relatively quiet, doesn't fall over (or if it does it just rolls around!), easy to repair if ever it breaks. Never liked it much for carpets (I believe the beater bar accessory could help in this regard). Use it for the car too.
2. Old upright Dyson - Used for outdoor DIY and/or sucking up stuff that might destroy something else (eg large amounts of plaster dust). Got it for free and has bits falling off it, held together with cable ties and duct tape and the roller's disconnected.
3. Dyson handheld - A 'refurbished' unit from Dyson's eBay outlet but I suspect it was actually brand new (customer return?). Bought as a convenient way to keep our new open plan 'family room' clean without the hassle of getting something corded out. Was really quite surprised how effective it is and now use it to do the entire house - which I can do within its 20-30 minute running time which again really surprised me. Something of a joy to use! Rubbish for the car though - too bulky.
4. Vax Wet-and-Dry - Used to clean carpets/upholstery. Not as good as a RugDoctor but handy to have around and might well save the day one day if there's ever a small flood to deal with. Shares the same motor as Saturn 5 so not the most pleasant to use noise wise.

Don't you get confused by different layouts of numeric keypads? Phones have 123 on the top line; calculators on the bottom.

My Barclays card reader has the 'phone' setup, though it looks like a calculator. Same for remote controls. Smart phones have one way for phoning and the other for the calculator app.

Utter BS. If other parts of the property are well insulated including the empty one then the empty one will take in heat from those rooms that are heated even if the door is shut and the insulation will slow down heat loss from that unheated room to the outside.

Try living in a poorly insulated property with solid 9 inch walls and then move to one that has decent insulation and you'll soon notice the difference.

Most houses in the UK are not well insulated. Very few properties with 9 inch solid walls are anywhere near the level of insulation of a more modern property with cavity walls that are insulated.

The owners of these houses are in for a nasty financial shock over the next 12 to 24 months (or possibly even permanently).

I have been trying to get a replacement velcro sander base for my Bosch PEX220 random orbital sander, but even though Bosch list it no-one seems to be able to get one.

Eventually I'll try that place in Germany that does repair kits but for now hand-sanding gives me more exercise :-)

Andrew

I bet they still won't sell you a replacement bare motor though. If they are like earlex (Wickes wet'n'dry) they will only sell an entire top unit with the motor already installed.

Yes - if you do the calcs your heating has to work harder if you turn off a room (because of all the leakage to your now cold room, given your uninsulated internal walls and leaky doors) than if you kept the room up to temp. The reason is the heating has to push more heat out of the emitters in the remaining rooms, and so has to run longer/hotter. If your heating can modulate, that hurts efficiency.

This video has the calcs:

Theo

Of course you can.

We'll see...

But there is very little of that country wide and that is what he was talking about with his millions of houses comment.

Ditto.

ebay worked for me:

None in your workshop? I have two there. Four around the house, I think. I might have missed a couple.