Weird job

Got a call the other day "my kitchen sink waste has fallen out".

Popped in on the way home. It was one of these;

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If you know the type, there is a steel bit inside the sink, a plastic bit under, washers & the whole lot held together with a sort of 'hollow bolt'. A tube threaded on the outside.

Only there wasn't one!

No trace of it anywhere! Too big to have fallen into the trap (I checked anyway).

Kitchen fitted 3 years ago.

Being a handyman is never boring!

Reply to
TMH
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Welcome back to groups sir! Just ignore those boring unemployable council estate wankers on the cycling group. Or, take the slash out of them.

Reply to
Mr Pounder Esquire

When I turned my lounge/diner arranegment into a kitchen/diner it involved removing a section of partition wall (3 inch blocks) and a big lump of the kitchen ceiling came down.

It looked a bit saggy when I moved in back in 1991 but it was soon obvious that the bath waste had been slowly leaking since

1976 (I suspect), because where the big 2 inch brass locknut should have been, there was just a lump of bosswhite the size of a birds nest, with nicicles dripping down made of congealed soap and crud.

After I broke it up I sifted the remains and there definately was no sign of the all-important locknut that keeps the waste plughole in place.

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Andrew

When I demolish the hose that became this house, I found the big bottle of white glue I had left standing on a studwork wall before I plasterboarderd over it 5 years before, and the mummified skeleton of a cat in what had been a roofed over thatched section of roof. Probly 80 years old+

The cat is now under the new thatch...supposed to keep witches away, but didn't work on my wife. .

Reply to
The Natural Philosopher

I thought bodgit and Runn purveyors of dodgy Kitchens to the unwashed had ceased trading? Brian

Reply to
Brian Gaff

I am retired, not unemployed and I live in a Lincolnshire village. Here is the view from my window.

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Reply to
swldxer1958

Very high fencing. Is next door a prison?

Reply to
Andy Bennet

Looks a bit flat.

Reply to
Roger Hayter

A lot who are unemployed say they're retired too. There's little to tell the difference.

Reply to
Fredxx

They have a conservatory.

Reply to
swldxer1958

She's not there now though. These things take time to work.

If it had been a freshly dead cat and closer to the bedhead it might have worked quicker.

Owain

Reply to
spuorgelgoog

You have to be over 55 to be retired and receive a pension.

Reply to
swldxer1958

ahh but the unemployeed retire on benefits

Reply to
Andy Bennet

Good for growing sugar beet and elephant grass.

Reply to
swldxer1958

True. Perhaps the cat magic is slowly seeping in.

Mmm.

Reply to
The Natural Philosopher

Did Persimmon built that property ?. A caller on todays Jeremy Vine show said their newbuild Persimmon house had to have part of its cavity wall broken into after they bricked up a neighbours cat inside.

While you can blame the cat for being nosy, if Persimmon had fitted

*any* cavity wall insulation then moggy would not have been able to get inside.
Reply to
Andrew

You have a lot of shadows. I take it your garden faces due south ?.

Reply to
Andrew

Some Public servants are both employed and retired, for many years in some cases.

Reply to
Andrew

Not if you are in old style Police pension, or the Armed forces, or are in a special occupation, like certain sportspeople.

Reply to
Andrew

It faces due west, so the low southern midday Sun is to the left.

Reply to
swldxer1958

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