How is the Range essential shopping !!!
FFS we need to stay in and ensure all are safe
Drives me crazy reading these comments, jobs about the house can wait a few weeks, typical macho man attitude, absolutely astounded that Range can open unless it’s an essential purchase, Russian roulette game standing in a queue nowadays
Allow me to explain.....
I have a wall hung toilet, one of those that is bolted to a frame through the tiles with a hidden system. The system developed a leak and slowly weakened the plasterboard behind the tiles. As the you sit on the toilet the weight is cantilivered onto the bottom tiles. They eventually and suddenly cracked and forced through the plasterboard, leaving me unable to use the toilet.
To fix it i had to remove toilet, all the wet board and then dry out the wooden frame we built around the metal one in order to take the plasterboard.
This time I made a better job, extra horizontal support just where the bottom of the toilet hits the wall. Marine ply instead of plasterboard and a nice little cash job to replace about 1meter of tiles ( kept some spare in the shed) for a certain Stuart Wyles who does my tiling. Many of the old school on here will know him.....He was chased and arrested for invading the pitch at home to Watford, i think it was, in about 1978. It wasn't intentional, he thought it was the final whistle when the ref had just given a foul with seconds to go.....The police had a good laugh about it and let him go.....Dont worry he works on his own and was in a room on his own and cut the tiles outside on his own in my garden.
Toilet back on but it won't go quite as tight. Not wanting to overt tighten the awkward and temperamental fittings (if they snapped it would be a disaster) i decided a beed of clear mastic around the whole toilet shape would make it nice and tight to the wall.....If anyone has other ideas please feel free to comment.
Now the problem is I don't have any mastic so the range is the best option for me. So that was one reason for my reckless shopping trip.
Reason 2..... My mother has a low red blood cell count, linked to a lack of iron and other things. She is 85 and has dementia......Getting her to take medicine and tablets is very difficult even if you border on force she will spit it out. About 20 months ago she needed 2 quarts of blood in a transfusion. The head man dealing with her, I nick named him Shaft, as he was a no nonsense, my kind of Docter and also black. Said if the tablets etc don't work the come back for another transfusion.
My mother is now struggling with her cardiovascular and feels the cold even indoors in this weather. She should be having another transfusion but e don't want to risk a hospital stay at the moment. Nor do we want to tie up vital NHS staff.....Its a tough one to decide both options put her at risk but we are also thinking of others who are in an even more serious situation than our mum.
When i went round to their house with supplies yesterday, I went down the side ally and sat in the garden, not just 2 but more like 8 meters away. I got her to come out in the sun, she still had to wear a jacket but she warmed up and it did her good. I noticed how dated and rubbish the garden furniture is. They are not mean to people but like many from that generation they wont throw things out if they are not broke, even thought he umbrella is.
So whilst I was in the range I thought I would buy some decent reclining chairs and new table so that 2 elderly people can enjoy a much needed visits from their family. Its a real struggle for my step dad so if people stay longer thats a good thing.
You see their time in a chair is more vital than anyones walk and my time on the throne, although could be deemed a luxury is much more fun than a bucket.
The moral of the story is....Be careful all you self appointed curtain twitchers because you have no idea about other peoples lives......You don't know how important 12 hours drying time on a beed of mastic is to some of us.
I raise a tinny to all you shrimpers whatever your sacrifice.
