mazambaan Posted May 17, 2018 Posted May 17, 2018 If you have OCD issues, never ever measure your house, ever.... I used to hang curtains as a side job in high school. the number of times the floor, window top, window bottom and ceiling were not aligned or perfectly horizontal is scary, very very few houses are square. My favorite party trick was to hang a curtain rail perfectly horizontal and then when the clients said no it was skew I would put a few different spirit levels on the rail and tell them look the house is skew... I found this out the hard way when I did my own built in cupboards and ordered all the boards square. Much planing and sawdust created and children had to wear earplugs for weeks to avoid being permanently scarred by the language. Flat concrete roofs - I know a very reputable structural engineer who suggests to almost anyone who wants one (and wants it not to leak) that they should put a timber / steel truss and sheeting over it.
Hairy Posted May 17, 2018 Posted May 17, 2018 We just going to say the Garmin strap... Doesn't last much longer than a year But yes.. Integrated strap.. Gave my last one away because the strap was going to cost 500 bucks My new garmin I bought with the strap issue in mind. I can also buy a replacement non garmin one for €10 from Amazon. Just replaced the original and testing the new one outyou lucky ... they wanted me to buy a new "discounted" watch.... let's just say it was not R500
Skott5 Posted May 17, 2018 Posted May 17, 2018 you lucky ... they wanted me to buy a new "discounted" watch.... let's just say it was not R500 Ja I had the same *** with a Vestal tide watch - the strap / watch is one integrated unit. Vestal sent me a " free "replacement from the states - I only had to pay shipping ..... shipping was 800 bucks !!! Free my arse !!When this one breaks it will get pres-ticked to the wall in my man-cave
JCA12 Posted May 17, 2018 Posted May 17, 2018 If you have OCD issues, never ever measure your house, ever.... I used to hang curtains as a side job in high school. the number of times the floor, window top, window bottom and ceiling were not aligned or perfectly horizontal is scary, very very few houses are square. My favorite party trick was to hang a curtain rail perfectly horizontal and then when the clients said no it was skew I would put a few different spirit levels on the rail and tell them look the house is skew...In my case, that floor and ceiling was actually level... (Same can't be said for other walls...) But I have seen that before with the floor window and ceiling not parallel.
bertusras Posted May 17, 2018 Posted May 17, 2018 Glass tomato sauce bottles! I'll be more specific on this, *****ing Heinz tomato sauce bottles. I get proper annoyed when it's served at restaurants.
Hairy Posted May 17, 2018 Posted May 17, 2018 I'll be more specific on this, *****ing Heinz tomato sauce bottles. I get proper annoyed when it's served at restaurants.I would also ... don't they carry All Gold .... all the other stuff is just red sauce.
Hairy Posted May 17, 2018 Posted May 17, 2018 I found this out the hard way when I did my own built in cupboards and ordered all the boards square. Much planing and sawdust created and children had to wear earplugs for weeks to avoid being permanently scarred by the language. Flat concrete roofs - I know a very reputable structural engineer who suggests to almost anyone who wants one (and wants it not to leak) that they should put a timber / steel truss and sheeting over it.
BigDL Posted May 17, 2018 Posted May 17, 2018 Not bike related . . . . . But just one of my pet peeves. There should be a building law against building a residential house where the walls end higher than the roof cladding. Sooner or later the thing starts leaking there with the water running down the wall inside the house. And the plaster always starts cracking on top those exposed walls after a few years as a result of weather exposure. Where is it needed between units for fire safety regulations, the top of that wall should also be covered with roof cladding. Yes, you can say stuff like doing it properly and doing maintenance and what about individual taste and all those things. But why in hell build a flaw into your building that someone will have to redo or maintain later?That is just piss-poor design. The roof cladding must cover all the building walls if viewed from the above, problem solved.Flip, good point. Another thing, wtf is behind this ever increasing South African love affair with Tuscan style columns and pillars? Midstream, where we used to live, was full of these weird buildings Sent from my iPad using Tapatalk
Patchelicious Posted May 17, 2018 Posted May 17, 2018 I never knew that roofing had such a deep and passionate support base.....
Kalahari Vegmot Posted May 17, 2018 Posted May 17, 2018 Flip, good point. Another thing, wtf is behind this ever increasing South African love affair with Tuscan style columns and pillars? Midstream, where we used to live, was full of these weird buildings Sent from my iPad using TapatalkYea.....But it's midstream.....
PhilipV Posted May 17, 2018 Posted May 17, 2018 Yea.....But it's midstream.....Where taste is the inverse of disposable income.
Traveler Posted May 17, 2018 Posted May 17, 2018 Yea.....But it's midstream.....Since this is a family friendly environment I cannot use the nice Afrikaans name that building style.
stefmeister Posted May 17, 2018 Posted May 17, 2018 Flip, good point. Another thing, wtf is behind this ever increasing South African love affair with Tuscan style columns and pillars? Midstream, where we used to live, was full of these weird buildings Sent from my iPad using TapatalkTypical Jozi things. On that note. 2.2d Ford rangers with a raptor kit. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk
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