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    It never rains but it pours...

    I've had bad days before but this one is royally pushing the buttons.

    1) Blazing argument with the girlfriend on Friday, she ends up slamming the bedroom door and locking. I walk into it with a bit of force (i don't like her slamming doors) not realising it had been locked and bending the lock/distorting the door frame. Tried repairing it with her for hours only to find one of the upper wooden internal supports has cracked and the whole thing is a write off. As we need a bedroom door with having a lodger we take the spare rooms door off to use in the meantime. Mount that try to shut it and its miles off. Plane it down, try again still no luck, plane it again, mount it, still no luck..check original hinges etc and find that I had mounted the door sat up on one of the hinge lips. The door would have fitted fine had I been more careful.

    Too make it worse the utter halfwit who built this house used 'Metric Door' sizes which B&Q/Home Base/Wickes etc dont stock. Closest shop I can find is a Jewsons which is closed and only opens 9am -5pm. I work 8 till 5.30pm! The doors are twice the price of a standard door and I have no tools/experience on fitting them.


    2) I go out to cut the grass, the lawn mower dies after 20 seconds. I check fuel, oil, blades etc still no start. I recheck fuel lines etc, all looks fine I leave it for 20mins and it starts but runs very rough and dies at the first sign of any resistance. 2 year old cheap ass Tesco lawn Mower - what did I expect?

    3) Girlfriends making me breakfast whilst I am finishing off the grass tentatively with said problematic lawn mower. She comes out to say the Over has stopped working. I spent 30mins looking for manuals, serial numbers and model numbers and eventually resort to calling the oven's customer support. They inform me the Timer on it seems to have died and that to replace it would be £167 for a new years warranty which would cover this. Then there is a 1-2 week call out delay currently. Microwave meals FTW?

    4) My new laptop Dell gave me due to my old one failing to pass an HDMI signal through to my TV suddenly decides to stop sending an HDMi signal as well. Laptop detects my Sony AMP and Sony TV, TV and AMP both detect the Laptop but no signal is sent between the two. tried uninstalling, rolling back system restore, different cables and still nothing. Dell replaced my old laptop over this issue with a totally different model laptop which has worked fine for the last 3 weeks until last night......


    And the icing on the cake...I have friends over next fr/sat/sun for the weekend to help me celebrate my birthday. Now I am missing two bedroom door's, an oven and my grass will be almost a foot long. Oh and my laptop is ****.


    HOW!!!??

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    Re: It never rains but it pours...

    After carefully reading your post I have come to the conclusion that you need to step up to the mark and be a man. In my military days (actually planetside 1 outfit, but whats the difference) I was taught that you need to examine your resources, decide on a plan, and stick to it.

    Step 1: Resources
    You have a girlfriend and a bedroom, always a good place to start. Your lack of a door could pose a problem, but if theres nobody else around, what the heck. If you have guests hang a sheet, and keep the noise down. Your lack of working cooker and lawnmower also means you have plenty of time on your hands.
    No lawn mower,can you borrow one from friends or neighbors?
    No laptop, you appear to have a desktop, problem for another day.
    Buggered cooker, have a look for a local repair bloke, or consider DIY, again problem for another day.
    Sorting the door, can you get a friend to pick one up during the week, or get somebody to supply and fit if you lack tools.

    Step 2: The Plan
    Hang a sheet (if necessary), you should be able to figure the next bit out yourself.
    Can you borrow a lawn mower from a friend or neighbor? By the time you've finished with the bit above it should have cooled down a bit, much better lawn mowing condition's.
    Cook food on a BBQ (if you haven't got one, B&Q should still be open, depends how long the steps above have taken).
    Have a pint
    Do other stuff another day.
    Last edited by Flibb; 09-09-2012 at 01:31 PM.

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    Re: It never rains but it pours...

    2) A common problem, especially on cheaper mowers, is the carb diaphragm. Stale fuel can also gum up various parts, including the carb. Can you hear it 'hunting' i.e. revving up and down?

    Either of the above can be relatively cheap + simple fixes if you're comfortable working on it yourself.

    Other potential things to look out for include old oil and worn spark plugs, just never mess with the spark plug when the engine is hot, you risk seizing the threads + damaging the engine block, and don't over-tighten, which can cause the same problem.

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    Re: It never rains but it pours...

    Yep, its true...what you don't learn through a women or a Planetside outfit ain't worth knowing!


    1) Oven is sorted £170 to get the timer replaced and extend the warranty for a year. Loosing a day of holiday for it hurts like hell though - all over effectively a digital clock.

    2) Mower limped round the garden so putting the fate of replacing it off till next week. I gave it a good kick with my steel toe boots when I'd finished with it as well. I am confident that will have fixed it.

    3) Doors i'm planning on picking up tomorrow on my lunch break, tools have been borrowed and I plan to attempt to fit them over the next week....or on my unexpected day off on thursday!!!!

    4) Desktop lost it's usefulness many a year ago. I do have a 3 year warranty on my current laptop so worse case ill give Dell a ring. It's frustrating having the problem re-appear though, but it can be solved.


    Within a few weeks all will be fixed & sorted, just trying to focus on that. Still been a royally crap sunday though!

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    Re: It never rains but it pours...

    well from my point of view. your girlfriends making you breakfast. and you've got a funny story to tell your lodgers.

    and presumably you've got a can of petrol from your lawnmower + broken oven = get a barbecue and have a blast

    cant see a problem in any of your story.

    stop whinging and do it man style.



    oh and your door size problems, we had the same when we had a loft conversion a while back. fire safety regulations meant we had to have fire doors on the escape route from the loft. cue us needing to change 15 doors. this house being built in 1880 ish meant there wasnt exactly detailed plans and measurements going on at the time, everything was bespoke fitted. the doors vary by up to 2 inches either direction and even in thickness, and where the door handle/lock is. ended up nailing wood on the inside of the doorframe effectively making the doorframe smaller and it fitting around the door.

    so you just needing 2 new doors doesnt bother me in the slightest.


    see, you've had it easy, and im just trying to make you feel better

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    Re: It never rains but it pours...

    is your last name Bean?

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    Re: It never rains but it pours...

    I can't see what the problem is? Your girlfriend is no longer mad at you - a day of rudies FTW !

    The other things can be fixed easily. Life is too short to worry about silly things like a couple of doors and a broke lawn mower.

    Couldn't you fix the oven yourself? Years ago when the timer broke on our old oven on a Sunday I just removed the gas valve that the timer operated and replaced it with a straight pipe. We never used the timer anyway so it was not a problem.

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    Re: It never rains but it pours...

    I have had a look at the oven but I would rather not risk it to much. There isn't much I don't at least try and fiddle with but with gas & leccy combined I dont fancy risking it.

    There are a few second hands oven on ebay I looked at, but with an engineer costing almost £90 to install it, the hassle of picking one up and then risk of it not working/fitting etc is too much, Easier to pay for this one to be fixed then peace of mind for another year!

    And yes, got a content girlfriend again so a big win there!

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    Re: It never rains but it pours...

    Making up after an argument is always fun

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    Re: It never rains but it pours...

    Quote Originally Posted by Andehh View Post
    There isn't much I don't at least try and fiddle with but with gas & leccy combined I don't fancy risking it.
    Well, At least your wise enough to know when not to fiddle or when your not comfortable with it.

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    Re: It never rains but it pours...

    It's not always obvious when you get something wrong with gas, that's how houses get blown apart by cowboy plumbers messing with gas...

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    Quote Originally Posted by watercooled View Post
    It's not always obvious when you get something wrong with gas, that's how houses get blown apart by cowboy plumbers messing with gas...
    When I owned the last gas oven the engineers they sent out to repair it under warranty were the most incompetent buffoons you can imagine. Of course they were all officially certified to work on gas appliances. Testing for faults involved just changing parts until they struck lucky and one of them smashed the glass in the control panels display and another dropped one of the burners screws in the door hinge and then tried forcing the door shut and bent the door.

    Not really the service you expect when you buy a very expensive appliance but, Hey, They were professionals!

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    Re: It never rains but it pours...

    Yeah it often seems 'professional' doesn't mean what you'd expect...

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    Re: It never rains but it pours...

    Quote Originally Posted by watercooled View Post
    Yeah it often seems 'professional' doesn't mean what you'd expect...
    No, professional means "I conned some sucker into paying me for it". Example, my DM bought some "professionally painted" models off ebay. The paint jobs were not only worse than his own, but were worse than *mine* (and I'm a bad mini painter). But since he'd paid for them, they were, technically, "professionally" painted. It's a horrendously weasely word...

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    Re: It never rains but it pours...

    Quote Originally Posted by scaryjim View Post
    No, professional means "I conned some sucker into paying me for it". Example, my DM bought some "professionally painted" models off ebay. The paint jobs were not only worse than his own, but were worse than *mine* (and I'm a bad mini painter). But since he'd paid for them, they were, technically, "professionally" painted. It's a horrendously weasely word...
    Off topic.. but I can recommend a miniatures painter if you want

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    Re: It never rains but it pours...

    Quote Originally Posted by kalniel View Post
    Off topic.. but I can recommend a miniatures painter if you want
    Continuing off-topic (sorry Andehh!); one based in or near Manchester?

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