Nice people thread part 4 - sugar and spice and all things

chewmylegoff

This mark has appeared under the legs of our sofa. Think the flooring is beech. Looks to me like ingrained dirt, but scrubbing it isn't having much effect. Digging it out with a knife appears possible but I think that will just damage the floor.

All I can think of is bringing the power washer inside and blasting it with that, I'm not that desperate yet!

Any of the nice people have any ideas how I can get it out?

silvercar

chewmylegoff wrote: »

This mark has appeared under the legs of our sofa. Think the flooring is beech. Looks to me like ingrained dirt, but scrubbing it isn't having much effect. Digging it out with a knife appears possible but I think that will just damage the floor.

All I can think of is bringing the power washer inside and blasting it with that, I'm not that desperate yet!

Any of the nice people have any ideas how I can get it out?

cif

biological washing powder

(no responsibility taken)

I can't see how glossy the floor is, there is always the risk you could take the varnish off with any strong cleaning agent. If you don't mind doing that then nail varnish remover or white spirit may work.

chewmylegoff

thought i had actually posted a picture. what a palaver. whilst we're at it - does anyone know how to easily get a photo from a stupid iphone onto an image hosting site without all the stupid hoops i just jumped through!

sss555s

chewmylegoff wrote: »

thought i had actually posted a picture. what a palaver. whilst we're at it - does anyone know how to easily get a photo from a stupid iphone onto an image hosting site without all the stupid hoops i just jumped through!

I just email them to my pc if it's an odd one (Android)



The wood looks like it's got damp trapped under the varnish or the varnish has worn and let damp in.

If you want rid of it i expect you will have to sand it down to take the dark out, use some sort of anti-fungal solution to kill any "spores", let it dry out properly then varnish.

I'm no expert but it sounds right

Joe_Bloggs

Check the foot of your sofa. It is probably a stuck on rubber/plasticky pad. Overtime these tend to self destruct in to a sticky film of ickyness.
J_B.

chewmylegoff

Joe_Bloggs wrote: »

Check the foot of your sofa. It is probably a stuck on rubber/plasticky pad. Overtime these tend to self destruct in to a sticky film of ickyness.
J_B.

Nah there's nothing like that, it's just metal. Expect the problem is more that I haven't bothered to put anything under it and it's damaged the varnish, as suggested above.

LydiaJ

Our year 9 end-of-year internal exam used to have a question on it about earth wires and fuses in plugs. The final part asked kids to name an appliance that didn't need an earth wire, and explain why one wasn't needed. We were looking for them to answer "hair-dryer", or "plastic kettle", or something like that with no metal casing to earth. Lots of them put "gas cooker - doesn't need an earth wire because you don't plug it in".

The next year, we asked for an "electric appliance" that didn't need an earth wire. They put things like "torch - because it runs off batteries".

The year after that, we asked for a "mains electric appliance". One girl put "electric chair - because it's supposed to electrocute you and wouldn't work if it was earthed".

I was in charge of moderating the year 9 exam that year. I considered carefully whether to allow the answer, and eventually annotated the mark scheme to say not - "While it would be unfair to disallow this answer merely for being macabre, electric chairs operate at a voltage of nearly 2.5kV, so cannot be considered to be mains appliances."

After that, we changed it to ask for a "domestic mains electric appliance" and the question then discriminated properly between those who understood which appliances need earthing and those who didn't. Then we changed the scheme of work so mains safety is no longer a year 9 topic....

Setting exam questions, even just within school, is more complicated than one might think.

JonnyBravo

LydiaJ wrote: »

Our year 9 end-of-year internal exam used to have a question on it about earth wires and fuses in plugs. The final part asked kids to name an appliance that didn't need an earth wire, and explain why one wasn't needed. We were looking for them to answer "hair-dryer", or "plastic kettle", or something like that with no metal casing to earth. Lots of them put "gas cooker - doesn't need an earth wire because you don't plug it in".

The next year, we asked for an "electric appliance" that didn't need an earth wire. They put things like "torch - because it runs off batteries".

The year after that, we asked for a "mains electric appliance". One girl put "electric chair - because it's supposed to electrocute you and wouldn't work if it was earthed".

I was in charge of moderating the year 9 exam that year. I considered carefully whether to allow the answer, and eventually annotated the mark scheme to say not - "While it would be unfair to disallow this answer merely for being macabre, electric chairs operate at a voltage of nearly 2.5kV, so cannot be considered to be mains appliances."

After that, we changed it to ask for a "domestic mains electric appliance" and the question then discriminated properly between those who understood which appliances need earthing and those who didn't. Then we changed the scheme of work so mains safety is no longer a year 9 topic....

Setting exam questions, even just within school, is more complicated than one might think.

:rotfl:

Post of the month.
Oh to be inside the head of these kids for a few minutes. Who needs drugs?

silvercar

How to annoy your parents by DS2, age 17.5:
Step 1: Wander slowly around the house, (his father's) iPad in hand, watching videos of Richard Dawkins debates.
Step 2: (After requests to turn it down/ off): Wander slowly around the house, (his father's) iPad in hand, earphones plugged in, watching videos of Richard Dawkins debates. Consequently not answering when talked to and randomly bumping into things.
Step 3: discuss religion at every opportunity, even when irrelevant to the conversation. The answer always being "and some people truly believe there are fairies at the bottom of the garden, doesn't make them right."

lostinrates

silvercar wrote: »

DS=darling son??

Am I having a senile moment? I thought your children were little, isn't one your pic?

I assumed sister.