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

lostinrates

the builders and the architect came today to look at the ipossible to move floor. The builders...who are really into ''heritage'' work feel its a waste of money trying to preserve but the architect thinks its heinous to destroy them. They are limestone under the muck.

They both reckon they are not actually floor slabs but rather big stone blocks reclaimed from somewhere else in the past....something built upwards not a floor. Of course, its going to add a fortune onto the plans if we keep them because moving them, whch should be a relatively easy job, is going to be a nightmare. becuase of the delay we've decided to concentrate on the investigation work in the dining room wall and floor this side of christmas and break one more of the slabs to see if the rest will move more easily after that....then think about it more over christmas.

Doozergirl

lostinrates wrote: »

THANK YOU! you are such a helpful woman

edit: re loos...I think the shape is quite important....I'm thinking about having the downstairs one built into a bench so I have no pedestal dusting to do on a weekly basis. there are some nice and cheap sinks on ebay.

I hate pedestal cleaning. I try to pick loos that are solid all the way to the wall with no detail for the same reason. You can't possibly clean a soil pipe properly which is why traditionally styled toilets bemuse me. I've never bought a house where the soil pipe wasn't an inch thick in dust.

http://www.victoriaplumb.com/Bathroom-Suites/Toilets/Close-Coupled-Toilets/Arc-Toilet-Cistern_440.html
My favourite toilet, simply for cleaning the outside.

God, I'm interesting

Doozergirl

neverdespairgirl wrote: »

Elvis vodka luge:

http://www.passionforice.co.uk/music-elvis.html

:rotfl:Brilliant work! A bargain at twice the price!

lostinrates

Doozergirl wrote: »

I hate pedestal cleaning. I try to pick loos that are solid all the way to the wall with no detail for the same reason. You can't possibly clean a soil pipe properly which is why traditionally styled toilets bemuse me. I've never bought a house where the soil pipe wasn't an inch thick in dust.

http://www.victoriaplumb.com/Bathroom-Suites/Toilets/Close-Coupled-Toilets/Arc-Toilet-Cistern_440.html
My favourite toilet, simply for cleaning the outside.

God, I'm interesting

A more modern version of the ones we've looked at, which are similar but a little less stylish: more ''safe''....edit hope thats clear I'm critiquing not that loo.


You know those old square woden loo seats? Thats what made me think of setting the thing into a srt of bench. with a lift up ''bench seat'' on one side o the loo it could be a place to store spare loo rolls or a loo brush and a bottle of bleach or whatever.

zagubov

neverdespairgirl wrote: »

Did you go to Los Locos, too? With their wonderful slogan, "Nobody's ugly after 2am"?

Was that charming slogan lifted from the country and western song
"I Went to Bed at Two with a Ten and Woke up at Ten With a Two"?

The same genre gave us other charmers like "Get Your Tongue Out Of My Mouth Cause I'm Kissing You Good-bye" and "You're the Reason Our Kids Are So Ugly"

There's even a countryand western lyric generating site here.

lostinrates

any NPs ever lived in NYC? I want to hear different perspectives and experiences.

Pennylane

lostinrates wrote: »

A more modern version of the ones we've looked at, which are similar but a little less stylish: more ''safe''....edit hope thats clear I'm critiquing not that loo.


You know those old square woden loo seats? Thats what made me think of setting the thing into a srt of bench. with a lift up ''bench seat'' on one side o the loo it could be a place to store spare loo rolls or a loo brush and a bottle of bleach or whatever.

Look out for a little book called "The Specialist" by Charles Sale.;)

lostinrates

zagubov wrote: »

Was that charming slogan lifted from the country and western song
"I Went to Bed at Two with a Ten and Woke up at Ten With a Two"?

The same genre gave us other charmers like "Get Your Tongue Out Of My Mouth Cause I'm Kissing You Good-bye" and "You're the Reason Our Kids Are So Ugly"

There's even a countryand western lyric generating site here.

I like sme C and w songs (and proper melodic blue grass). we sometimes call Special Girl Big Trucks (i.e. as in kendel carson)

Pennylane

LostinRates

http://journeytoforever.org/farm_library/specialist.html

LydiaJ

I agree about the difficulty of cleaning soil pipes, but those solid loos make me wonder about how the seat is attached. My friend has some that look a bit like this one, but as I've mentioned before, although cleaning it is easy, sorting it out when the seat becomes wobbly is not - you can't get at the screws that attach it.

When I was little I wanted to be all manner of things when I grew up - none of them for very long, and none of them remotely plausible. By the time I left school I thought I probably wanted to be a research scientist, but the one thing I was sure of was that I didn't want to be a teacher.

I am obviously not getting my mum anything for Christmas, but want to give my dad lots of things - none of them huge, but several of them, mostly either edible or books, plus some whisky. I think single people need more presents from other people because they don't have a partner getting them stuff.