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Cleaver

nearlynew wrote: »

Not worth it for my battered old truck.

£6 an hour is not bad for unskilled manual labour.

It isn't. But then I get the feeling that there's a bloke who owns the place who takes most of the money.

chucknorris

chewmylegoff wrote: »

I'm going to scrape myself out of bed, go to the gym, do 5 minutes on the bike and two bench presses, then go for lunch with some friends and dinner with some other friends. Expected net weight gain = 5 pounds.

When you say 'two bench presses' do you mean just two (so weight lifting rather than weight training) or did you mean two lots of reps? I don't weight train now but when I did I used to do 1 x 10 reps of bench presses, followed by 10 butterfly curls (and other exercises).

Nowdays I just cycle and run though, trying to motivate myself back into swimming but it's not very enticing in the winter plus I don't like the crowded lanes in the public baths.

chewmylegoff

chucknorris wrote: »

When you say 'two bench presses' do you mean just two (so weight lifting rather than weight training) or did you mean two lots of reps? I don't weight train now but when I did I used to do 1 x 10 reps of bench presses, followed by 10 butterfly curls (and other exercises).

Nowdays I just cycle and run though, trying to motivate myself back into swimming but it's not very enticing in the winter plus I don't like the crowded lanes in the public baths.

I mean I'm going to go to the gym and put in a pathetic token effort which has no impact on the fact that I then eat two massive meals and drink 4 bottles of port.

Normally I would do 60-90 minutes of cardio/intervals three days a week and do circuits for 45 mins two days a week. Today I will do basically nothing as I'm knackered.

chewmylegoff

Cleaver wrote: »

It isn't. But then I get the feeling that there's a bloke who owns the place who takes most of the money.

Theres a place like that near mine which is £10 for the same thing but there are normally 6 people working and they do it as a sort of conveyor belt system each with a different job. Definitely isn't taking them 80 man-minutes of time to do each car. Probably more like 20 minutes of time in total between all of them. They're all polish, obviously.

moneyinmypocket

How do you like those lemons lol

ess0two

Swimming later,then out for a curry,work in the morning

HAMISH_MCTAVISH

Cleaver wrote: »

There's a place near us that charges £8 for a mini-valet and about 4 blokes work on your car for a good twenty minutes. I'm considering asking them how much they actually get paid though as I'm worried it's slave-labour.

The place I use charges £16, but it's 3 blokes for 45 mins.

They do get it very clean..... But I'm not sure it'd be twice as clean as yours Cleaver.

Cleaver

HAMISH_MCTAVISH wrote: »

The place I use charges £16, but it's 3 blokes for 45 mins.

They do get it very clean..... But I'm not sure it'd be twice as clean as yours Cleaver.

I generally get mine done twice a year. When it's difficult to tell the original colour of the car due to build up of dirt I reluctantly take it down and really get my £8 quids worth.

Cleaver

Can I quietly and humbly suggest that from this point forward whenever someone starts a thread about HPC we all simply respond with what we're up to that particular day? It's much more interesting and will hopefully stop half a dozen of them coming up each day.

HAMISH_MCTAVISH

Cleaver wrote: »

I generally get mine done twice a year. When it's difficult to tell the original colour of the car due to build up of dirt I reluctantly take it down and really get my £8 quids worth.

I get mine done once every month or two. Invariably because I need to take someone else in the car for work reasons. If it wasn't for that, it'd be once a year.:D