Nice People Thread No. 14, all Nice and Proper

michaels

PN, when w did ours after attaching the lifting bits it then wanted us to stand the frame on end to attach the cloth that makes up the bottom of the storeage area. This diod not go well as the lifting mechanism kept trying to open when you stood the bed on end taking up lots of space and whacking the ceiling light. My advice would be to put the bottom cloth on first before attaching the mattress base.

I also had the issue of not being able to move the hydralic arms without the bed attached to join them on and I am sorry to say I can't remeber how I solved it - i think it must have been via attaching themfirst with not everything in the right place but then once they were attached I had enough leverage to pull the top frame into the right place - does that sound like it might make sense (even if tricky with limted space to manouvre)?

Running_On_Empty

I had a very very small taste of your problemo last week, PN. Couldn't figure out how to get the base to go down. Stuck in the up position. Eventually, after a phone call, the mattress was manhandled on to the almost upright base and then and only then was it possible to get the bloomin thing down. There were two of us doing the manhandling so I feel your pain. Sorry I am too far away to pop round and give you a helping hand, and to swear at the thing!

lemonjelly

tom9980 wrote: »

I can see part of it from the spare bedroom, which is useful for the fireworks display. Parking can be awful on race day I imagine worse during school holidays, it is normally good apart from that.

Cracking. I'd better make sure I don't park on your drive or block you in...

PasturesNew wrote: »

Bath sheet.

What's one of those?

PasturesNew

lemonjelly wrote: »

What's one of those?

A bath sheet is like a bath towel, but bigger. A bath towel just goes around an adult. A bath sheet wraps you down to your knees, folds over the front double.

If you wrap a bath towel round you and try to walk round the house, it'll probably come off. If you wrap a bath towel round you and try to walk round the house there's plenty of it to go round and it'll stay on.

It's just a big towel..... better than a bath towel.

I have/use/prefer them.

They're man-sized bath towels!

michaels

We defintely got the thing down before poping the plastic bits in - to do this I put my hands under my chin and my elbows out on the centre of the foot of the bed frame (the highest point and used my weight to pull it down. At first it feels like it won't move but then it starts to move very slowly until finally it goes right down. Then I was able to push the plastics in downwards giving them a tap with a small hammer if they were stiff. I found it was possible to get the slats into the plastic bits after the plastic bits were attached if needed.

Now I remember - the mattress expands a lot after you take it out of the plastic (you will need a knife or scissors) and you are supposed to leave it for 24 hours to expand and will want to leave it for a week in another room with the window open to air out as it has a strong smell which takes a long time to dissapate.

Edit: Our slats were slightly curved and they should go curved side up rather than down.

lemonjelly

Doozergirl wrote: »

Someone's crashed into my car in a car park and driven off.

Park distance control is screwed, bumper is ugly and I have rather a lot of white paint on my red car. Have to phone the manager of the Travelodge tomorrow to probably find that the CCTV doesn't work or they can't be arsed to look. It's not a big car park.

It's definitely an insurance claim

Wounder!
Within 3 months of me getting my car, someone keyed the passenger side. Good & proper. £350 to paint all the panels.
Then, within a week of that, went to a friends kids birthday & someone scraped across the front. Fortunately it was only bumper damage, so no paintwork needed doing, & I'm not posh enough to have front sensors.

lemonjelly

LydiaJ wrote: »

How does that work? I am still not entirely sure how the change to UC will affect me, but I think I shan't get any, so it will mean the loss of the whole of the CTC/WTC part of my income, although that's nowhere near £13.5k pa. Still, I'm quite happy that the change to UC keeps getting delayed. My CTC/WTC would be going down a lot this summer anyway, when DD leaves primary school and I stop paying for after school club. I will be paying a similar amount for her bus pass to get to secondary school, but that doesn't count.



Thanks. I don't know. I'll find out tomorrow and get back to you.

Ridiculously over simplified, employed people claiming UC are protected, so if their UC is lower than their WTC etc, they will be transitionally protected.

That said, a lone parent who is employed will be better off under UC in the vast majority of cases.

michaels

lemonjelly wrote: »

Ridiculously over simplified, employed people claiming UC are protected, so if their UC is lower than their WTC etc, they will be transitionally protected.

That said, a lone parent who is employed will be better off under UC in the vast majority of cases.

I think the alignment of savings qualifications with other benefits like housing benefit / council tax benefit (tapering from 16k down to 5k) will make people like me and Lydia ineligible whereas under the current system capital is ignored. But as you say there is traditional relief but I assume that where this applies amounts will be frozen in cash terms until UC catches up so gradual errosion by inflation.

lostinrates

Grrrrrr, live chat on product websites.......just....grrrrrr

Generali

lostinrates wrote: »

Grrrrrr, live chat on product websites.......just....grrrrrr

The Bloomberg one has gone downhill but used to be excellent. We used to ask them general knowledge questions.