Nice People Thread No. 15, a Cyber Summer

Pyxis

Use the 3m one up a step ladder?

Eaves height:
Measure the height of your ground floor room plus your upstairs room, then add on, say 18" to allow for the space between floors and between the ground floor and the ground outside. That should approximate to the eaves height.
Then it depends how tall you are. If 5ft something, just deduct a couple feet or so, and then that's how long the pole should be.



Or something!

chris_m

Pyxis wrote: »

Use the 3m one up a step ladder?

Not wise really.
It's easy enough to fall off a stepladder without trying to exert a bit of cleaning force at the far end of a 3m pole whilst balancing on said ladder.

The pole measurement suggestion is better.

PasturesNew

Pyxis wrote: »

Or something!

Actually, I've got a long tape measure, I could measure the ceiling height in the hallway/stairs.... and I know the bedroom ceiling is flush with the top of the window ... so then I'd know the height to that point, in feet and inches

I'll do it tomorrow; I've got no hall/landing lights, so stuff like that needs to be done in daylight.

LydiaJ

SingleSue wrote: »

I'm just finding it very muggy and unpleasant. Mind you, I am also nursing a left foot swollen to twice its normal size after something decided it would like to have a taster of me in the garden earlier this evening....

Ouch! Sounds nasty. Hope it's better soon.

Pyxis wrote: »

I ... insist your son wears a seatbelt, drum that into him continuously, cite this post...

Feel free to cite my sig too. The day after my kids were in "The Accident" there was a very similar accident on the same piece of flooded road, and the child in the back of one of the vehicles was thrown from the car and died the following day of his head injuries, so when the police told me that my kids were only alive because they were wearing theirs, I know it's probably true.

In other news, I met my new Y12 class today. They seem nice, although a little reserved. That was to be expected, though - they all come from the parts of the world where school children are expected to sit silently writing down what the teacher says. I use chocolate to bribe my GCSE and younger classes to shut up when they are getting a bit too chatty instead of listening - with this class, I'm using the same technique to make them say something when they all go quiet after I've asked a question. :rotfl:

Pyxis

PasturesNew wrote: »

Actually, I've got a long tape measure, I could measure the ceiling height in the hallway/stairs.... and I know the bedroom ceiling is flush with the top of the window ... so then I'd know the height to that point, in feet and inches

I'll do it tomorrow; I've got no hall/landing lights, so stuff like that needs to be done in daylight.

Why no hall/landing lights?

Are the bulbs hard to change because they're over the stair well?


I've got one like that.....inside a very large globe shade. Although I've a ladder that converts into a stair ladder, I'm still loth to try to change the bulb without someone to hand the globe to.
It's had a very longlife bulb in it for absolutely ages, but it'll go one day!

The other two lights on the landing have only just had their bulbs changed, having been gone for nearly two years! To be honest, I was forced into it; one of the two bathroom ceiling lights had also been out for about a year, but when the other one went recently, I couldn't see where anything was in the bathroom, with the landing lights being out as well! So I was forced into action! Going to the loo in the middle of the night had become a bit fraught! :rotfl:


(It's not just replacing the bulb, you see, and that assumes you have the right sort of bulb for that particular fitment, and they're all different; you end up having to wash and dry the shades as well! A right chore!)

vivatifosi

Pyxis wrote: »

Well, it does have Serbian, but the Montenegrins are trying to establish their own language, which I understand is very similar. I want to show them the respect of saying what I want to say in their own specific language.

Ah, apologies, I thought you were trying to translate from Montenegrin. I sometimes use Google translate to do similar - translate from languages that aren't in translation but have similar neighbour languages. You can get some pretty funky interpretations mind.

Doozergirl

Your eaves will be around 5 metres high in annew build

Height of the floor slab to dpc - .2m plus 2.4m standard new build room height plus 2.4m plus around .3 for joists between floors.

Eaces may be a wee bit lower than the ceiling height upstairs.

zagubov

chris_m wrote: »

It's not always an error - May to December marriages and all that.

For example, in 2014 the USA was still paying one dependant's pension from the Civil War - which ended in 1865.

The last Civil War veteran's widow died in 2003, having married in 1927 when she was 18 and her husband was 81. He died in 1937 and she received $70 every 2 months until she died.

Few years ago somebody wrote into the Mail after a discussion about parents and grandparents born in the 1890s.

This chap was born to a 40-year old mother who was the daughter of a 80-year-old father. The letter writer was clearly in his 80s at least

Result: his grandfather was born in the 1790s. Old enough to know Abraham Lincoln's mum and dad!

Pyxis wrote: »

Well, it does have Serbian, but the Montenegrins are trying to establish their own language, which I understand is very similar. I want to show them the respect of saying what I want to say in their own specific language.

I'm worried that this will be a herculean task unless some Montenegrin programmers have written some useful software for just this.

Pyxis

Yes, it was a long shot posting that on here, but you're all such a wealth of eclectic knowledge, I thought it was worth a try!

People seem to know much stranger things than a bit of Montenegrin!


I might try and find a language forum somewhere. I know there is one for Latin; maybe there is one for lesser Eastern European languages?

chris_m

Pyxis wrote: »

At the very least, insist your son wears a seatbelt, drum that into him continuously,

My driving instructor drummed it into me so well that it made me look a right fool once when I was doing a Saturday job at Sainsbury's.
I was asked to work a checkout for an hour during the lunch break period so over I went, sat down -and reached over my shoulder for a non-existent seatbelt :rotfl: