The Nice People Thread, No.16: A Universe of Niceness.

Jackmydad

chris_m wrote: »

Oh yes, guaranteed :T:T:T

It's always the way. . .

The locks are cheap enough on eBay or similar.

GDB2222

PasturesNew wrote: »

I'm on hold on the phone - trying to get some information about kitchen cabinets for my Heath Robinson School of Advanced Bodge-It Techniques.

I have two empty slots to fill in the kitchen .... and I should have done this 3+ years ago really, but right now I want to fill those with "a random kitchen base unit that fits the gap" - and I've found one.... but ....

The floor is at two levels. The unit is 720mm high + 150mm adjustable legs. My distance from highest floor level to the bottom of the worktop is about 864-865mm .... making it 5-6mm short of fitting ... except ... how adjustable are those legs? If I could adjust one pair to be 140-144mm long - and the other pair can go at the 150mm .... then it'd fit and be level. But they don't tell you how adjustable the adjustable legs are.... if it's just 2-4mm then I don't feel I have enough "Bodge It Wriggle Room" for it to work

EDIT: Got through after 20 minutes, explained the question and she transferred me to the local store.... and the man (round the corner) ... doesn't know, so he's going to go off and find out for himself by measuring how much they're adjustable and will call me back. I live so close to the store I could've gone there to ask/see for myself in that time!

P.S. We do all know and understand that if I go ahead with a purchase.... this will, like everything else I touch, end in tears

What you need is an offcut of plywood. Stick it under the legs that are not quite long enough. Any thickness will do as long as it's over 6 mm.

What are you doing about the plinth?

chris_m

PasturesNew wrote: »

I'm on hold on the phone - trying to get some information about kitchen cabinets for my Heath Robinson School of Advanced Bodge-It Techniques.

I have two empty slots to fill in the kitchen .... and I should have done this 3+ years ago really, but right now I want to fill those with "a random kitchen base unit that fits the gap" - and I've found one.... but ....

The floor is at two levels. The unit is 720mm high + 150mm adjustable legs. My distance from highest floor level to the bottom of the worktop is about 864-865mm .... making it 5-6mm short of fitting ... except ... how adjustable are those legs? If I could adjust one pair to be 140-144mm long - and the other pair can go at the 150mm .... then it'd fit and be level. But they don't tell you how adjustable the adjustable legs are.... if it's just 2-4mm then I don't feel I have enough "Bodge It Wriggle Room" for it to work

EDIT: Got through after 20 minutes, explained the question and she transferred me to the local store.... and the man (round the corner) ... doesn't know, so he's going to go off and find out for himself by measuring how much they're adjustable and will call me back. I live so close to the store I could've gone there to ask/see for myself in that time!

P.S. We do all know and understand that if I go ahead with a purchase.... this will, like everything else I touch, end in tears

Well, at least you now have a screwdriver so that you can assemble whatever you decide to buy - unless you've put that "somewhere safe, never to be found again" again :rotfl:

michaels

PN, seeing as you are now into your DIY, I have found a 'do-er upper' for your next home: http://www.rightmove.co.uk/property-for-sale/property-54372468.html

silvercar

michaels wrote: »

PN, seeing as you are now into your DIY, I have found a 'do-er upper' for your next home: http://www.rightmove.co.uk/property-for-sale/property-54372468.html

So what would that be worth done up?

GDB2222

I'm not allowed to quote, but masking tape, lots of masking tape ....

Plus free newspapers.

PasturesNew

GDB2222 wrote: »

Plus free newspapers.

Trouble is, finding free newspapers! I don't get any delivered... so I'd have to drive out to find shops that had them .... and it's all a pain in the butt... especially as I find this job loathesome at best.

chris_m

PasturesNew wrote: »

EDIT: Got to the end, of coat one. It's a VERY strong and bold aquamarine colour, so as the white's drying it's really showing through .... hopefully a 2nd coat will kill most of it. The plan is to paint that a grey colour ... when I pick one.

Er, if the plan is to paint it grey, why are you painting it white?

BTW, as a bit of consolation, if you think the Dulux isn't covering too well just bear in mind that the cheaper paint would very likely have been worse - needing three coats instead of two for the Dulux.

chris_m

PasturesNew wrote: »

Because the starting colours I'm painting over are very strong/deep/overbearing colours, so I thought I'd stand a better chance of a good end result if I did white undercoats to cover the bright stuff first.

But so is white when it comes to putting something else on top
The only advantage is that white will probably be cheaper than the final colour, although it may still need two coats of the top colour to overcome the white.

My "perfect house" would have white walls throughout ... no colours to pick/choose and try, no decisions ... and easy touch ups

Yuk - far too stark for me, makes a place feel colder and shows up the slightest bit of dirt. It doesn't, strangely, "go" with everything either.

That's why most builders use magnolia in new houses because, for some strange reason, it "goes" with whatever colour furniture the new occupant decides to put in, whatever colour from the rainbow and whether that be a light or dark shade of that colour. The builders don't use magnolia because it's cheap - it's cheap because so much of it is used, by builders

Where I am now is some shade of cream, a bit less pink than magnolia - not too bright but not too dark either and definitely less stark than white..

LydiaJ

PasturesNew wrote: »

Because the starting colours I'm painting over are very strong/deep/overbearing colours, so I thought I'd stand a better chance of a good end result if I did white undercoats to cover the bright stuff first.

Also, using one big tin of white in all the rooms like this will give me time to work out how best to do it - and build up "practice" ready for using the more limited coloured paint where I'd end up trying to source a 2nd tin "just to finish off a bit". I'll only need one tin of grey probably for the lot ... by doing it like this.

My "perfect house" would have white walls throughout ... no colours to pick/choose and try, no decisions ... and easy touch ups

Why bother with grey at all? There are at least as many people who like white as like grey, and doing it all the same colour eliminates all the hassle of cutting in where two walls of different colours join. Whoever buys the place will probably repaint anyway, so you're just making it look clean, and giving them a blank canvas.

Oh, and don't worry about streakiness unless it's still streaky when it's bone dry. Streakiness part way through drying means nothing.