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  • For a more energy efficient home: what else can I wax?
  • nedrapier
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    After an estimated seven and a half years struggling, expending innumerable Watts on slightly sticky drawers in a big chest and a double of bedside tables, I finally spent 15 minutes taking all the drawers out and rubbing a candle on the sliding surfaces.

    A stunning revelation. I felt so clever then so stupid for not doing it sooner.

    Then I rubbed candles up and down the pain-in-the-arse wooden curtain poles. Maybe if I’d done that sooner, we wouldn’t have lost so many curtain rings to fatigue and we wouldn’t have so many attravtive zip-tie replacements.

    I’m drunk on success, and red wine. What else can I wax?

    HoratioHufnagel
    Free Member

    Around the edges of the doors if they creak when you shut them?

    joshvegas
    Free Member

    Bikini line?

    Bit of candle wax on a saw blade can work wonders.

    benv
    Free Member

    Body hair. You’ll move around faster for same energy consumption due to less drag.

    Post pics.

    gofasterstripes
    Free Member

    Lyrical.

    midlifecrashes
    Full Member

    Shoelaces, stops them comng undone so easily.

    tjagain
    Full Member

    Mustache?

    theotherjonv
    Full Member

    zips, makes them zip much better. And unzip, if Mrs Ned is sufficiently impressed by your slidey drawers that she feels the need to get to your drawers.

    tillydog
    Free Member

    Bikini line?

    Bit of candle wax on a saw blade can work wonders.

    You’re braver than I am!

    matt_outandabout
    Full Member

    Multi point door locks on front and back doors.

    squirrelking
    Free Member

    Wax anyone not pulling their weight. Costs less in energy, food and acts as a good way to raise beds in the garden.

    spooky_b329
    Full Member

    Furniture polish on your seatbelts to keep them retracting in a timely efficient manner.

    Car wax on your bathroom tiles and grout to keep cleaning efficiency up.

    (Not tried either of these but furniture polish on the curtain rails is a favourite)

    kayak23
    Full Member

    Off

    funkmasterp
    Full Member

    on

    mulacs
    Full Member

    Shoelaces, stops them comng undone so easily.

    Is this real?!

    qtip
    Full Member

    Gibbous moon

    cloudnine
    Free Member

    Spray your uPVC window and door hinges and locks with silicon spray.. everything moves better with a little lube

    wwaswas
    Full Member

    Is this real?!

    yes. Also stops them getting all soggy 🙂

    globalti
    Free Member

    Good quality car wax on everything; it makes things feel smooth and shiny especially kitchen worktops. Failing that, Mr Sheen or Pledge. Waxed windows are muchy easier to clean as the cloth glides without sticking. I’m a bit of a wax fanatic.

    PVCu windows do need maintenance, I oil everything with 3 in 1 oil especially the receivers to stop them going grey and manky.

    senorj
    Full Member

    Your wick…
    🙂

    Harry_the_Spider
    Full Member

    your Dolphin?

    mrmonkfinger
    Free Member

    All your floors – swap walking for sliding.

    mrmonkfinger
    Free Member

    Also, your jacket. Especially if you live in the country.

    Be warned, be slippery slope t’ flat cap and whippet.

    joshvegas
    Free Member

    Bikini line?

    Bit of candle wax on a saw blade can work wonders.

    You’re braver than I am

    Great point.

    DON’T GET CONFUSED

    johnx2
    Free Member

    bees

    maccruiskeen
    Full Member

    All your floors – swap walking for sliding.

    All you had to do is keep house and have dinner ready on the table and now you’ve killed her husband  and your grandson is going to grow up in a delinquent single parent household then go to prison or die of a heroin overdose and its all your fault you silly woman.

    globalti
    Free Member

    I wonder what happens if you spray an old Goretex jacket with Mr Sheen or Pledge? Seriously. I have a Sprayway jacket that I bought in about 1994, it’s kept me dry for years, got patches on it from falls, and I soaked it in Thompson’s water seal which didn’t kill it but made it even better. Maybe an aerosol wax would help the repellency?

    johndoh
    Free Member

    Wax your wife’s hands.

    So she can wash the dishes more quickly of course.

    raybanwomble
    Free Member

    Wax your pussy for more efficient….?

    BigJohn
    Full Member

    Not the windscreen.

    singletrackmind
    Full Member

    Skis obv’s

    spooky_b329
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    We use compressed air at work to blow optic fibres down tubing to get customers connected. (or did, we don’t really install tubing anymore but will still use spare capacity) With a bit of luck and experience you can get about 1200 metres in one go.

    My older colleagues used to spray anti-static furniture wax into the tubes to reduce friction and get the fibre to go in easier…unfortunately they later realised it rots out the rubber seals in the plumbing style pushfit tubing connectors. That results in lots of leaking connections and a fibre that keeps getting stuck, and having to open loads of joints to replace the connectors!

    muddy@rseguy
    Full Member

    Ruby

    bigrich
    Full Member

    bumhole. One square of bog roll, one wipe, done.

    saves lots of trees and energy in downstream processing.

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