But how would it know you are tethering? My phone acts as a WiFi hub, can they detect this is happening compared to normal phone use surfing the net?

Please get an electrician in!

i had a similar fault on our new rewire and the sparky came back and spent some time investigating it before finding the issues was a slightly loose wire somewhere completely separate to the what we first thought it was. Electrics are simple in theory but can be complex in practice and getting it wrong can be dangerous.

And another thing – massive wallets bulging with receipts/cards/loyalty things and are 3 inches thick. Why? I’ve got all the cards I need and mine is slim. If you’ve got 4 different coffee shop loyalty cards you really need to a) stop drinking so much coffee and b) look up what loyalty means in the dictionary and just go to the same one each time! Also put receipts away when you get home, don’t store them in your wallet for 18 months just in case you need to take those underpants back at a moments notice.

Man bags – grrrrrrr. I spoke to one user and they said they keep their wallet and keys in it. What??? Do you not have pockets?

if you’ve got folders/paperwork/laptop to carry then use a suitable bag/case. Otherwise, phone wallet and keys all go in your pockets in jeans/trousers/suit jacket. End of.

Those drylinepro bolts are good – I used a similar fixing called Rigifix which are also designed for drylined walls and they were ace for putting up kitchen cupboards. Why not use the proper thing for the job?

Even with those I wouldn’t bother though. Those shelves look great but a heavy weight on them over time causes them to tip forwards as they bend the brackets slightly. If you’re only keeping books on them I’d use some proper shelf brackets – I’ve just had some made for some kitchen shelves out of welded steel and they look ace. Got them off eBay – search for industrial shelf brackets and there’s loads of options.

If I didn’t already have a nice touring bike I’d be on that Marrakesh like a tramp on a bag of chips. Delicious.

Wow, some amazing misinformation in this thread, no doubt from people who read an article in the paper once…

exactly.

If you want to take the family overseas, go somewhere with some semblance of family life and somewhere with a scrap of culture

Well you’ve clearly not been to the US then, or at least only the touristy bits like Florida. I’ve been to West and east coast and know very closely a family who live in Las Vegas. From the TV And the strip you’d think it’d be madness to have a kid there but there’s a nice community feeling where they are.

Culture? Just cos it’s not European culture doesn’t mean it’s not there. It’s just different. The best art galleries I have been to in my whole life were in the USA, and I’ve been to a fair few.

I’m getting an Auris hybrid soon through work, can’t wait for the full auto transmission in all the traffic I sit it every day.

Anyway – OP – auto Honda Jazz. Runs like clockwork, well made, roomy but small in size. I see more younger people driving them nowadays as they are such flippin good cars it’s unreal. My mate has bought an old one for £800 and if he had it valeted and tightened up a few screws you’d think it was a couple of years old.

No

No

Dont really care

Only if there was nowhere else to get any food.

Note – I am a very keen meat eater but I don’t mind vegetarian dishes since a couple of veggie friends made food which I liked. However Vegan food generally has substitutes for dairy which I find revolting. The simplest example is a cup of tea which is vile with any of the milk substitutes.

Zokes – I am the same as you pretty much

I did try and become a P last year but unless I did a direct debit they weren’t interested, didn’t seem bothered about taking my money and I’m glad that effort didn’t succeed now

On my work PC’s the ads don’t show – they do on other sites but our work setup just hates STW.

I’m not at all surprised the upgrade has been a nightmare, this site has been an old relic for years and when they employed people recently they were offering a pittance.

Don’t even think the powers that be care about the user experience, they certainly don’t care about any sort of customer service. If something big isn’t done very soon it’ll get worse and worse until people move elsewhere. Then one day there will be a post explaining that the forum or whole site is shutting down, blaming everyone but themselves.

[awaits banhammer]

Carbon was around in the early 90’s so there might be a trust issue but I don’t think it would have surprised anyone.

Dropper posts – there were solutions to this as far back as the eighties – HiteRite anyone? – so this would have been seen as a brilliant innovation.

Forks were of all different kinds in the early 90’s – yes some were very bling CNC jobs but just as many were basic rubbish looking one – I’m thinking of the Scott forks I almost bought. There might be more surprise that they weren’t carbon suspension forks – remember Pace were making them back then but hardly any carbon in forks now but popular in frames!

Gears – might be a bit of a shock having the 50t rear cogs  as 28 was the normal maximum for most people

Youve got the think that the issues MTBers had 25 years ago are the same as today – ironing out bumps, grip, finding the right gears, chains coming off, durability, comfort etc so a quick explanation of the benefits of the way we do things now would have anyone from 25 years ago dying for a test ride!

As the bikes nowadays have angles/bar width/tyre size etc very similar to the late 70’s or early 80’s clunker type bikes you might find people around then might find modern bikes less of a surprise than the 1990’s crew

People won’t die, but the forum might.

When I click on a thread it doesn’t seem to display the first post so you just read answers to it. It’s slightly entertaining but another example of the Singletrackworld muppet show… 😘

Thumbshifters.

I just got a Bluetooth adaptor off Amazon which had outputs as phono or 3.5mm lead, sounds really good.

“It feels a bit unfair to name and shame a bike shop, who didn’t sell you a bike, and when approached by someone with a bike bought online from another shop, state that they’ll charge them for their time.”

Why not if that is what actually happened?

Copied text, put in reply box, highlighted it and pressed quote. Not my fault if the site code is messed up. I could start a free off the shelf forum which would do that no problem.

I mean seriously, you can’t even quote someone without it looking like you’ve short circuited your keyboard. :rolleyes:

<span style=”color: #444444; font-size: 16px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;”>If they didn’t care about the user experience then why are they spending lots of time, effort and money redoing the site to make it better?</span>

i have yet to see any change to this forum which has made it easier to use, read, be part of etc etc, apart from PM’s being introduced.

I’m surprised anyone is surprised that the people running the site don’t care about the user experience.

Ton – my wife tours with a couple of panniers and a bar bag on her Specialized Vita. Even though it’s a few years old she LOVES it and I didn’t have to change anything from standard spec. Just fitted a seat collar rack mount as the standard one was too low and some mudguards and bar ends.

Its light and fast and seems to handle really well even loaded up for B and B touring.

She is 4’11” and has a XS. If you could make it to Hudds I am sure your good lady could try it out.

here it is:

I made the mistake of putting my prized pair of X-lite stubby pro bar ends on my wife’s bike now I can’t get them back to put on my 94 Kilauea. :(

I used to work for them until about 9 years ago. Was good to work for and stores were always brighter and smarter than B and Q. The ranges they sold were the prettier end of DIY and I always rated their kitchens.

I went in a couple of years ago and thought it was very messy. Poor POS and stuff all over the tills. The staff I still knew there said it had gone downhilll as they just wanted to plaster cheap rubbish everywhere and a LOT of the store and area managers had left already. I kinda thought then that they wouldn’t be around much longer – when you’ve worked in retail a long time you can tell as soon as you walk in any shop then they are desperate

I went in a couple of months ago and was shocked to see how bad it was. The kitchen and bathroom displays were either missing or patchy, there were loads of empty shelves and the aisles and seasonal areas were full of baskets of cheap tat with handwritten prices ok. Really really bad – even pound shops do it better than they were doing.

The worst bit was the Christmas display. Shoddy trees in lines not put together properly. No display as such, just line them up and sell em cheap. They were overpriced too.

Sad to see them go but the current owners deserve to lose it as they just didn’t run it properly. They clearly had no idea about retail.

Looking around the internet I think it might have been 2004 when the regs changed so maybe they should have been fitted. If you got a tradesman to do it they should have signed it off as compliant with the regs and the paperwork should be available (current owners might have it?).

If you did it yourself and you weren’t properly qualified that could be a problem.

Mine was done slightly more than 10yrs ago (maybe 11/12) and the interlinked smoke alarms were installed. There will be a cutoff date and it’ll fall one side or the other but I can’t help with the date.

“<span style=”color: #444444; font-size: 16px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: #eeeeee;”>Because I have eyes”</span>

Ones that have never witnessed colour, must be depressing seeing things in greyscale.

“Coloured components are the last word in poor taste.”

Why? Because you say so?

Anodised stuff only fades if you use Muc-off and the like, a lot of bike cleaners are very harsh.  I’ve got ano stuff from the late 80’s/early 90’s which is still fine.

That’s a great result, nice service there from the company

I don’t like it as it’s a poor copy of something someone else has already done, but a lot better. I’ll find a pic hang on.

Heres a Speedhunters article about the original properly done one. http://www.speedhunters.com/2016/02/not-land-rover-land-rover/

Its only ever been known as “that” Land Rover.

Can’t reallt help but well done for choosing a boundary which is friendly for hedgehog movement around gardens   (Which is desperately needed) and will be a home for countless types of wildlife. Which fences aren’t.

I’m planting a hedge soon so wish me luck too!

Try Huddersfield Volvo Breakers, nice bloke who runs it and knows his stuff. They sell on eBay but not everything they have is listed so would be worth a chat on the phone. There’s not many Volvo breakers in the UK – probably one for every 100 VAG group breaker in my experience.

You won’t know its failed until its too late so an isolation valve won’t be any good, the stinky water will be all over the floor before you are aware of it.

If there wasn’t a dishwasher attached I’d maybe go for it but that’s an appliance that you leave alone and it will overflow without you being there – washing in the sink you might notice when it blocks.

I assume the cooker is on that RHS wall looking at that diagram. Personally I’d have the sink on the opposite side where your wall D is. Then you have a large prep/cooking/serving out area on the bottom right corner (there isn’t much worktop there as it is so moving the sink elsewhere would free up a lot of space there). Then the top left hand corner (where D wall is) is the place where all the dishes go when they have been used – out of the way of the prep/serving out area.

You still have your golden triangle of fridge/cooker/sink there and you could have a little drinks making station end the end of wall D where your kettle/mugs/glasses etc goes handily next to the sink and fridge.

Hope that makes sense.

I used to design kitchens for people BTW if that makes any difference!

Sorry to be a real pain but I’ve looked at the instructions for that glue and it says it needs to be trowelled out (notched trowel) which I don’t think is what you were saying. I can’t see how if its just a glue that it’ll do anything but stick the floor down and if thats all it does then why not just screw it down all the way?

Sorry if I’m being a dimwit.

Time to lay it isn’t a problem, but cost is.

TG – you can’t replace the bulbs in those unfortunately.

There’s a junk shop in Leeds which has a well-used (patina!) old Anglepoise in black for £35. Might still be there!

There’s loads on ebay cheap, including a grey one with brass fittings (the most expensive on they sell like this one: https://www.anglepoise.com/product/original-1227-brass-desk-lamp but on eBay its £130 IIRC

I’ve been looking for one for my wife and we’ve decided on a proper Anglepoise lamp. They are expensive brand new from John Lewis etc but you can pick them up 2nd hand from £40 or there are some good deals on eBay too for £80-£130 ish.

They seem to be nice quality and move around very easily – you could fit a normal LED bulb in. Anglepoise generally have all 3 springs located on the base section rather than 1 or two on the top arm as well.

If you wanted a clamp on one they seem to be cheaper 2nd hand as people generally like ones with bases for home use but clamp on ones free up desk space if you can fit one.

I drew a diagram which I was trying to post which looks exactly like that! Thanks.

I am assuming that is you they took a picture of. :-D

Can’t you run the drain straight outside behind the sink then wrap pipework around the outside wall?

I can’t help thinking that if the pump fails then there is a potential to ruin your kitchen/floor etc very very quickly when all the waste water backs up and runs out somewhere. It would only take a power cut for a short period or a blown fuse to wreak complete havoc.

When you say

<span style=”color: #444444; font-size: 12px; background-color: #fbfbfb;”>there are no units in the new kitchen to hide the sink drain pipework behind</span>

does that mean there isn’t any space behind the units or there isn’t actually any units? If there isn’t space I would try and make space by spacing the units further out somehow.

Personally I would do anything I could to avoid having a pump, including moving the sink elsewhere to make it easier to put a drain in.