We’ve got a mixer tap that drips, can’t change a washer in those apparently, need to buy a new one.
One of my mixers is dripping again. I worked out that it needs to leak 4000 litres of water before the value of lost water is greater than the cost of the new ceramic valve. I've got a bowl under it at the moment and I doubt it catches a litre a day (which gets used on the garden anyway at this time of year so it isn't wasted) so around 10 years of dripping isn't losing me any money.
There's a bloke stood on the roof of a mid-terrace house down the road. He's pressure washing the tiles. No harness or safety line, nothing to prevent damage to the tiles he's stood on and the tiles are already cracked in many places so they're not strong. He's blasting debris into the adjacent gardens and into the neighbour's gutters. The houses either side are housing association properties so they all had upgrades from concrete tile to slate a few years ago because the roofs were starting to sag. I suspect this one is getting a quick tart up for resale.
If you can keep your head, while those around you are losing theirs, you may not have grasped the seriousness of the situation.
My ceramic tap started dripping. Slowly at first then it got worse. You can replace just the ceramic bit, but it drove me insane so I just bought a whole new one. If you can't do it yourself, it takes longer, hence costs more to fix the ceramic bit than replace the whole thing.
Rdv with patch committee in Les Sables d'Olonne this am. I'm not driving yet so Possum and Oh decide dto go to the market while I had my meeting. Heaving with tourists driving with brains on holiday. One followed us so closely on a major road crawling along to a big 6 way roundabout that she kept setting off our proximity sensor. Not satisfied with that she smacked us up the bum at the roundabout.
Bumper bent, boot bent, sensors dead and reversing camera dead. She's from the Oise dept in the north so doesn't even have the excuse of being Parisian.
Vendée - 20kms from Atlantic coast.
"The price good men (and women) pay for indifference to public affairs is to be ruled by evil men (and women)."
We were at the roundabout and thought we'd gone but Possum had to stop because the holiday eejit already on the roundabout changed his mind about his exit and carried on past our nose. Madame Oise wasn't looking that way so Bang!
Vendée - 20kms from Atlantic coast.
"The price good men (and women) pay for indifference to public affairs is to be ruled by evil men (and women)."
The trouble is,there's so many gadgets connected to the back of your car these days. It was so much easier when you just had a heavy metal bumper which did the job it was supposed to do.
No @KT53. Proper roundabouts now and proliferating like mad.
It is the rule here that when an accident happens both drivers have to exchange insurance, address and registration details on forms provided in triplicate by the insurance companies and including details of accident and points of impact. OH took photos too. It's now up to our insurance company to chase hers.
Vendée - 20kms from Atlantic coast.
"The price good men (and women) pay for indifference to public affairs is to be ruled by evil men (and women)."
Sympathies @Obelixx, that's going to be a pain with one car potentially out of action for a bit. I expect it's happened to most of us at one time or the other. I got hit when Obama decided he wanted to see Stonehenge on a whim, most of the West Country traffic seemed to have stopped that day.
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Bumper bent, boot bent, sensors dead and reversing camera dead. She's from the Oise dept in the north so doesn't even have the excuse of being Parisian.
It is the rule here that when an accident happens both drivers have to exchange insurance, address and registration details on forms provided in triplicate by the insurance companies and including details of accident and points of impact. OH took photos too. It's now up to our insurance company to chase hers.