Model Boat Mayhem

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Title: Things you do not want to hear
Post by: david48 on October 12, 2015, 11:37:51 am
(Sunday night @ 10:30) Why is the carpet wet here ,Ohh look at the ceiling what will that be .
David .
Title: Re: Things you do not want to hear
Post by: Davenotdone on October 12, 2015, 11:58:32 am
Wife in bed.............' Dave, why is my face wet????? '      me.............' flat roofs gone again i think :((


                       Regards, Dave.
Title: Re: Things you do not want to hear
Post by: Davenotdone on October 12, 2015, 12:02:52 pm
My wife in the kitchen...............' Dave, why does the kitchen smell funny????'     me..........'i'll take a look ( found out the dish washer waste pipe had a small hole in it thus discharging waste water behind the units instead of to the drain :((

Title: Re: Things you do not want to hear
Post by: Davenotdone on October 12, 2015, 12:06:33 pm
Wife in kitchen................'Dave,  why are the kitchen work tops wet??????       me...........took a look at the ceiling and realised it was directly beneath the shower which somebody has just used who didn't  understand why they were stood in three inches of water and that the shower waste was blocked {:-{
Title: Re: Things you do not want to hear
Post by: Capt Podge on October 12, 2015, 12:12:16 pm
SWMBO.  {-)   (unless it's mealtime or a brew on the go O0 )
 
Regards,
 
Ray.
Title: Re: Things you do not want to hear
Post by: david48 on October 12, 2015, 12:31:01 pm
Today ,reason for why is this carpet wet ,cold tap joint failed ,we have been away 2 days at the Scotish boat show , looks as it might want new tap remade joint 3 times could be tap body is cracked , more investigation required .
David
Title: Re: Things you do not want to hear
Post by: mermod on October 12, 2015, 12:53:38 pm
The other week.......Dad, why is there water coming out under the bathroom door? I run up the hallway and fling the door open to a bathroom full of steam, check shower,nothing, check vanity taps, nothing, notice steaming hot water coming out from under vanity (when it had cleared enough to see) dive hand into cupboard feeling for regulation stop taps, no taps, panicking, runs out to the main only to discover that the main and it's cover that were updated recently by the council have changed and you need a screwdriver to lift the cover, run to shed to find screwdriver, run back, lift lid, no bloody tap, instead the new mains have an obscure lever underneath so you have to fumble around in the mud,frogs and spiders to locate it, water now off and hand starting to sting from diving it into a cupboard of hot steaming water, check's back inside vanity to find a broken flexi cable.
To add insult to injury the insurance assessor informs me he put his daughter through university on what he has made from broken flexi cables alone.


Shortly after this my computer stopped working so upon deciding nothing else could possibly go wrong we bought a new one, arriving home from the computer store we were greeted by the sound of running water again, this time the hot water cylinder had burst, possibly should have just stayed in bed that day.


Phill
Title: Re: Things you do not want to hear
Post by: Nemo on October 12, 2015, 02:42:44 pm
'Dad, can I borrow one of your chisels?'  {:-{
Title: Re: Things you do not want to hear
Post by: Nemo on October 12, 2015, 02:45:33 pm
Or even worse - 'Dad, I borrowed one of your chisels last night - was that OK?'  >>:-(
Title: Re: Things you do not want to hear
Post by: Martin (Admin) on October 12, 2015, 03:28:58 pm
 
"About the new car.... good news and bad news."
"What's the bad news?"
"Same as the good news, the air bags work!"
Title: Re: Things you do not want to hear
Post by: mook on October 12, 2015, 04:57:40 pm
Dave if I was you I would get rid of the wife seems she keeps finding problems {-)
Title: Re: Things you do not want to hear
Post by: BFSMP on October 12, 2015, 06:34:23 pm
Jim..........I've decided not to divorce you after all.....want to spend the rest of my life with you.................Ohh bummer.
Title: Re: Things you do not want to hear
Post by: tobyker on October 12, 2015, 07:17:54 pm
11pm "what's that dripping noise?"

It was a drip from the ceiling into the hold of the 1/24th Thames Hoy on top of the units in the living room (glad I'd left the hatch cover off!) go upstairs, get son out of bed and put him in ours, take bed out of room, remove carpet, take sheets of hardboard off floor, lift floorboards and find leak in 13mm copper pipe. Cut leaky bit out, solder new length in, put everything back (including son), empty Hoy and go to bed at 2 am. It turned out there was some sort of impurity in the copper pipe which had corroded through.
Title: Re: Things you do not want to hear
Post by: mrturbo553 on October 12, 2015, 07:38:28 pm
"Darling , my mothers coming to stay with us for a few weeks ......" {:-{
Aid
Title: Re: Things you do not want to hear
Post by: grendel on October 12, 2015, 08:18:00 pm
Talking of drips, a couple of weeks back I broke a tap, and had to replace the sink taps, this I did, cutting the pipes back and fitting flexible hoses with isolators, unfortunately the hot tap started dripping from the connection, so this weekend I had to re do the joint on a straight piece of pipe, not in the middle of a corner. started out ok, draining the hot water system, then I went into the downstairs wc - 1/2 inch of water on the floor - whoops, the tap can fill the sink faster than it empties, sink overflow.got that mopped up, and then went to start changing the tap, undid the connector - whoops system not quite drained yet, water everywhere. Well in the end the fix took 30 seconds, but the rest of the hassle....
Grendel
Title: Re: Things you do not want to hear
Post by: david48 on October 12, 2015, 08:26:33 pm
Yes tap body cracked ,new tap ,the even bad news the cold is remote from the mixer unit so to keep them matched it will need hot as well ,I have trailed the net to find a matching cold nothing ,the taps have no name or numbers . The bath room was refurbished a couple of years before we bought it and I've been here 8 years  so thy are about 10 years old .ahh well . David
Title: Re: Things you do not want to hear
Post by: Colin Bishop on October 12, 2015, 09:54:50 pm
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Well in the end the fix took 30 seconds, but the rest of the hassle....

And that is why I hate plumbing.....

Colin

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Title: Re: Things you do not want to hear
Post by: Danny on October 12, 2015, 09:58:10 pm
With all the trouble you guys have with water, I'm surprised you ever took up model boating!!  %%
Title: Re: Things you do not want to hear
Post by: dougal99 on October 12, 2015, 10:11:27 pm
Did I forget to mention...?
Title: Re: Things you do not want to hear
Post by: dougal99 on October 12, 2015, 10:13:21 pm
At the Airport/ferry terminal.


I thought you had the passports
Title: Re: Things you do not want to hear
Post by: Capt Podge on October 13, 2015, 12:27:56 am
Remember when our 4th child was born and we agreed that our family is now complete ? ....well, now we're gonna need a bigger car. :o
 
(...and that one is true Ladies and Gentlemen - I know - 1 vasectomy later....) {-)
 
 
Regards,
 
Ray. (Super Dad) O0
 
 
Title: Re: Things you do not want to hear
Post by: inertia on October 13, 2015, 09:00:25 am
Argument 're-igniters' (i.e. she didn't win by a knock-out in Round 1):

"I only meant to say that......"

"Am I not allowed to be funny?"

"Why do you always......"

"And I suppose it was OK when you......"

DM


Title: Re: Things you do not want to hear
Post by: essex2visuvesi on October 13, 2015, 01:13:35 pm
Wife/Significan other: "Should i wear the red one or the blue one?"
Title: Re: Things you do not want to hear
Post by: inertia on October 13, 2015, 02:02:04 pm
Wife/Significan other: "Should i wear the red one or the blue one?"

TWO dresses? Gary - you spoil that woman.
Dave M
Title: Re: Things you do not want to hear
Post by: Netleyned on October 13, 2015, 02:08:07 pm
Nah
Red or Blue


Ned
Title: Re: Things you do not want to hear
Post by: nivapilot on October 13, 2015, 03:55:03 pm
I bought my wife a white dress once, about 30yr ago, she only ever wore it the once, I refused to buy her another.
Title: Re: Things you do not want to hear
Post by: Capt Podge on October 14, 2015, 12:20:25 am
I bought my wife a white dress once, about 30yr ago, she only ever wore it the once, I refused to buy her another.

Was that the wedding dress then ? {-)
 
Regards,
 
Ray.
 
Title: Re: Things you do not want to hear
Post by: merseyferry on October 14, 2015, 08:50:07 am
your on the sofa <*< , {-) {-)
Title: Re: Things you do not want to hear
Post by: sparkey on October 14, 2015, 03:29:13 pm
 >>:-( I was reading these posts and having a little chuckle,then the wife tells me the washing machine is making a funny noise,called out Hotpoint man tells us the drum is gone,luckily I have a service plan so just got wait for him to come back on Monday with a new drum,at the lake on Sunday the Princess hit an underwater rock at full speed and the prop shaft has worked loose so had to stick that back in place,yesterday at the optician I was told I needed new driving and reading glasses £150 for the pleasure,yes all in all it has been a strange beginning to the week,I mean what else can go wrong..........Ray. >>:-( >>:-( >>:-( >>:-(     
Title: Re: Things you do not want to hear
Post by: Martin (Admin) on October 14, 2015, 04:42:34 pm
I bought my wife a white dress once, about 30yr ago, she only ever wore it the once, I refused to buy her another.

            {-)   {-)   {-)
Title: Re: Things you do not want to hear
Post by: Netleyned on October 14, 2015, 04:59:43 pm
>>:-( I was reading these posts and having a little chuckle,then the wife tells me the washing machine is making a funny noise,called out Hotpoint man tells us the drum is gone,luckily I have a service plan so just got wait for him to come back on Monday with a new drum,at the lake on Sunday the Princess hit an underwater rock at full speed and the prop shaft has worked loose so had to stick that back in place,yesterday at the optician I was told I needed new driving and reading glasses £150 for the pleasure,yes all in all it has been a strange beginning to the week,I mean what else can go wrong..........Ray. >>:-( >>:-( >>:-( >>:-(     

Good job it's not a Servis plan  :D :D

Ned
Title: Re: Things you do not want to hear
Post by: sparkey on October 14, 2015, 05:03:17 pm
 {-) The funny thing is that 45years ago I did exactly the same thing,strange creatures women when you say lets have a nice day at the lake they want to go shopping which is worse than going to dentist and usually more expensive........Ray. {-) {-) {-) {-)   
Title: Re: Things you do not want to hear
Post by: Mad Scientist on October 14, 2015, 08:51:07 pm
Downstairs room-mate: 'Tom, I called the plumber...'

Turned out that the waste pipe from the toilet to the sewage line was collapsing from old age after 50+ years. Oh well, thanks to Doug, the pipe was replaced before it failed completely! - Tom
Title: Re: Things you do not want to hear
Post by: Nemo on October 14, 2015, 09:16:34 pm
Believe it or not - this very morning, my wife called me into our kitchen saying 'Can you hear water dripping?'
Sad to say I could! I traced it to the wall behind the tower cabinet containing the oven etc! After removal of half the kitchen units I could just see a high pressure stream of water  (yikes!) issuing from the mains pipe  too far away to reach. 'Plumber' Nemo then called a proper plumber and after 2 hours he had it fixed. I now await the bill, although the insurance will/should cover it.  Is this thread spooky or what? O0
Title: Re: Things you do not want to hear
Post by: david48 on October 14, 2015, 10:07:13 pm
Update  ,still no tap so I bit the bullet took of the tap and stripped it down,and stuck it in the oven so it got hot and the small crack showed up then swabbed it with bakers and used the pencil blow torch and run some solder in the crack ,i hope, just have to clean up the threads. That's tomorrow's challenge .
David