It started with a tap leak.

In the old days I would simply open the tap and change the washer. Now with these new fancy taps I could not open the bloody thing so had to buy a £20 tool to try and open it but could not get the grip.

So bought £90 new tap instead. Then had to go back to the shop beacuse the fittings did not match my current ones. Put everything in place and water leaking everywhere. Took a total of 4 hours and without water all night.

Moral of the story, call a plumber and not do DIY.

Gaffa tape and sealant! Seals anything!

Originally Posted by 0james0

Gaffa tape and sealant! Seals anything!

Tried the tape. I did and the nuts are tight as anything. Needed some plumbers mate but did not have that ether bu plumber said that would not work either.

Nice weather for flooding

A doctor I know had the same trouble but with his toilet over the weekend it was blocked, he called a plumber he came around threw a pill down the toilet charged him weekend rates and said if its not better by Monday morning to give him a call.

We have heard about all the flooding on the news!
So you are not a Master Plumber

Andre these jokes deserve to be on the jokes thread, they are truly awful that they become good.

Mission: Impossible

Yes it felt like Mission Impossible.

Originally Posted by Master

Yes it felt like Mission Impossible.

Ha! Badda bing

Ain't this thread belong under the 'signs you're getting old' thread?

A bit seriously, everything here have to be done by yourselves these dayz. That's because there's hardly any technical worker left here anymore. The government took an easy way out; instead of creating jobs, they decided to export workers to earn dollars for them, from housemaids, nurses, and all type of technicians, mostly to oil-rich Mideastern countries. So even if I want to hire one, there ain't none.

Originally Posted by pacfan

Ain't this thread belong under the 'signs you're getting old' thread?

A bit seriously, everything here have to be done by yourselves these dayz. That's because there's hardly any technical worker left here anymore. The government took an easy way out; instead of creating jobs, they decided to export workers to earn dollars for them, from housemaids, nurses, and all type of technicians, mostly to oil-rich Mideastern countries. So even if I want to hire one, there ain't none.

I feel very sorry for any Filipino maids working in any middle eastern country.

Originally Posted by Andre

Originally Posted by pacfan

Ain't this thread belong under the 'signs you're getting old' thread?

A bit seriously, everything here have to be done by yourselves these dayz. That's because there's hardly any technical worker left here anymore. The government took an easy way out; instead of creating jobs, they decided to export workers to earn dollars for them, from housemaids, nurses, and all type of technicians, mostly to oil-rich Mideastern countries. So even if I want to hire one, there ain't none.

I feel very sorry for any Filipino maids working in any middle eastern country.

Ya, I wish us pinoys had some sense of dignity. Being abused in foreign country is no way to spend their precious life. Even when the Chineses had less per capita income than ours some years back they never sent its people to work as maid in Hongkong. As usual, it's mostly the politicians fault. When they failed the economy and desperately needed dollars, those nice vultures took advantage of the poor and started exporting them as maids. In fact they actually started exporting all forms of labor. We're number one supplier of seafarers (I think you know about the pinoy captain who's responsible for the oil spill at your neiborhood several months back). And when there was a nurse shortage in US, we became a number one nurse exporter and enrollment in Nursing went up 10 times here just in fews years. What's tragic about it is that when all of the sudden, the US stopped accepting nurses, we're left with thousands of jobless nurses here, including some of my relatives. Almost all skilled workers here are gone and it's really hard to find anyone to have anything fixed around here. So this ol' karateman has turned into a do-it-all man, from fixing pots to pans, not to mention the the taps too, no kiddin'. but I'm enjoying it though. It's hard to imagine that the Philippines was number two in Asia, only behind Japan, when the US left us after WWII. Sadly our politicians who piloted the country after the independence nose-dived it just like kamikazes (BTW the Japanese first started the kamikazes here)...

Sorry about that, Master, turning you're tap problem into international labor issue forum.

thanks

Originally Posted by angelic77

thanks

...you're welcome. and welcome, pal...
BTW, what were you thanking for?