| Archive for Downsizer For an ethical approach to consumption |
| Mary-Jane |
Pics of Mary-Jane playing with a big tool today!Well okay, me with a demolition hammer this morning, starting to completely dismantle our family bathroom (ready for re-rendering in lime) by removing all the horrid thick cement - the rubble from which is to be recycled at the nearby recycling centre. All 30 ruddy sacks of it!
Click to see full size image Gervase reckons I looks scary and somewhat manic with a big tool in my hands... 
Click to see full size image Clean cement and concrete rubble are used for the hardcore base in new roads in the area. All unuseable wood we put in the stove in the kitchen. The useable wood is re-used in the partition walls...to be re-rendered in lime plaster. Here's the bathroom in its original state two and a half years ago... 
Click to see full size image And here's the bathroom quite a while later - after Mary-Jane's hammering and Gervase's plasterboard removal... 
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| Penny |
I think you look rather lovely - great hat!!! | ||||||||
| Bernie66 |
Just what Iwas expecting as I opened the first picture 
Tell me its not a B&Q tool |
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| Penny |
It's not a B&Q tool. 
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| Bernie66 |
I don't mind looking again then
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| Mary-Jane |
I'm really sorry to have to inform you of this...but it is B&Q...sorry Bernie, but it was 6 x cheaper than the 'best' one used for work according to His Nibs 
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| Penny |
Well he told be to say it wasn't
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| Bernie66 |
I know it is. Its part of our "cheapo, disposable range" that tend to do a pretty good job for a while but are not designed for heavy day to day use. A girlie tool 
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| Mary-Jane |
*Splutter.....* 
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| Gervase |
Too right - at under £40 it's a 'f*ck it and chuck it' tool. There's no way I'm letting that insane bint loose with my De Walt !
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| Bernie66 |
Ah, reaction............
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| Bernie66 |
Good dewalt deals at that place too at the moment |
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| sean |
Just think, in a hundred year's time people will be posting on fora about their search for an avocado washbasin caused by some obsessive bastards ripping out a perfectly good 1970s one at some point in their house's history....
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| Penny |
Talking about houses and projects how about this one
http://www.rightmove.co.uk/viewdetails-11523215.rsp?pa_n=1&tr_t=buy That would make a huge place - and all that wonderful wood too
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| Gervase |
Trouble is, our nearest B&Q is an hour away, and for some odd reason the online service has virtually vanished in the past year - a pity really, a we spent a bloomin fortune on stuff when it could be delivered, but these days it's b*gger-all. |
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| Bernie66 |
What's your avatar Pen?
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| Penny |
Oh
Did you not notice my signature Bernie? It's Steven Gerrard MBE
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| Gervase |
Cor, nice place - but a helluva big job.
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| Gervase |
Eh? Isn't he that geezer wot advertises sofas in Pontypridd? |
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| Bernie66 |
Well if you are pasing a big one soon, drop in and se if there is anything left. We seem to have done a deal with Dewalt and are knocking their stuff our pretty damn cheap at the moment. | ||||||||
| Penny |
Err, no mate
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| sean |
Not yet he isn't, but it's a short career... |
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| Bernie66 |
Course I bloody did.... Just wanted to check up that everyone else had noticed 
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| Bernie66 |
Yeah, like he will need to be doing that with the money he's on now. |
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| Penny |
I was being ironic
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| Bernie66 |
The more you post, the more people are likely to get the point
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| Gervase |
Oops, sorry 
Wycombe Wanderers, isn't he? Nice boy! |
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| Bernie66 |
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| Mary-Jane |
Excuse me!!
I thought this thread was about me using a big tool and re-using building rubble - not bloody overpaid, hair-gelled ruddy football players with gongs for what exactly...
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| Penny |
He doesn't gel his hair
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| Mary-Jane |
Out, out, out - go on, off you go...insolent woman - be about your business, NOW!!! And she's supposed to be my friend
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| Penny |
Gervase - I think I may have upset her 
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| Mary-Jane |
Daft tart... as if
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| Treacodactyl |
I hope you used goggles, ear defenders and a face mask? | ||||||||
| Mary-Jane |
Errr...yes... ...for about 30 seconds until I couldn't see, breathe and my ears hurt
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| wishus |
Looks like you're doing a sterling job MJ! | ||||||||
| Mary-Jane |
Getting there slowly...
We took all the bags of rubble down to the recyling centre earlier today. I can honestly say that there is nothing quite like having to lug several hundredweight of cement and concrete rubble out of the back of a truck and trailor and empty it all into skips, with a Force 9 gale whipping around you and torrential horizontal rain lashing you straight in the face...particularly when the foreman leans out of his nice snug, warm, dry portakabin and shouts "Ere, didn't I see you two on the telly a while ago? Haven't you finished that house yet?"
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| Jonnyboy |
You look unsaure of yourself MJ. I expect it's been many a year since you had a tool anywhere near as big as that in your hands.
(Oh c'mon, you were all waiting for it) |
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| dpack |
call that a big tool .
try the 5kw rotary/ hammer kango ,it comes on its own trolley |
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| sean |
Fair enough, but: You don't need a kango for the demolition tango... | ||||||||
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| Nanny |
that chapel is just down the road from where i live (more or less)
we could all club in and buy it for a downsizer HQ if HFW can do it, we can make it a group project with gervase in charge of plans and MJ in charge of large inexpensive tools i reckon we could have it all sorted by easter |
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| Bernie66 |
MJ in charge?? Do you think she would be ok to assume that mantle? |
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| Nanny |
i don't think there's any question of it.............. |