What have you fettled today?

[Mrs Pingu]

Apropos of https://yacf.co.uk/forum/index.php?topic=31801.msg2918059#msg2918059
I stapled some acrylic tape to the wooden bed slats to stop them moving about.
We flipped the mattress over on Monday but I don't think it's going to recover in the saggy area.

In good news, I checked out the Blindcraft website and they seem to have started making that same model of mattress again, after a few years of only catering for the luxury horsehair stuffed end of the market. Probably time we had a new one, before they stop making them again.

[T42]

Apropos of https://yacf.co.uk/forum/index.php?topic=31801.msg2918059#msg2918059
I stapled some acrylic tape to the wooden bed slats to stop them moving about.

Good luck with that. I put a webbing hinge in the lateral members of my bedspring a few months back, but the staples don't hold worth a damn. Fortunately there's a mattress between me and them, and I'm not a princess.

[Asterix, the former Gaul.]

In France we had a bed where the bendy laminated wooden slats fitted in sockets on the steel frame.  There was set for each side with a central support.  It was a very effective design.

[De Sisti]

In France we had a bed where the bendy laminated wooden slats fitted in sockets on the steel frame.  There was set for each side with a central support.  It was a very effective design.

Photos would help.

[T42]

In France we had a bed where the bendy laminated wooden slats fitted in sockets on the steel frame.  There was set for each side with a central support.  It was a very effective design.

Ours is like that but the lateral members are of wood. Useful when you want to modify things.

[rafletcher]

So, put the undercoat of the 2-part Trade Gloss from Dulux on the bathroom woodwork. My, you don’t need much, quite easy to over apply and get runs - I spotted a couple from corners. But goes on easy, no odour and touch dry in under an hour today - not the best as it’s been warm and misty all morning. Topcoat tomorrow. 

Used Frog Tape masking tape, made for the job. Works well and sticks well.

[Mrs Pingu]

Gave the pantry doors a coat of eggshell (this time on top of the primer) in the garden. Of course all the tiny wee flies decided this was interesting 

[T42]

Gave the pantry doors a coat of eggshell (this time on top of the primer) in the garden. Of course all the tiny wee flies decided this was interesting 

Yeah. The morning after my dad, an absolute perfectionist, had decorated the dining room, we came down to breakfast to find that a large moth had died in the middle of the window-sill before it dried.  Fortunately he was away to work before we kids came down but I dare say my mum heard a bit about it.

[Asterix, the former Gaul.]

In France we had a bed where the bendy laminated wooden slats fitted in sockets on the steel frame.  There was set for each side with a central support.  It was a very effective design.

Photos would help.

Here is an example:
https://www.beliani.co.uk/super-king-slatted-bed-base-combourg.html

[Kim]

In France we had a bed where the bendy laminated wooden slats fitted in sockets on the steel frame.  There was set for each side with a central support.  It was a very effective design.

Photos would help.

Here is an example:
https://www.beliani.co.uk/super-king-slatted-bed-base-combourg.html

You can get those sorts of things as spare parts: https://bedslats.co.uk/collections/sprung-bed-slat-holders-caps

[Mrs Pingu]

In France we had a bed where the bendy laminated wooden slats fitted in sockets on the steel frame.  There was set for each side with a central support.  It was a very effective design.

Photos would help.

Here is an example:
https://www.beliani.co.uk/super-king-slatted-bed-base-combourg.html

Not suitable for frames without a central strut. (I.e. ours)

[Asterix, the former Gaul.]

In France we had a bed where the bendy laminated wooden slats fitted in sockets on the steel frame.  There was set for each side with a central support.  It was a very effective design.

Photos would help.

Here is an example:
https://www.beliani.co.uk/super-king-slatted-bed-base-combourg.html

Not suitable for frames without a central strut. (I.e. ours)

Not sure I understand why a central strut is needed?

[Kim]

Not sure I understand why a central strut is needed?

To support the centre of the frame, which is bolted together in a way that's clearly going to suffer catastrophic cheese failure when you put 200kg of humans on the middle of it.

[Mrs Pingu]

Today's fettling involved assembling a frittata and salad for next week's lunch and washing my bike and putting the mudguards back on, which was sweaty work in today's muggy weather.
Decided it was a bit too humid for painting the pantry doors.

[Feanor]

Not suitable for frames without a central strut. (I.e. ours)

Not sure I understand why a central strut is needed?

Independent suspension?

[Mr Larrington]

Helped unload a metric fuckton of straw bales off a GBFO trailer and in front of divers Hazardous Things on the roadside that we can't cut down, cart away or set fire to, for e.g. culverts, other folks' mailboxes¹, the new mileposts on ten foot poles that have sprouted up on all roads in Nevada since last year, ect & moreover etc.

1. even though they put a Trump sign on the fence opposite to pwn teh libs

[Asterix, the former Gaul.]

Not suitable for frames without a central strut. (I.e. ours)

Not sure I understand why a central strut is needed?

Independent suspension?

You know what, I just remembered that the bed I sleep on has that very frame, doh!  It is super-king size and there is no central strut. 

[T42]

Extracted one mounting screw from the rear disc-brake caliper of my new bike to see whether there was enough leeway in the mount to let it align with the disc I've just put on my spare motor wheel.  There is.

[Mrs Pingu]

Still too humid for painting so I decided to bite the bullet and take the clear glass spashback off the wall so that I could get rid of all the small black flies that have died in there, and silicone round the edges to stop any getting in there again.

Did the cleaning bit but the nozzle had come off the silicone and it was a brick, so bang goes that idea. 

Maybe I'll just leave it now and buy a nicer one with a design on it so that I can't see the join in the acrylic splashback behind it.

[rafletcher]

I’m having to paint regardless, and as it’s the bathroom ceiling over the shower tonight will be a(nother) stand-up wash at the kitchen sink, to give the paint enough time to dry before subjecting it to moisture. Hey ho.

ETA and it’ll need a second coat where the new plaster is, despite that having been sealed with emulsion. Bugger.

[T42]

Spent an unpleasant hour or so under the kitchen sink tracking down the leak that soaked everything in the cupboard.  Looks like the seal between the left-hand sink and the waste-pipe common to that, the right sink and the dishwasher.  It also looks in need of expert attention, and plumbing expert I am not. Plumber called.

[T42]

Tyre off Triban's back wheel and onto my motor wheel, ditto cassette with the 12t cog knocked out to make it fit the freewheel.  Wheel onto Triban, disc/caliper beautifully aligned thanks to one of those Birzman Cam doo-dahs - couldn't quite believe it.  Battery mount on, connected everything up, works.  Still have to secure cables to frame and root out a HB extension from the spares so that I can mount the console.

Somewhat underwhelmed by the Michelin self-sealing tube I put in: the valve stem isn't straight. Works though.

Found that the low-grade labourer who assembled the bike hadn't bothered to adjust the RD properly, so that it was hitting the the big sprockets.  Fixed.  Also limited the inward travel of the RD so that it won't change to a no-longer-there 11th cog.


Plumber silent, might have retired. Bugger. Dunno how long MrsT will tolerate having only one sink.