Good Morning Thread - Come say good morning, tell us what you've got on today. :)

We have this thread on TilersForums.com and it's just been restarted because the old thread had 20,000 replies and 500,000 views. And there were 700 pages. Started to lag a bit on slow connections.

I think we had a bash of this before, but I can't find the thread, so thought I'd start another one off.

If you have time in the mornings, come post in the thread before you head off to work, let us know what you've got on and what the weather is like in your area etc. Anything at all is fine.

Posts and likes get counted towards your total stats in this thread.

So GOOOD MORNING PEOPLE - WEATHER IS NICE TODAY IN STOKE. I'M THANKFUL IT'S FRIDAY, HAD A RUBBISH WEEK. THANK GOD IT'S OVER.

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[littlespark]

Was there a working smoke alarm?

Thats a good question... Theres a 230v mains BRK one at the bottom of the stair, none fitted on the base on the landing, and a linked co detector at the boiler in the kitchen. At the moment, none are working as theyre off the upstairs lighting circuit. I expect the PP3s have died over the weekend.

Hopefully it spurs the rest of the street on to get their smoke detectors up to scottish gov spec...
Just get the friendly neighbourhood sparkyman to fit!

 

[Deleted account]

Changed a mains powered smoke alarm today. Date 10th October 1963.

On a bit of research it was the first approved commercial hard wired smoke in the uk. I’ve kept it.

 

[DPG]

Changed a mains powered smoke alarm today. Date 10th October 1963.

On a bit of research it was the first approved commercial hard wired smoke in the uk. I’ve kept it.

Get it on ebay. Use the words vintage and barn-find

 

[Dartlec]

Changed a mains powered smoke alarm today. Date 10th October 1963.

On a bit of research it was the first approved commercial hard wired smoke in the uk. I’ve kept it.

Let's see a pic then! I thought the one I replaced recently that was replace by 2012 was bad....

 

[pirate]

I'm still in quarantine, and doing some decorating to pass the time, so this morning I have already put another coat of paint on my bathroom door and surround, and after breakfast it'll be another coat there and on some other woodwork. Getting up so early, 4am, means i don't feel so bad about having a beer at coffee-time.
I hate decorating, really detest it, but being forced to stay indoors for 2 weeks means I have no excuse. Fortunately, I have quite a long hall, so after painting, rather than watching it dry, I practise my putting...

 

[Deleted account]

Let's see a pic then! I thought the one I replaced recently that was replace by 2012 was bad....

I’ll dig it out this evening.

 

[Deleted account]

got the date wrong. It’s older that I thought.

 

[DPG]

That's not from 1963 surely !?!?

 

[Dan]

Good morning people. Hope all is well. Kids have gone back round my way today, been told they will have to have all the windows cracked open and the heating on low (as they just lose the heat anyway) so my little sprog has gone in triple layers bless her.

Bloody virus is screwing everything up to some degree.

 

[littlespark]

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got the date wrong. It’s older that I thought.

It says manufacturing date 2026...
It’s not old, it’s from the future!

 

[Dartlec]

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got the date wrong. It’s older that I thought.

Definitely old, but looks like BS5446 wasn't published till 1977? Still think it was probably time for a replacement though!

 

[Moley]

My morning was pretty good today. Got to site (wind farm today), fixed an online dissolved fault gas analyser and was back in the hotel for lunch. Tomorrow is going to be cruel. Have a bit of a lie in, leave this hotel, drive 70 miles and then look for something to do before I can check into tomorrows hotel.

 

[littlespark]

Spent a good 15 minutes looking for a photograph of a painting my middle daughter did for Remembrance Day....

 

[Dartlec]

Up horribly early for me, because I have to drive 90 minutes to finish off a rental flat and desperately want to avoid going back.

One of those jobs I really didn't want to do and has fought me at every stage, but hopefully can finally beat it today. A flat from a house builder that may or may not rhyme with parrot.

It's the little things like this (present at every one of the flat isolators) that scream quality install.

 

[littlespark]

And the other one. Both done 2 or 3 years ago.

 

[Baddegg]

Changed a mains powered smoke alarm today. Date 10th October 1963.

On a bit of research it was the first approved commercial hard wired smoke in the uk. I’ve kept it.

@Lucien Nunes will be after you! ?

 

[littlespark]

First job this morning was to replace a double socket in a kitchen cupboard...

It is a spur they’ve been using for the washing machine and dishwasher.
I replaced it with a single and told them only use one at a time.

ps. The dishwasher was being used when I got there. The back of the socket was very deformed due to heat.

 

[Dartlec]

First job this morning was to replace a double socket in a kitchen cupboard...View attachment 61941

It is a spur they’ve been using for the washing machine and dishwasher.
I replaced it with a single and told them only use one at a time.

ps. The dishwasher was being used when I got there. The back of the socket was very deformed due to heat.

Lovely! Looks like it might have been the plug rather than the socket that took the worst of it - moulded plug? And looks like the left hand socket is pretty brown too.

 

[telectrix]

always the neutral . stop them negative waves.

 

[pirate]

Today I am released from quarantine, so it's time to stock up the fridge and wine rack. After that I'll probably have a lie-down to recover from the excitement...