Big Orange Shed this morning...I hate it, especially as stuff gets put in the wrong places so you grab a 35mm back box and find it's anything but...sometimes they have totally different sized stuff in identical bags...and I hate the plastic bags that are sealed and have instructions sheets in them so you can't check the size/layout of the terminals...and, today, well it's time to query their pricing policy, for example:
1. 30A 6 way choc block, for the scandalous price of £3 and next to that, 30A 12 way choc block, for the scandalous price of...yes, £3.
2. 1.5mm earth cable is sold in 5m roll for £7 (scandalous, again), but the 10m roll is £6.
Is it just me...
Seriously, I find myself shaking my head and talking to myself when I see this stuff, wondering if I am going mad!
Having said that, a pal who is not into DIY of any sort bought a bit of flex for a table lamp in Homebase, and it was a cut length of about 2m, in a poly bag, for £7.99. I said, you could have got 50m drum for not much more if you went to bloggsco...ah, he replied, but what would I do with the bit I had left?
Which is why my garage is full of part used 50 m drums of stuff, oh and a completely full drum of 50m of twin red and earth still with the cellophane on it...and 100m of white sheathed 2.5 T&E, which I think looks so much prettier than the grey...not to mention the drum of black satellite/coax stuff I bought for a small job, before I discovered shotgun,but that'll come in handy for that TV wall-mounting job I was wittering on about in another thread...oh yes! I've used almost 6m on that project, so still some left...
Sorry, I need to go now...Matron's looking for me...
