Just had word that one of the floor-layers due to come here in three weeks can’t make it, so the job has been rescheduled for two weeks hence.
A recent study found people who take their coffee black are more to exhibit psychopathic traits.
People who order a quad shot, non-fat, vanilla soy, extra foam, light whip with caramel drizzle are more likely to be their victims.
Assemble instructions for an IKEA office cabinet with four easy-close drawers showed a picture of a person kneeling in front of the various bits with a cloth on the floor to protect the assemblage.
No way does my back or crook knee let me do that so my assembly surface was a towel-draped coffee table. I was able to finish the job from a seated position.
@variablepulserate I also kept using QT 7 Pro after QT X first came out. No choice now though!
A new computer desk from IKEA arrived today. My sister organised it and it had to be delivered because at 2.5 metres long, it wouldn't fit in her car. The trick is to get it into the destination bedroom. There's a right-angle bend in the corridor that leads from the front door to the three bedrooms. It may be possible to go through the lounge, kitchen/dining room, laundry, toilet and bathroom to arrive at the other end of the corridor but that will be a tight fit.
In all, it's going to be easier to go in through the window of the destination room. At present it's in the loungeroom and will stay there until the carpets are taken up in the corridor and bedrooms – new imitation floorboards are replacing the carpet and an assembled desk would get in the way, especially since it will be partially wall-mounted. The earliest time the vinyl floor-layers can attend is September 19th, five weeks away.
The new desk is actually a laminated kitchen workbench that's 246cm long and is to be attached to the wall with two telescoping legs to allow for different height choices.
Also included is a five-drawer storage unit to go under one end.
@matigo Yep, currently using the writing desk that my parents bought for me almost 50 years ago.
My sister drives a Suburu Outback, a wagon-style SUV. She sent me a text message to the effect that I can expect delivery of an Ikea computer desk on Monday that’s too long to fit in her vehicle.
Needed to caulk around the new cooktop where it meets up with the benchtop. Didn’t need a full 300 gram tube of gap-filling sealant & I also lack a caulking gun. So I tried a different approach, a 170 gram aerosol-type tube of the goop. Crack the locking tab, remove the tip cover, twist the head around to the maximum flow setting & try on an inconspicuous part of the job. It came out a bit thickly so I dialled back the flow rate & this worked well. Minimal cleanup since I’d applied masking tape to the benchtop. Smoothed the result with a wet finger then removed the masking tape after five minutes. Now anything splashed on the bench won’t make its way under the edge of the cooktop.
The old cooktop had a rim of aluminium flashing to do this job.