Thread: Argh!

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Beer o'clock Pat. Leave the b****d and take care of it tomorrow.

Ya just have to love Brickies.

Al

Yes Brickies????? Alot of other explanatory words were used about the Brickies, not "Love"

I moved the bench another 2" from the wall, everything is good now. It's a pleasure to watch the 25mm bit bore thru Tallowwood like butter. The Forstner bits are different too

An entirely new word of Boring

(Don't worry, MBGitW brought me a Bosch Router yesterday, a little POF 400A for $50 from Gasweld. So I will be annoying the router forum for a while )

My Dad likes to talk about the housing trust house we had in Berri years ago. We were the first ones in there and they actually built it for us (he had a public service job that included provision of a house). When it came to the roof rafters, the chippy measured the room at the floor, made his rafters, lifted the things up, and they fell through - the walls had a substantial outwards lean.

Richard
well, that's the story he's always told ... and Dads never make these things up do they

Originally Posted by Pat

(Don't worry, MBGitW brought me a Bosch Router yesterday, a little POF 400A for $50 from Gasweld. So I will be annoying the router forum for a while )

Have to get peed off more often, Pat...........

Ahhh - Pat your a boofhead

Big bro was doing some work at mums old house getting it ready for renters.
I turned up with some gear for him.....( didn't need my help just my gear)
In I trots with a level and a straight edge........ "You can turn round and put them right back in your van they're of no use in here".

cheers

I reno'd my folks' place, knocking down a few walls and building a new kitchen.

The cabinetry was old colonial style, fully framed out and solid as a brick sh/house. One long wall was 2" longer than it's opposite, with a long double-s curve along it's length where studs had moved over the years. I thought I'd be cunning, so made some templates to allow for this and the lower cabinets fitted snugly in the corner, a perfect fit, no scribing needed.

After a few minutes patting myself on the back for a job well done, I recruited the neighbour and his son to help me with the overhead cabinets. An hour or so later, with many a blue word as we negotiated the carcases through the house, we heave 'em into position and... a 3" gap?? :confused:

At one end the walls leaned in by an inch, at the other they leaned out by 2"! No amount of scribing or ogee would cover it and not a chance in hell the cabinets would fit without a rebulid! Or was there? While the neighbour and son held the carcase in position I fastened the end that did sit flush, with 3 or 4 times the usual amount of fittings... then used a stump-jack (you know the beasts... oversized car jacks used to lift a house for restumping) on the diagonal from the other end of the cabinet's front down to the floor and pushed that sucker into place. :eek:

Amazing what a couple of tonnes of lifting power and a tin of bog can let you get away with, eh? As a bonus, the neighbour stopped asking me when I was going to build his kitchen...

Great photo there skew....brilliant. Bout time someone did that.

Originally Posted by Skew ChiDAMN!!

...As a bonus, the neighbour stopped asking me when I was going to build his kitchen...

I remember when Nissan used to build cars at Clayton, they used similar priciples

Well why do you think there is such a big market for the various gap fillers?


cheers

It's no different here in the States. They build so much so fast here that they frame the walls with green timber. Everything looks great !!! For six months. After that, you better be good with tape and plaster.