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DIY - Productivity and Progress
Mon, 17/12/2007 - 22:54 — David Goodwin
In a rare turn of events, I've actually pulled my finger out, and done some DIY lately - namely :
- Remove downstairs toilet
- Install washing machine where toilet was
- Remove door from downstairs 'toilet'/'laundry room'
- Plumb in dish washer (finally, after it's been gaining rust; washer required for hose).
- Install Tumble Drier
- Install/Put up Whiteboard(s)
Shockingly, the above only took 1 day. Which implies I'm getting quicker at knocking holes in 'things'.
In related news, B&Q is crap (they couldn't provide a suitable thing to convert a 4" waste pipe into something I could hook the washing machine onto), but Bromsgrove's own Broad Street DIY is excellent (they had more choice than I could throw a cat at) (Strangely they're on Worcester Road, not Broad Street...).
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Nope....
This is not any improvement in DIY abilities, it's some sort of weird nesting instinct kicking in. Next thing you know you'll be installing stair gates and purchasing a caravan whilst wearing comfortable knitwear and sandles with socks. I just hope you don't get as far as having a comb-over....
Am I balding?
are you implying I'm balding?
I should have got you that lump of coal afterall!
Nesting!
If it is I can only say I'm glad, because early Jan was cutting it too close to get all this done. I think we're finally ready now though (until I think of something else we've forgotten!)
Opps
Nope, just winding you up.
Of course if you got me a lump of coal you'd dress it up as a 'carbon storage formation' or alternate, emergency heating option. Would it be a carbon neutral gift? It would affect my carbon footprint I'm sure because it would leave black marks on my beige carpet.
Maybe I haven't quite got to grips with this whole carbon offsetting business....
That's because it's all a
That's because it's all a con - 'rich' countries just 'buy' (at a low cost, I'd imagine) part of an allocation given to a poorer country. No guesses for who decided what the poorer countries allocation would be.....
So, to be carbon neutral, you don't have to do much - just spend a little more.
If you want to be 'serious' then you buy 'green' electricity (ecotricity etc) and start planting trees, but I think we'd run out of land quite quickly were we to do that :)
.. ecotricity!
What will they think of next? More to the point, it wouldn't surprise me at all to find out ecotricity isn't particularly environmentally friendly - the costs don't outweigh the benefits. Definitely good to see you're improving the DIY skills. I failed badly at putting up a shelf the other day, booooo! :(
Are you any good at fixing leaking roofs? :)
ecotricity.... and wind mills
Well, I spoke to some people from Ecotricity a few weeks ago, and their plan is something along the lines of :
- Build large but small parks of wind turbines
- Sell electric
The turbine itself is a one off cost, and once bought almost produces 'free' electric....
FWIW, you'll see one of Ecotricity's wind mills when driving down the M4 through Reading. I think they said each of their windmills is 3mw, which is quite a lot (large power stations would be approx 1300mw).
My argument against wind power is that it can't be used for 'baseload' power - as it's not reliable. At best, I suspect it can replace some of the electricity produced by natural gas (I presume). To depend upon it, there would need to be more hydro-electric projects which can be used to store electricity generated 'off peak' for peak hour use.
Nuke 'em all.
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