Posts from Rice in thread „DIY (do it yourself) jobs“

Ah. And we are anonymous in La Anonima (and in the rest, which just don’t scan as well -)

You get an apology when they overcharge? Can’t say that’s ever happened to me.

If we are able to stay in our old apartment when we return to BsAs, do I ever have a vacuum cleaner repair job for you!

Good for you! More “repair, not replace” work.

How gorgeous! You have many talents, Splinter .

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Tomorrow I'm collecting some nice Eucalyptus wood for a living room table that I've been planning to build for quite some time. I also took advantage of the last couple of days of 12 interest free payments as the wood wasn't cheap.

Also, I found an excellent wood supplier in Nuñez who will cut to measure.

Photos of finished product to follow.

                                   

The table will be gorgeous!

Sorry, I was momentarily distracted from your photos by the ad that appeared on top of the last photo:

Well, I’d definitely have the phone booth one, but your kitchen is ever so much more tasteful than mine would be.

You da MAAAAAAAN!

(Next: squirrel bar?)

Once your MIL is contentedly laundering clothes in her beautifully repaired machine, Splinter, here’s a project for you. (No squirrels? No prob. Just take your Squirrel Bar as a carry-on, next time you go visit family. The UK has no shortage, right?)

Careful, Splinter - if you make the house completely perfect, someone will take note and make you an offer you can’t refuse. The next thing you know, you’ll be out on the street and having to move to an apartment in Palermo.

daniel , I so agree. Most of all, I hate the endless cleanup. But next to that, I hate the prep, especially the masking tape.

Professional painters in the US evidently aren’t “cool hand Lukes” either, because applying masking tape before painting is as essential to their job as is using a drop cloth. (Do they use those in the UK, to catch random spills and drips?)

Our apt in BsAs was still like new 6 years after it was built, and then a painter came in after some wall repairs, and sloshed white paint all over parts of the baseboards and door frames. He must have considered himself Michelangelo’s best pupil, serafina .

Me too!

Never heard about that trick, serafina . Intriguing. To a litre of white paint, how much black? A spoonful?

@JAN, you keep challenging the law of nature that says when you repair one thing, two more things must break.

Please. Just don’t fix that first thing unless it is completely necessary.

... or to availability of a decent replacement in Argentina. Always a challenge.

There’s not a lot of buying new replacements for broken appliances in Argentina. It took me a long time to realize that. It is more like immediate postwar Europe in that people haven’t lost the ability to make repairs on even the most inexpensive things. A positive thing, in my opinion.