Further to my post of a couple of weeks ago bemoaning the generally rather
fittings usually connecting loo seats with the pan, and wondering if there
was any alternative design - I've now discovered there is - in B & Q of all
places.

Having stood on my previous cheap white lid to do a job on the extractor fan
and fortuitously broken it (the seat not the fan), I have, for the grand sum
of £6.98 (less 10% geriatric discount) purchased a wooden "three piece" loo
seat, with a completely different, very logically designed fitting that is
very easy to install and looks very unlikely to start slipping, coming loose
or whatever. I won't even begin to explain it in words. The picture
doesn't really help either:

http://www.diy.com/diy/jsp/bq/nav/na...=1185429587289

but the "third piece" at the back of the seat covers, and is screwed on to,
a sturdy plastic block that is in turn attached to the pan. I hope it
works, but for £6.20 you can't really go wrong!

Keith

"Keith Dunbar" wrote in message
...
Further to my post of a couple of weeks ago bemoaning the generally rather
fittings usually connecting loo seats with the pan, and wondering if there
was any alternative design - I've now discovered there is - in B & Q of
all places.

Having stood on my previous cheap white lid to do a job on the extractor
fan and fortuitously broken it (the seat not the fan), I have, for the
grand sum of £6.98 (less 10% geriatric discount) purchased a wooden "three
piece" loo seat, with a completely different, very logically designed
fitting that is very easy to install and looks very unlikely to start
slipping, coming loose or whatever. I won't even begin to explain it in
words. The picture doesn't really help either:

http://www.diy.com/diy/jsp/bq/nav/na...=1185429587289

but the "third piece" at the back of the seat covers, and is screwed on
to, a sturdy plastic block that is in turn attached to the pan. I hope it
works, but for £6.20 you can't really go wrong!

Keith

Tell me more about geriatric discount!

Mary

B & Q do 10% off on Wednesdays for over 60s. You have to bring in proof of
age and they give you a discount card to present at the check out.

Keith

"Mary Fisher" wrote in message
. net...

"Keith Dunbar" wrote in message
...
Further to my post of a couple of weeks ago bemoaning the generally
rather fittings usually connecting loo seats with the pan, and wondering
if there was any alternative design - I've now discovered there is - in B
& Q of all places.

Having stood on my previous cheap white lid to do a job on the extractor
fan and fortuitously broken it (the seat not the fan), I have, for the
grand sum of £6.98 (less 10% geriatric discount) purchased a wooden
"three piece" loo seat, with a completely different, very logically
designed fitting that is very easy to install and looks very unlikely to
start slipping, coming loose or whatever. I won't even begin to explain
it in words. The picture doesn't really help either:

http://www.diy.com/diy/jsp/bq/nav/na...=1185429587289

but the "third piece" at the back of the seat covers, and is screwed on
to, a sturdy plastic block that is in turn attached to the pan. I hope
it works, but for £6.20 you can't really go wrong!

Keith

Tell me more about geriatric discount!

Mary

"Keith Dunbar" wrote in message
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B & Q do 10% off on Wednesdays for over 60s. You have to bring in proof of
age and they give you a discount card to present at the check out.

Keith

That is about the size of it. I needed some plaster boards and plaster so I
took my Grandad shopping on a Wednesday to B&Q.

Adam

On 2007-07-26 18:28:38 +0100, "ARWadsworth"
said:


"Keith Dunbar" wrote in message
news
B & Q do 10% off on Wednesdays for over 60s. You have to bring in
proof of age and they give you a discount card to present at the check
out.

Keith

That is about the size of it. I needed some plaster boards and plaster
so I took my Grandad shopping on a Wednesday to B&Q.

Adam

Gets about, doesn't he, your grandad....


With B&Q it would be a positive advantage. It sounds like he would be
very good at fending off the busybodies in the electrical and plumbing
aisles who accost customers looking for something and when told insist
that the customer needs something completely different and usually
unsuitable.

The message
from Andy Hall contains these words:

Gets about, doesn't he, your grandad....


With B&Q it would be a positive advantage. It sounds like he would be
very good at fending off the busybodies in the electrical and plumbing
aisles who accost customers looking for something and when told insist
that the customer needs something completely different and usually
unsuitable.

I don't go to B & Q very often (and the last time I came away empty
handed) but I have never been accosted in that manner. Could be of
course that my grey hair doesn't make me look distinguished, just even
more scruffy that their typical customers.

--
Roger Chapman

"Andy Hall" wrote in message
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On 2007-07-26 18:28:38 +0100, "ARWadsworth"
said:


"Keith Dunbar" wrote in message
news
B & Q do 10% off on Wednesdays for over 60s. You have to bring in proof
of age and they give you a discount card to present at the check out.

Keith

That is about the size of it. I needed some plaster boards and plaster so
I took my Grandad shopping on a Wednesday to B&Q.

Adam

Gets about, doesn't he, your grandad....

I am delighted to say he gets about. He is 87 years old and has a new
girlfirend.


With B&Q it would be a positive advantage. It sounds like he would be
very good at fending off the busybodies in the electrical and plumbing
aisles who accost customers looking for something and when told insist
that the customer needs something completely different and usually
unsuitable.

I get 10% discount if he is with me in B&Q on a Wednesday. The trouble is on
a Wednesday he is eyeing up all the females aged over 60 who also have
discount cards.

Adam

On Thu, 26 Jul 2007 16:30:12 GMT, "Keith Dunbar"
wrote:

B & Q do 10% off on Wednesdays for over 60s. You have to bring in proof of
age and they give you a discount card to present at the check out.


They are not that particular, they are promoting them at the moment.

If you look a bit decrepit they'll offer you one at the till. :-))

DG

Keith Dunbar wrote:
B & Q do 10% off on Wednesdays for over 60s. You have to bring in
proof of age and they give you a discount card to present at the
check out.

And a bloody nightmare it is as well. Every time I have to go to B&Q on
Wednesdays its packed full of coffin dodgers! Can't move for zimmer frames,
walking sticks and badly dressed pensioners. Takes ages to get through the
checkout.


--
Dave
The Medway Handyman
www.medwayhandyman.co.uk
01634 717930
07850 597257

"The Medway Handyman" wrote in message
...
Keith Dunbar wrote:
B & Q do 10% off on Wednesdays for over 60s. You have to bring in
proof of age and they give you a discount card to present at the
check out.

And a bloody nightmare it is as well. Every time I have to go to B&Q on
Wednesdays its packed full of coffin dodgers! Can't move for zimmer
frames, walking sticks and badly dressed pensioners. Takes ages to get
through the checkout.

Use the trade counter.

Adam

"ARWadsworth" wrote in message
k...

"The Medway Handyman" wrote in message
...
Keith Dunbar wrote:
B & Q do 10% off on Wednesdays for over 60s. You have to bring in
proof of age and they give you a discount card to present at the
check out.

And a bloody nightmare it is as well. Every time I have to go to B&Q on
Wednesdays its packed full of coffin dodgers! Can't move for zimmer
frames, walking sticks and badly dressed pensioners. Takes ages to get
through the checkout.

Use the trade counter.

Yes - why is he going to B&Q anyway when he's a proper tradesman - who knows
everything :-)

Mary

On Thu, 26 Jul 2007 19:20:32 UTC, "ARWadsworth"
wrote:


"The Medway Handyman" wrote in message
...
Keith Dunbar wrote:
B & Q do 10% off on Wednesdays for over 60s. You have to bring in
proof of age and they give you a discount card to present at the
check out.

And a bloody nightmare it is as well. Every time I have to go to B&Q on
Wednesdays its packed full of coffin dodgers! Can't move for zimmer
frames, walking sticks and badly dressed pensioners. Takes ages to get
through the checkout.

Use the trade counter.

Our local branch doesn't have a trade counter - only in the
'superstores', I think.

--
The information contained in this post is copyright the
poster, and specifically may not be published in, or used by
http://www.diybanter.com

On Thu, 26 Jul 2007 20:10:28 +0100, "The Medway Handyman"
wrote:

Keith Dunbar wrote:
B & Q do 10% off on Wednesdays for over 60s. You have to bring in
proof of age and they give you a discount card to present at the
check out.

And a bloody nightmare it is as well. Every time I have to go to B&Q on
Wednesdays its packed full of coffin dodgers! Can't move for zimmer frames,
walking sticks and badly dressed pensioners. Takes ages to get through the
checkout.

But there's a separate trade counter (at least in my local B&Q).

--
Frank Erskine

Anne Jackson wrote:
The message from "The Medway Handyman"
contains these words:

Keith Dunbar wrote:
B & Q do 10% off on Wednesdays for over 60s. You have to bring in
proof of age and they give you a discount card to present at the
check out.

And a bloody nightmare it is as well. Every time I have to go to
B&Q on Wednesdays its packed full of coffin dodgers! Can't move for
zimmer frames,
walking sticks and badly dressed pensioners. Takes ages to get
through the checkout.

You're such an old grouch! Just think, with any luck, you'll be
a pensioner yourself, one day!

I have a cunning plan to drink myself to death before I become an old fart.


--
Dave
The Medway Handyman
www.medwayhandyman.co.uk
01634 717930
07850 597257

"The Medway Handyman" wrote in message
...
Anne Jackson wrote:
The message from "The Medway Handyman"
contains these words:

Keith Dunbar wrote:
B & Q do 10% off on Wednesdays for over 60s. You have to bring in
proof of age and they give you a discount card to present at the
check out.

And a bloody nightmare it is as well. Every time I have to go to
B&Q on Wednesdays its packed full of coffin dodgers! Can't move for
zimmer frames,
walking sticks and badly dressed pensioners. Takes ages to get
through the checkout.

You're such an old grouch! Just think, with any luck, you'll be
a pensioner yourself, one day!

I have a cunning plan to drink myself to death before I become an old
fart.

How old would you have to be to reach that state?

Mary

On 2007-07-27 19:35:27 +0100, "The Medway Handyman"
said:

Anne Jackson wrote:
The message from "The Medway Handyman"
contains these words:

Keith Dunbar wrote:
B & Q do 10% off on Wednesdays for over 60s. You have to bring in
proof of age and they give you a discount card to present at the
check out.

And a bloody nightmare it is as well. Every time I have to go to
B&Q on Wednesdays its packed full of coffin dodgers! Can't move for
zimmer frames,
walking sticks and badly dressed pensioners. Takes ages to get
through the checkout.

You're such an old grouch! Just think, with any luck, you'll be
a pensioner yourself, one day!

I have a cunning plan to drink myself to death before I become an old fart.

Too late.....

Ask for either the Dirty Old Man or Victor Meldrew starter kit for Christmas.

In message , The Medway Handyman
writes
Anne Jackson wrote:
The message from "The Medway Handyman"
contains these words:

Keith Dunbar wrote:
B & Q do 10% off on Wednesdays for over 60s. You have to bring in
proof of age and they give you a discount card to present at the
check out.

And a bloody nightmare it is as well. Every time I have to go to
B&Q on Wednesdays its packed full of coffin dodgers! Can't move for
zimmer frames,
walking sticks and badly dressed pensioners. Takes ages to get
through the checkout.

You're such an old grouch! Just think, with any luck, you'll be
a pensioner yourself, one day!

I have a cunning plan to drink myself to death before I become an old fart.

Just a plan ?

Keep up at the back mate

A pint of Pride here, please


--
geoff

"Keith Dunbar" wrote in message
news
B & Q do 10% off on Wednesdays for over 60s. You have to bring in proof of
age and they give you a discount card to present at the check out.

Keith

Thanks, I thought they'd stopped that. Worth considering ...

Mary

"Mary Fisher" wrote in message
et...

"Keith Dunbar" wrote in message
news
B & Q do 10% off on Wednesdays for over 60s. You have to bring in proof
of age and they give you a discount card to present at the check out.

Keith

Thanks, I thought they'd stopped that. Worth considering ...

There is nothing to consider. 10% off is 10% off. I also got my Grandad to
get assistance to help load the van as he suffers from arthritis and I had a
hangover. The staff were very obliging.

Adam

Mary Fisher wrote:


"Keith Dunbar" wrote in message
news
B & Q do 10% off on Wednesdays for over 60s. You have to bring in proof
of age and they give you a discount card to present at the check out.

Keith

Thanks, I thought they'd stopped that. Worth considering ...

Focus do a pensioners 10% card too, and it can be used any day of the week.

--
Mike Clarke

On Thu, 26 Jul 2007 16:30:12 GMT, "Keith Dunbar"
wrote:

B & Q do 10% off on Wednesdays for over 60s. You have to bring in proof of
age and they give you a discount card to present at the check out.

Keith


But only at the smaller B+Q's . The larger Warehouses reckon their
prices are already low .
Stuart

"Stuart B" wrote in message
...
On Thu, 26 Jul 2007 16:30:12 GMT, "Keith Dunbar"
wrote:

B & Q do 10% off on Wednesdays for over 60s. You have to bring in proof
of
age and they give you a discount card to present at the check out.

Keith


But only at the smaller B+Q's . The larger Warehouses reckon their
prices are already low .
Stuart

When I first enquired about this I was told it wasn't all stores. But
recently they till me it is.

Keith