The easiest jobs I've ever done were installing wire free doorbells (3)
and fitting a plug to a sink chain (1).

Just been talking to my mate Simon at Handyman 365 who has recently been
paid to open a back gate!

They had been pulling it like mad for days - he pushed it :-)


--
Dave - The Medway Handyman www.medwayhandyman.co.uk

The Medway Handyman wrote:
Just been talking to my mate Simon at Handyman 365 who has recently been
paid to open a back gate!
They had been pulling it like mad for days - he pushed it :-)

Either they've somehow managed to exist in this world without
noticing the paradigm that doors open /into/ destinations, or
the original installer was incompetant and installed it the
wrong way around.

JGH

On 7/10/2011 8:07 AM, jgharston wrote:
The Medway Handyman wrote:
Just been talking to my mate Simon at Handyman 365 who has recently been
paid to open a back gate!
They had been pulling it like mad for days - he pushed it :-)

Either they've somehow managed to exist in this world without
noticing the paradigm that doors open /into/ destinations, or
the original installer was incompetant and installed it the
wrong way around.

The destination depends on which way you are headed.

On 10/07/2011 01:44, Gib Bogle wrote:
On 7/10/2011 8:07 AM, jgharston wrote:
The Medway Handyman wrote:
Just been talking to my mate Simon at Handyman 365 who has recently been
paid to open a back gate!
They had been pulling it like mad for days - he pushed it :-)

Either they've somehow managed to exist in this world without
noticing the paradigm that doors open /into/ destinations, or
the original installer was incompetant and installed it the
wrong way around.

The destination depends on which way you are headed.

Indeed. My front door opens out because of the porch. Does this mean I
can only leave the house by this door & I have to come back via the window?

And what about cupboard doors?

--
Dave - The Medway Handyman www.medwayhandyman.co.uk

The Medway Handyman wrote:
The easiest jobs I've ever done were installing wire free doorbells
(3) and fitting a plug to a sink chain (1).

Just been talking to my mate Simon at Handyman 365 who has recently
been paid to open a back gate!

They had been pulling it like mad for days - he pushed it :-)

Do you know how many times I have been called out to a lighting fault due to
blown lamps? Sure the customer have swapped them but they swapped them with
faulty lamps.

--
Adam

On 10/07/2011 12:19, The Medway Handyman wrote:
On 10/07/2011 01:44, Gib Bogle wrote:
On 7/10/2011 8:07 AM, jgharston wrote:
The Medway Handyman wrote:
Just been talking to my mate Simon at Handyman 365 who has recently
been
paid to open a back gate!
They had been pulling it like mad for days - he pushed it :-)

Either they've somehow managed to exist in this world without
noticing the paradigm that doors open /into/ destinations, or
the original installer was incompetant and installed it the
wrong way around.

The destination depends on which way you are headed.

Indeed. My front door opens out because of the porch

And what a pain that can be. My parents' milkman was a complete prat and
would frequently leave the bottles of milk on the step, a couple of
inches from the (wooden) porch door. So every morning we had to
carefully open the door far enough to check, without pushing any bottles
off the step! Actually, I must ask them if that still happens.

SteveW

On Jul 10, 12:42*pm, "ARWadsworth"
wrote:

Do you know how many times I have been called out to a lighting fault due to
blown lamps? Sure the customer have swapped them but they swapped them with
faulty lamps.

In days of yore when mains sockets were sparse and TV service
engineers paid home visits, I understand that a regular cause of
callout to a "dead" set was that SWMBO had unplugged it to do the
hoovering.

Chris

"Steve Walker" wrote in message
...
On 10/07/2011 12:19, The Medway Handyman wrote:
On 10/07/2011 01:44, Gib Bogle wrote:
On 7/10/2011 8:07 AM, jgharston wrote:
The Medway Handyman wrote:
Just been talking to my mate Simon at Handyman 365 who has recently
been
paid to open a back gate!
They had been pulling it like mad for days - he pushed it :-)

Either they've somehow managed to exist in this world without
noticing the paradigm that doors open /into/ destinations, or
the original installer was incompetant and installed it the
wrong way around.

The destination depends on which way you are headed.

Indeed. My front door opens out because of the porch

And what a pain that can be. My parents' milkman was a complete prat and
would frequently leave the bottles of milk on the step, a couple of inches
from the (wooden) porch door. So every morning we had to carefully open
the door far enough to check, without pushing any bottles off the step!
Actually, I must ask them if that still happens.

you mean they still get a milkman?

tim

On 7/11/2011 1:44 PM, tim.... wrote:
"Steve wrote in message

And what a pain that can be. My parents' milkman was a complete prat and
would frequently leave the bottles of milk on the step, a couple of inches
from the (wooden) porch door. So every morning we had to carefully open
the door far enough to check, without pushing any bottles off the step!
Actually, I must ask them if that still happens.

you mean they still get a milkman?

I get my milk delivered, along with the newspaper.

On 11/07/2011 15:57, S Viemeister wrote:

I get my milk delivered, along with the newspaper.

Paperboys (girls / people) deliver milk now too? Blimey, glad I gave
that game up...

On 7/12/2011 4:44 PM, Steve wrote:
On 11/07/2011 15:57, S Viemeister wrote:

I get my milk delivered, along with the newspaper.

Paperboys (girls / people) deliver milk now too? Blimey, glad I gave
that game up...

No, the postie delivers the milk and papers.
And the post.
And Screwfix parcels.

On 11/07/2011 13:44, tim.... wrote:
"Steve wrote in message
...
On 10/07/2011 12:19, The Medway Handyman wrote:
On 10/07/2011 01:44, Gib Bogle wrote:
On 7/10/2011 8:07 AM, jgharston wrote:
The Medway Handyman wrote:
Just been talking to my mate Simon at Handyman 365 who has recently
been
paid to open a back gate!
They had been pulling it like mad for days - he pushed it :-)

Either they've somehow managed to exist in this world without
noticing the paradigm that doors open /into/ destinations, or
the original installer was incompetant and installed it the
wrong way around.

The destination depends on which way you are headed.

Indeed. My front door opens out because of the porch

And what a pain that can be. My parents' milkman was a complete prat and
would frequently leave the bottles of milk on the step, a couple of inches
from the (wooden) porch door. So every morning we had to carefully open
the door far enough to check, without pushing any bottles off the step!
Actually, I must ask them if that still happens.

you mean they still get a milkman?

tim

Indeed, we still have milkmen around here. Since the council put in a
couple of extra pedestrian refuges, getting past the damned electric
floats on the main road is a bit more of a pain! As well as milk,
yoghurt, cream and butter, they now deliver a much wider range of
general shopping if you want. Unfortunately for us, every time we have
arranged for milk to be delivered, over the months deliveries have got
later and later, until we've had to cancel as they've slipped back to
delivering after we've gone out to work!

SteveW

On Jul 11, 11:23*pm, Jake Nospam@invalid wrote:
On Sun, 10 Jul 2011 10:04:12 -0700 (PDT),

wrote:
On Jul 10, 12:42 pm, "ARWadsworth"
wrote:

Do you know how many times I have been called out to a lighting fault due to
blown lamps? Sure the customer have swapped them but they swapped them with
faulty lamps.

In days of yore when mains sockets were sparse and TV service
engineers paid home visits, I understand that a regular cause of
callout to a "dead" set was that SWMBO had unplugged it to do the
hoovering.

Chris

Several years ago, I provided IT support to an organisation that
decided to outsource rather than provide from within.

Most problems were sorted remotely ...

Our favourite remote fix for "it's dead" was "try moving the mouse or
pressing a keyboard key". In the end we had to disable screen-savers
(in the days when they really blanked the screen). Getting them to
plug the monitor cable back in was another good one. The really sneaky
one was when they fiddled with the colour map on VT340 terminals,
setting everything to black on black. We had a reset escape sequence
we could download to fix that one.

Chris

John Rumm wrote:

On 12/07/2011 23:02, Owain wrote:

I remember in the days of Thin Ethernet going round whole buildings
trying to find who'd broken the chain.

"Anybody moved any furniture recently" was usually an early diagnostic
question.

On more than one occasion, disturbing cables to get access for
PAT testing brought down the CAD system the next day.

Ah yes, working your way back down the coax with a 50 ohm terminator
looking for where it all springs back into life ;-)

As users, our only tool was a £5 multimeter. IT dept were no
help, had no kit, and wouldn't buy any.

I produced a calculation showing that spending £1,000 on a
hand-held test meter would pay for itself if it avoided 15
minutes down time across the department. My boss signed up
straight away, and next time we were on the fault in the
twinkling of an eye.

Chris
--
Chris J Dixon Nottingham UK


Have dancing shoes, will ceilidh.

"Owain" wrote in message
...
On Jul 12, 7:10 pm, Huge wrote:
I (or rather, one of my lads) was once called out to a "printer not
working"
fault which was actually caused by the users unplugging the wall-wart
power supply and putting it in a drawer "because all those wires are
untidy".

I remember in the days of Thin Ethernet going round whole buildings
trying to find who'd broken the chain.

"Anybody moved any furniture recently" was usually an early diagnostic
question.

I remember wondering why ~half the machines on a thinnet had suddenly
stopped seeing the server.
You could ping the machines from other machines but not from the server.
It turned out that some bright spark wanted two machines in one place so had
bought a Tee piece and a length of cable and connected them in.
this resulted in a nice set of null points in the network caused by the
reflections from the, now, incorrectly terminated machines.

"John Rumm" wrote in message
...
On 12/07/2011 23:02, Owain wrote:
On Jul 12, 7:10 pm, Huge wrote:
I (or rather, one of my lads) was once called out to a "printer not
working"
fault which was actually caused by the users unplugging the wall-wart
power supply and putting it in a drawer "because all those wires are
untidy".

I remember in the days of Thin Ethernet going round whole buildings
trying to find who'd broken the chain.

"Anybody moved any furniture recently" was usually an early diagnostic
question.

Ah yes, working your way back down the coax with a 50 ohm terminator
looking for where it all springs back into life ;-)

ITYM remove the terminator from one end and use an Avo to find the first
machine with a DC connection through the other terminator.