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• LFGSS and Microcosm shutting down 16th March 2025 (the day before the Online Safety Act is enforced)

  in Forums • 1 week, 2 days

  

  I'm so glad I wont have to start doing work again.
  Thank you all.

• Owning your own home

  in Miscellaneous and Meaningless • 1 week, 2 days

  

  Hah, yeah - an ex of mine's parents found a kitchen on eBay for a quid that they used whilst theirs was being all rebuilt. Included a brand new oven - you dont see that all that often these days

  A quid to a seller is better than paying 250 quid for a skip I guess!

• Owning your own home

  in Miscellaneous and Meaningless • 1 week, 3 days

  

  Yeah very happy in general, I think it's been 2 years and not really had a problem.

  The real bits of joy I get from it are from planning and doing the under-cupboard sensor lighting from Ikea (they come on when you start walking down the hall to the kitchen), and planning in that the bin draw is where I do all my chopping so I can use a bench scraper to get stuff into the bin.

  Make sure you do your planning and thinking through of your workflow first otherwise you just get a storage and not something that works for you.

• Owning your own home

  in Miscellaneous and Meaningless • 1 week, 3 days

  

  We had a first quote from Wickes and it was like 14k excluding any building work, so we went with DIY Kitchens and got the units for 8 or 9k, DIY'd and went on holiday with the difference.

• eBay and Craigslist finds

  in Classifieds • 2 weeks, 5 days

  

  If its real - there were a lot of these floating round aliexpress a few years back.

• In the news

  in Miscellaneous and Meaningless • 1 month

  

  Brother, what year is it?

• Home DIY

  in Miscellaneous and Meaningless • 1 month, 1 week

  

  What we did was put a load of screws in the floor at 30cm intervals and used a laser level to screw them all into the right head height. Then we had a reference point to pour to.

  If you set the level on a shelf you could use a line mark on a vertical stick and walk around the room to figure out where the low points are.

• LFGSS and Microcosm shutting down 16th March 2025 (the day before the Online Safety Act is enforced)

  in Forums • 1 month, 1 week

  

  Being part of the forum and the real life rides got me through some pretty tough times in my life when I was in London. Devastated it has to end this way.

  What a crap bill.

• Brompton owners

  in General • 1 month, 2 weeks

  

  Very early morning on a multi mode commute.

• How do I bathroom / kitchen / extension? etc.

  in Miscellaneous and Meaningless • 1 month, 2 weeks

  

  I rated DIY kitchens - showroom is pretty helpful too. Good experience from pretty much every angle - only downside was having to dismantle the (dry fit as specced) corner unit in the dark front garden when the delivery lorry turned up.