shyguy

Busy Saturday, rested a little Sunday and today. I was using the plastic version of those metal Driva fixings in your post, they're only holding shelves which will bear hardly any weight, As you said where I hit the studding I screwed in directly.

I have experienced relief from back pain when wearing heels, which has been noted elsewhere on these forums. I'm currently suffering a knee injury so heels are out for the moment anyway.

My weekend was spent putting up blinds, shelves and car repairs and servicing. I did get a great new tool for diagnosing car faults though which connects to the cars computer and bluetooths to a phone for real time fault readings. Also had to cut and mitre some cupboard edgings in the kitchen to go around the cupboards where the new extractor went in. All went ok so nothing to report really apart from the shelves going on plasterboard walls, and two shelves on two walls I managed to hit two bits of the supporting wooden frame so couldn't use the plastic plasterboard fixings, which reminds me to ask how can anyone call the plastic plasterboard fixings easy and no drilling required when without drilling first the end wears away before it starts in, or the top where the screwdriver goes in just breaks off before it's half way in? I had to drill almost to the size of the plug shaft to get it to wind in.

I am in Northampton working on a daily basis, but tracked by work so can't leave the site I am on. Internet ordering was an option but always had other things which the money needed to be spent on if it was in the bank to start with. At the moment I can't even walk properly anyway as I damaged my knee so it's all academic for the moment :-(

Possibly???

Sounds like I need Fernox LS-X and some Unibond Extreme Repair Sealant to fix my house. The roof was a badly cracked tile which a neighbour kindly replaced using his wooden ladder, looked a little rickety for my frame lol.

I saw some great looking boots in Evans online but never got to purchase. Unfortunately Evans in MK closed down a while back so the nearest is now in Northampton, so not passing by too often.

Water leaks are a feature of our house, so I know your pain. When we replaced our downstairs cistern flush we could not get the tank to seal to the toilet as it was fitted directly on top of the toilet. Our neighbour is a retired plumber and tried all sorts of sealants he had. I ended up using some tricks I use to seal things at work and used multiple rubber gaskets even on sides of plates which shouldn't need them. Water is amazing, I can work on oil systems running 2000+ PSI and seal 99% of the time first time, but 15 PSI of water pressure will leak 99% of the time for me. We have had a leak we can't find under our bath for over a year, it has holed the downstairs ceiling but we still can't see what is leaking to cure it. A basin tap connector weeped for long enough, out of sight, to cause the cupboard and floorboard to swell, and our roof leaked into our bedroom causing a hole in the ceiling and loads of bowls to be deposited around so we could sleep for the night, and all in the last year. Water leaks, no fun at all Freddy, so I hope you get it sorted soon.

Problem solved by hh4evr1, so pics of the new shoes soon???

Welcome to the site and get posting. Also like the avatar

Some from Fortunately Fashionable

Look good for a men's heel, would want to cover them with jeans a little even so. At least he had support for his lifestyle choice apparently.

How about these from ReapShop

A couple from Vs2R.com Not all bad but certainly unusual?

Sorry to disappoint anyone but I don't have a leather lust. The Leather Lust Footwear have a Facebook page, Facebook has noticed an interest in shoes and puts ads in which match that. The picture for the ad was some interesting but unwearable shoes which fitted the profile for this post so I followed it and ended up on the site looking around. That's it really, I've also ended up on Clarks shoes but I don't have a thing for granny shoes either ;-)

I just had to share these.. Both were found on the Facebook page of http://leatherlustfootwear.com/ but I don't think they can be bought even if you wanted to, although the second pair are very nice in an artform respect.

The below are From http://www.zoccoli.de/ where you can find large sized (45 european) wooden and cork heeled shoes and boots.

Well, you decide..

So you're quitting buying shoes on a whim Freddy? Nobody likes a quitter :grin:

Looking forward to hearing more

In my defence I also had to pay for the extractor

Sorry, got to agree with Freddy there nice shoes but not for day street wear or probably evening wear at the local to be honest. Those are indoors alone shoes

Here's something from Chiko Shoes

Today was all about putting up a new extractor hood in the kitchen. It only broke about 3 years ago, but every few months the wife has nagged me to sort it out. Originally the switch had burnt out and I was trying to get one (£78 for a switch versus £80 for a new extractor). So recently the nagging started and B&Q had one for £59 so I handed over the money and Mrs Shyguy went and got one. A few minutes to get the old one down, and all looked good. Had to chop back some tiles but that went ok, surprising how accurate I can be with hammer and bolster :-) I measured, checked and re-measured and re-checked the hole sites for mounting the new extractor, and armed with a sharp drill and hammer function soon had 4 holes drilled. What's more they all lined up when the hood was fitted. Result. Hood is up, just the wiring, outer casing (looks like a chimney) and vent pipe to fit. Obviously standards aren't, so the new 125mm vent didn't fit in the 100mm vent pipe, and the adapter we bought also didn't adapt quite tightly (140 mm for a 125 mm fitting???) So it was time for some sealing tape. Luckily the old pipe fitted just inside the new vent and teped up with proper duct tape around the outside it will be fine. The chimney effect stainless surround had to be cut around a pipe going across the cupboards, tin snips and careful measuring and phew it looks OK. Only problem now was the last fixing bracket which couldn't go where it was supposed to due to the vent outlet plate. Again some careful measuring and drilling and that fitted. Connected the wiring to the fused switch and turned on the power. Nada, nothing, rien. So pull the socket again (shorty me trying to work over the top of the high cupboards) and found the wires had gone in too far so tightened on the plastic, rookie mistake but easily made as I couldn't see up there too well. All back together, some final checks and we have extractor. But no light. This time it was simply a bulb which had loosened in transit. Anyway 4 hours, one badly aching back but I have earned some brownie points. What should I exchange those for???

I like those, very different and whimsical too lol