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[henpecked]

Pretend you`re a giant panda by giving yourself two black eyes, eating only bamboo shoots and refusing to have sex with the missus.

[Dave_L]

DIY ENTHUSIASTS. Make your approach more professional by starting 3 days late, wearing ill fitting trousers and shaking your head at regular intervals

[seanandruby]

DIY ENTHUSIASTS. Make your approach more professional by starting 3 days late, wearing ill fitting trousers and shaking your head at regular intervals

Does that go for the men to Dave :laugh:

[GB_Groundworks]

i pretty much do everything at home, can solder copper pipe, wire electircs etc, the only thing i wouldn't do would be gas and anything to the consumer unit apart from change a breaker, got a mate who will do that for me. i once got called up by a mate, got a micro on hire and im struggling can you pop rd and help me, so drove rd hed only gone and wedged it in between to walls, tracks just spinning... i was like i can get it out but its going to eith be the wall or the machine getting damaged, turned out both... couple of courses on the dwarf wall and a bit of paint on the micro, he then said when you rebuilding the wall.... i laughed and went off home leave the clowns to it.

[London Stone Paving]

surely its best to just fill yer tank at the nearest petrol station and have done with it. Okay you may be able to save a few pennies if you shop around but big deal, you go out on Saturday night and blow a ton without even breaking sweat.

[DNgroundworks]

surely its best to just fill yer tank at the nearest petrol station and have done with it. Okay you may be able to save a few pennies if you shop around but big deal, you go out on Saturday night and blow a ton without even breaking sweat.

My line of thinking exactly, penny pinching is just not me, i dont even look at the cost of the fuel, i just fill up at £90.00 a tank.............twice a week. Trying to save what, a couple of quid...pointless.

I was down sarf on saturday LLL, a little place near Dunstable?!

[seanandruby]

Don't have to tell you lads to keep your receipt but some diyers sling them. Had a new car battery exactly 12 months ago, almost to the day. Luck happens i kept my receipt, also the rac recommendation to buy new battery. It was £86.00, so big smile on my face going into kwik shit for new one buckshee

[mickavalon]

I was told the other day that it's cheaper to run on Cooking Oil, rather than Diesel, so I tried it but not sure wether I should go Extra Virgin or Virgin, any ideas Lads?? :p

[lutonlagerlout]

when cooking oil was 20 p a litre it worked fine
now that all cooking oil tracks the price of diesel it dont work so good :;):
I never did it, but i did smell some cars that stank like a chipie
LLL

[mickavalon]

Shame they can't run on cheap Cider, smell nice as well, like apple pies!!

[DNgroundworks]

I did it for a while and as LLL said its pointless now, that was when i had a little vauxhall van, i used to do half oil and half diesel - and it stunk like a chipshop lol

[mickavalon]

Has anyone worked out the difference in the cost of running a vehicle against "running" a horse and cart, I bet its cheaper, and with the traffic in Brum, probably not much slower. I fancy a cross between a stage coach and a Boudicca style chariot, with blades on the wheels, but somewhereto stash me tool lock box. There's plenty of osses on the waste gound/parks up the road in tam yam land, so I could just go and rustle a few, bang em in the lock up(field at the back for their tea) and bobs me uncle!! Green to me eyeballs methinks.:p