Is that a bit like when you run a cold tap [and I don't know if this is just my house] but you need to run it for a bit to clear the water that was sitting in the pipes [mine gets quite warm so isn't that pleasant to drink so it needs to be run to get fully cold]? With the hot water tap thing I guess you don't do that so you just get the manky pipe water. As I write this I'll admit it does sound very old wives' tale-y.
I know my Mrs always says that tea tastes funny when we're abroad, even if it's using normal teabags. I imagine it's due to using mineral / bottled water in the kettle. Maybe the filter in the tap does similar and removes all the tappy goodness that tea drinkers enjoy.
Yeah the work hot taps produce water that tastes loke Mahow's used bathwater. And if you ain't brita filtering your water before you boil it for tea, you're a real scummy bastard.
Nobody is doing that you hypersperg.
Those you saying you have boiling hot taps at work, is it an actual tap or one of those boxes on the wall with a little lift-pump thing like a keg of beer? Cos we have the latter at my work and obviously I’m not thinking of getting one of them. This is a proper actual tap that includes a filtration system.
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One of these:
Yeah, the proper plumbed in tap ones. They're shite.
Also heard a horror story recently about someone who'd had one installed but it'd been plumbed in the wrong way round so they ended up scalding themselves.
Tea using water from the wall boiler at work tastes infinitely better than tea using water from a Quooker tap.
Yeah, tap here too. I don't even know what the technology behind it is but it's hooked up to a very dodgy looking gas/chemical cannister so it was obvious it wouldn't be right.
Did see this on some silly tiktok type viral video recently which looked tempting:
Oh. Might stick to a kettle then.
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I went on the same journey of disappointment as Baz a few years ago when we redid our kitchen. Looked into it, realised they were shit, so didn't bother.
Or live in the glorious north where tap water is not full of scum.Originally Posted by Don
But the houses are.
Expertly done.
That’s overkill but when I put a new sink in last year we went for a glass cleaner instead of a soap dispenser in the extra slot. Worth the extra cost imo.
What is that Taz has posted anyway, some sort of sink/bidet hybrid [right up his street]?
Everythings on hold anyway. Went to the kitchen blokes showroom this morning and was thoroughly underwhelmed. Basically talked to us like he presumed we were poor and wanted basic for everything, and he wouldn't even entertain solid wood worktops. Back to the drawing board.
My auntie's just had a new kitchen so at least I've got another lead to follow.
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Every good salesman knows how to downsell.
Was weird. I worked in retail for a long time but even without that, a lot of it is common sense.
When my wife said she wanted wooden worktops he literally said ‘absolutely don’t get laminate’ to which I responded we had no intention of doing. Then he got involved in a conversation with another customer and came back to us and we were like ‘we don’t want quartz or granite’ (all he did) so he was like ‘well if you’re gonna get wood make sure to get laminate cos you’ll only have problems with solid wood.’ What?
Also as soon as we walked in he was like ‘right the cheapest doors we can do you are…’ and I was just stood there like does man not know I lost £17k on Bazbot and didn’t flinch? Just cos I look 11, don’t disrespect me.
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If my recent flooring store experiences are anything to go by, these salesthem are as clueless as they come, often to the detriment of their employers.
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https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-64678984
Your powers are terrifying.
If I ever have any deviants who like tea around I get the hot water from the coffee machine.
You're the fucking deviant.
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Might try and do the walls ourselves.
Stripping the wallpaper seems straightforward enough. It might lead to some small chipped bits of plaster like in that picture at worst but can just stick some filler and sand that and it'll be fine, right?
Not sure what the mould treatment is like but I suspect a little chemical wash is all it needs and then we just bang on some paint.
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The plaster wall has turned out okay and I suspect, even with the sort of minor damage above it can be primed and painted after some polyfilla fixing but what the fuck is this blue shit on top of the plaster for the 3rd wall? I think the 4th wall is the same. Some Ukrainian fuck said we're gonna need to plaster it to paint it.
All in all, worst fucking idea ever - fuelled no doubt by watching too much Homes Under the Hammer during lunch breaks but - who tf did we think we were trying to do this shit ourselves on weekends alongside holding down full time jobs ffs. Sorting out some competent fucker to come in and do it all in good time isn't straightforward so now we're left with some fucking crackden of a gaff.
Going to view a couple of houses this week and putting ours on the market. Hell about to ensue.
Fuck it off, dump the missus, offload the kids and enjoy the fucking peace. I'm about a fortnight away from a meltdown.
The Reid’s mate got a pub and it worked out cheaper to fly in a tiler from Poland and put him up for a few days while he tiled both toilets, than employing anyone from this country.
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Even without a network of known tradesmen, prices here aren't too bad. It's just getting them to actually turn up.
But yeah, with the exception of painting and basic DIY, most tasks should be outsourced to someone who knows what they are doing. It always spirals into a fucking nightmare when you do it yourself.
https://propertyguessr.fun/
House price guessing game thingy.
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Been having issues with my boiler regularly losing pressure. Rang the company that I got to service it last year. The guy who answered asked me to text him the address and he'd get back to me. Some guy from their company just turned up on the doorstep today without the first guy ever getting back to me to confirm a day or time or anything. Fuck's sake. It was fine because I'm working from home but a bit of courtesy would be nice.
"My service was too prompt" - Boydy.
Kitchen tap been leaking annoyingly recently, I did investigate with some new valves but it turns out the tap is ancient and doesnt use modern valves. In fact the internet acted like the fittings didn't exist. I left it alone and said it would be better to just buy a new tap and swap it.
Wife gets her dad round to sort it, he runs into the same problem as me except instead of thinking 'this look like a lot of seized parts' just yanks them out with some pliers. Lo and behold the tap is fucked, no replacement parts exist and he now can't put it back together again without it pissing water.
3 hours of fucking about before the towel is thrown in and a new tap sourced
I bet the old fella has a leaky tap. Grab the pliers and teach him a lesson.
I changed our kitchen tap the other day. I am now a plumber.
bit late to the conversation but I'm unconvinced by the incredible efficiency gains of a boiling water tap, kettles are pretty quick. it's similar to the trade off between using instant coffee and using a cafetiere. I refuse to believe any of you gimps are that busy you need to make that time back.
The only possible case for them - and it is a strong one - is that it would de-clutter the kitchen.
I would never have one because a large part of my personality revolves around elaborate tea drinking actions and getting performatively 'fucked off' with what I deem to be sub-standard tea.
Remortgage sorted. It's going up about £80 a month (I also had to make an overpayment to get it down to a lower LTV band for a better interest rate) which isn't ideal but not as bad as things looked in the Trussmania era at the end of last year.
Ours went up nearly £300 a month
Ours went up for sale today. If we move before end of June then it’ll be a £1500 early repayment charge and if it doesn’t then it’s a £300 increase in monthly payment. Either way we are looking at another £600 a month in the new place.
Moving house is so shit.
Cheap NI property, innit.Ours went up nearly £300 a month
Sometimes I look at the possibility of moving back to England and I realise it's basically impossible to afford housing there.
You will do well to get it done before the end of June.
Got a cash buyer coming on Friday. Probably a Russian.
Ukrainians took mine. Lied and said the missus' Russian books were because my partner studies Russian. Slava Ukraini baby.
Accepted an offer on my house. No chain so I might be back with the parents for a couple of months if we don't find somewhere quick.
Got a guy coming removing the wall between the back living room and the kitchen on Wednesday, its a load bearing wall so he's putting in an RSJ. Then we're hopefully getting a new kitchen ASAP too.
We had this on the horizon too but the sale is thankfully dragging for what is now almost 2 months and still no set date of exchange/completion. All thanks to leasehold buggery that has also meant I pay £250+ to 2 separate random entities for "assignment packs". Pure theft. Just hope the buyers don't back out or I'll lose my mind.Accepted an offer on my house. No chain so I might be back with the parents for a couple of months if we don't find somewhere quick.
Thankfully leasehold doesn't exist up here because everything I hear about it is stuff of nightmares.
Yeah, selling my old flat was a nightmare because of it. Plus it had two different 'management companies' doing different things to the building, who all needed paying off to be allowed to sell.
How much? I want the same doing.
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