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How were the plasterers? I had my bedroom ceiling boarded and skimmed a few weeks back, they were messy so and so's
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Just one 19 yo lad. He's very good. Been doing it since he was 15.
Few splashes on the carpet, but it's all going. A few brush strokes on the skirt and cove, but it comes off fine.
Few splashes on the carpet, but it's all going. A few brush strokes on the skirt and cove, but it comes off fine.
Plaster is so much better. I’ve been getting my mums house ready for sale and that has a lot of dot and dab walls. Half the sockets are loose in the wall - the previous owners builders used 16mm back boxes with 2” faceplate screws. This afternoon, I had to remove a couple of single sockets right next to each other and replace them with a twin back box. They had made such a balls up of chopping the wall out, I had to mix up half a pound of filler, flop it in the hole and squish the twin back box into it. I'll let it go off and put a few screws in it tomorrow.
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Must agree there. My fat fingers struggle sometimes too!
My mate is a builder and when he plasters a ceiling for me he gets it bloody everywhere. "No charge for that" is his stock saying!How were the plasterers? I had my bedroom ceiling boarded and skimmed a few weeks back, they were messy so and so's
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The front wall was plastered, but it was stripped off last year to expose all the cracked blocks and to replace the concrete boot lintel.
Before we bought the house, the front bedroom, which was the same size as the lounge, was split in two and the builders removed the picture window and fitted two separate windows. Crucially, instead of filling in with lightweight blocks, they used 7.0N blocks, which over the decades, cracked the concrete lintel and render and started bowing the uPVC window. In fact, they couldn't get the window out because the lintel was weighing down on it.
So, anyway, instead of re plastering, they dot and dabbed. But they were very good at cutting out the plaster board and doing the second fix was easy.
But I have in my time come across all sorts of awful jobs where all sorts of materials have been used to fill and pack gaps and holes where boxes have been fitted. I even found one double socket held in with what looked like the vast majority of a tube of caulk with a pair of women's grundies stuffed behind the box to fill a hole in the wall...
There’s a bloke in our area that, at his own expense and in his own time, collects and redistributes equipment for use by the old, infirm and disabled people. I met with him round my mums this morning and gave him a pressure relieving mattress topper, several pressure relieving cushions, a fold up stroller, an unused commode, a shower chair, a blood pressure monitor, an unused tens machine, a heated mat, a massage thingy that fits on a chair, a telephone device that you can summon help with and some top of the range hearing aids that my mum used no more than 4 times and cost her just shy of £4K. A neighbour of mine wanted one of those walking sticks with 4 points in the bottom and he brought me one of them for her. He's been doing it for years. It’s people like him that should be getting awards from the King.
Ambulance, to hospital, then the early hours spent in there whilst they tried to decide what might be amiss with me....
One of my 'episode', kept me up Friday/Saturday night, got no sleep at all, then I had to take the car for it's Sat morning MOT appointment. I then managed a couple of hours of sleep.
By 21:30, we were both sat down watching a film on TV, then another 'episode' started, panic/anxiety/sense of morbidity, too hot/too cold at the same time, panting for breath, very agitated, not knowing whether I wanted to sit/lie down or what, both arms feeling very heavy this time. I decided to have Avril ring 111 at the start of an episode, then hopefully get some medical assessment during the scary 'episode'. An ambulance was at my door by 23:00, they decided it might be an heart attack, or maybe angina, managed to get me coming out of the episode, into the ambulance, and both of us down to hospital.
In A&E, they checked me over again, reassuringly - they couldn't find anything wrong at all, heart was absolutely fine, no angina. Difficult to diagnose a problem, when the problem has gone! X-rays, heart scans, more chats with doctors, then finally kicked out at 05:30 this morning. At home, we both slept through until 13:00. Trouble is, I am still having these episodes, and no one seems to know why.
One of my 'episode', kept me up Friday/Saturday night, got no sleep at all, then I had to take the car for it's Sat morning MOT appointment. I then managed a couple of hours of sleep.
By 21:30, we were both sat down watching a film on TV, then another 'episode' started, panic/anxiety/sense of morbidity, too hot/too cold at the same time, panting for breath, very agitated, not knowing whether I wanted to sit/lie down or what, both arms feeling very heavy this time. I decided to have Avril ring 111 at the start of an episode, then hopefully get some medical assessment during the scary 'episode'. An ambulance was at my door by 23:00, they decided it might be an heart attack, or maybe angina, managed to get me coming out of the episode, into the ambulance, and both of us down to hospital.
In A&E, they checked me over again, reassuringly - they couldn't find anything wrong at all, heart was absolutely fine, no angina. Difficult to diagnose a problem, when the problem has gone! X-rays, heart scans, more chats with doctors, then finally kicked out at 05:30 this morning. At home, we both slept through until 13:00. Trouble is, I am still having these episodes, and no one seems to know why.
Maybe this?
Panic disorder
Panic disorder is where you keep having panic attacks, often for no obvious reason. Includes symptoms, treatments and self-help tips.
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Maybe this?
Panic disorder
Panic disorder is where you keep having panic attacks, often for no obvious reason. Includes symptoms, treatments and self-help tips.
All of that, described as a 'panic attack', except my episodes can last for many hours. The usual, seems to be one of wake from an hours sleep in bed, then gradually the attack comes on. I get up, then spend hours, suffering the problems, completely unable to settle.
Recently, and for the first time, I've been getting the attacks begin during the day. It was a warmish day, we hadn't had any heating on. I felt a little chilly by 21:00, lit the fire, and I'd no sooner lit it, than I became to hot, turned it off, began shivering, then too hot, too cold. I was oscillating between the two, all the way to hospital, in the ambulance, and even in hospital, with it gradually calming back down to normal, by around 03:00. I've never before been subject to anything like this, ever. I've always been calm, very grounded, not easily worried by anything.
Something I've noticed as I've got older is seeing changes in my mum, aunts and uncles who in turn have obviously got older and are now elderly, some of them sadly no longer here.
One thing I've noticed, perhaps relatively common in older people (?), is seeing them worry and sometimes verge on panic about things they would have taken in their stride years/decades back.
My point is, although you are a very grounded person not easily worried, perhaps even subconsciously as you're getting older, this is changing?
Had all the kids and grandkids round for dinner today. I made boeuf bourguignon following a Hairy Bikers recipe. It came out exactly as theirs did but I added some carrots. While the family were all here together, we gave them all an inheritance as per my mums wishes and it took them all by surprise. Tears all round. Again.
[UPDATE] The paramedic/ambulance service, thought it might have been angina, the hospital doctors were unable to find anything, but suggested it might be due to my kidney failure. The full report of the event, has just appeared, on my medical record, and suggests they have found nothing of any significance. That seems to suggest the episodes, are what they seem to be - simply panic attacks.
My only real worry, or concern, is the forth coming op for the catheter, and dialysis machine process. It's been hanging over me for a few months, with them saying it's imminent, others that it could be a some while yet - but the panic episodes began, several months before all of that.
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I've just been installing the latching, up, down, off in the centre switch I had delivered earlier, for the stair lift. The usual control, is a spring back to centre switch, which I found to be quite an annoying safety feature - it automatically slows to a stop, at both the top and bottom of the rail, obstruction detectors for the rail, on for the trapping things on the stair itself. Only thing is, I have to remember to return the new switch to the off position, or the remote controls cannot 'call' the lift from the opposite end. I just wired it in parallel with the usual up/down switch.
Much better than having to constantly press the switch, all the way up or down, and both hands free.
Much better than having to constantly press the switch, all the way up or down, and both hands free.
