21 Mar 2020

And Then, Another Ripper...

Clarification from the good Ripper below. Yes my friend, I did know wot you were getting at and did understand the fact it wasn’t about me, me, me. This time...

As for the botty washer, it was primarily for my little nest of vipers and she’s never complained of the cold. Having said that, the pipework runs alongside the radiator pipework so with that and room heat on mainly non moving water I’m guessing the chill is taken out of the initial blast. However, as I discovered from a plumber – here on another mission – they couldn’t fit the kit as I had as the regulations state the fitting and flow needs to be temperature controlled. I’m happy to say that, up to time of typing, I haven’t had a two in the morning bang on the door from the Plumbing Appliance Regulations Enforcement Agency.

I do recommend a click on the Zero Hedge link down the way by the way:

   The first thing I want to make clear Mac, is that I was talking about the folks you describe - the ones with the 4x4 and not only 2 trolleys, but the missus has two as well. People like yourself and the elderly who are at high risk (not from the fake virus, but starvation) need to have priority. Some of our local supermarkets have 1 hour sessions for the elderly and NHS workers, but they still face empty shelves. This from OldRightie:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OJ3dz4K27Gw&feature=emb_logo
   To add to that, my daughter is a senior staff nurse at the hospital, and she tells me that these low life scum have been stealing bottles of hand sanitizer from the beds in the wards.
   I'm calling it a fake virus - that isn't entirely true. There is a virus but the fake part is the scaremongering by a few organizations through the media. It is this that has panicked the sheep and it has been intentional. Wherever you look for information, certain names crop up constantly - Event 201 (check that one out), The John Hopkins Centre, The WHO, Bill Gates. Its not the virus that's being used against ordinary people, but the FEAR of the virus. Its all about control.
 
https://www.zerohedge.com/health/six-reasons-why-covid-19-fails-sniff-test
   As for the ringpiece washer, the bathroom and toilet are now done, besides there's no way I'm going to do that with freezing cold water. The shower is equipped with much the same thing. My parents had a much better idea and that was wash cloths. I haven't run out of loo roll just yet but when I do I'll just go Victorian. I can do that - I grew up in my grandmother's house with no electricity and gas lighting. We didn't use toilet roll at all, just as my kids never had expensive disposable nappies. But I digress - I am beginning to enter the world of Monty Python's Yorkshiremen.

And so here they are;

          

Finally, farewell Kenny and thanks for all the songs.

           

Quote;  Terry Pratchett.

“He didn't administer a reign of terror, just the occasional light shower.”

1 comment:

Ripper said...

Mac, the bathroom in this house was laid out very badly originally, and I saw why when planning the new stuff. There was no way I could fit everything in, no matter how I shifted things around. The most important thing for me was the shower - I wanted to do away with the bath and have a large shower enclosure instead, and a wash basin with counter top and storage underneath. So the poor toilet was banished from the bathroom.

For that, a small closet next to the bathroom was converted. The closet is not big enough to call a room as such, being around 4ft wide by 6ft, but worked out perfectly since I was also able to include a wash basin with storage and radiator in there, to make a sort of cloak room. The closet also had a large window with the opening casement at the top and a smaller casement below. The top fitted with frosted glass and the lower a blanking plate. On the inside, the window ledge was raised to the glazing bar in between the two casements so as to make a smaller, frosted opening window. The new toilet is under the window. As luck happens the soil stack runs straight up past this window so the soil pipe of the toilet is very short.

This is right over the top of the kitchen, where the water mains comes into the house and goes first to the kitchen sink then straight up through the toilet floor to the cistern, teeing off under the floor to the bathroom. The hot pipe comes from the boiler in the bathroom and meets the cold, running down in the same boxwork to the kitchen.

So in theory I could easily fit a temperature controlled butt wash, but the floor up there is wood, and has been overlaid with 6mm ply sheets, then ceramic floor tiles. These are fixed by latex adhesive at £150 a bag, not to mention the £1k spent on tiles, so the only way of getting at the pipework now, is to bring down the kitchen ceiling. As a result of that, filters and service valves are everywhere.

There is a reason for the temp control regulations, washing that particular part of the body (a point at which body temperature is taken) with cold water can cause nasty reactions due to shock. I think your nest of vipers is either very hardy indeed or secretly using all the toilet roll! :-)