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Post by mowlick on Mar 14, 2023 4:59:43 GMT
Not straight away. I have a dozen other jobs on hand right now, but definitely when I get to install the second shower at the rural ruin. The way I see it, any sort of plumbing invariably leaks. So the important point is to be able to get at the pipework and that is a damn sight easier when the shower is movable than when it built into a corner. I might make a wooden prototype and iron out the kinks. That won't cost anything because there is always a use for scrap timber around the house. And once everything is up and running I will build another one for the hovel in London. I spent hours trying to sleep and now I am so chuffed that I don't want too. ![[thumbsup]](http://storage.proboards.com/6870873/images/JTWDGX0WSTuhvZHmeENd.gif) |
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Post by Prince Myshkin on Mar 14, 2023 16:59:36 GMT
Is the "rural ruin" the garden allotment?
How far from London to the rural site?
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Post by yggdrasil on Mar 14, 2023 17:15:46 GMT
Is the "rural ruin" the garden allotment?
How far from London to the rural site?
Not long by flying pig. |
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Post by mowlick on Mar 14, 2023 17:44:44 GMT
Is the "rural ruin" the garden allotment?
How far from London to the rural site?
Not far. It is only about 30 or 40 miles, but once you get there you discover that the restaurants have closed for lunch and Ash is huddled round the Bakelite wireless set trying to tune into the BBC Home Service, so socially it is a bit of a stretch ![[tongue]](http://storage.proboards.com/6870873/images/IgLQhqrYFakygiihCBvT.gif)
About 14 years ago the banking system decided to go bosoms up, so we took our modest competence out of the banks and bought some property, among which was the house I am referring too. It was over a hundred years old and in a real mess, but I figured that a house would be a better investment than a bank and a lot more fun to deal with. Amazingly I was right on both counts, with the only downside being that my level of productivity is so low that I am almost going backwards. Still, as said, it is fun.
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Post by Prince Myshkin on Mar 15, 2023 5:40:47 GMT
Is the "rural ruin" the garden allotment?
How far from London to the rural site?
Not far. It is only about 30 or 40 miles, but once you get there you discover that the restaurants have closed for lunch and Ash is huddled round the Bakelite wireless set trying to tune into the BBC Home Service, so socially it is a bit of a stretch
About 14 years ago the banking system decided to go bosoms up, so we took our modest competence out of the banks and bought some property, among which was the house I am referring too. It was over a hundred years old and in a real mess, but I figured that a house would be a better investment than a bank and a lot more fun to deal with. Amazingly I was right on both counts, with the only downside being that my level of productivity is so low that I am almost going backwards. Still, as said, it is fun.
Okay, I'm a suburban American. The idea of a house without plumbing is mind boggling.
When I stay with friends in Mexico, the nicer houses always have a little bathroom cottage out back with a shower and a flush toilet. The poorer houses have an outhouse out back. And a shower too but no flush toilet.
I can't remember when I was a kid when we visited grandma and grandpa on the farm if they had bathroom plumbing. That was rural Colorado.
So how rural is this house in terms of plumbing? Will you be able to have a fixed shower at some point?
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Post by mowlick on Mar 15, 2023 10:05:39 GMT
Not far. It is only about 30 or 40 miles, but once you get there you discover that the restaurants have closed for lunch and Ash is huddled round the Bakelite wireless set trying to tune into the BBC Home Service, so socially it is a bit of a stretch
About 14 years ago the banking system decided to go bosoms up, so we took our modest competence out of the banks and bought some property, among which was the house I am referring too. It was over a hundred years old and in a real mess, but I figured that a house would be a better investment than a bank and a lot more fun to deal with. Amazingly I was right on both counts, with the only downside being that my level of productivity is so low that I am almost going backwards. Still, as said, it is fun.
Okay, I'm a suburban American. The idea of a house without plumbing is mind boggling.
When I stay with friends in Mexico, the nicer houses always have a little bathroom cottage out back with a shower and a flush toilet. The poorer houses have an outhouse out back. And a shower too but no flush toilet.
I can't remember when I was a kid when we visited grandma and grandpa on the farm if they had bathroom plumbing. That was rural Colorado.
So how rural is this house in terms of plumbing? Will you be able to have a fixed shower at some point?
Sorry, I am confusing everyone here.
We have two lavatories, a bathroom and a shower. We did have another room which contained a shower and a lavatory, but the grand daughters flooded it and their father, hell of a nice bloke, great mathematician but a crap plumber, tried to fix it and ended up making a complete balls up of the matter.
No great problem in itself, but then the womenfolk pitched in and started giving their opinions which changed four times before they reached the end of a sentence. So what I am after is a temporary fix ablutions wise, hence the idea of a mobile shower.
In my hippy dippy days in the West Country, we had a trench with the out house shed on top. Once we had done what we came to do, we would throw some soil and broad bean seeds on top and then move the shed along a bit. Great for the root vegetables. ![[grin]](http://storage.proboards.com/6870873/images/CBubFSUbXfyoLMZUjeBb.gif) |
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