Noooooooooooooooooooooooooooo! FFS!

[Neil]

Well over 15+ years ago I spent a large lump of money (to me at the time) on a Sony hifi... For all these years I've carefully looked after it. It's got a beautify sound (it's bi-amp) and with an appropriate 90W Sony sub woofer I've just never got tired of its great sound...


Moving stuff around today one of the speakers fell of the top of a cupboard... One of the speakers inside the unit is now loose inside and rattling around out of site :(

I'm going to have to try and find a 20cm long philips screw driver and try and open it up. Hopefully I can glue the speaker back into place and all will be OK.


This thing has been a 'friend' to me for soooo many years I really would get quite upset having to chuck it :(

Sounds daft doesn't it :(



It's a beautify system! All the blocks for the hifi are separate so you can arrange it anyway you like. In a tower, side by side... The speaker are also in two separate block as well...

Anyway... It's just a lump of wood, plastic and wires... :(

http://www.audioscene.tv/catalog/images/sony%20mhc%203600%20copy.jpg

[capncnut]

Guttage! There's always a time when we got to kiss goodbye and let go of the ones we love, especially if they ain't in good condition anymore. :D

[Neil]

I think it's on the back of my pile of ****e/aggro at the moment. This is just part of the extension aggro I'm going thru.

It turns out when they fitted the floor in my study X weeks ago they didn't glue it down. So I asked them if I could move MOST of the stuff out I'm care put & wired in, but just leaving two cupboards. They could then come in and glue everywhere except under the cupboards... Fine they said...


They turned up today to say, oh no, the floor needs sealing first so you'll need to take EVERYTHING out...

So tonight I started gutting the entire study and voila the speaker falls off the cupboard bang!

TBH its like a script. Just today I was talking to a friend saying how much I like my super old stereo, and I was even looking at getting some new longer (bi-wire) speaker wire for it so I could fit it in study even better...


It's like someone up above is writing this stuff!!!!!

Let's make the poor f***er move everything into the room...

Now let's make him move most of the stuff out...

Now let's make him move it all out...

Hey! You know his prized stereo he was talking about today... Let's smash it :(

[EvilNed]

My popcorn machine broke yesterday.

And I REALLY like popcorn!

Oh, and I'm sorry about your stereo.

[Neil]

My popcorn machine broke yesterday.

And I REALLY like popcorn!

Oh, and I'm sorry about your stereo.

Did you mention to someone yesterday how much you liked your machine? If so... God heard you!

[fartpants]

if you had of never mentioned how much you love it , it would have lasted forever...

[Neil]

if you had of never mentioned how much you love it , it would have lasted forever...

Seriously... God's been watching me for the past 4-6 weeks with his itchy finger right on that 'nobble' button!

[MissJacksonCA]

The best thing you can do for yourself is just to let it go man... put it out of its misery and let it go :(

[Cykotic]

Neil's hi-fi

1992-2007

may it rest in peace...

[Neil]

Here's the example of God nobbling me again... So the only reason the speaker got broken was because I had to empty the new study because they didn't glue the floor down 3 weeks ago when they should have...

...so the floor guy popped around over the weeked to take a moisture reading of the new floor. Guess what! It's too wet to seal and could be that way for WEEKS or MONTHS!

So we spent hundreds of pounds getting a floor, which we cannot fit for near future... Meanwhile everything from the study is just forming yet more piles of mess around the house!

Three weeks ago we felt we were making headway because at least we had the study pretty much sorted out... Now that's f***ed and we're in even more of a mess...

I tell you... He's up there laughing his arse of at me!


Well **** him, at least I managed to get a specialised screw driver, take the broken speaker apart and fix it!

YOU MAY TAKE MY STUDY, BUT YOU'LL NEVER TAKE MY SPEAKER!!!

[MinionZombie]

Glad the speaker is back in order, I know how you feel about your favourite bits of household tech, I'm sorry to see something go when it conks out to be honest.

What on earth kind of floor did you get?! Moisture readings? WTF?!

Why not some of that click-together wood panel stuff? We've got it in this room I'm in now.

[Neil]

Glad the speaker is back in order, I know how you feel about your favourite bits of household tech, I'm sorry to see something go when it conks out to be honest.

What on earth kind of floor did you get?! Moisture readings? WTF?!

Why not some of that click-together wood panel stuff? We've got it in this room I'm in now.


The floor is only 5-6 weeks old and it can take months and month for all the moisture to work out of the cement etc. So you really cannot seal it 100% with anything. If you were to put that sort of hard wood floor on it would warp over time due to the moisture...

[MinionZombie]

Oh I see a whole new concrete floor...ah that explains it...still, what a buggery eh? :(

I doubt you'll be recommending any of these builders to your friends eh? You can't get like those big moisture sucking fan things in, like you see on TV after someone's been flooded, they suck the moisture out the walls and stuff ... but I'm not sure if that would weaken the concrete...just a thought.

[Neil]

Oh I see a whole new concrete floor...ah that explains it...still, what a buggery eh? :(

I doubt you'll be recommending any of these builders to your friends eh? You can't get like those big moisture sucking fan things in, like you see on TV after someone's been flooded, they suck the moisture out the walls and stuff ... but I'm not sure if that would weaken the concrete...just a thought.

Tis nothing to do with the builders... Basicaly the floor people didn't think it thru and recommended/sold us something that just can't be layed on the floor until it's dry enough (in weeks/months from now)...

God pressed that nobble button and made them forget to ask the right question(s)!

[EvilNed]

*Eats microwave popcorn*

Meh, they suffice.

[Debbieangel]

Ok I just gotta ask ya Neil... the cement floor is put in so floor would be level for wood floor to be laid properly correct? That part is confusing me why cement floor was put in?
Ah, these guys don't seem to know what they are doing? weeks? month to dry????
Oh soo sorry about the stereo we had a similar one and yes it had a proper send off too..hubby and I were sad to see it go :(!
BTW: Do you like the "antique" look? My hubby got this really great turntable with dvd player and cassette player with speakers for $100. It looks like an old time box radio from the '30's. He loves it,now we can play old vinyl records.

[Neil]

Ok I just gotta ask ya Neil... the cement floor is put in so floor would be level for wood floor to be laid properly correct? That part is confusing me why cement floor was put in?
Ah, these guys don't seem to know what they are doing? weeks? month to dry????
Oh soo sorry about the stereo we had a similar one and yes it had a proper send off too..hubby and I were sad to see it go :(!
BTW: Do you like the "antique" look? My hubby got this really great turntable with dvd player and cassette player with speakers for $100. It looks like an old time box radio from the '30's. He loves it,now we can play old vinyl records.

It's a brand new build so there's a concrete floor... New concrete takes months to fully dry... As I've (& the carpet people) now seem to have learned!

[Debbieangel]

ok..now when they put wood floor in are you going to need a subfloor also?
I am asking cause we put "lament" floor in and we had to put a luan(I am probably spelling that wrong its a thin wood) wood down to make sure floor is level then this heavy plastic over that then the "lament" flooring just clipped together. We love this flooring for well fake wood it is beautiful.
Anyhow it sounds like you have a real mess on your hands good luck with it all!

[Neil]

ok..now when they put wood floor in are you going to need a subfloor also?
I am asking cause we put "lament" floor in and we had to put a luan(I am probably spelling that wrong its a thin wood) wood down to make sure floor is level then this heavy plastic over that then the "lament" flooring just clipped together. We love this flooring for well fake wood it is beautiful.
Anyhow it sounds like you have a real mess on your hands good luck with it all!

I'm not having a wood floor... The original floor they put down (& were suppose to glue down) was a type of vinyl. Then it started riding up (due to the office chair) cos it wasn't glued. Then they said it needed to be glued but to do this they needed to seal the floor, and then they realised they couldn't seal the floor as it the concrete technically takes months to dry.

There's now a carpet based floor in there, glued, and I'm just going to get a protective PVC mat for where the chair travels...

Not ideal but I'm passed caring to be honest...

[Debbieangel]

ooooooook I get ya lol and dont blame ya that u are to the point of not caring!
We have an old house and are remodeling it, have been for years it takes so much time and sooo much money!!!
The floors,the walls,the ceilings, ooh geez all of it was such an issue, when this house was built in circa 1922 they slapped it together I am sure cause we have found soo many things wrong with it.
When we tore up the floors we found a newspaper dated in the 1950's it was so chewed up couldn't keep it! But, was interesting we tried to piece it together. It's too bad I could have framed it or done something with it or sold it. Oh well! The remodeling goes on neverending!! lol

[Neil]

To continue my example of the big G continuing to press the 'nobble button' on my life...

I was just telling my mate on Friday night all the hassle that led to a somewhat funny carpet being fitted in my study, and how it's been a right list of agro!

Later that evening we went into the cursed room for me to find two bald stripes. One about an inch long and about six inches long.

My other half had put down an old shelf in the middle of the floor and it had a big nail sticking out. It plucked the thread out in two places and left these bald patches!


See!!!!!!!!!!!!

[MinionZombie]

Geeeeeeeeeezus, you must have broken a mirror or walked under like eight ladders or something to deserve all this! :eek:

[Neil]

Geeeeeeeeeezus, you must have broken a mirror or walked under like eight ladders or something to deserve all this! :eek:

Unfrickin believable ain't it!

[fartpants]

we should start calling you ' lucky ' then Neil...