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Old Jun 30, 2007 | 07:48 PM
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no matter how tempting and how much quicker the the thought of using a angle grinder to cut a groove in the wall to bury speaker cables in the front room



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after the first metre i had to stop as i couldnt see anything,,, everything and i MEAN EVERYTHING is covered in dust and the neighbours knocked on the door thinking there was a fire


brick bolster and elbow grease !!!


though ive fucked me elbow so carried on with the grinder,,,, the missus is STILL trying to dust and sweep up the mess,,, shes SOO pissed im hiding in the bedroom,,,,, though i wont be getting changed to go out till shes calmed down a little bit,,, infact i dont think ill be allowed out
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quality, did you get a pic of the carnage you caused
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to be fair,,,,, i NEVER sweated and it WAS quieter,,, no complaints yet,,, well apart from the missus
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no matter how tempting and how much quicker the the thought of using a angle grinder to cut a groove in the wall to bury speaker cables in the front room



DONT !!!

after the first metre i had to stop as i couldnt see anything,,, everything and i MEAN EVERYTHING is covered in dust and the neighbours knocked on the door thinking there was a fire


brick bolster and elbow grease !!!


though ive fucked me elbow so carried on with the grinder,,,, the missus is STILL trying to dust and sweep up the mess,,, shes SOO pissed im hiding in the bedroom,,,,, though i wont be getting changed to go out till shes calmed down a little bit,,, infact i dont think ill be allowed out
pmsl Lee tried to remove some skirting board the same way and set it on fire
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no matter how tempting and how much quicker the the thought of using a angle grinder to cut a groove in the wall to bury speaker cables in the front room



DONT !!!

after the first metre i had to stop as i couldnt see anything,,, everything and i MEAN EVERYTHING is covered in dust and the neighbours knocked on the door thinking there was a fire


brick bolster and elbow grease !!!


though ive fucked me elbow so carried on with the grinder,,,, the missus is STILL trying to dust and sweep up the mess,,, shes SOO pissed im hiding in the bedroom,,,,, though i wont be getting changed to go out till shes calmed down a little bit,,, infact i dont think ill be allowed out
pmsl Lee tried to remove some skirting board the same way and set it on fire

mate ive just replaced mine

took mine of the PROPER way not some made up bodged way


i used a long phillips screwdriver and a brick for a hammer and forced them off till the wood snapped through the middle

use a angle grinder to remove skirting,,, what a cowboy
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quality, but did you get the speaker cables fitted
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quality, but did you get the speaker cables fitted

i will tommorow when i start on the other 3 walls,,,,,,,, only got round to doing one then the neighbours interupted and when i finished talking the missus came back

shes off out again tommorow so i should have some time when i get back from the gym

then ill start on the rest of the speaker cables as i want the entire house to run of one stereo and have music in every room,,,,, i think i may have to book her and the kid a holiday for me to get round to that one
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no matter how tempting and how much quicker the the thought of using a angle grinder to cut a groove in the wall to bury speaker cables in the front room



DONT !!!

after the first metre i had to stop as i couldnt see anything,,, everything and i MEAN EVERYTHING is covered in dust and the neighbours knocked on the door thinking there was a fire


brick bolster and elbow grease !!!


though ive fucked me elbow so carried on with the grinder,,,, the missus is STILL trying to dust and sweep up the mess,,, shes SOO pissed im hiding in the bedroom,,,,, though i wont be getting changed to go out till shes calmed down a little bit,,, infact i dont think ill be allowed out
pmsl Lee tried to remove some skirting board the same way and set it on fire

mate ive just replaced mine

took mine of the PROPER way not some made up bodged way


i used a long phillips screwdriver and a brick for a hammer and forced them off till the wood snapped through the middle

use a angle grinder to remove skirting,,, what a cowboy
pmsl Lee finished the job off with a hammer and chisel you should see the state of it
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well ive not actually fitted mine yet as ive started on the kitchen,,,, oh and now ive started on the speaker cables in the front room

i also started taking the wall paper off the walls in the hallway last night when i got up to go toilet


yes,,,, my house looks MINT
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well ive not actually fitted mine yet as ive started on the kitchen,,,, oh and now ive started on the speaker cables in the front room

i also started taking the wall paper off the walls in the hallway last night when i got up to go toilet


yes,,,, my house looks MINT

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Been there done that with one of my mates years ago...except he used a petrol driven grinder/saw to make channels in his concrete floor when he got his new TV etc......all the windows open with dust billowing out of them....I'm sure it was about 9pm at night too!!!! We both walked out the lounge like snowmen!!1
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Vacuum cleaner, there's a clue for you.

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welcome to the world of chasing walls

is that the RIGHT way to do it then ????


i was just being lazy as i couldnt find the brick bolster but i DID find the angle grinder and then a light bulb in my head went PING !

is that how some people do it then ????


btw i used the grinding disc rather than the cutting disk as its thicker,,,, was that a bad idea

well if you dont count that i was also using a metal grinding disc too
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Vacuum cleaner, there's a clue for you.

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dont talk about my girlfriend like that
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dimond coated disk i use for slitting walls in a 9" grinder
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Originally Posted by focusv8
Vacuum cleaner, there's a clue for you.

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my missus KNOWS what a vacum cleaner is,,,, shame we DONT own one one as poor henry died when i was hoovering up the bricks ect from the fire place

and as the down stairs is tiled and the upstairs lamnate flooring,, well there was no need to buy another one as we never seemed to take henry for asmany walks as we used to when we had carpets

btw still need to grout the floor too
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theres carbon and string in my disk,,,, its about 2cms thick too
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oh and ive only got a mini grinder but i also got a small flat
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you never took any pics a picture paints a thousand words



IT WOULD SAVE YOU TYPING


did you hear the result on leons killer yesterday.i will pm if you dont know
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have you not heard about wireless devices these days? don't they have stuff like that in the big smoke?
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yeah someone else on here also keeps me in the loop

cant belive they thought they might get out earlier,,,, i mean they fitted a new fucking starcase, carpets and removed the wall paper to hide the way they butchered him

thats when you IGNORE they shot him 7 times and stabbed him roughly 58 times round the body NOT including stucking the FIRST samori sword in hes chest at the very START of hes murder and after all that they decided on dumping hes body and burning it

suprised they bothered replying to them in the first place when they read the case

hope that fat cunt LOVES taking it in the arse,,,,, bet that gun in his mouth would be a DREAM come true to what hes getting stuck in hes mouth these days

they are gonna DIE inside,, as they already got another 7 years or so ontop for another thing they done

bet there mum STILL pretends to be proud of them
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have you not heard about wireless devices these days? don't they have stuff like that in the big smoke?

what for my bose monitors,,,, mate my stereo aint some 49.99 job from argos here mate

i paied 90 quid for it in cashconverters
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well i aint gonna cry about it if thats what your worried about

yeah,, imagine that,, worst case hes heard,,,, and thats a case in liverpool

i bet bin laden would give them the chair
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the things we do to hide wires
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this is my handy work for today

still got the cables to sort out yet
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why dont you just run the wires round the floor/down some trunking sooooo much easier than taking a grinder to your whole house,if you wanted to put new wiring in the cossie would you take the grinder to that to?? actually dont answer that one
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this is my handy work for today

still got the cables to sort out yet
love the designer plaster effect wallpaper
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why dont you just run the wires round the floor/down some trunking sooooo much easier than taking a grinder to your whole house,if you wanted to put new wiring in the cossie would you take the grinder to that to?? actually dont answer that one
cause im trying to make the house look a little better than it does now

all the electric cables have trunking in them,,,, there next ( when i get my eye sight back )

doji,,,,,, seriously mate,,,, you really are doing a good job on that squat,,, maybe some candles in a few empty bottles of diamond white to set off the walls a little better
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a bit of boarding up to hide the wires, then finish papering over the top and job done

it'll look better once it's all done
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oh and a few more odd bits of stereo too,,, you dont seem to have the silver face/wooden chassis stereo stuff in that collection yet

oh,, centre speaker on the shelf will improve them shoddy sound effects them morons who made the movie with there 4 million dollar music studio and fucked up there sound timing

nothing like the effect of a train hitting you head on and the sound comming from the top left corner,,,, thats when you KNOW you got proper home cinema

almost as good as my mates who look at my stereo and complain cause i dont adjust my base or treble and that i dont have a 30 band graphic equaliser

they TOO seem to think there 400 quid stereo from kays catalogue and there music lessons on the piano to learn the start of chopsticks when they was at school makes the CORRECT sound setting that the white boys who work at EMI,,,,, with a computer worth more than there house and there parents combined,,,, with degrees in sound engineering but STILL fucked up and edited 50 cents track and fucked up his music style to by not adding enough bass and treble and turning the middle up FAR TOO HIGH,,,, white people just dont understand music they tell me

i NEED a graphic equaliser,,,, them pretty lights,,,,, all set in a artistic fashion when its dark at night,,,,, cant beat the people who know there music
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it'll look better once it's all done

id hope so,, as the divorce will cost more than you getting a pro in to fix the damage you made
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oh and a few more odd bits of stereo too,,, you dont seem to have the silver face/wooden chassis stereo stuff in that collection yet

oh,, centre speaker on the shelf will improve them shoddy sound effects them morons who made the movie with there 4 million dollar music studio and fucked up there sound timing

nothing like the effect of a train hitting you head on and the sound comming from the top left corner,,,, thats when you KNOW you got proper home cinema

almost as good as my mates who look at my stereo and complain cause i dont adjust my base or treble and that i dont have a 30 band graphic equaliser

they TOO seem to think there 400 quid stereo from kays catalogue and there music lessons on the piano to learn the start of chopsticks when they was at school makes the CORRECT sound setting that the white boys who work at EMI,,,,, with a computer worth more than there house and there parents combined,,,, with degrees in sound engineering but STILL fucked up and edited 50 cents track and fucked up his music style to by not adding enough bass and treble and turning the middle up FAR TOO HIGH,,,, white people just dont understand music they tell me

i NEED a graphic equaliser,,,, them pretty lights,,,,, all set in a artistic fashion when its dark at night,,,,, cant beat the people who know there music
the speaker is only there to fill up the space, i haven't got any wires to hook it all up yet
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regarding wall installs.my plasma 42 throws out a massive amount of heat via the back vents..anybody had any issues with wall paper or paint on the walls

mines on a floor mount so no problem
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oh and a few more odd bits of stereo too,,, you dont seem to have the silver face/wooden chassis stereo stuff in that collection yet

oh,, centre speaker on the shelf will improve them shoddy sound effects them morons who made the movie with there 4 million dollar music studio and fucked up there sound timing

nothing like the effect of a train hitting you head on and the sound comming from the top left corner,,,, thats when you KNOW you got proper home cinema

almost as good as my mates who look at my stereo and complain cause i dont adjust my base or treble and that i dont have a 30 band graphic equaliser

they TOO seem to think there 400 quid stereo from kays catalogue and there music lessons on the piano to learn the start of chopsticks when they was at school makes the CORRECT sound setting that the white boys who work at EMI,,,,, with a computer worth more than there house and there parents combined,,,, with degrees in sound engineering but STILL fucked up and edited 50 cents track and fucked up his music style to by not adding enough bass and treble and turning the middle up FAR TOO HIGH,,,, white people just dont understand music they tell me

i NEED a graphic equaliser,,,, them pretty lights,,,,, all set in a artistic fashion when its dark at night,,,,, cant beat the people who know there music
the speaker is only there to fill up the space, i haven't got any wires to hook it all up yet

oh so with all that stereo stuff you got on that shelf,,,,, all that home cinema dolby pro logic digital sound enhancing stuff,,,,, with all them speakers


YOU ONLY MANAGED TO GET STEREO SOUND


take it back,,,, you COULD buy a 30 band graphic to make better sound quality
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depends on what telly you've got
my 42" puts out enough heat to warm the house, but the 50" is cool as a cucumber
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