The Manor House Refurbishment... 6

Описание: ACTION AND EXCITEMENT… is in the thumbnail only and is otherwise sadly lacking in this, an exercise in how me and Trevor installed kitchen electrics with no flimmin’ measured plan and a client who moved the goalposts after first-fix.

We actually finished at the Manor House a year ago last week and this video was supposed to be edited last Christmas, but… meh. I got drunk and just couldn’t be bothered. We were back in May ’21 for some garden lighting shenanigans which got glued onto the end, so that’s a bonus for your having to wait a year to see how it all turned out… if indeed, you view additional footage of us as being a positive in any kind of way, shape or form.

Now we really are done there, at least until the kitchen is knocked down, but that may be a year or three away.

It’s another long ‘un. For every person who says my videos are too long, I get messages from people asking me to cut less out. Still, nobody ever said you had to watch it. In fact, I wouldn't bother if I were you. There’s a lot here of me and Hilary discussing her new kitchen layout which I was going to excise from the edit, but this is an example of the type of job we sometimes walk into: not everything has a measured plan and a client who knows exactly what they want, and this video shows how we go about getting the data we need to get on with throwing in the first-fix…

…which then all went to cock anyway as she ditched a 600mm kitchen unit in favour of one half the size leaving our accessories kinda out of place, although the fitter managed to work around them for a successful outcome.

Stupidity:
At 10:32, Nigel foolishly handles live equipment without observing safe isolation. Rest assured; he was reprimanded off camera and cried for ages about his smacked bottom which is why the scene was cut at this point.
There are also scenes where Nige uses an SDS chisel and a multitool without goggles or ear defenders. You can’t teach an old dog new tricks… or a stubborn Brexit voter common sense. Kids; don’t do what dickhead Nige does. Do do what David deems demonstrably doable and don defensive duds when doing dangerous duties.

Links:
Andrian Davey has an informative video on wall chasing and prescribed zones here:
   • Prescribed zones, chase depths and why I t...  
Adrian wouldn’t like the way we’ve run some of these chases and, technically, he’s not wrong. There is however a balance between the ideal and what you’re faced with out on site.

We make reference to another video where Nige shows off a stool and pencil. Yes, it’s a roller coaster ride and you can view it here:
   • SH!T CHAT: New swag with Nob Nob  

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Music:
Intro music commission by This Is Royalty Free:
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The montage tuneage is from a game called Astro Tripper (2008) on the PS3. If you got onto the high score table, this is the ditty that played as you entered your name. Liking it as I did, I hooked up my console to an audio capture device and snaffled the thing as an MP3 about ten-years ago. I emailed the publisher, PomPom Games, back in 2019 to ask if I could use it on a video, but I received no response. I think they ceased operations in 2015 and today their website no longer exists at all. I hope whomever composed it doesn’t mind my using it here.

Astro Tripper can still be found on Steam:
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And no, I never did get the hang of flying that friggin’ drone.

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