Title: Anyone else as STUPID as me? Post by: Lee on July 17, 2006, 05:58:35 PM I bought the house i currently live in 5 years ago and have lived in it for 4.5 years now.
Today on entering the utility room i saw a double light switch by the back door and wondered what the hell the second switch was for. I decided to gamble and switched it on and to my amazement a fan started making a "fan" type noise. I have since found out that as the boiler and tumble dryer etc. are in this room, it is to remove humidity and condensation etc. How can it take 4.5 years to find such a thing? Has anyone else ever found anything after so long living in a house? If so, what was it? Title: Re: Anyone else as STUPID as me? Post by: Nem on July 17, 2006, 06:00:19 PM A dead body under the patio :o
Title: Re: Anyone else as STUPID as me? Post by: mikkyT on July 17, 2006, 06:05:13 PM I moved a book in the bookcase and it swung back to reveal an entrance to a firemans pole and the batcave below
Title: Re: Anyone else as STUPID as me? Post by: Sark79 on July 17, 2006, 06:13:06 PM :D This is the sort of thing I would do as well.
Title: Re: Anyone else as STUPID as me? Post by: mikkyT on July 17, 2006, 06:14:58 PM :D This is the sort of thing I would do as well. GET A ROOOM Title: Re: Anyone else as STUPID as me? Post by: Lee on July 17, 2006, 06:18:11 PM :D This is the sort of thing I would do as well. GET A ROOOM Oh Mikky, don't fire accusations on our sexuality to hide your own please ;goodvevil; Title: Re: Anyone else as STUPID as me? Post by: Sark79 on July 17, 2006, 06:19:41 PM :D :D :D lol Mikky
I am 100% straight and Lee is married. Title: Re: Anyone else as STUPID as me? Post by: mikkyT on July 17, 2006, 06:21:41 PM Sounds like the usual excuses to me.
I bet your the happily married sorts that frequent mens theatres whilst away on business trips :D :D :D Just kidding Title: Re: Anyone else as STUPID as me? Post by: Lee on July 17, 2006, 06:23:07 PM If going out, i will only frequent the Blue Oyster bar, so you are wrong :D
BTW, for the record, if you want to wind me up and say things about me for a laff, it will never be taken seriously or personally. I am all for a bit of banter and fun and urge you to continue, mainly cos it frees me up to pay the favour back lol Title: Re: Anyone else as STUPID as me? Post by: Claw75 on July 17, 2006, 06:55:56 PM not quite 4.5 years, but after just short of two years in this place I realised that the vents at floor level under our kitchen cupboard is a floor level heater. I'd never noticed the switch, which probably goes to show how clean my kitchen floor is!
Title: Re: Anyone else as STUPID as me? Post by: MrMoves on July 17, 2006, 07:11:42 PM We've had a dishwasher for about 3 years, too lazy to wash up.
I'm also too lazy to know how the dishwasher works. All I know is hot kitchen items come out of it now and again. Title: Re: Anyone else as STUPID as me? Post by: Mr F on July 17, 2006, 07:57:20 PM We had a switch underneath the top of the stairs but never figured out what it did.
Title: Re: Anyone else as STUPID as me? Post by: Royal Flush on July 17, 2006, 08:01:39 PM I bought the house i currently live in 5 years ago and have lived in it for 4.5 years now. Today on entering the utility room i saw a double light switch by the back door and wondered what the hell the second switch was for. I decided to gamble and switched it on and to my amazement a fan started making a "fan" type noise. I have since found out that as the boiler and tumble dryer etc. are in this room, it is to remove humidity and condensation etc. How can it take 4.5 years to find such a thing? Has anyone else ever found anything after so long living in a house? If so, what was it? Lee to be honest, during the whole month i stayed at your hourse you didnt seem to know thier was a utility room! Debbie handles all that! Title: Re: Anyone else as STUPID as me? Post by: Ginger on July 17, 2006, 08:48:00 PM I bought the house i currently live in 5 years ago and have lived in it for 4.5 years now. Today on entering the utility room i saw a double light switch by the back door and wondered what the hell the second switch was for. I decided to gamble and switched it on and to my amazement a fan started making a "fan" type noise. I have since found out that as the boiler and tumble dryer etc. are in this room, it is to remove humidity and condensation etc. How can it take 4.5 years to find such a thing? Has anyone else ever found anything after so long living in a house? If so, what was it? Lee to be honest, during the whole month i stayed at your hourse you didnt seem to know thier was a utility room! Debbie handles all that! Funnily enough I was thinking along the same lines! Lee, I thought all you used it for was to store your hundreds of empty diet coke cans, ready to be recycled?! Actually, I'm surprised you've even noticed it now! as you sent away you garden in skips, what do you actually go out of that door for? :D Nothing would shock me with you, after the "wow, I found a motorbike in my garage" moment (I still don't get how you could forget buying a beast like that) So not seeing a switch is a pretty minor thing tbh lol xx Title: Re: Anyone else as STUPID as me? Post by: Lee on July 17, 2006, 09:23:07 PM Lee to be honest, during the whole month i stayed at your hourse you didnt seem to know thier was a utility room! Debbie handles all that! She mothered you too FFS!!! In 6 weeks you washed one car? even i did more than that!! Title: Re: Anyone else as STUPID as me? Post by: Royal Flush on July 17, 2006, 09:23:46 PM Lee to be honest, during the whole month i stayed at your hourse you didnt seem to know thier was a utility room! Debbie handles all that! even i did more than that!!Prove it! Title: Re: Anyone else as STUPID as me? Post by: Lee on July 17, 2006, 09:29:53 PM Funnily enough I was thinking along the same lines! Lee, I thought all you used it for was to store your hundreds of empty diet coke cans, ready to be recycled?! LOLOLOL G. I now put them into the recycling bin as it pisses me off seeing them stack up. Actually, I'm surprised you've even noticed it now! as you sent away you garden in skips, what do you actually go out of that door for? I went there to :D Nothing would shock me with you, after the "wow, I found a motorbike in my garage" moment (I still don't get how you could forget buying a beast like that) So not seeing a switch is a pretty minor thing tbh lol xx I really have no answer to this one, you have me beat. What i can say is that if i havn't been in my garage for 5 or 6 months, how could i know? Title: Re: Anyone else as STUPID as me? Post by: Lee on July 17, 2006, 09:31:16 PM Prove it! Does Blonde allow me to take the 5th amendment? Title: Re: Anyone else as STUPID as me? Post by: ifm on July 17, 2006, 11:09:20 PM After getting a couple of pals round on Friday afternoon to help with the gardening i have discovered that i have a back fence!!!!!!!!!
I also found a bar B cue, a watering can and 2 gnomes!! Title: Re: Anyone else as STUPID as me? Post by: Lee on July 17, 2006, 11:12:24 PM lol
Title: Re: Anyone else as STUPID as me? Post by: Graham C on July 17, 2006, 11:15:04 PM In our kitchen, we have the normal work surface with cupboards underneath then some cupboards on the wall type thing - normal kitchen stuff. The wall units have lights under them - again pretty normal, but in the 4 years we've lived here, we can't figure how to turn them on. Wierdly, I'm sure I've had them on before but I can't for the life of me get them on again.
Title: Re: Anyone else as STUPID as me? Post by: Lee on July 17, 2006, 11:27:54 PM Normally, these lights are daisy chained together and they are often plugged in above the wall cupboards. Stand on the work surface and have a look above for a plug. Either that or they have individual switches on the actual lights. The only other scenario is that your normal light switch has extra switches which will operate them.
Title: Re: Anyone else as STUPID as me? Post by: Sark79 on July 17, 2006, 11:28:57 PM Kitchens are tricky things to work out. Extractor fans hurt my brain. They are fiddly things ( well my one is anyway. It may be due to the fact it is older than me )
Title: Re: Anyone else as STUPID as me? Post by: ifm on July 17, 2006, 11:29:23 PM put 50p in the meter :D
Title: Re: Anyone else as STUPID as me? Post by: Sark79 on July 17, 2006, 11:29:47 PM :D
Title: Re: Anyone else as STUPID as me? Post by: Lee on July 17, 2006, 11:31:05 PM Kitchens are tricky things to work out. Extractor fans hurt my brain. They are fiddly things ( well my one is anyway. It may be due to the fact it is older than me ) My extractor hasn't failed in 5 years. Title: Re: Anyone else as STUPID as me? Post by: Graham C on July 17, 2006, 11:33:04 PM I've tried all that, it's no where. I've had the cupboard all out to see if there's a switch inside, tried following the wires, but they go inside stuff I can't see, I've stood on chairs and knelt as low as I can go.
Doesn't exist Well, it does, I just can't find the bloody thing :D Title: Re: Anyone else as STUPID as me? Post by: ifm on July 17, 2006, 11:36:00 PM I've tried all that, it's no where. I've had the cupboard all out to see if there's a switch inside, tried following the wires, but they go inside stuff I can't see, I've stood on chairs and knelt as low as I can go. Doesn't exist Well, it does, I just can't find the bloody thing :D Get a hammer and smash holes in the wall at 6" intervals until you find where the wires end up :D (as in the borrowers and that Gene Hackman film where he was looking for a bug) Title: Re: Anyone else as STUPID as me? Post by: Lee on July 17, 2006, 11:38:12 PM I've tried all that, it's no where. I've had the cupboard all out to see if there's a switch inside, tried following the wires, but they go inside stuff I can't see, I've stood on chairs and knelt as low as I can go. Doesn't exist Well, it does, I just can't find the bloody thing :D :D Silo OK this is a mission now, we have to find the switch. Behind any appliances already plugged in or switch is located in another room adjacent? Title: Re: Anyone else as STUPID as me? Post by: Graham C on July 17, 2006, 11:49:58 PM lol
It can't be in an adjacent room, the only room really adjacent is next door (that would be wierd :D) and our dining room, which it isn't in. It's too late to be searching for a solution to an age old problem now, I'll look again in the morning :) Title: Re: Anyone else as STUPID as me? Post by: Royal Flush on July 18, 2006, 02:13:17 AM I did lose my car one time. I left it outside a bar and forgot about it....
Title: Re: Anyone else as STUPID as me? Post by: Ginger on July 18, 2006, 08:34:39 AM I did lose my car one time. I left it outside a bar and forgot about it.... .....for 6 months though?! Title: Re: Anyone else as STUPID as me? Post by: SuffolkPunch on July 18, 2006, 09:16:52 AM Kitchens are tricky things to work out. Extractor fans hurt my brain. They are fiddly things ( well my one is anyway. It may be due to the fact it is older than me ) My extractor hasn't failed in 5 years. My mate used to support Ipswich Town FC. Does that make him an ex-tractor fan? Title: Re: Anyone else as STUPID as me? Post by: stallyon on July 18, 2006, 10:37:15 AM Kitchens are tricky things to work out. Extractor fans hurt my brain. They are fiddly things ( well my one is anyway. It may be due to the fact it is older than me ) My extractor hasn't failed in 5 years. My mate used to support Ipswich Town FC. Does that make him an ex-tractor fan? :redcard: :redcard: :redcard: Title: Re: Anyone else as STUPID as me? Post by: Royal Flush on July 18, 2006, 04:14:55 PM I did lose my car one time. I left it outside a bar and forgot about it.... .....for 6 months though?! No comment |