Cost benefits of living on your own

[memps]

It's been 2 years exactly since I moved in to my flat. It's when I bought this bottle of fairy liquid and yesterday the full two years was complete and I still have some. I view this as a victory for men and sensible use of stuff. I accept I have a dishwasher and the odd girlfriend who sees the whole point of fairy liquid is to use it all in one go but the fairy liquid has outlived them all and become a dear friend. Any other similar stories would be champion.

[B17NNS]

Run a bead of silicone around the bottom of those tiles for me will you poppet, it's bothering me.

[zac510]

A great victory for reasonable use of fairy liquid and for male-kind, well done.

[davepoth]

B17NNS said:

Run a bead of silicone around the bottom of those tiles for me will you poppet, it's bothering me.

I don't think I'm going to be able to go to bed until he confirms that he's done it. THANKS.

[memps]

What is a bead of silicone look like

[Disco You]

You put pots, pans and dishes in the dishwasher don't you? Weirdo.

[B17NNS]

memps said:

What is a bead of silicone look like

Dow Corning please. A little goes a long way.

[Zoobeef]

The gas and electric bills are £60 a quarter each that's with a 20 year old conventional boiler.

The Mrs has her own house.

[northwest monkey]

davepoth said:

B17NNS said:

Run a bead of silicone around the bottom of those tiles for me will you poppet, it's bothering me.

I don't think I'm going to be able to go to bed until he confirms that he's done it. THANKS.

If you mean the bit on the right, then I think that's boxing in for pipes under a boiler. Doesn't look the same to me. It should still have silicone on but I think we need to know the facts.

FOR THE LOVE OF GOD OP - TELL US IS IT TILES OR BOXING IN?

[TheEnd]

I hope that was the lemon fairy.

[PlankWithANailIn]

I can clearly see a bead of BLACK silicone at the bottom of those tiles.

[B17NNS]

Seems to be some sort of glass splash back over hob arrangement to the left. As above basically OP, a few more pictures and info required.

[snowdude2910]

PlankWithANailIn said:

I can clearly see a bead of BLACK silicone at the bottom of those tiles.

Me too. On another note you could have used your fairy liquid savings for a proper butt and scribe joint a million times better then using the flashing things

[B17NNS]

PlankWithANailIn said:

I can clearly see a bead of BLACK silicone at the bottom of those tiles.

Controversial. Grout cam please.

[B17NNS]

snowdude2910 said:

Me too. On another note you could have used your fairy liquid savings for a proper butt and scribe joint a million times better then using the flashing things

yes schoolboy error.

Fairy savings no doubt negated in Detol Multisurface costs just to stop that bad boy flaring up.

[memps]

It's black silicone under the tiles. From what I can recall there was some silicone under the boxing which houses some pipes but Sod's law meant I had to get to pipes cos of boiler issues. More importantly, do you not put pans and pots in with dishes. Have to accept I still don't know how to use the dishwasher effectively.

[beko1987]

I need to be single again! My missus can piss away a bottle twice the size of that in 2 months!

[Engineer1]

does the fairy put out though?

[Studio117]

beko1987 said:

I need to be single again! My missus can piss away a bottle twice the size of that in 2 months!

At least your mrs cleans up.

[simoid]

When the mrs is away, I just eat whatever's in the fridge as long as it doesn't smell horrendous. If it does smell dubious, I just give it an extra 20% cooking time then smell test again.

The mrs clears out the fridge of stuff nearing its use by date, or simply stuff that is open, every few days.

The advantage of me living on my own would therefore be lower waste, proportionately lower food bills, and more duvet days due to food poisoning.

Edited by simoid on Tuesday 8th April 09:15