Enjoy the beer.

If you don't find the plastic flowers there's alway one of these.

Only $9.95 U.S. on eBay

Is that your house on the far right AX?
Nice one, Mrs AX looking over your shoulder...

LOL!

[QUOTE=Airseir;4500523]What are you all doing as spring approaches?

At last the Snow has gone and as usual the sun beats down here in Sunny Kamloops. I decided it was time to look on the web for some new trails for the Wife, I and over energetic Jack Russell to walk. As I searched through my favorites for the site I used a lot last year it occurred to me that I should share it on here. It may not be the best but I have found some pretty good hikes on there and for any-one new in an area any walk is a good walk.

http://www.trailpeak.com/

People at work have started to talk about golfing and are thinking about new golf bags for the season that starts in just two or three weeks. I really must practice a bit more this year - although I did win the highest score in a match last year

Not to forget the mountain bikes in the shed - I want to cycle across the Grasslands at the back of us before the rattle snakes wake up - we went across them last year - cycle where you want turn where you want - just wear plenty of Sun Screen. lol I also remember going down Rose Hill down hill course with Rich007 and scraped a whole load of skin off my legs.

Then as April comes and it really starts to warm up it will be off to lay on the beaches by one of the many lakes and fire the BBQ up when I get home. I am also hoping that this is the year I will catch my first lake trout to BBQ rather than getting the meat from the shops.

we wer going to have a look at loops but (without seeing it) we went for kelowna.

hows the work situation there as we still have not scrubbed it of our list of maybes yet.

i see you hurt yourself with richy rich 007, i do like the bike trails here in the uk, we live on the trans penine trail but rich asures me, downhill is the way to go, i fell of last year and broke me rib(that hurts), i know he gets his armour on before he goes out, my god im getting a little scared now.

were off to bc in june so we may have a look around loops then.

cheers
leadman

Which is why I'd never been seen dead owning one!

It was really Sping here yesterday, well above freezing. I washed the cars and was able to clear the deck of snow. I put the top down and went for a blast along the twisty roads. There were a surprising number of people on horseback, not very compatible with my whizzing along (girlishly) but nice to see; few people ride in blizzards.

And here in the south of England, i mowed the lawns for the first time since autumn. It's due to be 17 degrees today and forecast for week is very spring like indeed.

It was Spring in Ottawa this weekend. They had the Paddy's Day parade on Saturday (someone clearly lost their calendar). I say parade; it was more of a slither, owing to freezing rain.

Yesterday the temperature shot above zero. It was a beautiful day. Not that I got to enjoy it. I spent the day trying, and failing, to re-seal the downstairs bog.

Any experts on bogs here?

Sping has Spung here on the Rock. Yesterday was a beautiful sunny +5C day, the air being filled with the sound runnign water as the snow melted. Today is a less wonderful grey rainy +5C, the air being filled with the sound of rain as well as the actual rain itself. Flooding will inevitably follow as the snow-filled ditches clog up. The other delight that we are already facing is pothole season. Round here the potholes can eat a car alive!

I may well have to shortly change my avatar to something spinglike. Although we usually have a snowstorm in late march (called Sheila's brush for reasons that escape me) so perhaps not yet.

Oh yes, sorry Souv, know nothing about toilet maintenance.

I replaced mine(twice) the first time was when we did the bathroom and then the missus dropped a glass perfume bottle on the toilet edge and it cracked so i had to replace it. It had only been in for 2 weeks.

It's a grim job, even if Canadian bogs are, supposedly, simpler than Brit ones.

We noticed a smell in the downstairs powder room. It wasn't coming from the sink. We thought at first that it might be because the extractor fan was past its sell-by date (no windows BTW). We replaced it and that made the smell worse. I came to the conclusion that the wax seal had failed and the fan was sucking air up from the drains. So far so good. Replacing a seal isn't hard.

Things started to go wrong right from the start. The room is so small I had great difficulty reaching the bolts holding the tank to the bowl. I decided to remove the thing in one piece and then took it apart in the hallway. Big mistake. When I eventually put it back together, most of the joints leaked and it was too late to go buy more washers.

When I got it off, I saw that the metal flange plate at the top of the down-pipe was a bit loose. I tightened the screws as best as I could but they were still turning. I should have stopped right there and called a plumber but the reason for that didn't hit me until later.

I re-seated the bog and tightened the bolts. Or, at least, I tried to. The bolts sticking up were rather longer than they had been before and I was still turning the nuts.

I eventually gave up in despair. The room is now out of action; the tank leaks and the smell is worse than ever. I am fairly certain that the problem lies with the flange plate. The screws in it are not holding and, instead of fixing the bog down, I am pulling the flange up (ie, no seal). I can only see two possible reasons for this. It could be that the wrong screws were used (they looked like deck screws to me). The other possibility is that there is something wrong with the wood they are screwed into. I don't like option B at all. Either way, I think I'll have to get a man in.

Sounds like you definitely need a man in before the smell starts to circulate round the rest of the house.
Don't envy you on this job at all.

Are you using a wax (parrafin) ring seal or one of those rubber gasket seals? Is the floor under the flange wood or concrete?

A wax seal plus plumbers' putty around the horn of the base. That combination should be enough to stop any smells, provided the flange is secure, which it clearly isn't. The floor is wood, although I can't really see it because there is ceramic over the top.

I'm praying that the problem is with the screws. If they are not holding because the wood is rotten, we have a major, major issue.

Not a shitter expert, but if your toilet "rocks" even slightly, the seal will be broken... make sure flange bolts are tight to the throne (but not too tight)... add shims to the base if floor unven....other than that, you're on your own....

....by the way, someone tell the admin the forum clocks are not on DST.....