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  #3340798 9-Feb-2025 17:12
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Cleaning the eves of our house

 

  • The cobwebs don't come off with a duster and instead stick to the white surface
  • The cobwebs have collected dust, pollution or other detritus which makes them brown
  • As you wash this away the white eves become browned as the dirt is washed out of the webs
  • About the only convenient way to clean it is to use an extending brushed window cleaner
  • Try using one of those with water going everywhere
  • It's well used so the hose randomly pops off
  • My keyboard arms are not designed for such a task
  • I'm doing it in the day so hopefully up any water that may go into places it shouldn't will quickly dry
  • It requires several passes of brushing to apply the soap, allow the soap to start working then start washing it away
  • The small water drips that bead up on the white surface have dirt and these need to be washed away as part of the multiple passes
  • Even in the evening the sun is still high and bright and somehow always exactly where I'm trying to look
  • There's a magpie in tree laughing at me




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  #3340799 9-Feb-2025 17:17
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Rikkitic:

 

That manufacturers insist on slapping superglued labels over the bottom of plastic containers, making it impossible to see the recycling number.

 

 

Related: I refuse to buy loose glassware from Briscoes because of the impossible-to-remove price stickers.


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  #3340800 9-Feb-2025 17:19
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Behodar:

 

Rikkitic:

 

That manufacturers insist on slapping superglued labels over the bottom of plastic containers, making it impossible to see the recycling number.

 

 

Related: I refuse to buy loose glassware from Briscoes because of the impossible-to-remove price stickers.

 

Can't say I've had that problem but if I did ... Label Strip - Chemz Limited

 

That stuff has a few bonus side effects - making your high and stripping your nasal canal if you get too close





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  #3340802 9-Feb-2025 17:25
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MadEngineer:

 

Can't say I've had that problem but if I did ... Label Strip - Chemz Limited

 

That stuff has a few bonus side effects - making your high and stripping your nasal canal if you get too close

 

 

I wonder if that works on apples.

 

 





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  #3340807 9-Feb-2025 18:02
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Rikkitic:

 

MadEngineer:

 

Can't say I've had that problem but if I did ... Label Strip - Chemz Limited

 

That stuff has a few bonus side effects - making your high and stripping your nasal canal if you get too close

 

 

I wonder if that works on apples.

 

 

Possibly, if you like the taste of chemical residue made of very long names and formulas.





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  #3340808 9-Feb-2025 18:03
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MadEngineer:

 

Cleaning the eves of our house

 

  • The cobwebs don't come off with a duster and instead stick to the white surface

 

There's something that looks like a giant toilet brush, extendable, that Mitre 10 sells that does a great job of getting cobwebs and the debris in them down from eaves, you just swirl it around and it scrubs everything down.  I can't find it on their site because I don't know what the magic incantation for it is, maybe someone else will know.


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  #3340848 9-Feb-2025 21:17
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MadEngineer:

 

Cleaning the eves of our house

 

  • The cobwebs don't come off with a duster and instead stick to the white surface
  • The cobwebs have collected dust, pollution or other detritus which makes them brown
  • As you wash this away the white eves become browned as the dirt is washed out of the webs
  • About the only convenient way to clean it is to use an extending brushed window cleaner
  • Try using one of those with water going everywhere
  • It's well used so the hose randomly pops off
  • My keyboard arms are not designed for such a task
  • I'm doing it in the day so hopefully up any water that may go into places it shouldn't will quickly dry
  • It requires several passes of brushing to apply the soap, allow the soap to start working then start washing it away
  • The small water drips that bead up on the white surface have dirt and these need to be washed away as part of the multiple passes
  • Even in the evening the sun is still high and bright and somehow always exactly where I'm trying to look
  • There's a magpie in tree laughing at me

 

Magpie not laughing but likely calling his mates over to watch the show :) You need a long cobweb brush with nylon bristles. Wear a hat and a rubbish bag over you ( to keep magpies amused) and spray the eaves with Napisan. Leave for a bit and then scrub with the brush then hose. Napisan or spay and walk away type stuff seems to dissolve all sorts of exterior dirt and green muck. Finish with a spray of vinegar. Spiders don’t like it. 


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  #3340861 9-Feb-2025 22:11
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Prices of accomodation in the Tron. 

 

 


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  #3340877 9-Feb-2025 23:22
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Eva888: You need a long cobweb brush with nylon bristles.

 

Ah, that was the "giant toilet brush" whose name I couldn't remember.  I've always just used it as is, I didn't need any cleaning compound.


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  #3340878 9-Feb-2025 23:43
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Cryptic gatekeeping.

 

 


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Newsletters that thank me for purchases and also contain trackers. The link to unsubscribe is then also found very quickly.





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  #3340885 10-Feb-2025 05:38
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Handle9:

 

Cryptic gatekeeping.

 

 

 

 

I often wonder how it's possible to critic something without being accused of gatekeeping these days. Golf is too elitist, well until you can get golf course maintenance and facilities down to the price of a basketball court it's always going to be more expensive. Plus afternoon rounds are taking five hours now so there's a real time cost. 


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That you can’t turn off the annoying DING sound that is made when adjusting the volume of Window, at least for this revision of Windows11 on my work PC you can’t. I have to adjust the volume up n down between callers and it that ding gets boring real quick, especially on headphones. 





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Bad drivers that are stupid enough to pull out in front of you when you are doing 100km. i.e. 20 m in front of you.

 

So they get a toot toot and a big filthy look stare when they turn off! But even more annoying is you then realise you know that person! Which doesn't change the fact. They will be getting told learn to drive speech.


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outdoorsnz:

 

Bad drivers that are stupid enough to pull out in front of you when you are doing 100km. i.e. 20 m in front of you.

 

So they get a toot toot and a big filthy look stare when they turn off! But even more annoying is you then realise you know that person! Which doesn't change the fact. They will be getting told learn to drive speech.

 

 

Or even coming from a side street when you are coming down on the main road at 50km/h. There's no car behind you but instead of waiting, they enter the main road, doing 30km/h.





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