8729 regrets , I've had a few

Hi
With our house nearly finished, we can take stock of the rights and wrongs, not including builders and geos ( this page is not long enough ).

The only thing that we could come up with is Italian electrics.
We did all the electrics ourselves ( apart from the hooking up ).
The misery of feeding 100's and 100's of cable through conduits, cutting stone and bricks for internal sockets ( the only external sockets we could find were really ugly and more suited for the garden).
And when the sockets are fitted, you have to force the plugs in with 300 psi and then if you are using a power tool, and move it even a fraction longer then the lead, the plugs fall out easier then a greased pig.

I lovingly look at the screwfix website, ( it really is porn you know ), looking at sockets, pull string switches, stainless steel dimmers ........I have to stop typing now.........hands shacking .............TTFN

What are your regrets ??????????

Category
Building/Renovation

Submitted by Anonymous (not verified) on Tue, 02/05/2008 - 08:20

[quote=marco mando;81946]Too few to mention.[/quote]

lucky you :yes:

Submitted by Anonymous (not verified) on Tue, 02/05/2008 - 12:36

Please, please, please, do NOT set my husband off about Screwfix!! We have catalogues, leaflets with special offers, booklets etc, etc.... and I swear he dribbles when he looks at the website!

Submitted by Anonymous (not verified) on Tue, 02/05/2008 - 12:47

[quote=Paolina;81975]Please, please, please, do NOT set my husband off about Screwfix!! We have catalogues, leaflets with special offers, booklets etc, etc.... and I swear he dribbles when he looks at the website![/quote]

has he signed up for email updates .......really big pictures that you can zoom into .............ummmmmmmmmmmm

Submitted by Anonymous (not verified) on Tue, 02/05/2008 - 12:48

My local (Italian) builders merchants were so taken with my screwfix catologue I had to lend it to them for a few days. They couldn't believe you could get all that stuff from one place and delivered to your door, for free, the next day.

Mind you I'm beginning to wonder whether I dreamt it and screwfix don't actually exist!

BAck to the thread, I'm in the middle of a project, but too early to report any regrets. I've got the window people around tomorrow to give me a price, the electrician arriving on Monday to start the installation........and so it goes on.

Submitted by Anonymous (not verified) on Tue, 02/05/2008 - 12:53

We too have a trusty 2007 screwfix catalogue in our place and it gets a trip out each time we need anything from the builder's merchants.

What an amusing site we must make! They can spot the Brits coming as they're brandishing their screwfix catalogues! Anyone here actually been to the Builder's Merchant without the catalogue????

Submitted by Anonymous (not verified) on Tue, 02/05/2008 - 13:06

err yes......... I was trying to buy some coach bolts, after cra$$y drawings and about half an hour I finally did my frankinstein impression, pulling my neck .....came away with exactly what I needed.......and a great laugh was had by all :laughs:

Submitted by Anonymous (not verified) on Tue, 02/05/2008 - 13:42

Italy does, indeed, have a wonderful version of the Screwfix catalogue - in fact, I would say it's much better. By a margin.

890 pages long, complete with everything you could ever dribble over (all men understand this!), it is a miracle - a wondrous addition to the toolkit and it's IN ITALIAN!

[URL="http://www.ferrunion.com"]Ferrunion s.p.a.[/URL] are the people - get hold of the catalogo generale.

:smile:

Submitted by Anonymous (not verified) on Tue, 02/05/2008 - 14:27

Thank you Nardini, now I can get excited and drool in English with Screwfix and in Italian with Ferrunion !!!:smile:

Submitted by Anonymous (not verified) on Tue, 02/05/2008 - 14:53

[quote=Nardini;81981]Italy does, indeed, have a wonderful version of the Screwfix catalogue - in fact, I would say it's much better. By a margin.

890 pages long, complete with everything you could ever dribble over (all men understand this!), it is a miracle - a wondrous addition to the toolkit and it's IN ITALIAN!

[URL="http://www.ferrunion.com"]Ferrunion s.p.a.[/URL] are the people - get hold of the catalogo generale.

:smile:[/quote]

Great bed time reading!!!. Add to this the girlie on the homepage wearing a bikini top, with writing on her thigh, Malirer spanner attached to her midriff and another smaller Mairer on her other thigh and holding something that I cannot figure out what it is.??? Italy .....

Submitted by Anonymous (not verified) on Tue, 02/05/2008 - 16:19

I just gave a spare Screw-fix catalogue to my local ferramenta, she said she had some english speaking customers that she had difficulty in understanding, she actually offered to pay for the book, no chance.
Maybe this could be a business venture :nah::nah:

Stribs

Submitted by Anonymous (not verified) on Thu, 02/28/2008 - 17:42

[quote=Nardini;81981]Italy does, indeed, have a wonderful version of the Screwfix catalogue - in fact, I would say it's much better. By a margin.

890 pages long, complete with everything you could ever dribble over (all men understand this!), it is a miracle - a wondrous addition to the toolkit and it's IN ITALIAN!

[URL="http://www.ferrunion.com"]Ferrunion s.p.a.[/URL] are the people - get hold of the catalogo generale.

:smile:[/quote]
Had to laugh - opened the link to the website and what was on the first page? - a half dressed girl in a bra and a tool belt, winking at me - god it really is an Italian version!!

Thanks for that!
Michael:yes: