Stijn!!

[livi]

Morning! Whats todays topic?

[Rick V]

Not too sure we are ever organized enough to actually have a topic of the day. Just kinda wing it, and see what happens.
Morning Markus

[svandamme]

just got a bunch of crap off to the dump, clearing out the garage.
Got some more 15 mil copper pipes, and went and picked out tiles at the tileshop.
some 60x60cm brownish tile...

i'm good to go

today, finishing the cut in the wall, put primer on the ytong wall so it doesn't suck moisture
solder up the piping

tomorrow, green water resistant drywall on the ytong..
filling the joints on the drywall, waterproofing the joints
install the shower floor and drains

another layer of primer to the drywall
pick up tiles

saturday or sunday i'll be installing the tiles.

[Rick V]

I like doing tile work. I am getting ready to set a slate floor in my mud room. We have a slate quarry fairly close to the house so I go there to get it. 1/4 the price of getting it from the store that the quarry sells to.

[svandamme]

never done it before, should be interesting... it's not floor tiles, it's for the side walls of the shower itself.

bathroom floor, not sure yet what i'll do with it, think i might go for some bamboo laminate board...
but need to look into that further, don't know if they have that in bathroom grade

[Rick V]

It's not hard, just messy. Grout sux though

[svandamme]

well, my tile supplier told he he doesn't grout no more, that the general trend for shower tiles is to use silicone instead.. easier, faster, and no more problems with color variation like what happens with grouting..

either way, with a 60x60 cm tile instead of 20x20 or 20x10, i should have less tile grouting if i do decide to do it that way...

[livi]

I wonder if it is possible for us users to do a search for a list with threads according to post-count number? This one would probably be among the first soon. Popular much like Seinfeld, a series about nothing.

[svandamme]

nah, random picture, random picture you took, random video and is there a god obliterate this thread in terms of post count... no contest...


here's some of my soldering :







i'm surprised that it's not more difficult, i hate soldering wires, and i'm crap at it.
But soldering pipe, it's not all that difficult, just need enough heat, and make sure you solder T's or bend pieces in one go, not end by end... and clean the parts good, and add the flux right away after cleaning...

Also surprised about these pictures, there's just something about metal pieces that just looks great screen.. little details , color changes... either that or i inhaled some chemicals while working... and i'm stoned right now..

[svandamme]

just checked, it's #11 all time most replies, #24 in all time most views.
Just for off topic, excluding parf, didn't check for all the forums.

[Rick V]

We goin to the top baby.
Markus's breakfast club.

[svandamme]

oi, who's name is in the title ??

[Rick V]

okay it's all yours

[GH85Carrera]

Originally Posted by svandamme

oi, who's name is in the title ??

Stijn, I was wondering how you pronounce your first name. I am guessing the j is silent but I don't even know why I assume that.

It is pronounced something like Sten?

[svandamme]

no non native dutch/flemish speaker can do it.

Reading it, native english folks, and Indians end up with "stigeon", which has become my defacto nick name with co-workers...

It's actually pronounced more like the verb "Staying" but choke the ing so it becomes an N.
Stay-N

Dutch or Germans that heard it once, often revert to "Stein", like in Einstein. But it's not.

Frechies , hit N miss, never know what they will come up with, and none can remember it
For that purpose, quite often i give em my second name "Jan" translated to French : "Jean", so they at least remember something...

I like Stigeon, or the StiJ, i'm pretty much like the Stig, i wanna go fast and stuff, quite antisocial, hate public transport, speedlimits. stuff like that...
I'm just more talkative then he is...

It's a typical Flemish name, abreviation of either Constantijn/Constantine, or Augustijn/Augustine, or any other saint or big wig name that ends with -stine.
But lately it became a flemish name in it's own right, without anything before it.
Hell, i don't need no saint to be named after, Winston Churchil called Ypres Holy ground to the British Empire, i was born and raised there.. So that practically makes me a Saint in my own right

[Schumi]

yeeeap. And my name is 'Mike'.


wooo hoo.

[Geronimo '74]

Too bad I speak Flemish otherwise I could call you "Stigeon" as well... (funny as hell that is)

"Stay-n" is the closest you English speakers will get. Not easy explaining Flemish/Dutch pronounciation to foreigners.

[Rick V]

Well I am Rick, it is pronounced Rick, as in Rick

[svandamme]

Originally Posted by Geronimo '74

Too bad I speak Flemish otherwise I could call you "Stigeon" as well... (funny as hell that is)

"Stay-n" is the closest you English speakers will get. Not easy explaining Flemish/Dutch pronounciation to foreigners.

my Flemish co-workers use it..it's something i brought home from Holland where i worked with Yanks and Limey's, and it stuck

[flatbutt]

Originally Posted by svandamme

no non native dutch/flemish speaker can do it.

Reading it, native english folks, and Indians end up with "stigeon", which has become my defacto nick name with co-workers...

It's actually pronounced more like the verb "Staying" but choke the ing so it becomes an N.
Stay-N

Stain?! That ain't right!

My ex is Dutch and she pronounced my name Thoma-ASS