Chris Parks
8th July 2018, 04:40 PM
Mrs P. commented recently that the gas cook top was giving trouble again, one burner refusing to ignite, a few with bad flame shapes etc. I have had several attempts in the past to sort out the problems and while I did fix them it was only temporary so I offered to buy a new one. This is where the job started to expand like a tropical cyclone on steroids.
While at the store after deciding on the cook top (we'll give you $600 of cookware if you buy this one) she reminded me that we might look at new TV's so we wandered over and had a look. Now I am the first one to admit that I like new technology and am an absolute sucker for it so half the fault was mine but Sony have some responsibility as well because they have brought out a new TV with no speakers, they use the screen as the speaker and it is awesome, so we bought one + a wall mount.
Meanwhile back at the ranch when we built this house it was wired with a full video/internet/phone network, over the years some of it has fallen into disuse or can't be used because of problems and we had been talking about ripping it all out because of the coming of the NBN towards the end of the year. The decision was taken to upgrade the whole thing and simplify it because these days you don't need half of it with wireless phones, computers etc. That will entail ripping the gyprock off one wall, moving all the computer network stuff/server stuff to a new home, running cat 6 wiring where it is needed etc and wall mounting a 40KG TV. We will hide the new TV box, DVD player, Foxtel box on the wall behind the TV to eliminate wire runs etc. I also had to get the sparky to move and add a few GPO's.
To go with the TV we had to upgrade the DVD player, wireless bridge, new network switch, Foxtel box and add a Telstra TV box so Foxtel was visible on other TV's through the house. Mind you I literally never watch TV because after 25 years of shift work I have fallen out of the habit and would rather read a book.
All because the gas cook top was a bit dodgy.
While at the store after deciding on the cook top (we'll give you $600 of cookware if you buy this one) she reminded me that we might look at new TV's so we wandered over and had a look. Now I am the first one to admit that I like new technology and am an absolute sucker for it so half the fault was mine but Sony have some responsibility as well because they have brought out a new TV with no speakers, they use the screen as the speaker and it is awesome, so we bought one + a wall mount.
Meanwhile back at the ranch when we built this house it was wired with a full video/internet/phone network, over the years some of it has fallen into disuse or can't be used because of problems and we had been talking about ripping it all out because of the coming of the NBN towards the end of the year. The decision was taken to upgrade the whole thing and simplify it because these days you don't need half of it with wireless phones, computers etc. That will entail ripping the gyprock off one wall, moving all the computer network stuff/server stuff to a new home, running cat 6 wiring where it is needed etc and wall mounting a 40KG TV. We will hide the new TV box, DVD player, Foxtel box on the wall behind the TV to eliminate wire runs etc. I also had to get the sparky to move and add a few GPO's.
To go with the TV we had to upgrade the DVD player, wireless bridge, new network switch, Foxtel box and add a Telstra TV box so Foxtel was visible on other TV's through the house. Mind you I literally never watch TV because after 25 years of shift work I have fallen out of the habit and would rather read a book.
All because the gas cook top was a bit dodgy.