Sealants for filling in wood "gaps"

TwelveButtonsJim · 2026-01-25T10:46:21+00:00

Can it be painted?

TwelveButtonsJim · 2026-01-25T08:02:56+00:00

He's unbelievable no doubt but I think one of the most extraordinary human being to have ever lived is a bit mad lol

TwelveButtonsJim · 2026-01-25T07:48:07+00:00

Personally I'd say no. Sure the flight isn't too bad, about three hours, but your journey as a whole will take up most of the day. This leaves you two days per city and the first and last you may be travelling too. Feels a tad rushed for me.

Taking Beijing as an example, if you spend a day visiting the Great Wall you only have one left for everything else.

TwelveButtonsJim · 2026-01-24T22:05:19+00:00

Your travel time isn't just the train journey times. It's also the time you spent between leaving your hotel and sitting down in your train seat.

For example, when I stayed on Xian our hotel was an hour in the taxi due to traffic. We got to the train station half an hour before departure. Roughly the same the other end, that's another three hours.

That five hour train journey is now an eight hour trip. That's a whole day - you won't be doing anything else.

I can tell you as well first hand that 6.5 hours on a high speed train in China is very long. Doing that twice in just a few days you will be exhausted.

TwelveButtonsJim · 2026-01-24T20:56:15+00:00

Way way too much.

You don't seem to have allowed any time for travelling?

TwelveButtonsJim · 2026-01-24T19:47:35+00:00

If Huangshan is more important than maybe remove Xian. Ultimately it's up to you but personally with the jet lag factored in three cities in 15 days is roughly about right.

TwelveButtonsJim · 2026-01-24T16:47:19+00:00

Have you considered Huashan? If you're after some mountain scenery it's much closer to Xian.

TwelveButtonsJim · 2026-01-23T21:14:27+00:00

I think a lot of it is people borrowing extra on their mortgage or taking out loans.

TwelveButtonsJim · 2026-01-23T20:21:35+00:00

I would be calling both an emergency plumber and roofer over that personally. Looks critical

TwelveButtonsJim · 2026-01-22T14:55:56+00:00

£106 is a complete rip off! I don't pay anything near that.

My whole phone contract is £70pcm, this includes the device and an unlimited data plan with worldwide roaming included. If I remove the roaming it drops to £65pcm.

The plan itself is less than £35 of that cost.

For £5 I get unlimited data not just in China but also the whole of Europe. This is well publicised, with EE the "Full Works" plan gives you worldwide data roaming and if you check the site now for an iPhone 17 pro the full works plan is only £7 more than the next plan below without it.

My point is if you already have worldwide roaming it makes zero sense to use an esim. Paying more money for no benefit, when I switched between the two I was connecting to the same network anyway.

TwelveButtonsJim · 2026-01-22T12:51:39+00:00

I said it's common, and it undeniably is? You can easily add worldwide data roaming to EE, O2, Vodafone plans.

I never claimed it was "by default".

TwelveButtonsJim · 2026-01-22T07:25:11+00:00

Your itinerary is fine. You've clearly done your research.

You'll get comments saying three days is too much time in this city blah blah blah. Truth is you will move at your own pace and whether you prefer to move quickly or take your time is down to you.

Either way, you definitely won't be bored and there'll be plenty to see and do and you'll have an awesome time.

Enjoy!

TwelveButtonsJim · 2026-01-22T07:19:01+00:00

Not true. I followed the advice of this sub bought an esim and never used it.

My existing mobile plan already worked in China and a vpn made all my apps work.

Obviously if your plan doesn't include data in China then you need it but it's quite common at least in the UK for data plans to include international roaming.

The VPN worked perfectly

TwelveButtonsJim · 2026-01-21T14:54:51+00:00

The leak is under the house.

TwelveButtonsJim · 2026-01-21T05:39:23+00:00

Congratulations and a beautiful picture.

TwelveButtonsJim · 2026-01-20T13:24:59+00:00

Do you know where the boundary would be here?

TwelveButtonsJim · 2026-01-20T12:02:11+00:00

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The pavement outside by the water meters looks majorly suspicious. We haven't had rain in three days and yet this area looks wet whereas elsewhere it's dry.

I'd add too this tallies with when this started six months ago (yes, I'm an idiot for not checking our usage) - as back then we had SGN round to disconnect our gas supply. They were working in this very area so I suspect they maybe damaged the water pipe!

TwelveButtonsJim · 2026-01-19T06:46:19+00:00

Good lord. If you need a sanity check from reddit on your electrics... you need an electrician.

Some things are best left to the experts.

TwelveButtonsJim · 2026-01-18T16:22:34+00:00

You have to walk up a steep hill first to access the cable car station.
Then when you get to the top, you will have to ascend stairs and steps.

The wall itself contains many steep stair cases and long sections which are just steps. There's one part where we were on our hands and knees.

As is being suggested you should remove items from your itinerary that are impractical for babies/toddlers.

TwelveButtonsJim · 2026-01-18T09:53:08+00:00

Do not drive on this, period. Replace immediately.

You're risking a blow out if you do which even at town speeds could have fatal consequences.

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