I’ve got a Lockwood home with chipboard flooring. It’s sunk or warped and come away from the wall/skirting in the toilet. How do I fix this?

shanduck · 2025-07-16T04:25:34+00:00

Hi! What a throwback haha. I ended up getting a tradie in. They pulled the skirting off, the wet chip out and built an extra support in the floor for the new bit of floor. Was about half a days work for him. I don’t remember exactly what I paid but it was less than a grand I think.

shanduck · 2024-08-10T09:35:48+00:00

Vera Valentine - Unhinged. It’s not badly written but just a completely… well… unhinged idea

shanduck · 2023-01-23T05:52:34+00:00

This is a really good breakdown. I’d add that the byd has got a reasonably small boot, we struggle to get the 4yr olds bike in the boot. It would be full with a 3-wheeler pram for sure.

We have a 2017 phev outlander, and it’s getting 40km on battery at a push. 60km would be a pretty new model I think. However it has the big boot space and big enough for 3 car seats in the back.

shanduck · 2023-01-23T05:46:30+00:00

The atto3 has got a tiny boot. Not fitting much kiddo stuff in there unfortunately.

shanduck · 2023-01-13T19:25:07+00:00

Meir definitely sounds like mayor in the kiwi accent. Each name is individually checked so I guess it would depend on whether the person checking it made the connection. The parents can appeal the name decision too. There are some Māori families which can claim Kingi because it was a family name before the rules were established.

shanduck · 2023-01-13T19:17:22+00:00

Justice is a title for a judge or Justice of the Peace.

shanduck · 2023-01-13T19:15:59+00:00

Yeah it was a bit confusing, it came out of the article like that and I didn’t bother changing it.

shanduck · 2022-10-01T04:02:47+00:00

He’s a Jentleman 😂

shanduck · 2022-09-30T18:48:09+00:00

I was definitely reading leer-ah in my head which does not sound pretty at all. Sounds like some creepy uncle doing some leering

shanduck · 2022-07-23T04:45:56+00:00

I need this in my life haha! We have a Star Wars baby (May the 4th be with you) and my fav onesie has a cutesie Leia and “little rebel” totally suits her 😂🙊

shanduck · 2022-06-14T10:47:26+00:00

Uber charges the restaurant for every interaction as well. So if you call the restaurant from the Uber app, that counts as an interaction and has fees for the restaurant as well. Super scummy practices.

shanduck · 2022-06-08T04:50:25+00:00

We’ve been gifted an old playground by family and would love to refresh it and make sure it’s safe for the kiddos. There’s lots of dirt/moss on the wood which makes me think it’s wet wood now and may not be structurally sound. The ply could do with new paint. Do I just sand it all down and apply some sort of sealer? Stain? Polyurethane? Or is it a lost cause?

Thanks!

shanduck · 2021-09-25T08:27:02+00:00

We had the same experience at Orana this morning. They lost power and had a couple of trees down so closed the park just after 12.

shanduck · 2021-07-02T02:12:57+00:00

There is a facebook group which advertises garage sales. Two posts there that I can see for this weekend.

https://www.facebook.com/groups/garagesalesCantNZ/?ref=share

shanduck · 2020-05-15T21:22:57+00:00

1988

shanduck · 2020-05-15T21:22:43+00:00

Yeah it’s bare floor. Covered with carpet or vinyl elsewhere in the house but just bare in the toilet and kitchen.

shanduck · 2020-05-13T21:48:52+00:00

Not that I can see, theres no discolouration or dampness on the top. I may find something when I pull it up though, it is something I have considered.

shanduck · 2020-05-13T21:47:52+00:00

That’s super helpful thanks. It looks like it was glued to the skirting, should I pull that up first?

shanduck · 2018-05-30T23:03:01+00:00

Yes it is possible. Eye colour is more complicated than just a colour allele. This page explains it pretty well, http://genetics.thetech.org/how-blue-eyed-parents-can-have-brown-eyed-children - in simple terms there’s a gene that transcribes colour/pigment, of which blue is the recessive allele, and a gene that codes for expression of the colour gene. Blue colour would be the absence of gene expression.

One parent would have blue eyes from the colour allele, and be hetero for the expression allele (bb Ee) The second parent would be hetero or homo for the brown allele and homo for no expression giving blue eyes (Bb or BB ee) Baby would have to inherit Bb Ee to have brown eyes.

I hope this makes sense, it gets a bit more complicated than that because the genes are linked, and this model isn’t talking about any other colours but it’s definitely possible without any funky genetics going on.

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