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Thats why he wants to keep the curtains open...
..to keep the park under surveilance
DIY solutions to streetlight glare, fireplaces, and lazy curtains??
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Thats why he wants to keep the curtains open...
..to keep the park under surveilance
get is swept properly or borrow some brushes ( very messy) do not have fire before doing this or the risk of a chimney fire is there. my local sweep wanted £45 to do it. I borrow my mates sweep brushes now but it can be very messy job sometimes I think the £45 is a lot easier but I'm tight ass
Sweeping a chimney isn't messy if it is you are doing it wrong.
As for the whole streetlight thing if it's not a wind up it should be!
Close the curtains not only are they the best and most simple cure for your light issue they are also the cheapest and one of the best solutions to your draft probelm!
ITT: Some guy too lazy to close curtains wants to rig a Coconut Tree climbing device to climb a Lamp-Post...
What am I missing here?
You're missing the fact that his room is draughty so he's opened up an old chimney to combat that and he finds it too hard to close his curtains using his hands and now wants advice about making cyborg curtains. I think that's about it!
So you sleep ok at night, even with the light outside? And it only bothers you when you're on your computer?
Solution?
Draw curtains when on computer, open them before going to bed.
So you have glare from a street light and curtains to block out the street light but you don't like to close them. Instead you are thnking of climbing said lamp post and making a lamp shade?!?!?? Or even shooting out the bulb!
Not sure if serious.
Stop being stupid and close your curtains.
Not sure if serious.
Stop being stupid and close your curtains.
Fantastically enough, the chimney has a thing you can open and close it with, so it won't be adding to the draft issues, simply giving me another option to keep warm, and fires tap into some innate feminine desires.
And in my defence, there is stuff in the way of the windows... Anyway, we shouldn't be turning our backs on progress, why build a WC, you're just being too lazy to use the outhouse.
Surely you guys can see that it's not a question of laziness if I'm willing to go several steps beyond the norm to solve the problem, it's just not solving it in the boring and inadequate ways you're suggesting (closing curtains).
So all these votes for using curtains, but nay a response so far suggesting good remote high torque motors
....So, now we see what you're actually after: a room dark enough to hide your hideous countenance, curtain-based technology that you hope will impress a lady and a crackling fire to seal the deal in the approaching winter months. You clever/filthy lothario!
I heartily await your next thread, which I'm sure will be along the lines of "Spec me a posing pouch!"
So all these votes for using curtains, but nay a response so far suggesting good remote high torque motors
So this thread is actually 'Spec me some hypothetical, but unusual ways to get rid of the light outside my window'?
In which case...I'd recommend that you go down to the nearest petrol station and fill up with a can of diesel. Then carefully poor it over the road by the lamppost. Then cut out a child-sized cardboard character and paint as life-like as you can. Then tie the character to some fishing line and feed it up to your bedroom window. Now wait until a suitable vehicle is about to pass and then pull on the fishing line from your bedroom window, making the 'child' run out into the road. The pre-laid diesel and swerving vehicle will combine beautifully to destroy the lamp-post.
A fool-proof plan, which you should definitely consider.
I'm not stupid enough to think that any sort of technology would impress a woman. In fact, having remote control curtains would probably put me across as some sort of cripple.
However, I would take personal pleasure from having an open fire, and I know that with my current girlfriend at least building a fire earns me man points, which gets me off the hook for my generally thoughtless behaviour.
Div0, they aren't hypothetical, they're entirely possible with at least some motivation to follow through on them. I'm thinking that with a long enough rope I could quite safely scale a lamppost. It's a bit akward to get at my curtains, electrifying them would address that, as would a lampshade.
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Wait till 2am, creep within 15 meters of street light remove Black widow catapult from back pocket, load up with ballbearing rabbit killing ammo from front pocket. Take aim, breath out, hold.... release. listen to small explosion and quite tinkle of broken plastic and glass. calmly walk back to your now reflection free computer screen with a little smile on your face ?