• Replies 9 replies
  • Subscribers 26 subscribers
  • Views 177 views
  • Users 0 members are here
Options
Related
Hints and tips
  • To quote someone's message, first select/highlight the relevant text, and then use the Quote button that appears
  • To "mention" someone, type @ followed by the start of the forum name, and choose from the list; that person will get a notification of being mentioned

I get so confused

TheCatWoman

I found out a few days ago that you an get MDF with no VOC's, I need some new doors for my built in wardrobes and this stuff sounds ideal as its not going to smell, so I looked for it online and found lots of places that sell it, great I thought, until I went to see the sizes. They all come in millimetres and its to complicated a sum for me, I know to knock off a zero to get a centimetre measurement, but then I get stuck, I can't visualise a square metre, and I don't know how to measure it all up so as I can get an approximate cost. I could possibly just about manage it in feet and inches, which is what I suspect my house was built in. I know that metric measurements are supposed to be easy as they're all based on 10's, but it still makes no sense. If I could see a sheet of the stuff then I could make a good guess at how many I'd need, but online I can't do that.

Why do these things have to be so complicated? 

  • in reply to Phased

    Thanks I'm better but still shakey.

    On about the 4th or 5th attempt I managed to get on I-player and watch Strictly, but I don't know how to do anything else yet, I'll try agan tomorow as I can't just watch stuff on I-player, I do watch other channels too, and unless I can get it to record stuff I'm unable too as everythng's on at the same time and I find other players really difficult and I have to watch ads.

    I dont have anyone else here in person to help and I'm the only one who has a humax box anyay, they all stream and I've no idea how to do that or even if I have the equipment too.

    I hate being so useless at something others find so easy and just do. I know all these things are supposed to be intuitive, but I don't know who's intuition they're using but it's not mine, it's anything but intuitive, it's totally obtuse.

    I suppose this will just go down as yet another thing where I've fought with tech and nobody understands how or why.

  • Hi  

    Hang in there it'll sort out.  Hope you're feeling better. 

  • Do you have any friends or family available in-person that you could get help from?   This should like a task in need of delegation. 

  • in reply to TheCatWoman

    I'm afraid I can't help as I don't know anything about Humax boxes. Is the instruction manual no good? Or perhaps you can watch Strictly on your TV without a box?

  • in reply to Alexa

    Its all gone wrong I can't watch strictly or anything else as the new box won;t let me in, it won't let me record, it wont accept my email address or anything, I spent a shed load of money for a useless piece of crap thats just sat there taunting me

    I'm in tears and having a melt down, why does this always happen to me???

  • in reply to TheCatWoman
    TheCatWoman said:
    Multiply means times and divide, share?

    yes.

  • in reply to Alexa

    I think I might just leave it to the carpenter, your instructions look quite easy, but I know in practice I'll get even more confused, I can put the same numbers into a calculator 3 times and get 3 different answers.

    Multiply means times and divide, share?

    I've had further trauma today, my humax box bit the dust and I had to install the new one I got last week, I think it's OK, but getting used to a new system and remote is hard. The trouble with all this stuff that looks easy, is it tricks you into a false sense of security and does somethung horrible when theres something you really want to watch, in my case tis evening Strictly. I'm so glad I put the tv and box on early to check that it was se to record properly.

  • Do you have a tape measure that measures in both feet/inches and in metres/centimetres? If so:
    step 1 - measure the length and width of your wardrobe door in millimetres.

    step 2 - divide each figure by 100 to convert milimetres to metres

    step 3 - multiply length by width to arrive at square metres.

    Bear in mind that if you intend to buy a sheet and cut it down, you need to buy enough for all your doors.  

  • maybe get a piece/pieces+selotape of cardboard and a tape measure - cut out bits could give you something to visualise and play with