In search of lubrication

[faustus]

Even in the depths of winter my room is an oven because a hot water pipe runs through it. I always have the windows open, a fan on and, unless privacy is required, the door open.

Opposite is a classroom door. It squeaks. It is currently used by language students who have a similar attitude to doors as do cats - but having evolved opposable thumbs are able to open and close the door repeatedly as they try to decide which side of it they want to be on. The doors creaks. Loudly. Nails on blackboard. Fingers on a balloon. Me left alone with any object that can make a noise.

Yes, bloody annoying.

I can shut out conversation, but not this.

I've borrowed a can of WD-40 from the technicians and used it, liberally.

Bliss.

Edit: And now there are three magpies outside the window on the roof, two trying to kill or have sex with the other, nosily. My heads hurt, as the man said. Three for a girl, I recall. Time to go home.

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[lamentables.livejournal.com]

Even in the depths of winter my room is an oven because a hot water pipe runs through it

You are Ainsley Hayes and I claim my $5.

Want me to come over and sing G&S with you? That would drown out the squeaks.

[drasecretcampus.livejournal.com]

Yanno, I spent half an hour thinking, why Ainsley Harriet? I got as far as ovens and pondered if he'd ever been in musical theatre and ...


... oh.

"modeled on the real-life Ann Coulter, also a blond right-wing pundit."

This is revenge for the remark about AW a couple of years ago, isn't it?

[lamentables.livejournal.com]

Well it certainly sounds as though you are residing in the steam pipe trunk distribution venue.

[sam-t.livejournal.com]

This may be a silly question, but can you get some insulation for the pipe? Or is the current temperature after insulation?

Ah, WD-40 for when it needs to move and it doesn't; duct tape for when it moves and shouldn't. This was probably a better solution than duct-taping the door shut, but you could bear it in mind if the language students get too cat-like.

[drasecretcampus.livejournal.com]

I'm not sure estates would spring for that. I've never needed the radiator in here.

[sam-t.livejournal.com]

If it's a fairly usual sized pipe, it should be well under #2 a metre, I think. I'm not sure what it'd be for whacking great pipes (if that's what you've got) but it can't be that much, surely?

Of course, it depends on what your estates dept would balk at, but it sounds like you'd be well outside health and safety recommendations in summer, which may help.

[cosmic-anchovy.livejournal.com]

Personally, I think I would have borrowed a power drill from the technicians. That way, when the language students next get to the space where a door should be, you could have enjoyed their angst at not being able to decide which side of a non-existent door they want to be on. You could even have a philosophical argument with them - about whether there ever really was a door - freak them out entirely with your intellectual observations on the subject, watch them run away screaming about you messing with their brains, and then be safe in the knowledge that you will probably never be bothered by them again. :)

Now that's what I call job satisfaction!

[drasecretcampus.livejournal.com]

Unfortunately I'd then hear them being taught and their conversations and their mobile phones.

I can know hear a squeak from further down the corridor.

Grump, grump, grump.

(Despite appearances I am working. I'm having office hours. And battling bibliographies into shape.)

[buffysquirrel.livejournal.com]

Heh, WD-40 is your friend. I used it on our bathroom door recently...no more mad creaking!