THEJAMESCASTS

In this podcast short Dr. Jenna and I talk about heat issues.

 -dehydration

 -heat 

-illness 

This is a short and sweet primer to dealing with hot climates.

Dr. Jenna Burton and I talk getting back to work post covid and right int he flu season.  

-workplace health tips 

-cough medicine -kids and illness 

-burns  

We hit on some great topics to keep you dialled in to your best health.

In this podcast short Colin and I talk about the power of Meccano to inspire.  

SUMMARY KEYWORDS grandpa, kids, meccano set, age, amazing, scenario, cars, design, days, duplo, engineers, lego technic, bolts, building, tap dance, spanner, valued, goodness, learners, little bit 

SPEAKERS Colin Thomas, James Piecowye

In this podcast short Colin and I talk about buying kids tools.  

SUMMARY KEYWORDS lightsabers, buys, star wars, wall, built, assembling, star wars geek, dad, screws, star wars fan, tools, skateboards, oldest son, cogs, colin, disney, generations, canada, hardware, thomas 

SPEAKERS Colin Thomas, James Piecowye

Colin and I talk about the summer AC fan failure.  

SUMMARY KEYWORDS fan, upstairs, work, hot, units, downstairs, air, nice, summer, compressor, roof, walls, days, gates, talk, lennox, stairs, washroom, wife, failed  

SPEAKERS Colin Thomas, James Piecowye  James Piecowye   Hello, you're listening to a we will fix it podcast short with Colin Thomas. And myself James microwave had a nice conversation that if you listen to this podcast, you've heard it very recently about vacations and summer air conditioning. And we had a good talk. My advice didn't. James, let's build the advice was sage, it worked. Excellent. Everything should have gone as planned. In fact, when we got home, and we get into our house, and so there's two The first thing happens is I'm open. So we got two things we're going to talk about the first we're going to talk about AC But second, we're gonna talk about gates because is Versa couldn't get in the gate. Oh, well have two gates. Thankfully, one of them I couldn't get in. And it was really like, come on. And you know, and it's late at night. And fortunately, I didn't have any children with me because that would have added to it. But I get into the house. And the advice was leave a unit on downstairs. Leave a unit on upstairs, open up your doors. Maybe keep an extractor fan on maybe keep the fan on. Have it set at you know, I don't know. 2829? Yeah,  Colin Thomas   well, that's a little bit too. What actually said was just one upstairs, right? Yeah. For the simple reason that cooler air is obviously going to go down. Okay, that will help the process of circulation. I loved ones tell me that she's downstairs when that failed. No,  James Piecowye   I so I left one on upstairs one on downstairs get in. This is nice. As we're walking up the stairs that halfway point. It's like, oh, Houston, we have a problem was like oh, and I don't Okay, well, you know, I'm looking at the the fan is going so the air is circulating upstairs. But it is near as I can figure so we had an air conditioner failure. And I as near as I can figure must have failed pretty early on in the summer because I have never come home to the upstairs part of my villa being this hot.  Colin Thomas   That's bizarre considering admittedly the circulation wouldn't be nowhere near as good. Yeah, but if you've got a fan that's operating in one room with all doors open downstairs, upstairs, that should have been enough to move enough air. I would have thought too, too. If

In this podcast short Colin and I talk about hanging stuff and the basics.  

SUMMARY KEYWORDS nails, picture, pencil mark, hole, ceiling, dirhams, blast, inch, wall, point, perfectly, crews, short, line, trapeze, dubai, canada, mirror, drill, guiding  

SPEAKERS Colin Thomas, James Piecowye  

Colin Thomas   Okay, so the other side of that we've got the basic rules within houses of Dubai, which still aren't important for this part, which are never ever, ever use nails. Okay, yeah, so picture nails which are perfectly okay in the UK can use it in Canada.  James Piecowye   What a picture nails.  Colin Thomas   So more kind of thick, strong nails that are quite short, probably like an inch, inch and a half. They literally just can hammer the wall and put a picture up nice and easily. You don't know how would you hide your picture in them in Canada?  James Piecowye   Well, you know, it's drywall. So.  Colin Thomas   Okay, so which goes butterfly clips? Yeah. Okay, yeah, well, no, that's still decimal. perfectly, perfectly useful until you try and hang a TV, which I have done. This before, during the the dentists where we ceiling, customers. And that looks pretty scary. But at the end of the day, because my insurance was involved, the amount of support behind that literally, we spread that out over the whole ceiling up to quite a trapeze on that thing. Oh, yeah, we've done all sorts like, in that regard.  James Piecowye   So the nails, the nails, or the concrete nails that you can buy here, they're readily available. They're like five dirhams for a box of like, 1500. Right?  Colin Thomas   Have you used it? Ever, ever? No, it's a definite you must drill. Otherwise, you end up with these blast holes that are two inches wide, and you have a real problem on your hands. And you won't know about your blast most of the time until you're taking it out. And then at that point, it will crumble away with it. And it's we're talking nine times out of 10. Here, this isn't, oh, it might happen. It will happen. Without a doubt. Even if you've done two or three, you will have that effect. Back I'm dead easy. Use it all the time. Not here without a doubt. So drill a hole. Normally six mil is about right spot. And then yeah, this is what we need unless you go structural for a picture. Unless it's a big heavy mirror. You don't need you don't know anything too big. At that point. Just a simple screw going straight into a plug and you are ready to roll. Okay, yeah, I can do it in under a minute hole. So it's just

In this podcast, short Colin Thomas and I talk about picture walls and the starting point. 

This is the need to know before you begin!

SUMMARY KEYWORDS midpoint, blanket ban, client, photos, pictures, briefings, photo collage, english, architectural digest, communicate, communication, threw, staff, wall, scenario, drumroll, vision, stairs, husband, repainted

Colin Thomas and I talk DIY.  

3 big topics here and an AC fan failure for good measure.  

-picture hanging 

-planning a picture wall 

-meccano inspires  

SUMMARY KEYWORDS people, picture, wall, point, fan, diy, thinking, skills, absolutely, pandemic, problems, scenario, nails, nice, upstairs, big, customers, head, staircase, schools 

SPEAKERS Colin Thomas, James Piecowye  

James Piecowye   All right, here we go it is podcasting time the we will fix it podcast is what you're listening to Colin Thomas from we will fix it Dubai is here we're at the Royal Hotel, we're gonna solve everything that has gotten under your skin in the last couple of months. That's what we're gonna do. We're gonna solve everything. It could be you know, you've got problems with shopping. Could be you've got problems with the way your house looks. Could be some maintenance issue could be just random, you know,  Colin Thomas   we're all problems of the world. Yeah. Okay. We all have health costs, it's gonna look after all problems in the world.  James Piecowye   But think about it when you've got something going wrong in your house, and you call them the maintenance guys. Your guys. Yeah, people are hanging out like me, and they're talking and talk and talk. And it's all sorts of other things come up. That's true. It's like being a barber, you know, pretty much solve everything.  Colin Thomas   Oh, I really think that barbers needs to be kind of recognized in that regard. I don't know whether you could be a barber psychologist, but it's the way forward isn't it? Yeah. Yeah. That's definitely the way. So it's been in podcast world. We're probably five minutes after.  James Piecowye   We are, however,  Colin Thomas   how leave me but what how long has it been? has been?

Glenn Power and James Piecowye talk the C-Max by Ford!

-Hybrid

-fun

-Good Car

This is a car that is no longer made but is still a good ride!

Glenn Power and James Piecowye talk the Jeep Renegade.

-Disappointing

-Yellow is good

-Just a small car

Hey it is a Jeep but really could be any small car!