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same question for you, I only addressed Tink because I thought she's the only one in the room!

hey @Cerberus!

can you imagine yourself in such a situation and tell me what would you like to hear from your layteacher in such a situation? What points would be important to you? And how long a speech will be too long?

My brain is coming up with all sorts of information I want to "preach" upfront

The active time of actually doing positions will be around an hour.

The people will be a motley crew, probably all possible levels from "never tried yoga" to "I go to the studio twice a week" and everything in between. They won't have ever trained together.

I'm not a yoga instructor, but I have practiced a lot and I'm confident I can do it well. Also I already have created the sequence and tested it out alone. So that's going to be OK.

@Tinkeringbell I have a weird question. Background: I am going to lead a yoga class today. It's an informal situation, I'm doing it for people from my watersports club. We have a different activity every week in winter, and this week, I'm offering yoga.

If it's only chips off the glazing, it's not too difficult to fix cosmetically. You can fill it with cement grout or epoxy grout, color-matched to the tile.

although, if they were using Bahnen rather than liquid rubber, it may have been easiest for them to do it floor-to-ceiling, which is more than the code requires.

also, the height specifies a certain height above floor (or maybe above showerhead?) but it doesn't have to go up to the ceiling

The German code requires a certain width of membrane on the walls outside of certain "wet" zones (the inside of a shower cabin, the plumbing of a washing basin). It's maybe 50 cm.

There's also a good chance that you don't have it everywhere, especially if the bathroom isn't super tiny

if they sound hollow, they have detached themselves from the wall (or the mortar) and that's something that exposes you to further risk. If water gets between the tiles and the wall, that can get ugly. Even if you have said membrane everywhere.

@Tinkeringbell if you have a problem with the tiles, make sure to knock on them

small chips on tiles are actually cosmetic

and only afterwards, you add tiles between the bathtub and the remaining wall tiles, while leaving the part behind the bathtub with a naked membrane

The code requires you to have an unbroken barrier between the membrane on the wall and the bathtub itself, so you have to install the bathtub before the wall is tiled (fully), and add the super duper sealing tape

that's why in Germany, you can't tile below/behind a shower cabin or a bathtub.

the tiles are considered a cosmetic thing, not a barrier to moisture

@JourneymanGeek the waterproof stuff is prescribed by code in the West

I also have broken tiles in the bathroom, I complained to my landlady, but the tileman didn't return her calls for a few months, then came, saw it and said "I'm not taking on such a small task, I'm too busy and it's too low margin for me, you have to retile the whole bathroom" and we decided to leave it as-is

yes, it would be quite a hassle

also, the person who installed the tiles should have left a sufficiently wide distance between the uppermost tile and the ceiling. And if you tell them "I want tiles like from a magazine, with 1 mm grout" they should stop you and tell you that's not functional. They don't do it though :(

Sometimes they do break, but officially, they are supposed to be replaced when that happens

@Tinkeringbell tiles shouldn't break, especially if relatively recently installed, and not broken by physical damage (e.g. dropping a heavy pot on the floor tiles).

at least you have the space to decompress now!

@JourneymanGeek ufff, that sounds like a difficult arrangement.

Do you have siblings? Is she cooking for a large crowd, or just she, you and your dad?

I would have been doing that too, if I had a mom closeby cooking every day :)

@JourneymanGeek I thought you moved to your new flat?

also, maybe I buy half-kg packs more frequently than 1-kg.

@Tinkeringbell yes, I guess it lasts much more than that. the "month" was the lowest border of my estimate.

But somehow I forget to eat it before it goes bad.

I had once planned to start eating more rice. To just keep a box of cooked rice in the fridge for snacks or an unplanned starch component, as opposed to eating expensive, additive-ridden gluten-free bread all the time.

(should I have put a warning before saying that? Did you fall off your chair @JourneymanGeek?)

a kg of rice lasts me at least a month :)

@JourneymanGeek I've seen these in Asian shops around here. We buy our rice in plastic ("cellophane") packs in 1 kg or 500 g sizes.

@Tinkeringbell difficult questions is what I fill my life with!

in a continental climate?

who switches to summer tyres in February?

and then he says "and I have to go visit your grandma in her village, but I already put the summer tyres on my car"

then they corrected it to -20°C

In another chat, my dad is complaining how the weather forecast was -13 for the night tomorrow

argh!

But if this is your first association, I can understand if you don't run to get one of these boxes for your dry food pantry :)

@Tinkeringbell I guess there is no color combination left in the world that hasn't been claimed by some brand or the other.

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I've never seen them come in a tin, with very few exceptions.