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"I've searched all the parks in all the cities and found no statues of committees."

Frankly, I wouldn’t care if it was mortgageable or not as I wouldn’t live there. Looks like a total disaster (like most old houses in most towns/cities). Unless you have plans to knock down and rebuild.

Good old Chesterton - basic systems theory back in 1978 building on the standard INPUT-PROCESS-OUTPUT. Since then a load of other Systems thinking 101 bumper stickers: "Everything is connected to everything else.", "These who neglect History are destined to repeat it.", "Beware your baggage.", "Investment Challenges Change.", "As an attacker, winning the fight will make you the defender." and "The S curve is the pattern of Everything." Then introduce complexity & chaos theory and watch heads explode! Ho Hum....

Was watching an episode of the great house giveaway only the other day from series 1 and that had a property on it with a single skin extension and the chap said it needed another skin to be mortgageable

Definitely much much better than 2G, and they also do one with thicker glass on the outer pane which lessens it even more, designed primarily for use in bedrooms, so may be worth looking at that unit

I sacked him via email & I haven't heard back from him yet. He had lots of help from me before he got going & lots more help from me (which I didn't expect to have to provide) over the past several months. I paid £3,600 (50%) before he got going & I've asked him to repay this within seven days.

We have 3 passive approved triple glazed electric Velux windows in a vaulted kitchen ceiling. Noise is not an issue for me or my wife. None in bedroom though, a small one in the hall just outside bedroom, again noise not an issue.

re: Cascamite Fairly obvious when you think about it, but proper structural glues have proper datasheets with glue strength under tension, shear etc. All the consumer glues just say 'super-strong' or some other unquantified nonsense. Having said all that, I can't see strength numbers for Cascamite. Strict prep, thickness, temperatures, application methods etc if you want to get the manufacturer's results. Worth bearing in mind that a lot of reactions are exponential with temperature and you can cheat the weather a bit by maybe using a fridge or a bucket of hot water. Also watch for peel strength when handling - may be not so strong even if the shear strength looks good in situ. Fill your boots

I like Fable! it makes opus look like a 9 yr old!

Chesterton's Fence is very much a thing and the likes of trump, RTKjr and Hegseth have absolutely no idea what the parable means.

I'm actually not surprised. The stuff that makes a country run happens pretty invisibly most of the time. Roads get repaired, bridges inspected, food hygiene is checked, school busses organised, flu clinics set up, bins collected, planning decided etc and nobody really noticed *until* something goes wrong. Then we notice and moan about how shit it is. The civil service is like plumbing - we only think about it when it goes wrong and what is there is a confusing jumble but replacing it is a ton of cost, disruption and work and often creates entirely new problems.

I expected a lot of damage caused by the unthinking slashing of contracts and staff but I'm really surprised at how incredibly badly it's going. It's the Brexit 'had enough of experts' on sterioids and we are only seeing a fraction of the messes being created that will take a very long amount of time to clean up.

Lloyds Underwriters https://www.independent.co.uk/news/business/profile-two-men-who-lost-a-billion-names-in-the-lloyd-s-syndicates-run-by-anthony-gooda-and-derek-walker-are-facing-ruin-richard-thomson-relates-a-tale-of-two-incompetents-1494224.html

Well! Been avoiding TAA as the visual artefacts annoy me and I want to get the best before I pull the big performance lever. But after some other smaller optimising this is the route we're going. Most major (if not all AAA ) games do this so it was always inevitable. 60fps is coming back!

Thanks mate yeah it doesn’t seem to be insulated I don’t think I looked behind boiler in kitchen and boxes in pipes see below pics. Obv we would have L3 survey and see what needs doing - could alternatively have kitchen put in. To large back room as some others have done and make the lean too a utility room. Looking online it seems some mortgage companies don’t lend on single skin particularly if main kitchen is in it I’d have to discuss with broker. I’ve never seen the way the damp proof has been done at bottom either . Thanks for the advice

Yes, like Yes Minister, why we are still enjoying it now.

The speed and simplicity of the Brexit process was legendary ...

I forget you don’t get irony.

I don't think people quite understand how vital the civil service (and to be clear there are huge areas that need improvement) is to a smoothly running country - and yes the UK is a smoothly running country on comparison to alot of countries. The US has recently gone on a civil service slashing spree. Lots of parks and environment people fired. Cutting monitoring of diseases and food standards. Huge cuts of "dei" at the pentagon. They now have raging wildfires, explosive diarrhea and salmonella outbreaks and their sailors are jumping off ships because conditions are so bad

The greens have quite an extensive program of nationalising big utilities and taxing oil companies ....

I'm really not Those graphs are from the North Sea transition authority and the absolute difference between net zero projection and "drill baby drill" is bugger all. Every single projection has long term decline. Even the most wildly optimistic oil industry projection has decline to 25% of current production over a decade. This is a good example of reading the statistics you want to see... Industry uses 10% of gas demand. On current track the UK will produce enough gas to supply only industry in a decade. If we go wild and do absolutely everything the oil industry can think of we could supply industry and others. If we go big on renewables for the grid (net zero) then the "transformation" chunk will shrink massively And if we go big on heat pumps (net zero) then the domestic but will also shrink dramatically.

I don't know but it seems JustValueDoors is just some middleman, broker because the delivery man gave me a big "Thank you" card but from Crystal Colour PVCu Windows and Doors https://crystal-direct.co.uk/

Would say quite a bit easier - no referendum needed, still have the politicians unfortunately. But your still only reading the statics you want to see, maybe not a bonanza, but still plenty out there. Most just appear on your developed list. The plant I work on supplied the equivalent of ALL UK industrial use gas the other day, however due to tax burden and it being a 40 year old it's becoming unsustainable, due to reliability, investment needed etc. So plans are in place to cease production in 2029. Yep

It is what it is, an old coal shed that’s been bodged about over the years to make the place more liveable, I can’t see any reason to not be able to get a mortgage on it. how much do you want it ? it needs a bit of facia board. it’s probably cold as buggery in there in the winter if it was insulated badly, which it probably has been. get a survey done and see what else is wrong. like half the houses in England they all need knocking down and re building, nut we continue to keep patching them up.

Thanks I wondered about that as I’ve never seen this before and had grass growing behind it in places