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Dear oh dear! That’s a very long list and not in keeping with the amount you paid I’m sure . I imagine that BC will always find something but that list looks way in excess of what you’d expect from a quality job. I hope that none of it means any material changes to your preferred design. Ultimately there are always so called professionals that do a crappy job no matter what their trade or fee. I recall a very well known management consultancy preparing a very expensive report (nearly 6 figures) for my division and they hadn’t even bothered to change the company name from clearly the last time they wheeled out the same sub standard report. On a positive note at least you didn’t go down the route of engaging him for the project management as he may have continued with the shoddy job throughout the project.

I would a. ask the manufacturer for a free sample of the colours you are interested in and b. ask them if they have local reference site(s) that you can go and look at (even from the street). Or failing that you post on a local site and ask if anyone has a house in the colour you are interested in.

They’re your private viewing ones, I get that you want to keep those to yourselves . This will just be you making out with @Construction Channel‘s trowel

You know you will. Just have a few beers first and brace yourself

Do we get to see a video of the moment you took leave of your senses skimming attempt? A @Construction Channelesque production please.

Congrats! ? ?

I hate choosing woodstains off the web. They never look anything like I imagine when I get them home and start using them. Even more so than paint. Best to see something that's stained the right colour and go with that unless someone on here knows the right colour. Can you not ask the place you got them from?

Well he is building an underground dungeon so black might be appropriate .

That's what I would do but I would wait for someone more knowledgeable to confirm . Or look at Sikkens too for the colour.

You sure they weren't stained that colour? In which case you'll need to use a woodstain again and then varnish. I always use Sadolin. I would think you need something like Sadolin extra and then the Clearcoat varnish on top. Or Sikkens which is expensive but supposed to be good. I need to do something similar to the oak doorframe outside as it happens.

Hey, as a further thought does that mean your brain and your nuts are one and the same?!! Shouldn't be surprised I guess ......

Fabulous! Hope it works out.

OMG is it like the Veet for Men reviews? https://www.amazon.co.uk/review/R3GDDEL1SC1QQ5 We went down this road once before on my heating thread ......

Have to admit that was my first thought especially given his confession earlier that the missus only uses the bedroom for sleeping, and no wonder now he's confessed to this too

Lol, I was thinking that gin was a waste! Citronella spray instead!

“Dogs have owners, cats have staff” Those ultrasonic things are hopeless. The rape alarm things tend to have more effect on a dog although it won’t deter a crazed one. But the downside is that you need to be there to use them. There is also a similar thing called a Pet Corrector that is a spray can of hissing air I believe. I haven’t used either as my dogs tend to mind their manners mostly but I might be tempted if a dog kept arriving in my garden. A water soaker or hosepipe might work well if the dog doesn’t like water (although one of mine loves the hosepipe and runs towards it not away from it!).

Yeah I knew someone would pick up on that, and right on cue ..... I’m here on my tod though so if your wife only sleeps upstairs that may be more a reflection on you

We had the electric fence switched off when an enormous bloody dog wandered into the field and pushed through the fencing into the area containing the sheep. The hubby switched the fence back on and ran at the huge dog waving his shepherd’s crook. The dog shot back towards the previously inoccuous fence, ran into it, got shocked, yelped and jumped back, saw my hubby and large stick running towards him and decided to take his chances with the fence. He ran through it yelping and carried on screaming as he legged it out of the field. We didn’t see that dog again lol.

Ha ha, so she was happy to give the postie the electric fence treatment but not a soaking . Your house sounds fab rigged up with all sorts of gizmos! The hubby was into all sorts of stuff like that too. And yes we’ve had electric fencing too in the mad phase where he decided we needed to keep sheep! ? Electric fencing doesn’t keep a determined sheep in, nor a determined dog. If motivation is high they will go through it. If they are just wandering around aimlessly it’s enough of an adversive to keep them in (or out).

Even mesh type fence? I’ve seen them scale high wooden fences that they can grip onto but thought they might not fancy scaling a mesh fence.

@JamesP mine was quite a while ago (similar area) but we paid circa 7k for the frame erection too. That was direct to the joiners though, it wasn’t done via the TF company. Seems labour costs are much less up here, but then again house prices in the south are crazy so the guys down south have big mortgages to pay I guess.

I think balconies in bedrooms are more of a holiday thing TBH. I never spend time awake upstairs. That’s the sleep zone.

So maybe part of the issue is that the seller neither knew nor claimed that the extra ‘half’ was hers previously and now there you are, a newcomer wanting to stake claim on a bit of land that has been used by their cats for years. Chicken wire is cheap and cheerful although may not be cat proof. I’m not a cat person so not sure. We had sheep netting here for ages round the perimeter of the plot. Mostly to keep the dogs in. Worked well. So it should keep dogs out and really doesn’t take that long to put up.

That all sounds pretty terrible. Just a point re the pets, dog owners are required to keep their dogs under control and are absolutely not allowed to let their dogs come onto your property. There are no laws that relate to cats though so they can come and go wherever. So you might have cause to complain about the provocation but not the fact that the cats are coming across your garden even if they are being encouraged to do so. TBH if you ignore that behaviour they’ll get bored of it, or better still rig up something like @JSHarris has suggested and then the cats will avoid coming across your garden without you even doing anything. Animals are straightforward and will avoid adversives. @JSHarris any chance you can add some details about how to make such a thing work please? And get some cameras on your property!