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You’re on a promise next time @PeterW

Well you showered with him .......

My knee’s fecked now anyway so @PeterW is welcome to the stilettos!

There’s one of those in the garage he could have borrowed!

It wasn’t when I set off for Preston!

I did offer to lend him my epilator!

You should know if your wife is still alive Ferdinand

And I got home from Preston to find you had strewn about 20 pairs on my bedroom floor! Said you were a shoe man!

Don't believe everything @Nickfromwales says!

S'ok, you don't have to justify yourself to me

Hmm! I rather think that a cat was what Lewis Carroll was thinking of ...... Beware the Jabberwock, my son! The jaws that bite, the claws that catch!

and there was me thinking that the appeal was the free board and lodgings with lots of lovely clear windows to look out of after being sectioned .

Might not just be the female judges you attract You might end up getting sectioned tho

It's called being prepared, as in prior preparation prevents p1ss poor performance . Please do put some clothes on before popping round to the county court though

F**k, but CCJ might be a route too. Worth a shot for a few quid if all else fails. Guess you need to wait and see. The company may be lovely about it all.

Oh, and post the drawings on here for checking before you order again! Did you pay by credit card? If so, and the company refuses your claim you could try to claim under the Section 75 legislation as goods not as described. I think you have a decent case in that you told the firm the internal dimensions and that should have ensured that they made the windows with the appropriate external border as they are the experts. Then when the drawings arrived the drawing clearly shows a glass area of the size you ordered with nothing to demonstrate that this included the upstand element too. You can go as far as the ombudsman if you want to but you have to start with the retailer and then the credit card company. Fingers crossed you paid by credit card even if just a deposit over £100 as that ensures that you are covered. A general reminder to anyone ordering to try to use a credit card where at all possible even if just for £100 as it should cover you for the whole purchase. https://www.moneysavingexpert.com/shopping/section75-protect-your-purchases

I'm hoping they do too! For something as spendy as these windows were if that's all the paperwork you got it's a bit crap TBH! You can alway say you're on a big self build forum

Great to take that first step. I remember that stage with mine. So exciting. The next massively exciting bit for me was seeing the timber frame go up. Won't be long for you now. Enjoy!

I've used a chip reader to scan about 2000 dogs (don't ask!), and I would say that about a third of those have chips that require the scanner to be waved over the dog reasonably significantly before it reads. Sometimes it can take many attempts to get the chips to read either because they've migrated or just 'because'. I personally have had about 20 dogs chipped of my own and I've had 3 that have been relatively difficult to read in that time. One was down his left leg, another has an American (but compatible) chip that can be awkward to read on occasion, and another has the chip in her elbow. I would be seriously impressed with a door that could read a chip consistently from a distance away. The scanners struggle sometimes when they are literally placed directly on the dog. Will be very interested to see how you get on with it when the mythical cat turns up. A collar with a dangling thing would probably be more consistent if the cat would keep it on. That's a serious commitment spending that amount on 'forward planning' . I looked at a video on Youtube and looks like you can arrange for parcels to be put in it too. That could be handy for those drugs that @Nickfromwales wants to send you .

Oy! That's a few of us on here you've just insulted! Nothing strange about @Onoff and I !

I would say that’s unlucky. I like having the comfort of knowing I have some spare ones for future proofing. Next door have huge porcelain tiles in their house bought from the builder. A couple have now cracked and they are looking at replacing the entire floor as they can’t source the existing ones.

I used to have a dog flap 2 houses ago. One of my dogs would fly out in the middle of the night to bark at some imaginary burglar, and the dogs would chuck things in through the dog flap that I really didn’t want in the house; bones, sticks or whatever. Or took things out that I would rather had stayed inside! Kept it locked after that.

I just have a big stack of spare tiles to address any future breakages or reasonably minor changes etc. Kitchen was put in before the tiles were laid TBH (due to having to wait more than 60 days before the anhydrite screed was ready for tiling) so tiling the whole area wasn’t possible at that point.

And here’s step 1 of that mental picture

That’s crappy. TBH with something like this you would think the company would send very detailed measuring instructions.