scottishjohn

good point however if renewables were really viable without subsidy and could make more long term money than oil +gas -- the oil companies would be shifting much quicker into them in much bigger way BP have even sold off there renewable arm the bottom line now is all oil companies and shareholders are interested in

probably same reason as the solway firth and morecambe bay --national fuel security is beelebub so naive to think that his data is accurate and that the government can,t put a twist on it at least give them credit for being devious if it suits the national interest

having tried to gat a simple thing like the requirement to book a spot at the recycling center done away with -- you cannot just turn up better than that you cannot even take half used tins of paint yet you can take car batteries -- cos they will get paid for them and they wonder fly tipping is a problem and being told by more than one D&G counciller that they tried and were blocked by the council on the grounds that it helps things run better and would not discuss it any further - -i do not see anything that my local town council could do on any subject -so on point in joining it is so simple -- you turn up dump your stuff and leave -- if you pick wrong time you might have to queue-- how is making everyone ring or email D&G council to book a slot going to make things better -- just making another job and more paperwork so you have to plan when you want to go and not just decide to have clear out and go dump it and they are only open certain days and never before 12.00-16.00 this to me shows the nature of the "civil service " very accurately -- making more jobs and making more useless data if the skip is full then they just get it emptied and as they are huge that will never get filled in a day do i believe they will monitor the fill rate of the different skips any better --NO they do not even ask what you are bringing or how much of it just another spread sheet to maybe look at usage and decide if they can shut it I already have a 20 mile journey to there as it is -- and that info they can get by seeing how often they need to empty the skips so do I think being on a local town council will have any impact on the areas D&G council control-- NO

wouldn,t it be good if our politcians followed the burgers of calais and spontaneously combusted

probably cos like most glues its stronger then what it is sticking together but it is brittle not so modifed polymer adhesives- they will flex and aircraft+vehicles suffer from vibration and flexing in use

and what about all the gas+oil reserves in the solway -- my ex brother in law was involved in exploritory drilling in the 80,s lots found but not developed by order of the government-- its ours -- and always will be as it so close to us - it was saved for the fuure -- that may not happen - but its still there -no competition from other countires i would prefer a system like the US =when the government changes --so can the civil servants -- no knighthoods there i am not so simple as to think there are not "brown envelopes " happening there same as here maybe a change to restrict politicans from having other commercial interests they have always been at it in all parties --they are just picking on farage at the moment

its the same as the water companies pleading poverty to do upgrades thats where a real government could change things -fi they wanted to maybe we need another war to make these things happen ? we need a new political party -- "i take no shit party" fire alot of the so called civil service and start again

exactly --get the money mens fingers out of the till and its all possible

my limited experience of glueing metal together use a windscreen primer on the two clean surfaces --then use windscreen adhesive -- or any equivalent and it will never move -just take care to spread ito ut in an even thin layer --or you will need to press the bits together to squish out any excess they stick the lotus alloy chassis together with it and some audi alloy bodies cars with an occasional mechanical fixing at any edges that could suffer peel-also and aircraft grp /expoxy kevlar wingskins on jumbo jets etc usually a rivet if its clean it will stick anything together and will never move and also will be corrosion proof fairly vital for alloy skins we had problem with an old 1930,s garage showroom that someone modified and cut lots of the cross bracing etc -- it sagged engineer said a steel beam-- no way to get such a long beam in cos of the weight and problems manovering it we made a plywood box beam--glues and screwed which was liftable and is still doing the job 40 years on-- the builder had never done one ,but remembered it from college .LOL lots of ways if you think out side the box

not hard if you really want to do it and the company would be wholly or majorly held by the government norway did it when they started the oil and gas fields

find a doge viper lump and drop that in it get some more cubic inches

sorry did not read close enough sounds like shell and bp it will all be down to deals and volume of sites and what terminal they deliver from --and drivers hours --without knowing all details its impossible to tell certainly fuel suppliers have no problem in dumping dealers if it don,t fit with what they are planning come end of contract

it will be the deal they were offered or maybe bp would not renew there deal

there is another thread on moisture content in new floor bottom line is if you want a super job -first you need to make sure its totally flat if any doubt hire a grinder and flatten it then you need to use a moisture gauge if its an old floor there should no moisture in it if there is you have to start thinking about rising damp through it only then do start asking about adhesives when i had my new floor laid they wanted it down to 3.5% -- If i wanted not to wait and do it at 4,55% then the adhesive was twice the price even if you go for self levelling -- it is unlikley to be flat enough to just lay directly without grinding for a perfect job and again you need to do the moisture checks -- it will not be a moisture proof barrier theres a perfect floor all made from little bits

get three quoted and treat sales spiel with some caution but by the time you have 3 quotes you should have an idea of what you want and price range triple glazing is only really to deaden outside noise difference in heat loss is minimal

wisteria -- that what i would be considering you can train it around all your windows etc needs trimming twice a year -but not as invasive as ivy

good idea but i think it will just grow past it

you must like working on ladders cos you will be doing it a lot to keep the ivy in check is no other plant that can do the same --and that flowers

but unfortunately true I don,t expect it to happen as too many vested interests in politics for it to happen you only to look at the deals that were signed up for wind generation what numpty would agree to pay for energyy not supplied if grid can,t use it tough luck to pay them to turn off turbines just nonsense in this capitalist we are world in

same applies but that probably is porous sandstone is a type of mudstone and it is porous

well my view on north sea drilling is a simple one we should do it as if not other people will --the reserves are not going to sit there --someone will take them --so might as well be us and ideally it would be reserved for uk use only by a wholly owned uk company -who is paying tax in uk no consultancy fees going abroad by passing a law to ensure that and it should be same with wind farms

the reason for that is simply an economic one Iran petrol stations for 40 years before i retired and the cost of tank replacement and new pumps is too expensive for alot of the owners 80k+ for a new tank 10k for each new pump and with a profit margin of less than 3% £160per litre and dealer gets 5-7p top line before any costs -- it comes to a point where it is economically unviable to up grade a petrol station i made all the profit from the shop ==not selling petrol --so unless you have a good shop through put --then selling fuel is a waste of time and every time the fuel price goes up you have to find more money to fill the tanks when i started a load of petrol as about 2k now it is 60k-- and you will only get that dead money back when you close up and sell last tank load so unless you have a through put of over 6m litres a year fuel sales are a waste of time there has never been any credit for fuel sales -- pay by bank draft same day or at best with 7 days you will wait for 2 weeks at least to get your money from the credit card companies and they take half your profit with card charges so to operate a 6m litre site you will need to have money for 160000 litres -what you have in tanks -- your payment for last load and money coming from credit card companies you will need at least £300000k plus your shop stock value -- to operate and that not even allowing any costs for replacement of equipment or staff etc .etc and the loss by evaporation from your tanks -- 1-2%-- which you have paid fuel duty +vat on so would I ever consider going back into fuel sales --no way -- the profit fuel companies allow you has always been pence per litre immaterial of price which is why you see very few if any company owned sites all are dealers --they sold them off years ago to mugs to run that is also why you will not any new petrol stations being built--numbers don,t add up

If as it looks from picture it has been done with cement +sand --then no point in going lime based If you are lucky your local sand is greyish -- not red in colour my suggestion would be to mix up a small test batch at 4 or3 to1 to get colour to match what you have granite is hard and non porous but it can have hairline cracks in the stones --so make sure you wet where you are going to point to make it stick well --plastiser helps but if real problem is water ingress and pointing is ok -then could be very small cracks in the actual stones -- then bite the bullet and coat the walls and stop any water ingress full stop do not use cheap ronseal or erquivalent -- it will not last do it once and do it right i know i sound like salesman for permagaurd -- but having been through this problem with old stone house and inspected pointing very carefully before coming to the decision to treat the walls I know what cured the problem and easy to do

when you have repointed --with a proper mix as some of it looks very lean for pointing mix and sorted cracks you can see then I seriously suggest you treat outside of house with "permagaurd " or some other make -- not ronseal or thompsons --they do not last I can say from experience of doing it on my 1750 granite house --which looked perfectly ok for pointing -- but had water ingress issues when the winds go to 40mph+ that it will stop moisture from coming through your bricks and mortar they say itwill fill a 2mm gap and it does work very well and has a life of 20+years it is common problem in my area with old stone houses and it is also the cure--even on porous sandstone ones easy to apply ==like wallpaper paste which just sucks in as it drys. after i had done it i noticed strange wee spots around the house on the concrete when it rained -- but not there when ground dry it turned out to be where I dripped the permagaurd micro shield ultra when treating the walls -- and has kept the spots where it landed dry when it rains --so they look white as opposed the the normal darker colour of untreated concrete when wet I will be monitoring this over the years to see when it stops working . LOL

Ok so presuming you have a suitable concrete floor -- put some fixings in there to secure temporary wall braces from floor and to the walls and plastic sheet the walls with a staple gun to keep the worst of the weather off them ? sounds like an afternoons job if as you said a five block high wall fell over -- then got problems with the cement mix you are suing for the walls --too lean by a long way -- and i would not be happy continuing with any wall building till you alter the mix ratio -- me I use 4-1 minimum