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That's just woeful How anyone could do that and have no shame is beyond me, Even if the floor was piss poor, and the tiles different thicknesses, there is absolutely no excuse for those joints, or gently tapering up to meet the other floor level. That is totally unacceptable workmanship ,

Just thinking about this, He could move his van over 3' or so, would that help you much,? He maybe only parks exactly there as that is the marked space, he could move over a bit and still leave clear access to his driveway.

If materials are at fault, and they really are the problem, then it's down to who supplied them, If the tiler supplied them then it's his problem, if you supplied them and he was on a price to lay them, then it's your problem. The issue is, is it bad materials, or poor workmanship, or a poorly levelled surface,?

If you are using it to work on bikes, I'd suggest some form of rubber flooring, you will be kneeling quite a lot, even with a lift. Paint is your enemy, paddock stands will rip it apart continually, new boots will simply peel it up. Seal the floor with PVA , or something even better, and put some rubber flooring down

Ah, well then the polis that visited me are wrong then, That was a very specific point they made, about blocking access to property was something they had no issue charging someone with, They said it was a very clear cut case in blocking a dropped kerb. There is in fact very clear cut law in blocking access to a persons property, much like trespass, except trespass is only civil, If you block access on the public highway then you commit a criminal offence, if I block someone already on my property its simply civil.

You can't be prosecuted for blocking access to your own property. They were blocking access to my property, so I blocked them, its simple. As for the parking so close they couldn't open the doors, the polis actually laughed at that, and said he couldn't think of what charge it may come under

Well, I'm not here just to cause trouble, I'm putting a POV across, Just because I don't simply give everyone a pat on the back, and tell them what they are doing is brilliant doesn't make me a troublemaker, I'm merely saying how I see it. And what exactly is the problem with me blocking someone in when they are making my much less than able wife struggle across a carpark with a 3 year old and shopping,? But you think its fine to make your neighbour park elsewhere even though there is plenty enough room to get a car or van into your drive,? Do as I say, not as I do? I never said it was 'his' parking, I put it in quotations, So if you know you need to talk to him, why the OP,? Talk to the guy, tell him what you are going to do, seems like you have already decided anyway, the lines are being removed, that's the fact here, what will stop him still parking there though?, as long as you still have access, like you have, I don't see the problem.

I didn't say he had a right to park there, but its an expectation for most people, and he's been parking there for however long with no issues so far. And if the new house wasn't being built, nothing would have changed. I'm just trying to look at it from vanmans POV. I'll bet no matter what the planners or highways have stated, he will blame the new house for him losing "his" parking space. If this isn't treated very carefully it could end up in a nonstop feud , neighbours from hell, not the situation I'd want. It doesn't matter who's fault it is, its who's fault it will be perceived as. The law can be quoted all day long, the fact remains that the parking space would still be there if the newbuild wasn't taking place, I know that to myself (and probably most people) if it caused me to lose MY parking space I'd make life hell for the new house, Like I said earlier, that's how I stopped people parking in front of my house, either by blocking them in, or park so close to them they simply can't get in their car door, put the wife's car in one side, my van on the other. If you want to go down the factual method of simply removing this guys space and not help with an alternative solution, then I wish you good luck, but I wouldn't be too confident of it ending happily for you.

Parking can be a nightmare, There is room for 3 vehicles outside my house, next door has room for none, due to being in a corner, and would block access to their neighbours drive, Outside our house is my wife's car, my van, and previous neighbour parked Hus car there too, no problem, new neighbour has 4 vehicles, his car, his works van, his wife's car, daughters car, not unknown for them to park 3 of them in front of our house, leaving us to park 50yards away where there is parking slots,. I simply took to parking my van broadside across the rear of their vehicles, after having the polis out to me a few times the polis got fed up and simply advised the neighbour to stop taking the piss, and allow us to park in front of our own house. Apparently there's not much they could do to me but either ask me to move the van, or have it moved for me. My point being, parking in front of your own property is very high up most peoples list of what they (wrongly) assume is their right. I would never buy a house with no parking directly in front of it. As you are responsible for this neighbour losing 'his' parking space, to do this amicably, you are going to have to give him an alternative parking solution, has he got room to park in his front garden? Offer to give him a drop kerb maybe?

A phone dongle will not give you anywhere near accurate results, We've tried them at work, even a cheap £400 thermal camera is far far more accurate than any smart phone dongle we have tried, I even bought a couple of those phones with built in FLIR, a UK market one, and a far eastern clone,(that was the best actually) the dongles were all very gimmicky, but may be OK for something like this where it's just a generalisation of heat loss.

no big surprise really with CEF they have lost loads of customers due to their [laughable] customer service, and wildly varying prices, CEF, Check Every Form, not unknown for you to purchase [for instance] 2 of something, and to be charged for 2 boxes of said item.

That's pretty much what is on my PL as a Ltd co, labour only is not classed as bona-fide subby, and, my payments to them are limited to a certain % of my turnover, (mine is 15%) , using that example, if you are using them on a 50k project it would be limited to 7.5k, or they come under your employers insurance. My % is based on annual turnover, so in a 200k year I can only use subbies to the value of 30k, but perhaps a self builder is limited to each part of the contract, ?

The internal batteries have a limited lifespan also, That is assuming it is one of the better alarms with an internal battery.

We used to call them Belfast heaters, or J heaters by some, (no idea why), Very very common, used to still get fitted in some new builds even in the '80s and '90s,!!! But, not technically Irish.

That spare alarm may not be much use , Most quality (AICO as example) have a 10 year lifespan from date of manufacture, so a very good chance that when the existing alarm requires replacing the 'spare' will be out of date.

sorry to hijack, and tbh a pretty rubbish site, but my missus has got a lot of useful bits and bobs from it at times. http://www.bbc.co.uk/ulsterscots/learn/lesson/1

yep, exactly, in a rattle can, only a couple of quid too, so a really simple fix. just happy to hear a proper professional tell me i havent done something bad, although we dont have the fire now anyway.

when we had a gas fire I simply sprayed ours with black 'exhaust' paint, matt black, it wasnt used very much, but seemed to be fine for the few occasions we did use it.

my BiL sells reasonably high end kitchens, ( I think their cheaper standard kitchen comes in at iro £8.5K + worktops ) and they stopped selling anything but the Quooker as they simply werent in the same quality range. too many quality complaints about the rest of the stuff apparently.

indeed they will, its little touches like that , that get appreciated, leave them a little tub of swarfega, and a brush, and tell them its up to them to keep it clean, and if they are decent trades it should be kept spotless, policed by themselves, its not very often trades on site have proper toilet facilities to themselves,

I'm a biercy, from county Antrim in norn iron, we speak a dialect of Lallans. I only learnt English when I went to posh school at 11,

I'm just jealous,

mmmmm, there is a slight flaw in that idea, where do you park the traction engine?

I've never had an issues in Wales, one pub we used to frequent down near Pembrey was more than friendly, only one old bloke in the corner that simply couldnt speak anything but Welsh, I suppose not being English helped us a lot, so I was told. I think sometimes English only speakers feel a bit paranoid, my wife used to be like that , [an English lass] , and after almost 9 years together no idea what some of my friends say when we visit my family, she says I often flick across too when talking to our kids, I just dont realise I do it, or trying to explain something to her and she thinks sometimes I'm just too lazy to think of the English word for it, or, literally, there is somethings I just dont know the English word for, or perhaps there isnt one.

It's not as if it's small enough that she wouldn't notice it in the shed, Had my bench radial drill for for nearly a year before she noticed, as I had stuff stacked against it when not in use, But I'd think she'd notice a BFO bench saw, All suggestions welcome @Nickfromwales A week ago I could have said it was for the built in wardrobes,