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    Oh how I laughed when first I made that mistake! Oh how flew the handle - like a homesick Angel! A beautiful high tumbling arc straight into Diglis yacht basin in Worcester, by the river Severn. Oh how I cursed.
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    Declan, I'm married to an old Belle And yer pushing on an open door with the Lister engine. God, the number of times I've nearly broken my wrist starting one of those in an old boat I owned. Hard to get it to stop once started, though. And totally reliable
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    Answers on a postcard, please. As usual in 17 minds about it (yep Declan , overthinking it) Lots of work for one if I buy, and I have a bad to poor back.
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    Yeah, brilliant innit! And here's how he makes it. Cracking bloke
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    That's me set up for the day! Excellent! He does read my posts!
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    @SteamyTea at his analytical best. Normally you'd have to pay good money to read content as statistically literate as this. It'd be behind a pay wall. Thanks Steamy! Ian
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    Oh Gawd, Terry. As usual, you make me think Ian
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    Budgets and spreadsheets go together like [...........insert your own idiom here..............] And so do errors: errors of fact and errors in formulae. Realising that, recently, every time it rains, I'm in the office trying hard to avoid checking our spreadsheet. Errors of fact Not a great lot to be done here. My only suggestion is to get a mate to check with you. @MrsRA is better at this process than I am, but we still manage to avoid the issue because it's so hard (for that read time-consuming) to do something which 'should' be easy. It isn't. Errors in Formulae Is there anything that can help the hard, detailed, mind-numbing, eye-watering, annoying slog Yes Here is a simple search for all versions of the term 'formula auditing' (because there are so many versions of spreadsheets out there) And here is one website's summary of several approaches to checking formulae in the most common (I think) spreadsheet of all. Just sayin'. Guess what I'm doing this morning.
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    From memory; The least number of moving parts An alarm system (power failure) that warns you from inside the house if you are going to have an aerator, install it in the house and bury the airline install a grease trap in the line to the digester think about washing up liquid and washing powder I'll look up the thread later today... might have been on ebuild
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    Only just got to this. Thanks for the response. Debbie and I have to talk about this. Not to do so would be unwise. Another sleep-deprived night ahead. Shouldn't have stated if I can't take a joke.
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    Oh dear........ oh dear. Be afraid, be very afraid.
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    Sorry, that doesn't compute somehow.....
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    And they say that sometimes I'm too fond of talkin' tech.... I'll get my coat.
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    It helps to be mad here, though.
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    Oh dear, another excuse to buy tools
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    BINGO. If you want to know why I keep coming back to buildhub this thread is it.
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    Following on from this post , and to prevent the Post Office suing us, I've been doing some experiments on mending the sandstone door post; and this is what I found. I decided on an experiment to see how I could glue one piece of sandstone to another. Using one of the many sandstone boulders lying around our garden (£5:00 each to anyone who'll come and take them away) .... I split one of the boulders straight down the middle. Easy. I drilled a hole straight through both halves of the stone and inserted a 12mm threaded rod to act as a pin. I glued (well, resin bonded) the threaded rod into place. And slid the two halves together In a couple of the boulders in the trial holes I drilled, the sandstone split. I don't want to repeat that experience when I do it for real on the doorpost. To make the holes, I used a cheap generic 14mm drill bit and a hand-held Bosch drill. How can I reduce the chance of splitting the sandstone on the doorpost? As I see it, I have a good chance of making the problem worse - splitting even more of the sandstone out of the doorpost.
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    Behave yourself Declan! I'm having nightmares already
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    We're always pleased to see old friends come to see us here.
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    Here you are. Alterations to title status .... look at September 2015. In terms of the services, they are simply new connections. The Devil in me thinks I should have a secret set of services connection from our current house to our new house (being built in the orchard) . We intend to sell our current house to finance the latter stages of Salamander Cottage. I have already 'informally' connected power and water from our current house to Salamander Cottage. The cost you mention for service splitting is maybe a bit high.
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    @NSS, that was an interesting set of photos. Interesting because I'm working hard at visualising our foundations. The mist is clearing only slowly, and photos help the most.
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    Well, there's no hope for me now. I'm resigned to a few nights of ................ '...Well Jack said.....' or '....PeterW says that too...' and '...Well, we could have a really good [xyz] if we had a basement...'
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    Easy Barney, easy there lad! It's before 9:00 pm.
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    Gordon Bennett Pete. Please delete that comment before SWMBO sees it. She'd go mad with ideas. And I won't sleep tonight for thinking about it. Why? It's a typically German approach to building: put the garage, workshop, cold store, kids' room, bike store, home cinema in there.
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    Thanks very much for what I suspect is an expert response. I say that because the quotes cite 5m as the expected depth. One mentions 6m as the expected depth, partly because the rep said he didn't want to under-estimate; and that there'd be a refund per whole meter not used. Brave too; biting on piles Three local firms have given me prices, I'd like to keep their names out of the discussion at this stage; I'm happy to give you their names via PM if you like. The unit prices (cost per meter) are as follows: 150 mm piles £ 180 168 mm piles £ 200 220 mm piles £ 210 or £260 I take the point about National Piling companies. I have a recent copy of SPONS (2016) and I use that guide prices as a measure against which to judge other related issues such as Set Up costs and Idle Time.
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