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    I've tried for a year not to post this image. I just couldn't take the pressure any more. Goggle and weep. This where I get my hardcore - and a lot more. A lot more The keys are in the ignition, there's a copy of the Daily Mirror on the dash. Please don't tell anyone.
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    Hmmmmm. Someone will pile in with the physics and maths of this. If a Landy can do it, so can many other vehicles I suppose. Nowt much special about Landies...... mine (all of them) irritates (..ed) the Hell out of me; the sloppiness in the build, the dreadful design, the leaks [in and out], but worst of all my own utter mindless stupidity in buying many. It (currently a 90) regularly ruins my back, throws a hissy, grabs me by the throat with the number of false earths, drinks diesel like an Oil Sheikh. There are so many better designed, cheaper, more reliable Japanese equivalents. OK their fuel figures have been fixed, but hey, even Germans play that game. Apart from that they're fine
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    Eeeeer! Do you lot work for the Irish Tourist Board eh?
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    Well SwissCheese, neither do I. My fingertips are burning a bit... a producer identifying the specification necessary. Hmm, I'd wonder about that.
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    KISS. I hadn't thought of that.....
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    Many people have benefited from this resource in the past, and I am sure will do so in the future. So I have pinned this post.
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    I'd like to add my congratulations too!
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    Hhhhhhhhh....... mmmmmm.... nnnn.... Now, what that solicitor's number...?
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    Ok. Next question... cheapest brand of vapour barrier Ian
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    Brilliant. Just like being back in the Army. Check your OP for light...... and an excuse to go and buy those LED floods.... excellent...
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    Ah, yeah, forgot that... I've got a spare fan or two and a seventeenth hand solar panel...Thanks!
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    Ahhh, filling cracks, the sheer delight of that process. I just lurve it.
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    What are friends for? They are the ones who come to your gate, ostensibly for a natter, and say "Well, yer not going to want to hear this, but......" Yes, I haven't lined my containers ... yet. Oh that most important little word. YET. And now's the time to prepare for winter. John's (my mate) absolutely right. I have to line it Off to the BM, and bought myself £81 quids worth of pure joy. And on the way back fell to wondering what to stick between the ply and the container, if anything at all. Bitpipe I remember bought a DampStick. And on his recommendation I bought one.... haven't used it yet. I've bought some 5.5mm ply and some 2 by 2. I've researched the issue on Tinternet (YooChube) here, here and here (the last of these YT vids is eye-opening for me anyway) and on Goooooogle and this article seems to be the most objective one of all. Lining it with mud is one option, I understand. Hmmm, that's got potential hasn't it? But there's nothing about lining a container for OUR needs. So, with luck I feel a checklist coming on. Anyone got any ideas, tips, please?
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    Got me hooked , too.
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    It's called Joined-Up-Thinking. How desperately damn stupid.
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    Oh, and if you get your electricity through a Bulk supplier (PM for details if you like) you get 5% off at B+Q. So, what happens if I go on a Wednesday? Get 15%? (I might be over 60 if you look at me in the dark)
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    You know how to tweak a man's ire don'tcha? Still, if I can't take a joke, I shouldn't have applied for PP should I?
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    And that's what we are working towards. As sheer luck would have it we have an area of garden (orchard) that was a deep 'pit'. The previous owner filled it in with rubble, hardcore, gravel, the odd old gate post and dozens of tonnes of mushroom compost. And we've had a trial pit dug to 2 meters + (the original level) to look at the water table level. To date completely dry, even in heavy persistent rain. Talk about lucky........
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    Hmm, a very important lesson for everyone Dave. Silly, isn't it that the regulations vary by administrative area rather than the local geology.
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    PMSL
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    Productivity in relation to cost (cost effective by another name) will differ by [self?] builder won't it? In our build, can't afford a foundation made to the highest spec, but many others could. So cost effectiveness is a subjective measure. What's OK for me, isn't for others. And I'm almost sure J was focusing on just the numbers - so that that logic can inform the decision about how much money to invest. J's contribution is just a framework on which to hang a very personal decision.
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    Ahhhh! Thanks! Decent honing compound....? Like (say) valve grinding paste, or toothpaste, or ... ideas?
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    What a good idea. It's a good idea because it adds value for our members The only hiccough I can see is that the list will need to be maintained. But on the other hand it's a topic that will be referred to a good deal I am sure. So, I'll pin the topic and keep a close personal eye on it. Thank you Ferdinand. Ian
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    SuDS: Sustainable Urban Drainage System and Off Mains Drainage. Here be Dragons. Call me naive, but here's how I found out that I had responsibilities in this area. That was in July 2014. And since then, I have been working on it sporadically - there has always been a brighter fire burning at my feet. But now that my EPS application has been delayed (please don't ask me for details: my doctor has told me not to talk about it ) I have bitten the SuDS bullet. Part of my strategy in dealing with the issues surrounding SuDS is to listen to interminable discussions at Parish level about local planning applications. For some reason - without rationale or considered argument - almost all housing development is held to be a bad thing. Not exclusively, you understand, but generally it's a bad thing. The Fylde Peninsular (where we live) was the dumping ground in that last Ice Age for a good deal of what became clay - Glacial Till. And that makes drainage difficult. And so soak-aways are a bit of a problem. Not to mention off mains drainage. And so when, at local level, with a good deal of huffing and puffing, opposition to development occurs, most of the opposition focuses on completely irrelevant issues such as this example. SuDS is a standard requirement. Off mains drainage (locally) and SuDS cannot be avoided. And if you can't sort out a soak-away because of the clay you can't have a house. And here's how the trap is set. The details for SuDS and Off Mains drainage are agreed at planning level, but enforced by your BCO. So -stupidly in my opinion- you can commit to all that expenditure and actually build the house but fail to provide the necessary documentary evidence until sign-off looms large. No SuDS, no off mains, no house . Not a lot of people know that. Quite why, I'm not sure.
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