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    Ethical hacking at the local Uni...? Or some of your old dark side contacts? That'll do it.
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    Can it swear in four languages and drink tea by the gallon...
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    https://www.gumtree.com/p/for-sale/polycarbonate-roof-sheets/1259084593 Long way from you though...
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    +1 Much better and for only a few dollars more you get improved racking strength and it's easy to walk on!
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    Noticed this all over this bit of Poland... guess they paint out the ceiling and wall junction in white, then masking tape the top 30mm of wall before painting. Seen it with paint and wallpaper but not tiles. In this picture only the wall with the frame has any colour (kinda greeny lime) the other walls and ceiling are white. Good way or what?
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    Thought you were in France big spud?
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    Get the app, make a few calls to potential buddies and sleep on it. I think you know the answer but need a push to get you over the line. Good luck, I'd offer myself but too busy next week ?
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    Have you checked out gumtree under looking for work construction section? There's a boy named Craig near you looking just now...see
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    This... 300mm deep machine, well I never! 4kg capacity too, handy for some things?
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    Holiday let in Poland. Looks fairly normal as we all know about washing machines in bathrooms, yes? Then the missus says, how did they fit that washing machine in that bathroom? Though, she's not normally interested in stuff like that so had a look. Never guess what I saw next
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    Smashing work and a great read...the best of buildhub when you can follow a thread from thoughts to idea through to completion. Lots of clever comments, great handiwork and pics too! Well done?
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    Nice roof design, how does that look compared with the neighbours?
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    Welcome back old chap We've missed you? Got any plans or pictures, we like them...
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    Wow good pics Complicated frame guess you have good joiners on board
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    IKEA
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    How thick is the OSB? Would have thought ring nails alternately gunned in at 10 o'clock and 2 o'clock and the battens are rock solid.
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    flint work

    Tennentslager commented on sussexlogs's blog entry in sussexlogs

    WTF i thought...whats happening here. Read it in my phone as Kidnapped and ransom
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    In that spirit... Can you get 'Sunamp care' like you can with a gas combi boiler? Whats the after care engineer network like for speed of response etc. Would repair insurance cover the PV system too or would a chap buy a separate product to cover this? I understand the phase change salts last for gazillions of cycles but how much *ballpark* if you had to change these and what about disposal of the old salts. Can you dust these on a bit of good fillet steak from Aldi for your Friday night dinner? There, that's a meaty question @Nickfromwales
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    Thanks @Temp I knew about empty relief below £1700. There are many complexities here. 1. The estate is in a conservation area and planning can only be given for sites that once had a hut. We have old maps showing around 200 huts at one time, currently there are 150 so we reckon around 40 or more we can still let. 2. None of these vacant sites has planning permission. Carbeth is an old place and huts have been here since 1905, before modern planning legislation. New huts built in the last decade or so all have planning permission. 3. The practice note clearly states RV for sites but when is a site a 'site' and when is it just some rough land? Presumably the Assessors have some historical records of a huts being on some sites (their plan data does confer with the maps we hold in most cases) and therefore previously had a entry in the valuation roll. Some of these sites have had nothing on them since the 1950's. 4. My reading of rates legislation all seems to imply RV on the rental value of buildings but I cannot find anything clear about the rental value of land. Remember the thread about land value tax? I guess the implication is that land is not rateable. I think we will need professional advice but if the appeals we have made ( did 27 of them this morning) reduce the RV to below £1700 and we must have a good chance of achieving this, the whole issue will go away.
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    1. EPDM is just like the stuff an inner tube from a tyre is made of, basically a big sheet if rubber, so it's soft and easy to fold, tack and stick. I sheeted my roof in 22mm OSB and then screwed through the OSB to attach lengths of 4*2 underneath, on the edge. I then lapped the EPDM around and under the 4*2 so there was a drip bead. you can also add a trim on top of the edge for a nice finish. Its very easy to work with and if you use contact adhesive on the edges like Evostick it will be there forever. For the main part of the roof (i.e. not the last 200mm at the edge) you use latex adhesive which is cheaper, more watery but not as much bond strength. This can go on with a cheap roller or brush. Use a cheap roller or brush because you will be throwing it away afterwards! 2. I use any stuff you can get from Gumtree or cheapest...the rainscreen is keeping 99% of water off so the membrane is not doing much. Cross battens will leave a good gap and plenty of room for air flow.
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    Thanks everyone...first step is to submit the appeals and see what response we get. I'll update as we go.
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    Oh the rates go to the Local Authority, the SAA is independent of the LA and its the Scottish Government that introduced the small business rates relief scheme. Not them this time that are guilty of grabbing our money:-)
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    Very true but does involve the community company 'giving' assets away. I think it could be possible but might be seen as illegal avoidance of rates/tax. We could advertise half of the sites for immediate sale...got a big waiting list but it hasn't been our past policy which has been for slow release and steady development of 4 to 6 sites per year.
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    Any pointers from the collective wisdom? Our huts have recently been revalued and the RV has climbed from c£600 per hut to c£2k. Its not really a problem as you get 100% rates relief if all your RV properties are below the small business rates threshold of £15k, so each hutter can claim 100% relief. However, this year for the first time the SAA (Scottish Assessors Association) has put a value on VACANT sites. The community company has 26 odd empty sites with nothing built on them. We always thought that vacant land did not have a value for rating. The SAA are relying on a new Practice Note (link below) which says huts are valued on a combination of site location quality and hut size and condition. https://www.saa.gov.uk/wp-content/uploads/2017/04/Holiday-Huts-Sheds-Bothies-etc_R2017_MPC25.pdf Any legal eagles know if SAA can impose a valuation on a vacant site? We can/may/will appeal the valuations as collectively they put the community company over the rebate threshold and we have a whacking great rates bill to pay which we can ill afford.
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    Very nice looking that is. Top job youngster??
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