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That sure is a nice sink! 0.9/1.0mm noted!

As per the title, just looking for a decent stainless 1.5 bowl kitchen sink, been looking at Franke and Blanco and Reginox, issue is many of them are online only, so I can't do the tap-tap test to see how solid they sell. It's for our new kitchen, I am not going to get to hung up on a sink so just want a decent sink, decent size, not one of the playhouse ones and wondered if any of you had recently bought a kitchen sink and did you feel it was well made and good value for money. I am on plumbworld.co.uk just now and liked the look of quite a few but very reluctant just to hit buy unseen. Taps too - kitchen lot wanted £279.00 for a mixer tap... It's a tap! Not where I spend money, good floors and doors and windows and finishes, but a bloody tap?

My thinking and what I believe.

Coronavirus might do this. Climate/housing/energy crisis will all be solved through population reduction or even just population control.

So the first crisis isn't a housing one, that is an affordability, employment crisis essentially. The 20-30 year olds I think mainly got/get their priorities wrong. Many of them left home at 18 to go the Uni and live with friends and drink, and they got a car lease or HP for a new Ka for £120.00 a month, they also have the latest iPhone or Galaxy tablet and can go away to the sun with friends and piss away £100's on festivals and booze - now they need a house and have pissed all their money away from day 1. Now possibly in their late 20's early 30's and they are stuffed as they now have an Audi A3 outside mum and dads, spend all their money every weekend and struggle to put away £100 a month. The crisis I see over and over again is stupidity and a lack of planning - perpetual students. I started saving while at uni, not very successfully right enough but I always had some money, I then paid off any debts and started saving in my first real job after uni, I did a degree that was going to almost certainly result in a real world job and probably several at that, I didn't do "French with Sports studies" then cry because, guess what, there are no follow on jobs from that degree. These young adults need to look at themselves I think. I continued to save hard while living with my parents and driving a 15 year old car I owned, I changed the oil on and repaired and kept in goof fettle and bought my first house when I was in my late 20's. I skipped the starter house right enough but I only bought my house because my wife, then girlfriend, and I decided we would move in together and I was happy to move onto the next chapter in my life. I was lucky though, I understand that, but I work hard, I save hard and I enjoy live but don't throw money away and have always had these values. Instil some of the post war values back into people and I think the country would be a better place, better work ethic, pride in their work and country, respect, care and realistic and sustainable plans for their futures. Not sure how unfair this will be viewed as, but this is something I see a lot of so it's accurate from my perception and also from what I hear, read about, see etc. It's even happening on the street I live in - young lad along the road 17-19, left school last year and I assume is at uni or college now, however, a brand new Golf turns up the summer he left school which appears to be his - young girl a few doors up, same situation, has a new Mini and around September after leaving school she moved out as I can only assume to go to uni - still has the Mini - don't think she needs it from what I can see... I also hear about similar stories through colleagues and clients, neighbours talking about older kids who have moved out, my wife sees it in some of the younger admin girls at her work (all 1-2 year old HP/Lease cars), they call into the radio and moan, Jeremy Vine quickly ascertains where they do spend money and oh boy, do they get their priorities wrong!

I wonder really just what is the "crisis". At a real life level, i.e. in the streets of cities and towns around us, what does it actually mean. They say there is a housing shortage, but I wonder about that - I do not know enough about this topic so everything said here is just me thinking aloud and trying to get my head around it all. There are towns with streets and streets of empty properties, I accept older stock that may need work, but last time I saw these for sale they were about £25,000 - so if people want cheap housing why don't they buy one of those, spend £25K on it and they have to my mind a cheap house - just how cheap do we need? The "shortage" must be mainly a wealth divide drawn in the sand - if your affordable stock is say £40K then you have a problem for sure as I assume there are not too many houses for £40K so is it really a shortage or is it an affordability crisis?? Let's just assume that the crisis was cancelled tomorrow, house builders continue to do their thing, self builders do their thing and LA and housing associations continue to build and renovate housing stock - nothing different to what is going on today, just there is no "crisis" label - now lets say they started an affordability crisis, this could be solved through other means...

Too much! My wife is queen of the odd socks, but not only by colour but complete style and type! I have those socks too with the coloured heels and toes and I have about 6 I can no longer wear as there is no partner! I deserve another piece of bread and Cloudberry jam after seeing that!

I cannot cope with this!

Sort of the route I took - but also neglected to tell anyone, at all...

Thanks for all these replies. I have forwarded them all on.

Just to insure his build while he builds I think. I shall link him here to read these himself and let you know what he reports back. Thanks

You would be amazed when that man on the ground could do, especially if there was something in it for him - Dave's approach is a good one. Then option 2. I'd write to them informing them that as they do not have a wayleave you are giving them notice that you will no longer allow the casual arrangement to permit the wires to overfly your property. See where that gets you - worked for 2 of our neighbours. BT will try and BS you, so you BS them - it works the world over from the classroom to the courtroom.

I am posting this on behalf of a friend who has just started basic works in his garden for his extension after I convinced him he could do it (he can) - he now has planning and is just waiting for a final structural sign off. He wanted to know about self build insurance for his build, issue being that he will build most of it himself, he says he is coming up against a lot of the insurers asking questions about the trades, which, in his case may be few and far between. So - for those of you who truly self built and got insurance (you see I didn't! - built now anyway) who did you approach and how do you overcome the DIY aspects...

6F2/6F5 - call demolition companies that crush and or the big building waste skip places. I got 10 tons of 6F5 for £45.00 FYI: 6F2 is basically crusher run made on site, and 6F5 is crushed elsewhere and brought it. However, I would probably redesign to save removal or material and import of material.

I know I know - it will come in handy when I actually set things up properly though, media server etc I will also patch phone onto some of them.

Yes, the fans are I think like 40mm, they are small, spin pretty fast and just wear out. Chances are it sat in a data-rack in an office for the last 10 years. I know I'd feel kinna rough if I was made to work flat out for 10 years! You can get them for a few pounds.

This is very common, take it apart, find the little fans, replace with a same voltage same size thing. I have about 5 switches which are noisy. I actually removed the fans from some and let the rack fans do the job by aiming them right across the case.

You put me to shame, I wired our place for network about 5 years ago and they are still all just hanging in the comms cupboard!

UV stable and a bit tougher, having said that I have had a piece of internal CAT5 cable strung between 2 houses via a BT telegraph pole for about 10 years without any degradation of the cable that I can see so far.

It doesn't really say that. Legal proceedings will not second guess the decision makers decision and can only deal with an error in law pertaining to the application. So if for example the applicant states they will retain something but it gets demolished etc. etc. then law can be used to challenge this. However yours is a civil matter. I understand you're upset here, I really do, but sadly the system is stacked against you. Perhaps you have a legal argument due to the green belt but sadly this means very little now and house builders and filling more and more houses with shoe-boxes made from cardboard. It sounds like planning have ruled to your benefit before by denying his application for the big extension, however he has now gone for a PD sized extension. I'd talk to them. Always try and stay onside with neighbours and be careful what you say as if you start mentioning law and they know about it, they will know you are ill informed and unlikely to cause a nuisance. You may have something in the right to light (assuming you are in England) that might be your only hope.

It only uses 2 pairs, 1 x Tx pair 1 x Rx pair - on a crossover cable these two pairs are "crossed" so that PC can speak to PC - i.e. Tx into Rx. Some of the cheap free cables with modems only have 2 pairs in the cable!! Only pins 1-3 & 6 are used on a normal network connection which if I remember correctly tends to be orange and green, so you can strip out the blue and brown. You can pull out the 2 twisted pairs, and keeping them twisted crimp on 2 plugs, or if using a patch panel terminate them like that. I have a piece of Network cable here with about 48 pairs on it, it's designed for patching panels in comms rooms, I acquired about 8 foot of it and figured it may come in handy one day, so that is 24 connections down a single cable!

It can be blinking handy to convert a single RJ45 socket into a twin on a wall plate where only 1 cable exists.

You know you can run 2 connections down 1 cable? I often patch network+network onto a single cable. People say no, never had increased packet loss on a twin circuit and been doing that since the last 90's.

I agree.

50 CAT5 cables... what are you building, a call centre? I have a fair bit of CAT5 here, every room that may need it has 1 or 2 points (only used 1 point once), but 50?!? Please do tell?