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So last weekend I couldn't arrange anything but the weekend was a complete washout anyway. The only benefit of the heavy rain was the opportunity to see what was happening at the overflow point. The excess water was overflowing from the gutter and running down the fascia rather than shooting off the roof and past the gutter. Therefore I am far more confident it is the issue with the missing clip and not the tiles hanging a little low. I also noticed that a couple of the joins were dripping as well so maybe it all needs a bit of work. I could just about managed to fit another downpipe if I could run it down the lean too roof into the gutter on the base of that (which would also need another downpipe)

Pretty much 48 hours of heavy rain has revealed a similar leak for me around the junction of the chimney and the roof. I'm going to need a professional ladder climber and he/she knows anything about roofs, that would be a bonus. I don't think moss is the issue in this instance but that has been useful to note as my lean to roof appears to be at risk of moss problems.

I do like those but all the ones I could find were too wide. I was looking for something around 300mm wide.

I recently bought a dozen from an online supplier, about 75cm long, 30cm wide, pretty lightweight. Well, I received 2 dozen in total and most of them cosmetically damaged, minor dents and scratches. All because they weren’t packed correctly. All metal to metal contact with no separating material between them ?‍♂️. Returned them for a refund. I’ll PM the name to you. making some out of decking board instead and painting them battleship grey.

Now have a flood warning ⚠️ https://tinyurl.com/y3ggwdva

Rained solid for about 24hours now. The stream running along the garden is as high as it can get. Lovely summer.

Has normal service resumed yet? seeing as the country’s infrastructure is creaking as it is and there’s no appetite to invest in it, we need to accept that every year there will be some days when it’s very cold, some days it’s very hot, some it’s snowing/windy/wet. Those losses aren’t an economic negative, they’re the costs because we can’t afford to make the changes necessary to overcome them.

We’ve let the Giphy out of the bottle now

Of course. I bought my BBQ in November btw.

https://www.appliancesdirect.co.uk/content/which-air-conditioner Those single unit ones seem fine for a 'normal room' up to about 20 sq m not an open plan 'space'. I think you're going to need a bigger boat. btw it'll be cold tomorrow and we'll wonder what all the fuss was about.

Buying a Mini-max would be cheaper than changing my car.

I wish I had your contacts. So far, 3 local quotes of £62, £67 & £90 inc drop-off/pick-up as I'm told these 6'x3' Alu towers won't fit in my car. For argument's sake, even without del/collection the cheaper 2 are £44* and £60. (*Jewson doing 50% off online hires till tomorrow) Those are not normal cars. The biggest cars in the SMMT list of UK's 2019 top selling cars are the Kuga and the Qashqai and my car is similarly sized. Would have been fine for a smaller window but that one is about 2.1m wide and that side return I'm stood in is only 2m wide. Swinging round a 2.4m+ length of 4x2 on the end of a 6m extended ladder in that gap is not the sort of you've been framed moment I'm looking for. Nor do I have a glazier on speed dial.

I'll report back with some hire quotes but I didn't think it would fit in a normal car. And there is no brick work above the window. The dark bit is the black underside of the facsia board assembly and its pretty much in line with the top of the window. Its not really any easier to see in the uncompressed photo due to the light/dark contrast. I'll take one from inside the bedroom later to show.

Thick end of £400 for one bay. Not really a good answer.

I need to replace this light but the reason it doesn’t work is that the gutter is missing a clip so it sags and pisses rain straight onto the light. But I can’t work out how to get up there with a ladder safely. There’s no where to land the top of the ladder that isn’t window or gutter. Don’t think a stand-off beneath the window would work, I’d need to be stood at about that height to reach.

No change here ?

Should it come to that, the simplest, least stressful and probably cheapest solution to this in the long run is just to change your car number plate.

So basically nothing (except a big dog) is practically any use other than the need to demonstrate a reasonable level of deterrence? ?

See the cooling thread reminded me that last Monday when I turned the ufh off the floor surface temp was over 27deg and was still at 27 deg the following evening ? Glad it is north and east facing so avoids most of the sun. Wasnt the best time time of year to be doing this.

This is a minefield. Or maybe a minefield would be a better idea :rubchin:

Just follow your first thoughts and don’t tell anyone ???

Exactly. Culture from top to bottom of society in all sectors. Not the architecture or design, the people. as an aside let’s put this out there... every tradesman, large build co exec, building inspector not really giving a f*** because “it will be alright. Why do we need to follow the regs?” is culpable for grenfell. The culture is rotten from top to bottom.

Cynical exploitation of housing benefit. Utter scum, a literal people farmer.

Singapore? (Ok so the blocks further out from the city centre don’t look quite so salubrious, rooftop running track anyone? But I doubt they’re a hot bed of anti social behaviour either)

The deterrent is always to like not the easiet target. You'll never know how many times you weren't burgled because you had a basic alarm fitted