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Help with kitchen renovation/ 1st house.
daiking replied to zoothorn's topic in Bathrooms, Ensuites & Wetrooms
A jigsaw would be safer, takes longer to remove a limb. Why 9mm pb? Some cowboy ? we had used some and the 12mm walls are much better whether dot and dab or stud wall. -
Reservoir Levels rapid Changes
daiking replied to Ferdinand's topic in General Self Build & DIY Discussion
And now the ban has been canned due partly due to a reduction in water usage as well as lower temps and some rain which means the figures in the OP are decidedly fishy.- 45 replies
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daiking replied to Ferdinand's topic in General Self Build & DIY Discussion
@Ferdinand On your first post is there a breakdown of figures to discriminate between residential and industry demands? And whilst £130bn sounds a lot, it’s not a lot per person per year. On the second point, I’m not making a judgement about the make up of the economy, just making a judgement about those who say that the young should sit at home eating beans on toast for the rest of their lives when the formation of the economy demands they go out and spend their money because otherwise the wheels fall off. Cant remember where but was recently reading how Europe tends to be around 60% consumption whereas we are fast heading toward the 70% of the US economy. Not sure that’s a good thing, long term.- 45 replies
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daiking replied to Ferdinand's topic in General Self Build & DIY Discussion
Oh look, it’s the sweeping generalisation that is the “wasting your money on smashed avocado toast” assertion . Exactly who was it that dismantled the UK economy turning it into a service based consumptive economy? Without the avocado toast and the soya lattes we’d be in REAL trouble... As it happens, I work in “environmental remediation” and I try to make most of my individual decisions with some thought to how it effects things outside my immediate benefit. Which is all I can ask for.- 45 replies
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daiking replied to Ferdinand's topic in General Self Build & DIY Discussion
I’m going to sit my kids down and tell them that because the elderly and the boomers spunked away everything that had, they’ve left us a legacy of deteriorating national infrastructure. So, although they live in a place that is depressingly wet for 99% of their lives they will no longer be able to play with water during the best summer holiday weather they will have in their childhood. Many thanks.- 45 replies
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Isn’t there red showing underneath the overlap not brown as the original colour?
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Discount Offers of the Week
daiking replied to Ferdinand's topic in General Self Build & DIY Discussion
Some Dulux easycare paints available at wilko, half price, £9.50 for 2.5 litres. -
The tale of the sale of our old house
daiking replied to Jeremy Harris's topic in General Self Build & DIY Discussion
I bet 1000 of those are nosy build hubbers. Not me I hasten to add. I gave up looking at rightmove a long time ago. bet the bad review comes from a GBF****r ? -
Why do water butts prevent reduction in charges?
daiking replied to Ferdinand's topic in Rainwater, Guttering & SuDS
And now it is being reported that people are advised to use clean water for their gardens because of the risk of Legionella from water butts. https://www.gardenforum.co.uk/headlines/scientists-find-95-of-britains-water-butts-contained-legionella-bacteria/- 12 replies
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daiking replied to Ferdinand's topic in General Self Build & DIY Discussion
5 litre of Dulux Easycare (washable and tough) for a hallway/landing was £30. Here's hoping it does what it says on the tin plastic pot and 5 litres is enough :fingerscrossed: -
Why do water butts prevent reduction in charges?
daiking replied to Ferdinand's topic in Rainwater, Guttering & SuDS
Well, United Utilities have officially declared that summer in Manchester ends on the 5th August. Last time they invoked a hose pipe ban in 2010, it rained non-stop for 2 months.- 12 replies
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Look what the Architectural Technologist delivered.
daiking replied to epsilonGreedy's topic in Surveyors & Architects
Has he supplied you with tradesmen who will work to that detail and not charge you double the going rate? -
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daiking replied to Ferdinand's topic in General Self Build & DIY Discussion
Ta, Wilkos had some Dulux offers a few weeks ago but we only bought a single pot -
Discount Offers of the Week
daiking replied to Ferdinand's topic in General Self Build & DIY Discussion
Anyone seen any decent paint offers? (walls finish coat) -
The tale of the sale of our old house
daiking replied to Jeremy Harris's topic in General Self Build & DIY Discussion
Cheers, so the system works but only as well as the weak link inputting the data -
The tale of the sale of our old house
daiking replied to Jeremy Harris's topic in General Self Build & DIY Discussion
If you search for the wrong post code? -
The tale of the sale of our old house
daiking replied to Jeremy Harris's topic in General Self Build & DIY Discussion
@JSHarris needs to do a post code search to see what comes up. Whether it’s his correct post code or the wrong one on the epc he does have, doesn’t matter see if there’s a pattern. -
The tale of the sale of our old house
daiking replied to Jeremy Harris's topic in General Self Build & DIY Discussion
The epc register was at one time great tool to use and it had nothing to do with energy efficiency. When the housing market was slow, agents would try all sorts of tricks to make stale properties that had hung on the market for a time look like fresh new instructions. before the property bee plug in came along searching out the epc for a property gave you the best idea of when the deluded sellers first tried selling and how long their fanciful idea of what a property was worth* had prevented them from selling as they typically got an epc at the time of first putting it to market. (*Or their feckless indebtedness) -
The tale of the sale of our old house
daiking replied to Jeremy Harris's topic in General Self Build & DIY Discussion
Can you not just search by postcode? https://www.epcregister.com/reportSearchAddressByPostcode.html Or will that not deliver the SAP derived EPC? -
Plastering Moisture Resistant Plasterboard
daiking replied to Onoff's topic in Plastering & Rendering
Not worth filling. The whole lot needs to come down and be redone anyway. -
Plastering Moisture Resistant Plasterboard
daiking replied to Onoff's topic in Plastering & Rendering
That's awful. you're going to need to get your BiL round to skim it again. -
Back in May, Swansea Uni were saying it couldn’t be eradicated ?♂️
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Plastering Moisture Resistant Plasterboard
daiking replied to Onoff's topic in Plastering & Rendering
Why start now? Just paint the bloody thing. If you do a bad job the poor plastering won’t be so obvious.
