Ferdinand

Head in the clouds... (Gets coat)

There must be pigeons remarkably slimmer than the ones we get, which look substantial enough to carve like a turkey.

Does this work?

My golden rule for extractor filters is that it shall *always* be a metal one that can go in the dishwasher.

That is problematic under the new endless tenancies in Scotland. I think. TBF it would not have been easy under the old law either. I am not sure how they draw the line between short term tenancies (ie long holidays) and residential tenancies. And I am not sure how anti-AirBnB laws will affect things. Scottish Govt are stirring the pot on that.

That is a good point. From the other side when I am planning to object to something, I engage the Planner early verbally with the violations of Planning Policy - as I know that ours do not look at anything in detail until the deadline for comment has gone. That way the Planner is hopefully primed to notice things that may be missed, and I may even get away without having formally to object (and so potentially to put a bomb under the relationship). Equally they have to listen to representations after the deadline, so if I am doing a PP I will engage periodically or continuously up until 2 days before decision date personally or via my consultant. Things do not always work out. I had one horrible experience when they put a time limit on a change of use, and issued a decision notice without even mentioning it to us. Had to renegotiate a complex lease to include break causes based on not getting a COU extension in 4 and 8 years. Ferdinand

I feel more relaxed already ? by internet osmosis.

I do not think that tiles or engineered wood will make a huge difference. You need to worry more about insulators like carpet and maybe if you use a thicker than usual underlay under your tiles if they are click fit. Have you considered tiles made to look like wood, and Vinyl Tiles? They are both good choices ?. Start from the other end for the covering, and decide what characteristics * you want for your floor, weight for importance and prioritise. Then rate each finish on each thing, and multiply by the weighting’s, and look at the top two. May help. Ferdinand * eg hard or soft feel, required lifetime, installed cost per sqm, is it cat proof, will grandma go arse over tip, does it show mud etc.

Welcome.

In your circumstances I might decide to put Adjustable Support Pads beneath the supporting points so it can be adjusted later, as I had to do with my shed due to soft ground.

The important thing for fencepost longevity is that it does not have its feet in water, eg if put straight into concrete. Or, if it does, then you need good posts. The easy way is to make sure that your posts are on top of your concrete footings out of the ground. OTOH some of the wooden underpinnings of seaside piers last more than a century. Ferdinand

I love that that is questioned before semi-housetrained.

I think that Fiidif... is an IPadded claim to be Henry VIII whilst eating Thornton's Special toffee. Fidei Defensor and all that.

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I always understood the P as a wheeze to be able to claim ip through being non-generic. It topped the singles charts in Canada.

Our Appeal officer came onto my housing estate plot where people had complained about the "eyesore", and said "where are these houses - can't see them" and went away to think about something else. On objections, I have made several objections at PP or Appeal level that have worked, and lost a couple.

Forum names are fun. Who knew that one was on MSE so early he might even have conversed with Martyn Lewis before his ascension to the rich list. And that our resident semi-housetrained architect has a strange taste in small cars. ? F

Oh. dear. Now I'm itching to post the Hampsterdance.

Actually there should be a lot of stuff at archive.org, but you would need to jigsaw and triangulate. Difficult to automate, as archive.org will not welcome spiders. eg - Temp, DIYNOT and JennyHicks. on July 11 2008. https://web.archive.org/web/20080619140818/http://www.ebuild.co.uk/cgi-bin/forums/discus.pl Bit more "Last 7 days" http://www.ebuild.co.uk/cgi-bin/forums/search.pl?method=last&number=7&units=1440&tree=ON&where=all

Interesting. Mine was Mon, Jan 31, 2011, 12:59 AM Ferdinand

There are actually all kinds of pricing comparison threads - but you have to dig, sometimes using Google and +buildhub or site:buildhub.org. F

OH = Other Half. She means hubby is a broke man walking who does not know it yet . Or alternatively thinks he is broke for the wrong reason ; she may have mentioned something of benefit to OH in passing but carefully avoid stating a definite link so he will just assume it was him. The only rule against mentioning prices is case specific and to do with household harmony. Mention away. That bottom piccie ... are you a friend of Jeremy Clarkson?

Remember that facing distances are between HABITABLE rooms .. not kitchen, bathroom, store, corridor etc. And they are also adjusted for rooms at angles or offset. I think you should be fine, but there will be a detailed rule somewhere.

Buildhub was created expressly up to pick up the Ebuild job, but in a more robust format as an organisation so that a couple of people being busy elsewhere or going under a bus would not kill it. The Ebuild close was a classic internet setup, then success, then stress, then implosion, story for one individual. Exasperated by a legal threat. Thanks for the compliment. F

I did an analysis piece on this recently on another thread. If you want to dig out membership etc around 2005-2008, all you need is to look up the home page at archive.org. -------------------------------------------------------------------------- That's a very good question to ask. Let me try to add a little data that I can see from the outside (I am not a Moderator or Admin). I need to emphasise that quality of engagement and direction of travel of numbers is perhaps more important than actual "total"; the total number of members includes a lot who have "passed through", which represents people who have reached a stage in their dream / project where they consider they need to enroll to ask questions, rather than passively read or lurk. Or perhaps it means people who can answer questions, or want to promote their businesses or fish for links. Like a medieval castle, I understand there are murder holes just inside the portcullis, from where @Nickfromwales dispenses boiling oil on spammers. So for the current community we need something more like "who has posted in the last 12 or 24 months?" (people ask a bit about plots then go away, then come back and ask about Planning, then come back a year later when they have Planning etc). So the 3000 member number is "who has been interested enough to join now or in the past", Within which we have "who has stuck around", or "who has posted and been thanked". The "Leaderboard -> Reputation" options tell you that 45 people have been "reacted to" more than 200 times, and that 48 people have more than 670 posts. The "Users Online" menu option will tell you that the number of "guests" ie non-members "online" (which usually means requested a page from the site in the last 30 minutes) is about 4-8 times the number of logged in members (usually), though some of those may be members too lazy to log in or on the wrong device, or being incognito. The "new join rate" is perhaps more indicative of the rate of impact, when compared eg to the number of self-builds per annum in the UK - though probably a significant majority of dreamers never get to build. Self-builds in the UK are of the order of 10,000-25,000 I think, and have grown perhaps 20-30% in the last couple of years. Somebody else can probably take a guestimate at "how many people are considering self-build more than idly in passing"; my guesstimate would be 100k-250k. So I estimate that you can say we are reaching maybe 10,000-20,000 individuals per year relatively seriously, and an unknown larger number casually. On the "new joiner" metric we are now roughly where EBuild.co.uk were towards the end, though that had its heydey in 2005-2008 roughly. Ebuild members. June 2014: 12996 (https://web.archive.org/web/20140625091853/http://www.ebuild.co.uk/) December 2014: 13504 https://web.archive.org/web/20141222205444/http://www.ebuild.co.uk/ August 2015: 14356 https://web.archive.org/web/20150809080853/http://www.ebuild.co.uk/ Ebuild existed from about the year 2000 so the long run average once established was about 1000 per year, perhaps declining as a rate at the end. Someone needs to look up 2005-2008 to check what I expect to be the peak rate of new joiners. A snapshot of how many "crawls" the Internet Archive-bot did of the site is perhaps a good proxy for "how prominent it was" and "how interested the internet was in Ebuild". (Buildhub has hardly been crawled at all by the Internet Archive, so I wonder if we keep them out for performance reasons. Or perhaps we are all boring in our old age.) Just musings. I haven't gone to the trouble of running the site through any serious monitoring services - imo not necessary as it is clearly a very healthy, thriving community, and that is what matters most. Ferdinand