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RWelcome. Once the laws have changed, you could grow a cannabis plantation and suggest you need to be on site to defend it ?. Feed the weed to the enforcer and they won’t be able to remember where it was. We had a small listed manor, and they came once, then never came back for the next 30 years. When w3 asked them to come and advise when selling they could not even find it. We could all come and visit. (Serious people along in a minute)

Be sure you are aware of just how bendy the blue pipe is .... not a lot. And what that will say for radii of bends etc. F

I would hold put it everywhere else as well. But a nice design touch, and an excuse to give old fashioned looks to people who ask whilst standing on it.

I do not think we have a thread about how to display house numbers and names. This is an idea from a blog called The House that Black Built. It could also be done outside the gate in the paving. I like that as our numbers here are very confused. 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