Ferdinand

if your staircase is a separate module, floor fixings for that?

Y for Mistress?

Depends what you make them do, I suppose. Wonder how their fingers compare?

Sorry, no.

In England serious challenges to policy or decisions will be High Court or Judicial Review.

@recoveringacademic Create a pseudonym that sounds like a real name, and use http://whatdotheyknow.com. They (run by http://MySociety.org of theyworkforyou.com fame) will also have an example amongst the 470k FOI requests they have administered that could help with your wording. Here is the page for the 229 previous FOI requests to Wyre Borough Council. https://www.whatdotheyknow.com/body/wyre_borough_council I love the one about the Risk and Method Statement for Paint Spraying Dog Poo.

i am getting quotes for several roofing jobs at present, across about 4 houses - mainly small pre-winter type ones but one larger. Roofer this morning will be recommending a rendererererer, as he doesn't do it. F

Good one, @Crofter. @JSHarris a pleasure to read you again, sir. Just had a roofer tell me this morning that a repacmenet valley would be better with a new roof. The joys of landlording.

If it is just the one, can you just phone up the HoP and ask him which one he meant ? :-). Or not possible for a good reason? That answer sounds a bit like code for "we tried to enforce and got an expensive spanking by a bloke in a wig with a butt-hammer." One way, which is free, would be a carefully framed FOI request. Perhaps you need to decide whether you mean precedent setting or not. If the former, you may also need to consider Planning Appeal decisions too. I would probably suggest an informal phone chat with your Council's Legal Dept first - framed that you want to find out xyz, and asking them how to frame your request to make it focused and as painless as possible for them. You can also ask the Freedom of Information Officer, as there is an expectation that they should help. You could also try searching the BAILLI database https://ials.sas.ac.uk/digital/bailii or Court News, who cover lots of stuff. F

That in the @PeterW comment the quoterbot ignored, without the gravel, is the absolute traditional way to do field hedges. Dig a ditch, make a bank, plant hedge on bank. If you wanted to you could make the ditch into a French Drain by putting a perforated pipe down there (maybe soil pipe in 5m lengths with lots of holes drilled in it), and line with weed barrier folded over the top and weighed down with gravel or cheap pavers. Needs somewhere to drain to, mind.

Or a shed base, or dustbin spot.

Born of my experience talking to roofers yesterday with phones that sound like the summit of Snowdon in a windstorm, you could try: Make gurgling noises into phone. ”Hello, I’m in a drain” or In Truth, I’m on a Roof It perhaps more about sounding credible and not-a-plonker or timewaster, and being willing to spend the t8me making it easier for them. That is if it is a decent supplier. And as you say it went OK - good stuff. F

Not good. 2 from 10 That might be a bit more once cleaned. I would perhaps have wanted the vent round the side. Has he done wider joints to avoid making it a bit wider or cutting bricks or because you ran out of bricks and he was on the last day? One for the snagging list, depending on your relationship. Brick acid, yes. Or for a cover up what about slices of - thinner - paver? F

65 liter garden wheelbarrow at £10 each. Need to check if the delivery charge underm8nes the offer. They seem alright especially at that price. APL online based in WAlsall. I had 4 last week Tyres are pneumatic. Ferdinand

I would say that sockets from established makers are so cheap that the saving is not that significant compared to eg the ability to match after. eg Hager double pole switched double sockets are around £2 with a quick search. Unless, I suppose, you buy 20 years’ supply ?. Ferdinand (who just bought 4 wheelbarrows)

Not a lot. If they come and say Oi! You ask how far it needs to be moved then move it that far plus a foot. Watch advertising trailers in fields nex5 to the motorway, which I think is still done.

I have a relative who does that, who is very highly stressed this year due to workload. When I see her in Aug the teasing will be awful.

Beats Hitachi KOKUP, I suppose. The Consignia Logo was very accurate ... image of vanishing down a plug hole.

I get a slight sense that you enjoyed explaining that little lot ??‍♀️?‍♀️?‍♀️?‍♀️.

Does anyone know what a Class A++ building is, as stated on the link? F

Skip arrived this am. Everybody happy. Council not 8nformed so not stressed. F

Interesting. I can see no reason why it couldn’t be a proper 2 or 2.5 storeys with appropriate bracing in the walls. My first question would be about thermal quality of the walls, then about cost of service connections, and how it would work out in a U.K. context. F

On this subject, what about paths for future internet and satellite TV etc? Does anyone run those to the various potential media centres? F

Put it inside a small ring or tube cut off the end of a hose pipe? That would keep it away from the edge to an extent.

Yes, but it will be reactive. If they find you in breach round here it is pricey: http://www.nottinghamshire.gov.uk/transport/licences-permits/skip-permit They can't decide whether it applies to Highway (text) or Public Highway (title). http://www.nottinghamshire.gov.uk/media/114987/skipstandardconditions.pdf F