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  1. Ferdinand
    Interesting comment, @JSHarris. I think a painted surface would potentially be vulnerable to the treatment / environment. EG it would suffer if knocked in to a soil with clay or pebbles with a post rammer. Treatment might also be more complex if we had to get into heated bitumen for effectiveness. But perhaps a use for eft over painted damp proof course? That may work better if a hole Is dug first, but for me I would then probably be using a concrete post or spur plus bolted on wooden square post. The key point is that they will rot near or just above/below the surface. An experiment would be good, but all my current stock now have postsaver sleeves on them . Volunteers?
  2. Ferdinand
    The ones in the pic are 1.65m and 2.4m 80mm tanalised machined rounds for which I pay about £2.30 and £4.20 both inc VAT. Normal life in my soil in my experience would be 5-7 years or perhaps a bit more, and depending on the exact environment I have reused some after that time. With a postsaver I am expecting 10-12 years, but I have not had any in the ground that long. That is more conservative than the manufacturer claims, and since Network Rail and similar are routine users I am happy to treat their claims a# credible. Obviously it is horses for courses. For a longer life fence or a heavier load I would select a different post or perhaps go for a 100 125 or 150mm. F
  3. Ferdinand
    My first construction video, because we were putting Postsaver sleeves onto some of the fence posts in stock. There is also a blog entry with a little more information.
  4. Ferdinand
    A video I made whilst we were putting Postsaver protective sleeves on part of the stock of fence posts. It is a really excellent product, which should more or less double the length of life of a fence post, and takes little more than a minute to apply once you are set up. But make sure to buy direct from the manufacturer, because retail outlets will gouge you comparatively. The starter kits are particularly good value. And they do trade accounts if you have a repeated need. The feature photo repeated below shows an alternative way to create a long-life fence - use a repair spur and keep the wood off the ground completely.
  5. Ferdinand
    Not convinced by that . I don't see the air gap on the outside, ie the atmosphere, as compromising the insulation of a wall. F
  6. Ferdinand
    These are the approx. required building regs u-values for floors from here: http://great-home.co.uk/building-regulations-u-values-how-have-they-changed/ 0.28 would have been OK (ie meets the regs) before 2010, which is probably the date of the @newhome your PP. Ferdinand
  7. Ferdinand
    All the best things are my fault. Except vodka.
  8. Ferdinand
    Cheers. Currently playing with some new diet items. Have we caught up with @Onoff's bathroom yet?
  9. Ferdinand
    So if I open a tin of it, how long can I keep it for? Used a small amount in a dish, and lost my nerve after a fortnight with the remainder in the fridge.
  10. Ferdinand
    How do you stop the coconut oil going off? Or is it Thai Green Curry twice a week?
  11. Ferdinand
    If it is a rental your gas safety certificate will tell you. There may be a facility at the Gas Safety Register website to check by address, but I am not sure.
  12. Ferdinand
    Wickes have 15% off everything this weekend on the website, with the voucher code EXTRA15. It runs until BH Monday. It does not stack on top of the 10% Trade Discount, but it *will* stack with the extra 10% you get for using a reusable cash card via an employer or other scheme (this latter was discussed last year and in 2016 - eg search this topic for "Westfield"). My Trade Pro email says the 15% off is operating in store too, but for Traders will be replacing the usual 10%. A good opportunity for Velux Roof Window flashings which are on clearance or other things on 3 for 2s etc. It will bring postcrete down to £3.50 or £3.20 a bag for 3 or more, for example. And they have existing bulk discounts on things like rockwool insulation and paint. I'll be bagging a £30 incinerator for £15. There are also offers on kitchens, but I am always cynical about those. Ferdinand
  13. Ferdinand
    You could put something like this but a touch taller in front of it if you want to be slightly away, perhaps paint the container green first. We will grow our Himalayan Giant blackberry on that. 6 feet x 12 feet with another section to be added, and put up in an hour or so. Remarkable how something which is basically straight can look a little twisted from an angle.
  14. Ferdinand
    If you can shift the emphasis from explicit clauses to reliance on the Planning System, then it may be that some of your internal changes are not material planning matters, and come into the JFDI category. Not sure what happens when a non-material matter is specified in the Planning Application, and someone asks the Council to enforce on it. You could even base parts of your agreement on applying to the Council for particular Planning Conditions where you have agreed a wording. I disagree with a couple of others on the enforcibility of covenants - I see them as being very difficult and expensive, as it requires specific legal action and their continued validity / applicability to be proven, especially when the property has changed ownership. This is perhaps less so in the case of an individual property such as yours, compared eg to a property on an estate where somebody else successfully violating the covenant would undermine it everywhere. My overall feel is with @lizzie and others - go through the normal options and negotiate and an acceptable compromise should be within reach. Best of luck. Ferdinand
  15. Ferdinand
    Entirely normal, and done carefully are an advantage to both sides in allowing a sale to go through at a price which does not have to include a guess about the value of future development potential. At the previous house my parents bought next door (rural bungalow, half acre plot), to prevent the restaurant the other side buying it and making a car park, which came with a 20-year duration overage of 50% on any uplift in value due to a planning permission payable on the granting of that permission. If we had not accepted the overage they might not have sold it, and we would not have been protected. In practice we sold it after 12 years, and the people we sold it too did the max they could under Permitted Development, which was enough and did not trigger the clause. In @Jamie998's case they could offer a suitable overage which will give the neighbour a perceived lollipop and protection should someone come along and develop it, but they know will not be something they want to do so is immaterial to them. That could be a more acceptable alternative to parts of the proposal for Jamie. Ferdinand
  16. Ferdinand
    Looking good - always nice to see the build progressing before your eyes.
  17. Ferdinand
    This is very much a current issue in employment law, and the core issue (for example) of the arguments around Uber - which people are employees, workers, or self-employed service providers? It impacts on benefits and pension and holiday entitlement and sick pay, for example. (Note: using this just as an example; if we want to debate Uber lets do it on a new thread - this one is too important to divert). It tends to turn on who is controlling the day to day work of each individual, assessing whether they have other jobs ongoing at the same time, right to substitute a comparable worker etc. AIUI Deliveroo did not fall down the Uber elephant trap because their contract gave an explicit right to substitute. What is written in a contract may not be the last word. The arguments have a similar 'game of chess' feel to those we have seen around the applicability or not of Council Tax. I can see that someone working for a longish term on a site could be construed as an employee or a "worker", depending on several factors each of which would be a matter of "fact and degree" (to borrow a Planning term) - ie "determined on the individual merits of a case", and you don't know whether you are buggered or not until afterwards. That is an old Hewlett-Packard management mantra from the 1970s - Management By Walking Around, where it gives the management a random sample of workplace operation and keeps people on their toes. A good reason to not give the manager a posh system that lets it all be run from a seated position in a nice warm office - also a good reason for not letting "management" be its own discipline. A very good discipline. Ferdinand
  18. Ferdinand
    And timing is critical for insurance, as we all know. I had a tree branch fall on someone's car, and the house insurance had been moved to a different company 3 hours previously. The new company accepted liability. Ferdinand
  19. Ferdinand
    Yep. Various variations on that have been used by others. These panels go in for (hopefully) keeps, so it is thoroughness, what is known to work, and detail detail detail detail detail. F
  20. Ferdinand
    Ooops. That should have said I have a shower room which was done out in panels in 2010, and is still pristine. Ferdinand
  21. Ferdinand
    ISTM that 3 and 4 are strictly unnecessary, as that is the job of the Planning System. You might ask what happens if the planners want something different. I would be a little worried about the restrictions imposed by 2. That seems to limit any attempts to complain about eg excess noise. Definitions of words matter eg “right”. But in practice if you organise for the plot to be owned by you at this point, then your wife could make the complaint or objection. You could still just transfer the built property on to yourselves jointly later .. so the transferee here would be you alone. I think if you are married or cohabiting then there would not be tax implications for swapping assets amongst yourselves like that (?). Q Does this already have Planning Permission? You might try and time limit some of it. F
  22. Ferdinand
    I guessed the colour after taking advice here and from a bathroom I already have. If you read my other thread. did not see that they were a distinct national product until quite late. But City Plumbing Supplies of Pate Street, Melton, are a showroom listed on the brand website, amongst others: http://www.multipanel.co.uk/where-to-buy/find-a-distributor/?Location=Le13+1ae&Type=&Range=&Product=&Latitude=52.7637292&Longitude=-0.8852222999999999&SecurityID=59e1131f80126c1f8b481abb6c20869466a4e855 I looked at the concept of panels in a bathroom in a conversion done by an architect for us back in 2010, then asked on ebuild or here about brands. @JSHarris answered lots of questions, then I guessed the pattern and it worked Ok. Very much a landlord decision .. 20+ year lifetime and attractive to get and keep the best tenants, but as inexpensive as possible and no skimping on quality, not white to not show marks, a pattern to hide marks. Would have gone with the aqua lock but I had prevaricated and did not have time to wait so went with the alu. profiles. Bought an extra panel to tip over into free delivery as I know I would be doing several. Ts love them as they are easy to look after. I was planning Blue Eiger, which looked to have flatter tones, until the last minute, then decided to switch when I was actually ordering. I went and checked my existing bathroom and the pattern is contrasty splatters but that works too. Ferdinand
  23. Ferdinand
    @Moira Niedzwiecka Checking through the prices as they are now, there seems to be little difference between hydro lock vs straight joints, except that 1 - Hydrolock may have a short delay as they may be made to order (my stockist did, others might not). 2 - Hydrolock have a Machining charge, which now appears to be as near as dammit the same as the cost of a straight joint profile. 3 - Suspect the Hydrolock are less work to fit ... one joint not 2 sides of a profile. 4 - Different look. I have one of each and I prefer the Hydrolock smooth look You pays your money and... It is worth a note that the things on the wall look .. to my eye .. to be better than the piccies on the net, and the textures less spiky. So do not necessarily choose patterns for the way it looks in a small pic ... go and look. I am standardised on I think Classic Marble now, as it is attractive, in the lowest Classic price range (next range up is plus £20 or so per panel) and I judge it likely to stay in the range for spares and bulk orders etc. From my supplier above the Classic panels are priced at £125 per 8x4, plus about £11 for the joint or alu strip. Think that includes VAT, but reckon another 20-30% for joints, edgings, and adhesive etc. @ProDave were they actually £100 or is that ex VAT? I really looked and the prices seemed quite uniform and within about 10% or so. Ferdinand
  24. Ferdinand
    It is unfortunate that it should be necessary, @recoveringacademic, but the case from @newhome has the scaffolder willing to 1 - falsify evidence by doing safety paperwork later and 2 - be willing to deceive the authorities about working arrangements. I wonder how much of that is due to heavy consequences. Does a scaffolder get deregistered and lose their livelihood, or have to employ a separate independent checker if they get caught? If it is heavily regulated, do leeway and informality necessarily reduce? Ferdinand
  25. Ferdinand
    Another argument for site security cameras and keeping then running 247.
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