Ferdinand

That £108 fails the Occam test. That is a lot of beer, at which point beer goggles will make the fridge irrelevant. Why a window? Just use a security cam and a display on the outside.

Oops. YTR. We need an acronym dictionary. For me iirc is when I have not absolutely bottomed something I am asserting but it is more than opinion. In this case I could not immediately come up with a list of his projects for the NHS but had found newspaper bios referencing the activity. F

I would pay at least some attention to Hammond until proven ill-informed, as he spent part of his career some years ago developing Iirc Doctors' Surgeries for the NHS. So he has some hinterland and contacts to find out, though one jump away. Otoh he does sometimes use slightly apocalyptic language. Ferdinand

Don't think I can add much more.

You can do the same for any site, and hopefully the technique transfers and there are a small enough list of urls of each type to spelunk through.

Can we introduce a Buy Ferdinand a Beer system? I was looking for something for my sig . And that is nicely blog old-school. For your storage you could at its simplest just put a shed inside one bay. Or get one if these garden buildings made to size to be a home office too if needed for 2-3k, and put that inside a bay. @recoveringacademic Tx.

If you go into the "summary" option, and list the urls, you can then filter by type. eg list of urls https://web.archive.org/web/*/kctmo.org.uk/* That would let you zero in on eg all the newsletters. filter by *.pdf Hope that helps for your searching rather than repeating things you know and are doing. Best of luck anyway. Ferdinand

Are you using the Wayback Machine? Spidering kctmo since 2002, and presumably most of the others. https://web.archive.org/web/*/http://www.kctmo.org.uk

Needs a deep pond next to it and a hose on the roof to make a water slide.

Probably. It has been like that for 20 years. I need Jack with a pail of water to fall down and break his crown and Sue the Council.

@Simon, @recoveringacademic is the official in-house Herpetologist (*), or Batrachologist if we are being pedantic. Ferdinand * For the avoidance of doubt, that is not a reference (as far as I know) to herpes.

Or gravel.

We are nearly finished, The garden wall just needs a little more brick acid and wire brush treatment. The dustbin shelter needs one more course then a top of tiles and a tidy up. And one of a bit more of the hard landscaping. F

What was that sentence?

Like it. Did you manage the build two, sell one, then be mortgage free trick? I found a picture of the inside.

I would think the vendor would tell you that ... technical department?

Surely it will be "100% rebuild value" or buy the equivalent.

Not sure about that. London Buy-to-Let is very marginal. Here, as a traditional BTL, the flat would be around £300k when renovated (say 275k to purchase). If they bought it now 3.75k stamp duty + 10k Osborne Tax. Rent is £25k / year. 10% void = 22.5k. If they got that that is an exceptional yield for a London property. Normally you would have to spend perhaps £500k on a property to get to that rent level. Minus another 12-15% if under management. Mortgage of £200k would at todays prices have an interest rate equivalent of say 3.5% (rolling setup fees of about 2.5-3k in) = 7k pa. In K&C Council Tax is low - Band D is about £1000. Ignore as currently incident on the tenant. Service charge. Guessing a little - perhaps £2k a year which is cheap for London, but may have been huge following the refurb. Plus they will need to budget another 1k or so for insurance, gas safety etc. And perhaps 1-2k for maintenance and investment. Plus the opportunity cost of interest on 100k of capital which could be 3-5% elsewhere = say 3k. Which leaves gross profit at around 8-9k a year, which is profitable but not really a killing. Or 5-6k if using a managing agent. And in 4 years the mortgage interest will be treated as income for higher rate taxpayers. It would be much better if owned outright, or much worse if in a Borough like Southwark or Newham where there is a lot more bureaucracy. F

@craig I think you will be fine. 11 likes on 30 posts is a good start. We just need a tot of brandy. F

Good luck.

They will have the numbers from somewhere but may misquote, cannot add up if written by Arts graduates, and do not cite. Decent bloggers more reliable. On Twitter it is very much a mixture, John Band and Unity who wrote the Ministry of Truth blog have been reliable nonsense debunkers for a decade. One myth that is perhaps about to collapse are the claims about empty foreign owned flats in London that the current Mayor campaigned on and Mr Corbyn wants to confiscate for refugees from Glenfell Tower. Mayor Sadiq commissioned a report from LSE which seems to be about to report that there basically aren't any left as empty land banks .. less than 1% of foreign bought homes: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/property/house-prices/almost-no-evidence-london-homes-owned-foreign-buyers-left-empty/ and on the lse website Yesterday. http://lselondonhousing.org/2017/06/overseas-investors-and-londons-housing-market/ The report for the London Mayor was dated 2017 May https://www.london.gov.uk/moderngovmb/documents/s58640/08b2b LSE Overseas Investment report.pdf But Mr Corbyn made his demand to requisition the non-existent empty homes yesterday, but should have had access to the report http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-40285994 And I have been hearing people talking about requisitioning these homes on R5 this morning. But 5-10 years of political campaigning against a non existent groups of foreigners vanishes into thin air. My conclusion is that a lot of statements get made regardless of available evidence, and that is essential to look at the original data. Please to check and tell me if I am wrong. There is also the slight problem that these people claim to believe in the Human RIghts Acts which forbids confiscation of property without a major legal process. IMO it is pretty much all popularise politics. Ferdinand

Eg in Daily Mail http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-4609334/Fireproof-cladding-Grenfell-cost-5k-more.html Indy quotes 24 vs 22 ukp per sqm over 2000sqm. Neither is is a reliable source though. Indy pushed the fake cladding chosen to give rich people nice views line, which set off the Twitter trolls. http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-news/grenfell-tower-cladding-fire-cause-improve-kensington-block-flats-appearance-blaze-24-storey-west-a7789951.html Only the inflammatory headline appears on Twitter: https://mobile.twitter.com/Independent/status/875003261849399297 and is now reporting people repeating versions of the line http://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/music/news/akala-grenfell-tower-fire-people-died-poor-london-rapper-block-flats-deaths-kensington-a7790906.html F

I think I have seen numbers around the difference between the non flammable and flammable versions being 2% and the cost being 200k. Those numbers which may be wrong give 4K.

I have seen criticism of building regs starting, in conversations about how people who followed the rules may not be able to be prosecuted.

I hadn't realised that the organisation responsible for running the Housing Stock in the Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea, the "KCTMO", which is one of two organisations under the cosh here (the other being RBKC itself), has a majority of tenants / leaseholders on its Board of Directors. I assume this is the standard for Arms Length Management Organisations. Ferdinand