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Install it above a shelf?

I can't get the Wicked Witch of the East out of my head now. I think a pair of these should be installed in the bathroom.

Has a balloon to protect his Nads ... tray would bounce off and damage the ceiling. (The last time I put out a hostage to fortune like that was when I made a Big Bad Wolf joke about @ToughButterCup's piggery. A bit later the wind blew his house down.)

Specialist fruit tree nurseries. These would be long term features of your garden so it will cost a lot of time if they pop their clogs. I have bought about 8 fruit trees and bushes this year. I went to: - The two or three local (within 20 miles) nurseries that mum went to for decades and was keen on throughout. - Primrose.co.uk (and them with James McIntyre as actual supplier). I have heard good and bad things about Primrose, especially reliabilty issues with prompt delivery, and I went with them for special offers. I have been happy, but part of one order took about 6 weeks to be delivered (presumably a switch to next year's stock). The plants were well packaged and fine, but at the smaller end (£7-12 each), so not a total disaster if lost. This is a thread from Gardeners World Forum with recommendations for online nurseries. Try Fruit in the thread search. https://forum.gardenersworld.com/discussion/1043094/favourite-online-nurseries/

Seems to be a well-intentioned development with a few not-too-sensible Green dogmas attached (the lead councillor is Green Party). The banishing of cars from near houses mean that people will have to eg unload shopping then make a separate journey to park the car. Not good - never mind the impact on frail and disabled. The anti car stuff being locked in for the lifetime of the estate is peculiar at a time when Zero Emission cars are just beginning to boom. They will end up with cars in front of houses in 15 years time by not thinking carefully now. Don't understand the stuff about "e-bike charging points" - is that not just a normal socket? And some very funny politics. 'Slide back to business as usual under the current govt', when in reality we are in the the middle of the first sustained period of emissions reduction ever - notwithstanding that the Green Deal was a further complicated cockup after the previous Code for Sustainable Homes giimmick-ridden cockup. Does anyone have an idea what it will cost to do PassivHaus Certification for 600 houses on 8 separate estates, with several types of house on each estate? If it is just 5 types, I make that something like enough spent on certificates to pay for a house or two. Nowt so queer as folk. F

Ah. Memories of drinking drambuie. On ebay that looks like £350-£500 worth.

I am not sure where your requirements on budget vs performance, but if want to consider the Economy 7 route one inexpensive option is secondhand storage heaters. Invite your friends who claim to be home-exercising in Covid to help get them in subject to the Guidance, and you get to see if they have been lying to you or not ?. I think I would suggest building a heat model of your house - that link is to the Jeremy Harris spreadsheet thread, and also to remember that there is a current scheme which may give you part of the cost. If you are going to make it more airtight you may need to think about ventilation too. Ferdinand

Away with all the waffle and the wibble and the circumlocutions and the justifications and the smokescreens and the babble and the blether.. They are all just men who want to learn to multitask, and haven't quite made it yet.

Eating render does not give you cholesterol problems; different ishoo. And you are saying he put them on wrong side out , since the sticky stuff goes between the wall and the tiles. Will you tell him?

That will be interesting as there's quite a movement in favour of artisan, inefficient, extensive, expensive farming. I still don't know how they will square all these extra woodlands and nature reserves, less efficient farming and improving food security by reducing imports. It's not very long since I heard a baker on Farming Today explaining that the £4 loaves they sell were far healthier and they did some at cheap prices for poor people, but needed lots of subsidy so everyone could have some.

If you are happy that it meets both your structural and both ways drainage needs *, I can’t se why not. F * Does not make your soil behind the walls sodden, nor your sunken garden flood.

Aside I think this kind of determination will be something in play in future planning policy. perhaps we are headed back to an 8nhabited countryside on a timescale. But that does not help you. Cars will become zero emission, so arguing against their use will be difficult. I note that green arguments wrt cars shifted from ‘emissions’ to ‘congestion’ years ago.

Can I have a reference for that .. I thought it was different to that and it is good to hear. F

That is like the side of a cracker you do not put butter on.

It’s about 3 days since he said he had sold it. How will you enforce this except by getting it In writing followed by instant defenestration? TBF he’s got that well shaft ready for a mafia style burial in concrete.

Have you tried new ones? As a wildcard, Ikea have one called Havsen for about £225. https://www.ikea.com/gb/en/p/havsen-sink-bowl-2-bowls-w-visible-front-white-s79250265/

My upstairs shower has such a chair. This chair has been in our showers for decades ... at the old house the shower / steam room was about 2m x 2m ! Seriously, chairs are a good telltale for places that wobbly people need support. I had at east 2 out of 4 grandparents , and my mum, who used chairs for moving around their houses as being more stable than zimmers and similar, and were also perceived as less embarrassing. Our open plan houses with their shiny floors can be scary if you are unstable. We need to think about the route for people to get places as well as being safe when they get there. I have a couple of rails like the rather dim second pic. This one by the front door was for mum to support herself when opening the door, and I hope it looks stylish enough to keep long term.

You have not got this at all. He will be leaving them there so he has something to tie things down with.

Admit that had passed me by. Though there’s some obvious trickery in the photo editing.

So it looks like you can be somewhat reassured, @Jess27.

Welcome.

Somewhat, yes. So it could be done. I'm now going to leave @Vijay to his thread and find my supper ? .

I couldn't get a textured shower tray without a special order - so it was shower tray plus stick-on ribbed patches, which work well provided you wash and rinse the soles of your feet sitting down. Mine works with a 900 screen and the shower head at the far end, but I would have preferred 1m.

I did a series of blogs on this, and a couple of very detailed conversation threads, which are all linked from this piece. I also identify all products and sources. It covers most questions in detail and worked very well until mum popped her clogs a year ago. It should help you with thinking about 90% of questions, even if to decide what you don't need. The points I would reinforce: 1 - The most important thing I did was to sit mum on the loo lid for about 90 minutes and talk through it all in detail - especially the personal aspects such as position of grab rails, height of shower seat etc. 2 - You need to consider heights for both of them. The shorter one needs to be able eg to touch the floor solidly when sitting on the shower seat, as foot scrabbling will exacerbate risks. Also a consideration for height of loo. If you like I can put some stuff about which aids are available free or you have to buy if they become frail - eg you can borrow a lot from the Red Cross free but unusual loo shapes cause problems for fitting eg 100mm high rise seats versions. Be generous with space so you can eg add a floorstanding frame or a Hitler Trombone (one of those lift up double rails) easily. 3 - With that amount of space consider playing close attention to building regs etc, as they are a good guide. 4 - Everything needs to be operable with one hand (may have to hold on with the other at some point in the future). 5 - Dual shower - overhead and handheld. All operable with one hand. 6 - Shiny grab rails are the spawn of the devil. Use either ribbed plastic or something with a rubberised surface if it must look plush; I used the ribbed Screwfix ones, or the Cassellie ones - also from SF - with the finger grips for the other bathroom. But the latter are a bit thin. 7 - Walk in shower with a minimal lip is a good call, but your planned shower head position will squirt water out. 8 - Door opening outwards in case someone collapses against it? 9 - What about wheelchair accessibility? 10 - Grab rails need to be there to support getting to each aspect of the bathroom as well. ATB. Get it right and they will get an extra 5 years at home. F

I had one that went earlier this year. We just replaced it, paying attention that the new one could use the same holes in the wall. Not worth the risk not to.