Probably suggesting it work on a Scottish fishing boat.
Probably suggesting it work on a Scottish fishing boat.
Nothing, he just randomly does it once every couple of months. I had to cut the carpet out and put piss plastic pads on the living room lol.Originally Posted by Danny
He had separation anxiety for the first two years so we'd come back to piss when we left him for more than 6 hours but he seems to be ok now he's a bit older.
Little cunt.
It's said that dogs become like their owners. Didn't know it was also true about cats.
100% he's an AuDHD mess.
How much did it set you back in the end?
I persuaded the Mrs to get a higher end laminate and people can't tell the difference. Saved me hundreds.
We put oak floors in downstairs in the living room and the hall. Now looking at redoing the utility room and not sure if to do it with tiles or LVT. Can’t imagine will be that different in price.
We ended up paying around £3500 but that was for full downstairs except living room and we needed the floor screeding too. We also got the glue down stuff, not clips. But I got mates rate too, and the variation in price from type to type is a lot as well so not sure how my experience will compare to you/others.
I'll be going for hallway, living room, dining room, stairs, upstairs hallway.
Trying to avoid any sort of fabric anywhere but apparently it's really slippy on a staircase so might need a runner... Which will be torn to shreds.
Your cat sounds rubbish.
I'm a twit
I made the mistake of looking at Rightmove last week, and saw that the absolutely perfect house is on the market. It's in the area we want to eventually settle in, and is within the price range we expect to be able to afford when we move in a few years. But it's out of reach now, and moving would be stupid while the wife is still part-time at work, nursery bills are so high, and the kids' school is around the corner.
Wish I hadn't seen it to be honest.
Purple Bricks have a place opposite my folks with erm ... very few details. We're talking one 240p photo of a room. Got a lovely old look to it but, as I suspected, it's the smack house. It gets raided every few weeks.
Viewing a place tomorrow that is maybe 100 meters away from the railway tracks. Anyone lived that close to a station?
My mate did when I was growing up, even I barely noticed it when I was there.
You need to work out what line it's on, see what the timetable is for train frequency and try and find out if freight runs over it over night, also work out if there are level crossings nearby, near enough for the sound of the klaxons to carry. Some bell bought a renovated barn flat right next to one a while back then tried to get Network Rail to reduce the volume of the crossing klaxons
Lived 20 metres from the railway for 20 odd years. Only ever noticed it when they came through during the night with that contraption that cuts away all the overgrowth. Even the potash trains didn’t stir me.
I think living near a railway line would be alright, but braking noise would surely be an issue living near a station.
It's more the people. Yuck.
No level crossings but I've definitely seen GBFr go through it. A Nova 1 or something flew by whilst I was checking the location out. Also spotted a couple of other places up for sale in the area.You need to work out what line it's on, see what the timetable is for train frequency and try and find out if freight runs over it over night, also work out if there are level crossings nearby, near enough for the sound of the klaxons to carry. Some bell bought a renovated barn flat right next to one a while back then tried to get Network Rail to reduce the volume of the crossing klaxons
I live right beside a train station.
You end up zoning out 90% of the trains. The only ones that are cunts are the non-passenger night time ones and even then they'll only piss me off if I've got the window wide open.
It's the sound of the train doors opening, at least on SWR. Couldn't live with that. Trains chugging by, splendid stuff.
If it is actually a station then you will also have to zone out the sound of the automated see it say it sorted announcements etc too.
Ah yeah, that's a good one. We need a 'great/shit sounds of modern life' list. Train door bleeps and semi-distant tannoys bleating see it, say it, sorted. Thank you for shopping at Tesco. That sort of muffled sound of sucking through paper straws. The sound of loads of bottles being slung into a bottle bin out the back of a pub. The sound of the hydraulics on a bin lorry or bendy bus, like Phil Mitchell blowing himself up and then deflating. Women talking in that tone where you're not sure if they're addressing a child or a dog.
It was much better when you used to hear that Intel chime on adverts.
The OG PlayStation boot up sound.
I didn't think about the announcements. They only seem to pipe up around here for delays but you get plenty of, "This train is not stopping. Please step away from the platform." There's a Transpennine Express bang on time for the viewing so I hope I'm indoors when it pulls up.
Looks like my mortgate in principle hasn't budged in the year since I did the last one, either. I wouldn't make a profit on a resale of this place.
Make sure whoever does your mortgage knows it’s right by the train line. Some lenders won’t like it.I didn't think about the announcements. They only seem to pipe up around here for delays but you get plenty of, "This train is not stopping. Please step away from the platform." There's a Transpennine Express bang on time for the viewing so I hope I'm indoors when it pulls up.
Looks like my mortgate in principle hasn't budged in the year since I did the last one, either. I wouldn't make a profit on a resale of this place.
Okay, that place is nice. Got a lawn with a flowerbed out front that I would have to ... not neglect. Two decently-sized bedrooms and a shower room. The boiler is in the loft which was the only thing I had against it. Three trains went past whilst viewing. It didn't seem too bad, even with the door open.
Might still look for a plan B but I really want to get out of renting at this point in my life.
Had a plumber out twice this week, somehow he's made things worse than when he was called out. I hate dealing with tradesmen, always a fucking ballache.
Leaking again, unbelievable.
I live in a semi 1 from the corner, our attached neighbour being the corner. Across the back of us is a neighbour from the other street. They are building an extension, we had planning notification and weren't opposed to it. However the drawings were pretty simple. He is doing it himself to save money so has been working at it since July. Now he's building it up but whilst I suspect it is at the limit of the height without exceeding it, the proximity to our boundary fence suggests to me we are going to be left with a 3m high breezeblock wall looming over half of our garden fence. If it is rendered or red brick in keeping with the houses I wouldn't mind but I can't help but think he's going to leave it and that is going to devalue my house significantly.
Anyone had experience with this planning shit?
The required finish will be specified in the planning permission [or the drawings], most councils have pretty good planning portals where you can look through all of the app documentation etc. A looming 3m breezeblock wall on or near a boundary sounds a bit
You really need to thoroughly go through planning shit when of affects you directly.
The delegated report says one condition of approval is 'all external facing walls shall match in colour, form and texture to those in the existing building.'
So presumably he'll have to not leave it as breeze blocks. I just can't see how he's going to render it with it being so close to the fence, he hasn't got above the fence line on ours yet so hopefully he's going to brick the exterior wall above the fence on our side. Annoyingly it's neighbours we havent exactly fallen out with but don't particularly like. I'll permit access to do it from our side but that fence is actually concrete panels that were cemented in so not exactly simple to lift out.
I do think we would have always struggled to really oppose it anyway if we had wanted to as every adjoining property to theres in all directions, including ours, has a single story extension of some sort.
If it's currently brickwork, then I suspect he will render it for the external finish.
Also, if he is excavating within 3m of your property and below the level of your foundations, he should have served a party wall notice on you.
Anyone got experience with any necessary building regs if I wanted to build a staircase up to the loft and board it out, insulate and plaster? It wouldn’t be a bedroom if that’s any help.
Would think you'd get that under permitted development.
Good stuff. Do I still need to pay some suit hundreds of pounds for the privilege of visiting my house for 10 minutes to nod his head in agreement with my plans?
Afraid so, but you're best going through the right routes.
Bam is getting confused.
Permitted development is planning related. Loft conversions often fall within permitted development subject to your design and property fitting into certain criteria.
Building regulations will separately be required as you will be effectively adding an additional storey to your property and changing the loft to a heated space. Main points will be:
Insulation to pitched roof to meet current u-value targets.
Reinforcing roof joists.
Stair installation to meet permitted dimensions and structural requirements.
As it will,presumably, become a 3 storey property, you will need a protected means of escape to your stair and landings/hallway on all floors. This means you will need 30 min fire rated doors to all doorways onto the landing/hallway.
There are other aspects, but the above are the main points.
You can obtain Building regs via an approved Inspector (private route) or using the local authority building control department. I recommend the former. The latter can be painful and slow.
Also you need to be aware that (following Grenfell) the Building Safety Act has come into force. This has led to an update in the building regulations in October last year, whereby the legal responsibility for complying with building regulations and appointing a Principal Designer rests with the client (you). This is a change from previous where you would rely on the approved inspector to tell you if your design/works are compliant.
Hope that helps.
Not quite as bad as DS had it but there’s been mould slowly creeping in where the walls meet the ceiling in the upstairs bedrooms. Had a roofer round for a quote today who says the felts perished and has suggested getting some eaves trays along the front and back, as well as dry verge caps fitting on the sides. Been meaning to get the latter done for a while so good to get it all done in one go. £800 for the lot from a bloke my dad has used, who sounds exactly like Tyson Fury.
I'm a twit
The Ayatollah's mate is in a landlord dispute, and my feeling is she has just been mugged off and can't do anything about it, but I thought I would get a second opinion. In short, she was lodging with some Eastern European couple for two months, moved out, asked for her deposit back, and the dirty boxheads have said you broke the house rules talking on the phone late and using too much gas, so we are charging you a fiver a day for moving your shoes to the shoe rack every day for two months plus the cost of new bedding (wouldn't you replace the bedding between lodgers anyway?) and this equals exactly your deposit.
I said go to Citizens Advice when my opinion as the oracle on all things British was sought, but apparently they just told her to take him through the county courts, which 1) costs money; and 2) will presumably take about five years. Has she in fact just been mugged off and might as well wave her four hundred quid off, or would she have a reasonable expectation of getting something back?
Small claims court?
But at £400 I'd just chalk it up to naivety and learn from it.
If it was a normal rental then the deposit has to be in a tenancy deposit scheme, but with lodgers this isn't the case so unless they want to go through the small claims court they're buggered.
The learning experience should be not to go anywhere near eastern Europeans when it comes to a business arrangement.
As someone who is about to have an ecological survey on an old 1950s shitheap bungalow I've bought next week I feel my waking and sleeping hours are currently being assailed by bats. I say sleeping as I had a dream about it last night where the huckster charged with the survey found loads of evidence of the little fuckers with his high powered torch, like some sort of hotel inspector wannabe. And one wonders why nothing gets done in this country. Got the water neutrality statement/lie [£1000+ VAT please] to get through next so I feel old matey up there's somewhat disdain for the cunts, I'm sure they're lovely people, at Natural England.
Raise the bats as your own. Like carrier pigeons but more goth.
I mean, I have no problem with them in general, I just think the best and brightest bats should go stay *wherever bats come from* and work to improve the lives of ordinary bat folk there, rather coming to my future house and being a pain in the arse.
Need a new washing machine, the Hotpoint one we got for a wedding present is on it's last legs and at the stage where a repair is more expensive than a new one. I've always liked the look of the Samsung ones due to their 5 year full warranty, any recommendations? My parents have an old Miele which is a trusty steed but I've heard the new ones aren't what they used to be.
I did a lot of research two years ago when I moved, and Haier came out on top.
Interesting, has it lived up to your expectations? I see their warranty exceeds Samsung.
It has. Unbelievably quiet.
Looks like the HQ is going up for auction with a million pound sticker price if anyone is interested.
https://www.rightmove.co.uk/properti...hannel=RES_BUY
Crawley just announced as one of the worst places in the UK to live to add a bit of flavour.
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