Mundane facts about your day: Part Deux.

Glam

Glam

Mad Cat Woman
Glam said:
Wonder if he'd come and attack my garden if I asked very very nicely?
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proactive said:
You can always ask. Remember, the chap often carries a chain saw with him though...
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Next doors needs a chainsaw on it. My fences are bowing under the weight of the undergrowth in there. My nephew used his own chainsaw on it last year, but I don't see why we should be doing it when the lazy git that lives there doesn't care.
 
tek-monkey

tek-monkey

wanna see my snake?
Glam said:
Next doors needs a chainsaw on it. My fences are bowing under the weight of the undergrowth in there. My nephew used his own chainsaw on it last year, but I don't see why we should be doing it when the lazy git that lives there doesn't care.
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Copper nails in any trees that reach into your territory?
 
Glam

Glam

Mad Cat Woman
tek-monkey said:
Copper nails in any trees that reach into your territory?
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It's more then that babb. The ivy alone is pushing the fences in, I didn't know it could have such thick woody stems! I've always thought it was like the tendrils, long wirey stuff. There's off shoots. suckers from one tree keep coming up in the grass, they're easy enough get rid of.
I need to have a face 2 face with him, failing that pop a note through his door. But I'll have go his Housing association if nowts done.
Sometimes it's a ballache owning your own home.
 
Glam

Glam

Mad Cat Woman
Annnndddd Just to let everyone know, a load of gypsies have set up camp today on the St Gobain site up Redhill. No idea how many. The last lot only stayed a night.
 
Cue

Cue

Well-Known Forumite
tek-monkey said:
There's a damp patch in our downstairs ceiling, and a leak on the boiler. Not spotted as it's not in a place we look often, but there's already black mould appearing.

Boiler people said they need to send an assessor out, I don't have home emergency on my insurance but wondering if its worth asking them to deal with the installers if they start to mess me about. Got a bad feeling about it!

Leak is in the cold inlet, at a solder joint. It's leaking on the side towards the wall so not visible easily, I've tied some cloth round it to get the drips to the front. I reckon maybe half a litre per hour at most, but could have been leaking since December for all we know and just took ages to become apparent and us notice.
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How old is the install?
 
tek-monkey

tek-monkey

wanna see my snake?
Only about 2 inches of water in the bucket this morning, so a slower leak than I first thought. Looks like I've isolated it though, pipe below that rag is dray and I have another tied lower down just in case.
 
Cue

Cue

Well-Known Forumite
tek-monkey said:
Was done in December
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Any good plumber will cover the fix, whether they cover the issue caused by the fix is another matter of course… but you could probably argue that’s what their insurance is for, and of course whether you want to use them again
 
tek-monkey

tek-monkey

wanna see my snake?
Cue said:
Any good plumber will cover the fix, whether they cover the issue caused by the fix is another matter of course… but you could probably argue that’s what their insurance is for, and of course whether you want to use them again
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I'd never use them again anyway! Got it cheap on a government grant but they were shit TBH, very sloppy work. Just looking through what docs I have, I see a trustmark certificate, but they aren't worth the digital paper they aren't printed on!
 
littleme

littleme

250,000th poster!
tek-monkey said:
My phone is always on silent and went off too.
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Yeah what I thought, my work has posted lots of links for people that may be living with a secret phone (abuse, slavery) telling them it would still go off even if off or on silent, andhiw to turn the alarm off.
 
staffordjas

staffordjas

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Big relief seeing a brilliant GP (I went in with him as well ) about hubbys recent heart tests results, he isn't being carted off to hospital just yet ! Doubling his 3 main meds which control his heart failure. (other 8 stay the same) and testing again in 2 weeks and then seeing him in 4/6 weeks time.
Most important one named is one of my 2 blood pressure tablets .. moment of panic thinking my docs hadn't told me something....
"I'm on those as well :o , I thought they were just for blood pressure , not heart failure????? ".
Mainly for heart failure patients apparently ,but can also be used just for raised blood pressure treatment. PHEW!
He took about half an hour talking and explaining things , and I got myself an MOT at the same time 😂
 
proactive

proactive

Enjoying a drop of red.
So I went on a bit of a pub crawl at lunchtime and during the afternoon with some mates. We met up at The Lifeboat, which is a Spoons. When challenged on arrival why the guy organising the festivities had chosen such an awful place to meet up, he said that it was so that everywhere we went after here would be bound to be an improvement, so we'd be grateful for the other locations.

And he was right.
 
Mudgie

Mudgie

Well-Known Forumite
proactive said:
So I went on a bit of a pub crawl at lunchtime and during the afternoon with some mates. We met up at The Lifeboat, which is a Spoons. When challenged on arrival why the guy organising the festivities had chosen such an awful place to meet up, he said that it was so that everywhere we went after here would be bound to be an improvement, so we'd be grateful for the other locations.

And he was right.
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I must admit to never having used any of the pubs in Formby.
That's because I've never alighted from the train there.
 
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