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Post by nob on Jul 23, 2020 7:47:50 GMT
We have been getting new windows and soffits fitted the old ones were dark wood, these are cream plastic. what a difference. Nearly finished be nice to get the scaffolding down to sort the garden and grass out. ![:|](//storage.proboards.com/701298/images/bLcZjnjLKulis7WwvfLF.gif)
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Post by banjo on Jul 23, 2020 10:30:53 GMT
Next door have just had that done. They had repointing done too. What an effin mess. Our garden has been off our radar for over a month, and sod eating any of our grapes this year because they're covered in old lime mortar dust. The workmen scared off the roosting Blackbirds too despite our warnings. It is illegal to disturb nesting birds knowingly and since we warned them ... Oh well, retired plod on a vertiginous pension ... That's where 40-odd percent of our 2.5K a month Poll Tax goes. Hmm.
We need the soffits and barge boards done too but I'm reluctant to cover the old Victorian woodwork. I guess the BBs &Ss are expensive nob?
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Post by nob on Jul 23, 2020 14:40:47 GMT
Not too bad Steve its a four bed detached with a garage attached with same soffits and it was just over 5K. The window price is separate. For the last how long I can remember its been windows or a holiday. This year made our minds up. ![:))](//storage.proboards.com/701298/images/ThIIPbvZaIRjbBjBbvGF.gif)
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Post by banjo on Jul 23, 2020 14:46:31 GMT
Good info thanks. Mine's three bedroom detached (box room so 2.5 really) and no garage, so I'll be pushing to see 3.5 grand (ish) hopefully.
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Post by nob on Jul 23, 2020 16:46:58 GMT
Get a quote Steve. ![:|](//storage.proboards.com/701298/images/bLcZjnjLKulis7WwvfLF.gif)
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Post by banjo on Jul 23, 2020 18:05:42 GMT
I asked the guys doing next door's soffits. "No problem Mate". And they're history. Nice guys but feckless.
I asked the guy doing the pointing if he'd jump off the ladder for 20. minutes and fill a crack between two soldiers on my front garden wall, especially given the sh1tfest he made of our garden, pergola, vine and so on. Paying mind- not a free-load. "No problem Mate. History.
The son of the father and son team doing next door's block paving gave me grief too. He had undertaken to remove a laurel that next door put in, presumably to stop us gawping through their bay window. He left it until last after hid erected the fence where the laurel stump was. He told me the roots were under my driveway and so he couldn't get them out. "Your problem" says I. "You quoted for it" He said it was dead so he'd leave it. "Not my problem- it's next door's land and it was their laurel". He said "That's your land." I said "No- the border is 9 inches from their wall. Look up at the guttering, the laurel stump is on their land. Nothing to do with me. I'm not complaining if they afford me another 9 inches of driveway width." Then he said he'd put down some weed killer. I said "That'll be pointless, you've just told me it's dead." So he said "I'll put some diesel down there, that'll get rid of anything." "You F*$&%ng well won't Mate" came my stern reply. I had to keep reminding him not to tread on my wonky rusty inspection cover over and over again. He started jumping on it and whacking his shovel on it pointing out someone might make a claim. I told him that I'd warned him till I was sick of it. "Your word against mine Mate." says he. So I pulled out the digital Dictafone from my pocket. Game, set, match.
The trouble with these plonkers is they're used to flannelling pensioners and gooks. They forget that you're akways going to meet someone that bites back.
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Post by nob on Jul 24, 2020 7:07:39 GMT
Don't have a problem with neighbours so I guess I'm lucky. I got these guys Steve as Id taken the car for its MOT and its a walk out of the village to an industrial estate with a place that services and MOTs. Its a good 45 minute walk and me and the Mrs went and passed a house that was being done up, rendered and new windows. The work looked bang on so we asked the owner who did the work and the kid who owns the company came and gave us a card and we asked for a quote. Him and his oppo came and the quote was reasonable so we agreed. Soffits done windows finished today, three doors we want are the problem, they call them slabs and they have to come from China. They are painted and the fittings added in the UK. Ive been told the front and back will be fitted on the 10th the garage about the 26th. Scaffolding down Monday. Kitchen next.
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Post by banjo on Jul 24, 2020 7:20:48 GMT
My neighbours are fine/OK. Excepting the block pavers their connies were OK too. They just failed to deliver on "promises". The boys are taking down the rest of the scaffold now. They couldn't get it all on one flat back on Tuesday.
Kitchen? Commiserations nob. Brings back bad memories of washing up bent double over the bath for about four weeks. Good luck with that. They haven't had the windows done yet. The neighbours say that their kitchen is next and they're having an exterior wall knocked down to extend. Structural. RSJs. No real footings on our houses so new foundations for the clip on. Cavity walls married up to the old solid walls meaning two inch steps in the new to old wall faces. What a pig's ear. I reckon if you want that space and it's a "period" house, then move. Don't gouge it up.
Where does all the wonga come from? That's some sort of pension ...
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Post by banjo on Jul 24, 2020 11:25:09 GMT
Forgot to mention his brandy new 5 Series Beamer ...
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Post by nob on Jul 24, 2020 15:12:49 GMT
A beamers not cheap, maybe a win on the lottery. ![:|](//storage.proboards.com/701298/images/bLcZjnjLKulis7WwvfLF.gif) Window's done here, two doors about 10 days the third around the 26th. Garden to sort Monday when the scaffolds down.
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Post by clint on Jul 24, 2020 18:20:55 GMT
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Post by banjo on Jul 24, 2020 23:42:56 GMT
I suspected this all along right back from when I baulked at the Ts&Cs in the volunteering app. Actually, I only read the excerpt on the preamble, you didn't get to see what you were letting yourself in for in depth until you had installed the app and registered. That and it appeared to be a chugger's delight.
According to that link, Gavin Williamson goes on the offensive with a rhetorical question gambit regarding hoi-poloi's attitude to the Governments altruism given the pressing circumstances. Only a low-life would take issue with his or her betters? Leaving aside my devil's advocate insinuation, he's correct of course, but the law is the law. Talk about bring hoisted by one's own petard though. Same old today's news- tomorrows fish 'n' chip paper. Who remembers that idiot dashing off to Scotland now? See, it works every time. I've even forgotten his name.
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Post by nob on Jul 25, 2020 6:19:24 GMT
She was in charge of TalkTalk when it got hacked, I got an e-mail stating my details hadn't been stolen. Then the Indian voices started to call. Recent one a day is the Amazon prime renewal scam, my Prime is about to be renewed at a cost of £75 to cancel press 1, I don't have prime.
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Post by banjo on Jul 25, 2020 10:41:09 GMT
Same here with the Punjab telephone service. I don't have Prime either. I was a Pipex subscriber but Dido's shower cattle trucked everything. I have no words to describe that stupid moo.
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Post by nob on Jul 29, 2020 15:16:17 GMT
My old shed went rotten so I bought a Keter plastic one, just assembled it, took three hours but they are solid and it looks the part and maintenance should be trouble free. ![:|](//storage.proboards.com/701298/images/bLcZjnjLKulis7WwvfLF.gif)
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