Nice people thread part 3- Nice as pie

GDB2222

misskool wrote: »

I feel left out, everyone has a website.

https://www.misskool.co.uk is available. Now, what are you going to put on the website?

lostinrates

michaels wrote: »

I was over towards Viva's way actually today - first day as a census interviewer - in our team of 4 we have done 12 interviews - only another 257 to go...

see exatly what I feared

How long did the interviews last? Is it interesting?

michaels

Well I met some nice little old ladies and a kind woman who didn't laugh too much as we blundered our way through our first interview (we were only really expecting to deliver flyers on the first two days) but I can see the novelty wearing off fairly quickly, especially if the weather takes a turn for the worse...

michaels

My surveyor doing the engineering calcs wants to know about trees - anyone one know how near/big I have to tell him about?

lostinrates

misskool wrote: »

I feel left out, everyone has a website.

I have a couple of names....no website. I should start using them, but don't really know what to do.

Still not sure whether to try using my own site to blog on or not....I think the risk of being too personal on what should be a friendly but definitely relating to business site is a risk.

I have an opportunity to advertise for free on a friends website. But that would change the nature of it here to a degree I don't feel ready for....everything has been word of mouth so far.....low key being a good thing for neighbour acceptance etc.

lostinrates

michaels wrote: »

My surveyor doing the engineering calcs wants to know about trees - anyone one know how near/big I have to tell him about?

our insurers were anything within 7 metres was an issue. structural engineer wants thse at a seven metre point gone too

DexterA

lostinrates wrote: »

I'm quit tempted by memory foam.....dh doesn't like the idea though. Last time I was in a mattress place I lay on a ugely expensive very soft mattress with a sort of integral duvet topper..The type everyone says is a killer for your back, but it felt like being on a cloud all billowy around me, I really wanted it.

Our matress is not in a good state, but the fear of getting a be that makes us less comfortable is significant.

A friend has a tempur mattress and loves it. Memory foam is known to restrict air circulation, and can be warm. The coil/sprung mattresses with memory foam tops are reported to be a good.

I've a mattress with a pillow topper. It is very comfortable. Only complaint is after some time the topper shapes around where you lie.

I think I'll try the memory foam topper next time, or buy a normal mattress and purchase a topper separately.

DexterA

silvercar wrote: »

6 months sounds suspect. Something not right.

We have a super shower connected to the combi boiler, but no marking on it, so I couldn't tell you what it is. Slight noise from above when you turn it on so I guess its powered in some way, but there are no electric controls anywhere to see.

Other bathroom has a really noisy power shower, thats attached to the main (non-combi) boiler. Don't know if that makes a difference, other than to say you can get decent showers from any boiler!

The hot water feed on a combi boiler is normally insufficient for a power shower. A combi boiler will likely run the likes of triton fine, but will have trouble with the 13 litre flow of an aqualisa.

I like my showers powerful - spray the filth of me.

PasturesNew

michaels wrote: »

My surveyor doing the engineering calcs wants to know about trees - anyone one know how near/big I have to tell him about?

No idea, but I always understood the roots were as long as the tree/trunk are tall.... so I'd figure that "if it fell over in a gale and can touch the house, he needs to know it"

DexterA

michaels wrote: »

I must say I fancy a shower with a large drench head and a separate handset on a hose, probably with a valve so you can have flow from either or both.

I hope you have a large water tank?

We run pumped water from a gravity tank and it's been fine. The occasional air bubble, but otherwise no problems to report - so far.