Nice people thread part 3- Nice as pie

silvercar

Doozergirl wrote: »

My phone is going to die guys, i'm going back to the stone age!

Surely your garage will be on a separate circuit?

silvercar

chewmylegoff wrote: »

we went through a period like this around christmas. first the roof started leaking, and there was water damage throughout the entrance hall. then the washing maching broke down. it is a washer drier - after the 'washer' bit had been fixed, the drier bit broke down about a week later. then the boiler broke down, and then the underfloor heating separately stopped working after the boiler had been fixed. then a fuse blew in the fancy lighting controller, but it took 3 weeks to order another one (moral of the story is dont use fancy lighting controllers from obscure foreign countries). to cap it all off the aircon started making ludicrous noises at night even though it was switched off and hadn't been on for months.

thankfully it was all fixed and nothing has broken since january. touch wood fingers crossed break a leg etc.

oh the other thing is that we're renting so the landlord had to pay for it all. winner!

There's me thinking you are mega posh having all that gear, then find you are renting! Rentals round here rise disproportionately with fancy stuff, a boring 4 bed could set you back £1500 pcm, but one with fancy bits could be £3k+! So now I'm putting you in the super-mega-posh class.

lostinrates

silvercar wrote: »

There's me thinking you are mega posh having all that gear, then find you are renting! Rentals round here rise disproportionately with fancy stuff, a boring 4 bed could set you back £1500 pcm, but one with fancy bits could be £3k+! So now I'm putting you in the super-mega-posh class.

a very dear friend of mine recently bought a one bed flat with all that in. 25% of the building is used for social housing and has the same, because my friend could choose any of the remaining flats.

The bathroom has no room for a bath and the bedroom did take a 4 foot six double but now she can't fit in a wardrobe or chest of drawers.

chewmylegoff

silvercar wrote: »

There's me thinking you are mega posh having all that gear, then find you are renting! Rentals round here rise disproportionately with fancy stuff, a boring 4 bed could set you back £1500 pcm, but one with fancy bits could be £3k+! So now I'm putting you in the super-mega-posh class.

our rent is £1,600pcm, for a 2 bed flat. but at least we get an underground parking space....moral of the story is, do not live in richmond.

a pretty small 2 bed flat at that with a "contemporary open plan living space" i.e. no kitchen. i hate it because you can't watch tv of an evening with the washing machine / kettle / dishwasher going. we'll move soon, probably somewhere a bit cheaper or at least not as poncey. might buy if we get round to it.

you can move in next door if you want. flat in the same building, with a bigger "stupid living space" and an extra bathroom is up for £650k or something.

chewmylegoff

lostinrates wrote: »

a very dear friend of mine recently bought a one bed flat with all that in. 25% of the building is used for social housing and has the same, because my friend could choose any of the remaining flats.

The bathroom has no room for a bath and the bedroom did take a 4 foot six double but now she can't fit in a wardrobe or chest of drawers.

luckily only 13 flats in our building. i wonder why that is!!!

we have a bath and everything. and we've got a queen bed in the bedroom, but there isn't a lot of extra room. one chest of drawers only. luckily it has built in wardrobes (obviously i get 1/10 of the space, and the rest is taken up by dresses which have only been worn once).

lostinrates

chewmylegoff wrote: »

(obviously i get 1/10 of the space, and the rest is taken up by dresses which have only been worn once).

Obviously, but didn't you think she looked lovely in each of those dresses? weren't you bursting with pride with the girl on your arm?

Mine get worn to death. I schlep around the house in odd outfits. My fav is an old black evening dress, now complete with bleach stain and holes around the hem. I can hardly wait for its replacement to be ''house clothes''.

lemonjelly

Re the above posts, & also relevant to the recent story about plans for 100,000 new homes to be built. Problems occur once developers get involved, as homes then suddenly become "units" and there is a mad race to fit as many blinking units into the site as possible. Hence baths not big enough, room for a bed (but not a wardrobe, or even worse, room for a bed and no room to get around it!)

Problem this creates, is you end up with buildings that are not practically useful. Living in such accommodation is not living. I have seen to many examples of built properties which are not condusive to family life.

So people in "marketing" get involved, to dress up serious design flaws as interesting perks which make the said hole "distinctive" and add "character".

:mad:

lostinrates

lemonjelly wrote: »

room for a bed and no room to get around it!)

:mad:

yeah, friends has about 6 inches between the end and the wall. Horrid. Can't go the other way around either. Silly.

It also has no room for even a tiny under counter fridge (yep, no fridge but a dishwasher: facilities for the sophsiticated takeaway eater who uses cutlery and crockery). Silly, silly place.

chewmylegoff

lemonjelly wrote: »

Re the above posts, & also relevant to the recent story about plans for 100,000 new homes to be built. Problems occur once developers get involved, as homes then suddenly become "units" and there is a mad race to fit as many blinking units into the site as possible. Hence baths not big enough, room for a bed (but not a wardrobe, or even worse, room for a bed and no room to get around it!)

Problem this creates, is you end up with buildings that are not practically useful. Living in such accommodation is not living. I have seen to many examples of built properties which are not condusive to family life.

So people in "marketing" get involved, to dress up serious design flaws as interesting perks which make the said hole "distinctive" and add "character".

:mad:

in terms of space, ours is just about ok, although there really isn't enough worktop space room in the kitchen. i think the footprint is 65 square metres. that is just enough for two people who aren't there very much.

if it was smaller, or if i spent a lot of time there (i reckon on average i am awake and in the flat for 4 hours a day on a weekday), i think i would throw myself off the balcony (which isn't wide enough to get a chair on, let alone a table!).

although we're only first floor so would probably just snap a leg.

vivatifosi

GDB2222 wrote: »

You can begin to see why this has not caught on if you look at his performance data page. http://www.secretenergyturbine.com/performance-data.php

His figures show that the 75cm turbine will produce under 3kWh per day, so that's about £100-worth of electricity a year, with a 30 year pay-back period on the capital investment, ignoring maintenance costs. That's for a pretty big turbine, not just a rotating chimney pot.

Quite frankly, as an investment proposition, it's completely hopeless.

I looked into wind power for where I live. I thought it did everyting to meet the bill - in a hilly area, at top of said hill, tallest house in area, significantly above sea level. Nope: not enough wind here, even though its often strong enough to blow the fences down and have tiles off roofs. If we don't have sufficient wind at the top of a hill in one of the hillier parts of England, I don't know how most other places do.