Nice people thread part 4 - sugar and spice and all things

silvercar

lostinrates wrote: »

I agree with oh....because otherwise you risk seeing ugly brown tops of tree, especially when its windy or snowy or very wet and the branches are weighed down.

sss555s wrote: »

OH is right, stop meddling

I would remind the nice people that they are my friends not OHs:mad:

silvercar

neverdespairgirl wrote: »

My poor darling best mate, with whom I went to Devon in August, has had the week from hell. She's had her third missed miscarriage in a row (where the baby dies inside the mother, but doesn't miscarry by itself), her third operation for that, and her mother's died.

How awful. Do they know why this keeps on happening?

neverdespairgirl

silvercar wrote: »

How awful. Do they know why this keeps on happening?

No. they think there is a reason, because she had two similar ones before her daughter (now nearly 2.5) was born, and 3 since, but they don't know what the reason is. All between 11.5 and 12.5 weeks, and all these awful "missed" miscarriages. She and her husband have had a battery of tests, all negative / positive as appropriate.

GDB2222

I think that, perhaps, your friends should cherish their daughter ever so much and give up on the heartbreak of trying to produce a further child?

tomterm8

neverdespairgirl wrote: »

My poor darling best mate, with whom I went to Devon in August, has had the week from hell. She's had her third missed miscarriage in a row (where the baby dies inside the mother, but doesn't miscarry by itself), her third operation for that, and her mother's died.

That sucks.

michaels

Thanks for the update Viva - we are having a softener so hopefully we won't have the scaling problem - what was the reason your one leaked and could it have been prevented by regular servicing or spotted before it became a flood had you known what to look out for?

vivatifosi wrote: »

Just wanted to post a quick update on the Megaflow. Plumber came twice. Lovely guy, to the minute punctuality which was a bit of a surprise. It cost about £160 to get fixed, parts and labour and is now fine. Had a good look at the system and checked the parts. Said the next thing I'll need is my elements removed and descaled or replaced, at the same time the tank descaled, a bigger job in time terms but smaller in parts terms. Although system is 15+ years old he said the tank won't ever need replacing unless it cracks, just the odd valve here and there. In terms of futureproofing, he said I could consider adding a water softener when it is descaled, but it may not be worth it.

Because I had rubber underlay, the water didn't really go through to the floorboards though they did get damp, and the metal carpet gripper stopped it really going into the lounge (it did a bit when it went the second time and the carpet was a bit smelly, but drying out now).

Have costed up underlay and will get a carpet offcut for hallway until we replace all carpet next year, so this will give us a chance to try out the underlay, which we've found for a bargain price thanks to the DIY board.

Hopefully this will assuage michaels's fears about having one installed.

GDB2222

Our megaflo is 13 years old, and I'm awaiting Viva's answer with bated breath. Didn't she mention something about an oevrflow pipe being blocked? But the thing is that ours has never overflowed.

lostinrates

silvercar wrote: »

I would remind the nice people that they are my friends not OHs:mad:

But dear thing, that's whjy we are telling you, and not him, that we think he is right

you can always say you've done it next week...one day while he is at work, and just do a two inch tidy of the ends.:D

vivatifosi

michaels wrote: »

Thanks for the update Viva - we are having a softener so hopefully we won't have the scaling problem - what was the reason your one leaked and could it have been prevented by regular servicing or spotted before it became a flood had you known what to look out for?

The problem was entirely caused by scale which furred over the end of the overflow valve and forced it permanently open, so shouldn't happen on yours. It was caused by previous owners having heating set too high, then our not realising and not resetting, so the part that gets serviced wasn't the part that went wrong if that makes sense. Nor without taking it to bits would it have been noticed, though the temp may have been reduced. Its just one of those things. We planned to get it checked every five years and it was checked five years ago, so was on the to do list but not flagged as urgent.

Everyone who has seen it says "well that part doesn't normally go". Its just one of those things.

lostinrates

NDG it must be heartbreaking for your friend. A good childhood friend, who visited me very recently in fact, her parents had a simialr situation, but had managed two children, a boy and a girl. I know their continued struggle and grief did sadly upset their kids quite badly too after a while. when we were ten I remember my friend's mother's grief at another miscarriage and her father looked like a broken man....he wanted a child but more than that he saw the damage to his wife over the situation. I don't think either noticed how it was impacting on the kids, but I can't be sure...I was quite young myself at that time!