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

Davesnave

neverdespairgirl wrote: »

!!!! and !!!! and lots of other apostrophe-type starred words.

We have a gas leak. So our gas is switched off and clamped, no heating, and our lovely new slate floor will have to be dug up.

<more swearing here>

I had that when renovating my Dad's bungalow. BiL is qualified in the gas department, so he put his manometer (no jokes - as if you would!:p) on the inlet to see that all was in order......and it wasn't.:(

So, we sealed off the only outlet and the reading still fell, making it certain that there was a teeny leak somewhere under the building. Like you, I didn't want to start digging up floors, so I found a guy to route a new pipe upwards, through the loft and down at the appropriate place. It was an 'on the way home after work' job.

Fortunately, this was early on in the revamp. Dad must've had that leak for many years, but there was no smell to alert us. BiL is just very cautious.

michaels

This is the problem - the hip to gable plus dormer is almost certainly PD but apparently disliked by planning depts so if adding a non-pd ground floor extension let them get the loft conversion within the planning remit there would be the chance for the planning dept and the neighbours to object.

John_Pierpoint wrote: »

Yes semi's, unlike detached, only get 3 meter rear extensions as PD.

Are you allowed to change a hip roof into gable as PD ?
Without paying for this link - the preview shows a hip roof with a side facing dormer, complete with the all important skirt of original roof.?
http://3dguides.co.uk/page.html?zenid=bfc67a05a66b92320822a2d5c2c5ad97&id=7

Interesting debate here:
http://www.diynot.com/forums/viewtopic.php?t=215954

It seems there might have been a further clarification since I investigated the options before selling a probate property a couple of years ago.

PasturesNew

lostinrates wrote: »

... I thought last year of paying a me Janice to come with me to get a car at one of them.

Getting the hang of the spellchecker/autocorrector now....

me Janice = mechanic

PasturesNew

zagubov wrote: »

Saw a Simca a while back and it occurred to me I hadn't seen one for years (decades more like)

"Chrysler's forced marriage of Simca and Rootes was not a happy one: Chrysler Europe collapsed in 1977 and the remains were sold to Peugeot the following year. The Rootes models were quickly killed off, and the Simca-based Alpine/1307 and Horizon soldiered on through the first half of the 1980s using the resurrected Talbot badge. The last car to carry the Simca badge was the 1980 Solara, a 1307 with a boot, but by 1981 this had become a Talbot, thus ending the Simca marque entirely"

Source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Simca

lostinrates

chewmylegoff wrote: »

the official MPG of my super-steroided up nu-mini is supposed to be nearly 50. i reckon it wouldn't do 50mpg if it was rolling downhill with the engine off.

mind you, i do have a heavy foot!

My dads quashquai or what ever it is called does really well, I think he has got fifty six from it on motorway. It's a roomy car too, so incredibly good. The best I have had in it is 47. I too am a bit foot heavy. Worst habit though is ridi the clutch. It's very very bad.

Edit: best car I ever had was a Nissan too. It was ugly as hell, but never died. I foolishly sold it for some reason to a friend for a pittance and it was the worst mistake ever.

michaels

We had a quashqui for a week when our car was in the garage, it was much smaller inside struggling to fit our 3 kids seats and luggage for a week away and we got a 2l? petrol which really struggled on the hills and returned mid 20s mpg which I thought was carp for a 2011 car I am sure the diesel would have been much better though.

lostinrates wrote: »

My dads quashquai or what ever it is called does really well, I think he has got fifty six from it on motorway. It's a roomy car too, so incredibly good. The best I have had in it is 47. I too am a bit foot heavy. Worst habit though is ridi the clutch. It's very very bad.

Edit: best car I ever had was a Nissan too. It was ugly as hell, but never died. I foolishly sold it for some reason to a friend for a pittance and it was the worst mistake ever.

Davesnave

PasturesNew wrote: »

"Chrysler's forced marriage of Simca and Rootes was not a happy one: ......
Source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Simca

You don't really need that Wiki link.

I can tell everyone for free that they were all unpopular cars that rusted and fell to bits in a couple of years. Horrid bodies and horrid mechanicals.

My old Singer from the 60s was a real Rootes masterpiece .......but that rusted and fell to bits too in the end. Met interesting people with it. Being black & shiny, they would think it was a taxi and jump in if I was parked up or at the traffic lights. I even had a woman who did that twice.....or maybe she thought she was onto something there...

Davesnave

michaels wrote: »

We had a quashqui for a week when our car was in the garage, it was much smaller inside struggling to fit our 3 kids seats and luggage for a week away and we got a 2l? petrol which really struggled on the hills and returned mid 20s mpg which I thought was carp for a 2011 car I am sure the diesel would have been much better though.

I have a 2l Nissan. It does a realistic 30mpg, doesn't struggle on hills and it burns no oil, even at 110k.:D

The new Nissans are all 'lifestyle' vehicles, it seems, but whoever's lifestyle it is, it's not mine!

silvercar

Davesnave wrote: »

I have a 2l Nissan. It does a realistic 30mpg, doesn't struggle on hills and it burns no oil, even at 110k.:D

The new Nissans are all 'lifestyle' vehicles, it seems, but whoever's lifestyle it is, it's not mine!

I love my nissan, more for the gadgets like built in satnav, Bluetooth and reversing camera rather than boot capacity or mpg.

SingleSue

neverdespairgirl wrote: »

!!!! and !!!! and lots of other apostrophe-type starred words.

We have a gas leak. So our gas is switched off and clamped, no heating, and our lovely new slate floor will have to be dug up.

<more swearing here>

Oh begger begger oops......