Daydream thread continues.....

Davesnave

COOLTRIKERCHICK wrote: »

I want to grow there in a few weeks, so does the one you know about allows us to grow after spraying?

as I might get some of your stuff too, just to give it a double whammy:D

Yes, but I'd be inclined to leave it for now and see how things go.

The one I may have told you about is Kurtail.

http://www.progreen.co.uk/Weed-killers/Total-Weed-Killers/Kurtail-0-5LT/prod_2.html?review=read#read_review

ukmaggie45

LiR, you talking about waiting by the telephone reminds me of my Grandparents telephone in Dolgellau. You had to wind a little handle on a box beside it to get the operator to connect you. It was amazing to me as we didn't have a phone at home till I was about 8. Not because it was unavailable, think it was too expensive for my parents to have one. They were always very frugal about phoning too - never chatted on the phone, it was for necessary news and arrangements only. Awful when I reached teenage as not allowed to phone my friends - you only saw her earlier today, you can talk tomorrow in school! :mad: :rotfl:

rozeepozee

Day Three: Telephone/broadband back on, water off (a problem, you can't not have washing facilities with a family of Five!) but that problem's being worked on.

Hitch number three: There is a question about the capacity of the load bearing walls and roof to hold the newly designed dormer. NOW? I'm bemused that we are instructing a structural engineer at this late stage to find this out if there was ever a query about it. I'm trying to ......BREATHE!

The SE is coming out next week. I'm trying o be Karmic about it. No point in worrying bout something 'til we know it's a problems. Perspective: No one has died.... (Do I sounds like I'm trying to persuade myself?)

Itismehonest

Just a bit :-/

Hope the water gets sorted soon.
Is it actually a problem caused by your work or one in the general area? If it's going to go on for a while the waterboard (OK so that phrase dates me ) used to be able to arrange for delivery in dinky tanker type things. In much the same way as electricity boards can provide gennies to those with particular needs. I don't know if they still do but would think there must be some sort of arrangement if the problem is down to them.

Fingers crossed it's a just short term thing, anyway.

No, the load bearing should have been questioned before so you have every right to be peeved. As I think I told you before (if so, apologies) there are some things which can't be foreseen - like things below the surface which don't show up until the digging has started but load-bearing existing walls doesn't come into that, IMO.

It's hard when you have young children to stay on top of it all but try to make sure that you, personally, know all options & can get quotes/estimates yourself etc. & not just take someone else's word for it. I know this shouldn't be necessary & that 'experts' should tell you the best options but in my experience it doesn't tend to work that way. Particularly in the countryside they have little bands that work together & put work each others' way. This is good when you know that they are the best but until then it pays to double check everything, sadly.

Have you got your own accounts at local builders merchants, plumbers etc?

rhiwfield

Itismehonest wrote: »

We had one very big advantage over a large part of the area. Because we are high up we can get TV signals from a Cornish transmitter. Most of the others could/can only get Welsh TV (Sorry those in Wales. Not badmouthing your TV but it is good to have something you can understand )
I believe Lynton & Lynmouth still struggle with the problem. Going over to Freeview didn't sort it out, apparently. Most people opted for Sky with all its' drawbacks & expense but then the NP got anti about the dishes. Ours is tucked well away from sight but meant/means an expensive private guy to do any necessary work on it as Sky only like installing at the easiest possible (& so most visible) place.

No restrictions here and we use freesat, so if we dont like Welsh tv we can choose from around the country. And its free and saves us a fortune in Sky fees.

Re water we installed a meter two years ago and also proved that there is no connected surface water drainage. Bills were slashed . Being without water is bad news, it happened to us today at the auction house, I think the ladies were getting desperate!

If we lose power our pv will not work, which has happened once in 3 years apart from short interruptions. Losing phone connection is rather more frequent

I think temps got up to 23C yesterday, its about 22C today, very little wind.

Hmmm, some of my direct sown broad beans are collapsing, cutworm maybe? Fruit is coming on though strawbs still well behind.

DD1 and hubby came back from a luxury all expenses paid hol to Japan, had a great time but returned with a horrible infected bite on her leg, spider possibly :eek:. Hospital and doctors visits since her return and some truly yucky photos!:(

rozeepozee

Itismehonest wrote: »

Just a bit :-/

Hope the water gets sorted soon.
Is it actually a problem caused by your work or one in the general area? If it's going to go on for a while the waterboard (OK so that phrase dates me ) used to be able to arrange for delivery in dinky tanker type things. In much the same way as electricity boards can provide gennies to those with particular needs. I don't know if they still do but would think there must be some sort of arrangement if the problem is down to them.

Fingers crossed it's a just short term thing, anyway.

No, the load bearing should have been questioned before so you have every right to be peeved. As I think I told you before (if so, apologies) there are some things which can't be foreseen - like things below the surface which don't show up until the digging has started but load-bearing existing walls doesn't come into that, IMO.

It's hard when you have young children to stay on top of it all but try to make sure that you, personally, know all options & can get quotes/estimates yourself etc. & not just take someone else's word for it. I know this shouldn't be necessary & that 'experts' should tell you the best options but in my experience it doesn't tend to work that way. Particularly in the countryside they have little bands that work together & put work each others' way. This is good when you know that they are the best but until then it pays to double check everything, sadly.

Have you got your own accounts at local builders merchants, plumbers etc?

I'm getting two quotes at least for everything in addition to the quotes from the builder himself. However, the ability to organise our own materials at a cheaper price is complicated by the fact that, beacuse the property has been empty for two years and qualifies for a reduced rate of VAT at 5% if we purchase through the main contractor, any savings we make are likely to be lost on the extra VAT.....

We're not panicking about the roof yet. It's not a standard build because it was built by the person who lived in it and it's an unusual roof so we're hoping it's a bit of a storm in a teacup - but, like you say, these are things that shoould have been known and we should have had the anwers beforehand - why not months ago? There's no point in getting planning permission for something that isn't economically feasible and I'm trusting that our architect has the sense not to do that....:cool:

Today, unbudgeted costs rest at an extra £1000, but hopefully equivalent savings are being made elsewhere

Today's further hitch is that we have to go down an extra half a metre for our footings. More clay to excavate, more concrete to make up the foundations.

Water is back on. It's reassuring that, when there are problems, they are resolved quickly. At least on the part of our builder.

Davesnave

We trusted the architect too much with our first design, rozee, but we pulled the plug at the point where he was about to instruct the structural engineer about steelwork. Couldn't see the complexity of it being cheap and the whole "build an upstairs" thing began to look too worrying.

You at least have an upstairs to start with.

Hope your DD 's bite soon responds to British medical treatment, rhiwie. We are supposed to be fishing down at Pete's tonight, where we may well be eaten alive by midges, but he's not phoned yet, having had a delivery of lambs to attend to first.....

alfie_1

evening folks

im reading but not writing at mo...
had a mad week so far of sorting all paperwork,visiting nursing home, getting tv etc for dad.. he SHOULD be going there tomorow. fingers crossed...

cant remember if i said but im off to the IOW for the weekend. need to chill out..........

sorry folks but im kernackered.

i wish anyone poorly,well and anything else if not answered.

choille

The weather has been stunning here & all the lambs are healthy & I have a brood of chicks a few days old.

The house build has halted due to being brassic, but jobs are coming in slowly so that's good as we do need to get wind & water tight still.

Spent ages trying to get a guy who has an old Rayburn in pale blue to show us it in his 'hanger' - a serious horder who has a clutch of serious RAF buildings to stuff with stuff. Took about 4 months to dig his way into it. It was pretty rotten. Hopeless really.

Determined to get a new one though - I had one, an old one & am a convert. We have loads of trees & wouldn't need to buy wood so would go for a solid fuel one. Like the cream & the also the pewter, the blacks nice as is the aqua..........dreaming on.

Do food prices go up every week? Seems so here. Just got back from civilisation/shop land............Money don't long last eh?:rotfl:

COOLTRIKERCHICK

morning all:j

I cant sleep:o:o its so warm, humid and sticky. Had to lock all 3 cats out the kitchen so I can have the front door open, ( waiting for world cat war to start)

Choille know the feeling about being brassic, def agree with food prices creeping up. I just buy more or less on a day to day basis now, rather than a weekly shop, especially now as our boys don't eat in much now, so its just hubby and me.. We don't go out anymore either.

Alfie goo news about your Dad:beer: hopefully the move to the home today will go smoothly, and your mum is ok too.

Rozee As ITSME have said in the post when doing a house up, there is allways things that crop up, that need extra money being spent.

Right off on my toddle around the internet...