Daydream thread continues.....

alfie_1

rozeepozee wrote: »

We're starting to regret taking down the wall that we intend to move when the curtilage is extended. It was holding back a lot of water from the top field..... It's now coming up towards the house :eek:

Draining the field is now more of a priority perhaps.... Especially now that we mayn't be refurbing for many months. Does anyone have any views on a French drain? Where you dig a ditch and fill it with gravel? OH seems to think this may be adequate. We don't want to spend a fortune on drainage until any building has been completed as there may need to be heavy plant across this field at some stage so could damage drains. I don't know. I'm hopelessly untechnical about such things!

IMO....if you have a straight line across near/where the wall was, then trench it and gravel that if the rest of the land is reasonably ok. run it as if its a dam infront of where you DONT want water !! just gravel, no need to turf etc then its "seeable" and is where you will prob build anyway and helps builders see what they are contending with..:D aiming it towards your stream if thats possible, this will protect the property and not drastically alter your water courses.. as said you need to see what your water tables are like before you "interfere" with nature..;) sometimes interupting the water table [till you know how the land copes/needs the water] can affect your stream as that will be your natural soak away ....

rozeepozee

alfie_1 wrote: »

IMO....if you have a straight line across near/where the wall was, then trench it and gravel that if the rest of the land is reasonably ok. run it as if its a dam infront of where you DONT want water !! just gravel, no need to turf etc then its "seeable" and is where you will prob build anyway and helps builders see what they are contending with..:D aiming it towards your stream if thats possible, this will protect the property and not drastically alter your water courses.. as said you need to see what your water tables are like before you "interfere" with nature..;) sometimes interupting the water table [till you know how the land copes/needs the water] can affect your stream as that will be your natural soak away ....

Thanks, Alf. That's what we were thinking. There's a ditch not far away to the front of the property, so we'll probably direct there instead.

Itismehonest

Davesnave wrote: »

Everything comes to (s)he who waits! I think the weather chappie said you'd be free of the next lot before us, if that's any consolation.:)

We're really keen to go up to our old house and cut off the water & electricity to the plot we're selling, but there has to be a dry day for that. Looking forward to being free from the responsibility too. We're due for a letter from the lady at number 13 which will go something like:

"Dear Mr & Mrs Snave,
Once again I must remind you that your boundary hedge is looking very untidy....."

We're not arguing. All the time we lived there, we never really knew whose hedge it was, but we're selling it with the plot now, since she obviously thinks its ours. :rotfl:

Hehe - We've got a very short run of hedge which a certain (to remain nameless charity...... spit) seems to have decided is theirs since buying next door. We don't argue. Your hedge - you lay it
Mind you, as with everything else, trying to get them to actually look after the places they buy is an uphill struggle so we never expect it to be 'dun dreckly'. We waited about 10 years or more between the last 2 times.

alfie_1

well, iv sold my 2 cig machines and my clocking in machine ...all for good money :D over 450 :D

just got to sell "me posh bed ed" and i will be a :j bunny...

Itismehonest

rozeepozee wrote: »

Thanks, Alf. That's what we were thinking. There's a ditch not far away to the front of the property, so we'll probably direct there instead.

While the weather is like this it's the ideal time to look out for any springs surfacing, rozee. It's quite amazing how they can suddenly pop up & in the most peculiar places. A neighbour had one come up in her living room one year :eek:

LIR - If your place is old there may be old culvert running under the buildings. We have an old (maybe 16thC) stone culvert which runs under what was once the dairy but now is within the house. Luckily it collapsed a few years before we bought the place so it was relaid but we 'plumbed' the outlet in to our drainage plan. That only left us with the one which ran along the back of the house to discover ........ which we did one morning when we came downstairs to find water running through the kitchen & making its' way to the front door. Needless to say, after some demolishing & rebuilding, that got plumbed in, too.

rozeepozee

Looking on the bright side, if that's not a ridiculous thing to suggest in this weather, better to discover these things now, before we've done any refurb work!

Off to bed now to listen to the rain.

Good night me lovelies and well done on your sales, alf!

choille

alfie_1 wrote: »

Most carboot sales have been cancelled around here. even the beaulieu boat jumble has been cancelled ...1 st time ive known of for donkey years !! they must have lost a fortune cancelling if they have to refund pitch money etc ...its an international do.....

i had a chap i know call by T time on a very old BSM motorbike ?? i heard him coming up the road half a mile away.. trouble is he stopped for a chat by the gate and ...YEP ! wouldnt start again...:( apparently it had been in storage for 23 yrs and he used to ride it to "School" in london... and hed just spent the last week fixing it.
so he put it in my shed and i gave him a lift home. i dropped him off and i got stopped by 3 old dears in a little car.hed gone indoors so i was left to the "wolves"....they had me trapped in the lane and started to berate me !! "know assure us he is not going to be driving up and down in that infernal contraption keeping us awake all night AGAIN ..."etc :rotfl::rotfl: i darent speak as i was bottling up howls of laughter... thier little faces peering out the windows looked like a Little Britain sketch..
i eventually said in answer to that question..."ooo i dont think so " knowing full well the bike was going nowhere..:rotfl::rotfl:
i love it when random things happen..:D as long as i have one good laugh a day, im happy...

Think you mean BSA - I used to have one.

alfie_1

oh well my good mood bubble has just been burst
i had enquiries re bay items from abroad, said if he arranged courier then it was ok but had to pay me pronto if he won. then after sales ended i got a message from the guy asking "why had i BLOCKED him from buying"...... i dont even know how to or in fact that you could even do that....:( i am really ...cos i know i havnt done it...

alfie_1

choille wrote: »

Think you mean BSA - I used to have one.

:rotfl::rotfl::rotfl:comes from being behind too many learner drivers round here.. [british school of motoring] :rotfl::rotfl:

choille

Alfie - just caught up withreading 2 and a bit pages of posts.

You need to allow people from abroad to bid - ie You probably only have postage for UK that 'bans' disallows bids from outside UK.

Just finished listing & feel jiggered.
Today was really glorious - like Summer - we went to the beach for a while this afternoon to get grit for hens & there was a couple in the water - amazing. Beautiful blood red sky this evening.
Not often I'm winding you lot up doon Sawth with me brillo weather stories.
My commiserations.