Daydream thread continues.....

rozeepozee

YAY! We've agreed the final design on the householder application, so the plans for the bungalow can be submitted!

We now turn to thoughts of deciding on our energy system, who to tender for the main contractor and what I can do in the garden before and whilst the building work takes place - obviously nothing too close to the house!

Can I ask for some advice on growing seeds now? I bought a heated propagator. Will anything grow now if I plant up inside after Christmas? I'm thinking of herbs and salad veg, nothing too exotic.

alfie_1

rozeepozee wrote: »

Argghh! Sorting out insurance on our unoccupied building. One quote £300, second quote £693!

does it reduce if they know you are living on the doorstep so to speak ??:cool:




typical me ! jumps in feet first... everyone has already discussed this !! :rotfl::rotfl:

p.s. evening all.....well done ctc

lostinrates

Very grumpy tonight so might go to bed and read.....I am half tempted to take all the dogaroonies up with me too.

Itismehonest

rozeepozee wrote: »

It's crazy, isn't it. It seems the problem is the "one size fits all" type of unoccupied buildings insurance. In addition to this, we're paying to insure the static at around £250!

I'll try the NFU but I've been on the phone for hours to day and have struggled to get a quote lower than my current insurers renewal quote (I've beat it by a tenner, but the cancellation fee's more!)

The one size fits all is a bit of a con for all sorts of household (& probably other) insurance.

I had a battle with a company because they automatically include things like carpets, curtains etc. for every room & we have none of the first (all stone, slate, wood or reclaimed brick) & not every room even has curtains - on the principle that I'm not keen on them & we're hardly overlooked :rotfl:

Apparently if you have a 5 bed or more place you are also bound to have "fine art or coin collections, fur coats, expensive jewellery" & so on. :rotfl: Not my style at all. I can't normally wear a ring or earrings so not much point having expensive examples of them.

The list of things they were hoping I had just so they could bump up the amount was quite amazing. The expensive things are mainly built in to the house so are covered on that side. Eventually I got them to agree to a contents figure about £30K (no it was over £50K! - can't do the maths tonight) less than their 'book' price for the size of the property.
You really have to watch them :mad:

Edit - Sorry meant to say great to hear things are progressing with the planning etc.

Edit.Edit Talking of insurance type things....
Following the floods, there's going to be a lot of people who won't be able to be in their homes for Christmas this year

Davesnave

rozeepozee wrote: »

YAY! We've agreed the final design on the householder application, so the plans for the bungalow can be submitted!

Will anything grow now if I plant up inside after Christmas? I'm thinking of herbs and salad veg, nothing too exotic.

Good for you with the plans! :j:beer:

I would wait till New Year with everything except some cut & come again salad leaves, which are cheap enough to risk, but do those in a trough in a cool room to start them, as they won't be transplanted. I have some in the conservatory....maybe they live, maybe they die!

In the New Year you can start to think about chillies, peppers and toms etc, but I'd only think until February! Even then, you must have somewhere frost free for them to go once germinated. A propagator is the last place you should keep them once they get beyond the seed leaves or they will just go leggy.

lostinrates wrote: »

Very grumpy tonight so might go to bed and read.....I am half tempted to take all the dogaroonies up with me too.

Think I might join you, metaphorically speaking, of course!
I've been looking at our wonderful bungalow plan and doing some calculations.....
Something has to give! :mad:

Itismehonest

Davesnave wrote: »

Good for you with the plans! :j:beer:

I would wait till New Year with everything except some cut & come again salad leaves, which are cheap enough to risk, but do those in a trough in a cool room to start them, as they won't be transplanted. I have some in the conservatory....maybe they live, maybe they die!

In the New Year you can start to think about chillies, peppers and toms etc, but I'd only think until February! Even then, you must have somewhere frost free for them to go once germinated. A propagator is the last place you should keep them once they get beyond the seed leaves or they will just go leggy.



Think I might join you, metaphorically speaking, of course!
I've been looking at our wonderful bungalow plan and doing some calculations.....
Something has to give! :mad:

If you plant them in sections of gutter (we cut it down into 4ft lengths) you can dig a trench (well form a bit of a hollow with a trowel) in the intended raised bed or veg patch & just sort of slide the contents of the gutter in. :cool:
You can do this with all sorts of seeds.

rhiwfield

Normally start germinating my toms in Feb, to go into into a frost protected GH.

Other than thats its time to look thru the seed catalogues

COOLTRIKERCHICK

managed to get a half decent pic of new cats..

the stray has really come on well, has put loads of weight on, and her coat is coming lovely..puts up with the kitten, even plays with him, but them babs him when she has had enough:rotfl:

as you can see, she is making herself at home now, and sleeps on the sofa and in the bedrooms

kitten, just sleeps where he flops:rotfl:

rozeepozee

The NFU couldn't help - they don't do unoccupied buildings insurance. I wouldn't mind, but I'm only after what they call FLEE insurance Flood, Lightening, Earthquake and, I can't remember the other one, some named risk that's basically not going to happen! :mad: Money for old rope. I reinsured with my current insurer in the end after haggling them down by £16 on the carrot of possible future business and the stick of leaving them... It's better than nowt.

We now have lovely plans too, Dave. We've settled on a loft conversion with dormer (which doesn't give us much but a viewing gallery to enable us to see the sea from the first floor), the loft conversion will give us two bedrooms upstairs with ensuites. Downstairs, we're coverting the garage to a utility/plant room (the heavy kind, not the growing kind, for any energy generation equipment) and shower room and, money permitting, whenever... a rear extension which will give us a large kitchen diner. There's also a car port on the side of the house.

Planning should go in tomorrow, then it's four ish weeks til we have the go ahead that the plans are likely to be passed, then detailed plans can be drawn up to tender to the builder and other contractors.

My seeds are burning a hole in my hand! But I will wait.... and plan....

What about fruit bushes? Can I buy some of those and put them in before spring? I fancy planting them between the apple trees in the "orchard". Does anyone have a walnut tree? I really fancy one....

So far, I've done no gardening. All we've done is brush cut and clear. We've still got a load of sheds to empty out and probably toss as they're rotten. OH has been doing some work for a farmer friend who's husband is ill and she has some poultry huts for sale. I haven't had chance to have a look at them yet. I'm worried about red mite... Any advice?

COOLTRIKERCHICK

Rozee they insured me,I told them we were doing work to the house etc.