Nice people thread part 6 - thrice by twice as nice :)

michaels

Once or twice for 3 things.

silvercar wrote: »

Interesting MSE survey on how honest people are:

http://www.moneysavingexpert.com/poll/09-07-2012/do-you-play-by-the-rules

vivatifosi

Pleased to hear your news on the bathroom front lir. Not having a shower available is horrible. Baths are ok, but such a palaver.

vivatifosi

Moment of excitement for the day. An England football player wandered into the library today and sat down and used the free wifi. Nobody interrupted and I would have been absolutely none the wiser had someone not pointed him out. Can't say who or where though...

michaels

Snap - we took off 2 layers of tiles and found cracks, and our house is only 75 years old.

I hope you are taking things easy LIR and keeping your enegy for the summer social whirl fast approaching...

lostinrates wrote: »

Its amazing to see the movement cracks that were concealed behind the kitchen units.....and the filth.

lostinrates

vivatifosi wrote: »

Pleased to hear your news on the bathroom front lir. Not having a shower available is horrible. Baths are ok, but such a palaver.

Well, parent. Will only use a shower, so they are relieved! And it will make life easier, even though i prefer a bath a shower has been missed.

chewmylegoff

The only thing I have done on that list is shop-lifting. I would like to say it was a silly thing I did when I was young, but it was actually when I was 28. Having said that it was just a lime from sainsbury's, and I was very drunk...

lostinrates

michaels wrote: »

Snap - we took off 2 layers of tiles and found cracks, and our house is only 75 years old.

I hope you are taking things easy LIR and keeping your enegy for the summer social whirl fast approaching...

Hahaha, that makes me feel better.

No energy atm, but it will be back before then, i am sure.:D I will have a cooker back by the time i am social whirling, so no issues there. Have also decised that for social whirling if the weather clears up i will pull chairs into the front/side garden, which is the prettiest atm, even if i am neglecting the border, there is a nice view. I will also raie pictures because hopefully by then, by guests will not see the sofas i have literally stacked to get things into the rooms we have left!:rotfl:

chewmylegoff

Big cracks in my old house which was a 1920s/early 1930s semi. Was fixed under insurance for subsidence, but my builder was convinced the roof had been blown off in the war and replaced badly such that it's weight was on a non load bearing wall. I have no idea whether that's true but it was a more interesting reason than tree roots.

lostinrates

chewmylegoff wrote: »

Big cracks in my old house which was a 1920s/early 1930s semi. Was fixed under insurance for subsidence, but my builder was convinced the roof had been blown off in the war and replaced badly such that it's weight was on a non load bearing wall. I have no idea whether that's true but it was a more interesting reason than tree roots.

Mine is a mixture of movement on clay, but also, poor dealing with issues, one of which only became clear very recently. The part we thought of initially as the 'third' era of the house it seems was much older, which we had suspected, but was made clearer when a previous occupand told us there had been a cellar there. The cellar filled with water so rather than solve the problem in a more sympathetic way the very, very old cellar was filled with concrete,:mad::mad:

In anycase, with those sort of footings, its clear why that part of the house is very stable! The problem is, the other parts were not over the concrete filled cellar!:eek:

Some parts of the house look :eek:. There is a crack in the georgian front that you see a big chunk of the side of the bricks where they fall away. It always makes me feel a bit queasy, but this is apparantly rather benign, because there are many many more inches in the wall, where contact is still good, where as the cracks elsewhere on thinner walls are bigger problems.

From now on i have lost my party trick of removing chunks of mortar and putting them back because that section will be fixed soon :j.. I am really excited about the new doorways being cut in, because getting a real on the spot idea of flow will help me pen my garden design for the north side which will be my next project.

The dogs are being amazingly good. Because inhad to go put for a chunk of day they were quite clingy this evening, its not their make up to stay alone at home and let people 'attack' the house.:D

PasturesNew

zagubov wrote: »

PN you need a bus timetable and a map of the area and a good sit-down with both so you can get your bearings.:D

David Byrne's blog for 01.21.11 relates the fun people you can encounter on buses.

I've got the timetable - and a good A-Z of the area.... but I didn't read those until I had realised there was no bus where I was ... so walked up the road 1/4 mile to see if there was a stop - and realised there wasn't even a road going in my direction, so headed back towards the beach (at least that's a straight route).... and then I got the book out and realised it was a choice between walking uphill and trying to find a road a mile away where a bus MIGHT pass.... or just crack on and take the beach route back (which was at least flat).

There was another bus route (but no buses) where I was, but I didn't have a ticket for those. It was only 3 miles back by the time I realised there was no bus, so not a biggie... and it was dry/light.