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Nice People Thread Part 9 - and so it continues
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Until 2008 this house still had single glazed windows.
My dad's house still does.
ETA It was built to the same design as this one: http://www.rightmove.co.uk/property-for-sale/property-43115795.html only without the basement (Bristol has loads like that). You can see that double glazing all of it would be a big undertaking. Initially it wasn't on their radar - they bought the place in 1959 - and then they couldn't afford it. When they were older and could have afforded it, Mum was against spending so much on something so unnecessary, and now she's gone he thinks he won't stay in the house more than another couple of years, so it's not worth the hassle. Mum wouldn't hear of having CH that heated the whole house, either, so he's still got a system that only heats downstairs and one room upstairs (the bathroom).Do you know anyone who's bereaved? Point them to https://www.AtaLoss.org which does for bereavement support what MSE does for financial services, providing links to support organisations relevant to the circumstances of the loss & the local area. (Link permitted by forum team)
Tyre performance in the wet deteriorates rapidly below about 3mm tread - change yours when they get dangerous, not just when they are nearly illegal (1.6mm).
Oh, and wear your seatbelt. My kids are only alive because they were wearing theirs when somebody else was driving in wet weather with worn tyres.
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We had secondary glazing fitted over time to most windows.0
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PasturesNew wrote: »My dad had to choose between DG or heating in our old house. He chose the secondary units as he said "It's better to keep in the heat you've got, than to generate more heat that'll be lost"
Very MSE of him! :money:Do you know anyone who's bereaved? Point them to https://www.AtaLoss.org which does for bereavement support what MSE does for financial services, providing links to support organisations relevant to the circumstances of the loss & the local area. (Link permitted by forum team)
Tyre performance in the wet deteriorates rapidly below about 3mm tread - change yours when they get dangerous, not just when they are nearly illegal (1.6mm).
Oh, and wear your seatbelt. My kids are only alive because they were wearing theirs when somebody else was driving in wet weather with worn tyres.0 -
Confession Time.
When DW moved in with me we rented out her maisonette in New Cross leaving everything to be sorted by the agent as we lived to far to do anything. When we eventually decided to sell we found that the renters had about 10 people living in the 3 bed and had managed to acquire !!!!-roaches. No doubt a pleasant surprise for the purchasers. However we then brought home the cooker and washing machine as they were pretty new...and then had cockroaches in our old house in St A :eek: The council environmental health got rid of them fairly quick but the embarrassment of having the van pull up outside was pretty high
It was a Victorian house and we used the secondary glazing film in winter which I think was a better option than some of the out of character double glazing other people in the road had put in.
My then GF spent a lot of time as project control officer for an IT supplier at First Direct writing their dial in banking app...which of course was scrapped almost as soon as it went live when it was realised that the internet rather than individual private networks was the way forward. I think I first got internet/email at work in the second half of the 90s. I have pretty much always used webmail for my personal email.
A friend used to work for the council in that capacity. In fact now I recall, one of the biggest employers of biologists ironically was rentokil!
My mum grew up in the 30s and 40s. She used to enjoy holidays visisting relatives who had no plumbing or leccy. Much of the buildings were solid stone but brick houses seemed to be dodgy for infestations. Things moved on - a lot.
Pest controllers could make a decent living in London and the Southeast. Demolition companies wouldn't. Loads of houses look as though they'd be condemned if they were in Glasgow/ Edinburgh. Down here in London people just walk up with a wheelbarrow full of money and say "I'll buy this hovel and fix it up with my non-acquired imaginary skills". There is no honour to be had in not knowing a thing that can be known - Danny Baker0 -
Until 2008 this house still had single glazed windows.
Most of our windows are single-glazed. We have some secondary glazing, and some double-glazed units in ordinary wooden window frames, but most of it is 1940s original.No reliance should be placed on the above! Absolutely none, do you hear?0 -
There's a movie well worth seeing about people who fell asleep in the 1920s and were woken up in the 1960s when medical science had improved. One of the really sobering things about it was that some of them opted to go back to sleep when they saw the world they'd woken up in.
I'd imagine they'd have been pleased to go to sleep in the Depression (and sort of bid good riddance to it) and be pleased to wake up in hippy-era affluent world of the 60s (Any Madmen fans here?) but they didn't all take to it. Especially as many of them had lost loved ones in the war they'd slept through and just through the passage of the decades. Makes you wonder how people who want to be frozen when they die would adjust in the future.....
Edit: I just checked and they fell asleep in the 20s so my mention of the Depression is, probably, rubbish.There is no honour to be had in not knowing a thing that can be known - Danny Baker0 -
Most of our windows are single-glazed. We have some secondary glazing, and some double-glazed units in ordinary wooden window frames, but most of it is 1940s original.
In some countries triple-glazing's standard. I just know that somebody's going to name a country that has quadruple-glazing.
A relative offered us double-glazing as a present. Had to sit through a presentation while the rep said we could have a discount if we bought the same day. We could have given back to him better with 3-D scratch-n-sniff magic eye handouts, Looked like he was having a heart attack when we told him we weren't buying it, it was someone else's decision.
The company phoned us later and asked us how the sales pitch went. We told them the whole strategy was a waste of time in our case as we were immune to a 24-hour gun -to- the- head deadline (but it was their non-"deal" price was outragous without the deadline discount).
They seemed totally nonchalant and said it worked well for them. We were equally nonchalant and wished them a good day (and silently a better sales technique).
There is no honour to be had in not knowing a thing that can be known - Danny Baker0 -
IN some countries triple-glazing's standard. I just know that somebody's going to name a country that has quadruple-glazing.
A relative offered us double-glazing as a present. Had to sit through a presentation while the rep said we could have a discount if we bought the same day. We could have given back to him better with 3-D scratch-n-sniff magic eye handouts, Looked like he was having a heart attack when we told him we weren't buying it, it was someone else's decision.
The company phoned us later and asked us how the sales pitch went. We told them the whole strategy was a waste of time in our case as we were immune to a 24-hour gun -to- the- head deadline (but it was their non-"deal" price was outragous without the deadline discount).
They seemed totally nonchalant and said it worked well for them. We were equally nonchalant and wished them a good day (and silently a better sales technique).
From experience triple glazing is the only way to go if you live under the flight path of a busy airport. Served us well in last place. You could still hear the bus idling at the bus stop right outside our window at 2am though.
24 hour buses. The worst invention since major airports and jet engines.0 -
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