Nice People Thread Number 11 - A Treasury of Nice People

lostinrates

Do you mind taking pic out silver car?


Yes, ground around will be built up.. There is no top soil there, its been scraped off and that's just sub soil ( aka clay ). So that will relief pressure when lanscaping and topsoil for landing are brought back in.

Normally I'd say its clay and don't expect much of a drain through it, only.....well, its been dug up twice within a very short space of time and should not be very compacted. Silted up yes, but....

I also think the drain its going onto needs digging out. Which is also depressing as that was done year before last too.

lostinrates

silvercar wrote: »

we had one of those put in the last place. It went along the edge of the patio and let to a soak away. Do you have a soak away at the end of yours?

It ends in a ditch. Where the ditch ends is an interesting question, because its a VERY odd layout. Its my opinion it runs in to a soak away on so done else's land. I'm not that keen to find out that is the case. . It would make sense though, for historic reasons. What we have decided to do is to have a bit of a dig around for the alternative places it could go ( the rest of. Our own ditch Run is second most likely possibility, and there is a third possibility which is also our land, but I consider it very unlikely)

LydiaJ

lostinrates wrote: »

French drains.

French drains are a type of land drain. You dig a big trench, and stick a perforated pipe down and fill the trench with gravel. The pipe heads on a gradient to a ditch. Then when it rains the water in the surrounding land should filter down to the pipe and out to the ditch.

Thank you.

Actually, I know about those because I remember "helping" to install one across a field gateway belonging to a friend of the family when I was about 8. I just didn't know that was what it's called.

lostinrates

LydiaJ wrote: »

Thank you.

Actually, I know about those because I remember "helping" to install one across a field gateway belonging to a friend of the family when I was about 8. I just didn't know that was what it's called.

. They are sometimes just called land drains, I dare say a dozen other names too.

If we had the money I'd land drain our entire first field. . Would be Wonderful. I'd also run a track of the heavy duty honey comb stuff from the gate in the yard down through the middle so we could use a track year round that NEVER got muddy, was drivable , wheelbarrow able and stroll or in all weathers. . That's big money though.

tomterm8

lemonjelly wrote: »

I'd assume cleaners and the like are accustomed/trained to work around projects etc, as frequently that is why their support is required?

Cleaner's are people so what they are willing or able to do varies and is down to negotiation and agreement.

Nikkster

Todays installment of things that Nikkster wasn't supposed to be doing:

Looks like they did a bit of a better job of sealing this side of the door up. There was also a bit of work surface that had been put in that gap. I don't think it was very wise to start messing with this side of the door right now, but I'm not very wise.

lostinrates

tomterm8 wrote: »

Cleaner's are people so what they are willing or able to do varies and is down to negotiation and agreement.

My mother cleaned for a while when I was at secondary school. She's like me in that she sees all jobs as pretty worthwhile and no job like that demeaning. Some of the things she was expected to do very clearly showed not all people felt cleaners were worthy of respect.

To put it bluntly, I was brought up by a woman who was brought up in a home where staff were a given. She brought me up with the mantra she was brought up with that you don't ask people to do what you are not prepared to do yourself. We had dailies when not in uk, because it was pretty standard, and labour prices usually made it cheap, and socialising and she worked and was also expected to take a full socialising role. It was sort of necessary, and if it wasn't who would have cared. . It was fine.

I feel ATM some of our house is in a state of repair that would not make it fair to expect a cleaner to contend with. I don't mind it, in fact, I like those bits of this whole house thing the best. But I do think its rough to ask cleaners to content with some of those things.


Sme things I would really like. E.g. I'd REALLY like to get kitchen floors in, this would also make cleaning Easier. But I really love the temporary kitchen and don't want to spend on the permanent one yet while I love my temp one. Until I get at the very least a permanent island in place it seems silly to contemplate floors because it seems A little silly to put expensive stone under an island when I will never see it again. ( though I could and might) but More to the point, I am putting UFH in, and need to know where the island would be exactly to to clearly avoid it.

I love my kitchen alter so I feel like replacing it would be an expense that while I know it will come, is not yet ready to be appreciated. I want to wait till I feel I conflicted, and totally ready to swap my boho cobbled together furniture for practicality and a kitchen sink. . Otherwise, where is the joy?

I know a lot of people are abot the finish, and for some things, so am I, I AM more than ready to finish that north garden! some lingering issues etc! but the kitchen? Not so much, because I love it right now. The floor, no I don't love, one bit.

lostinrates

Hurrah nikkster.


I think it is wise, You can just keep chipping away at these things on Sundays. You have plenty more workspace, yes? Seems like it.

It does seem pretty well boarded in though. Makes sense they'd be more thorough on a kitchen side.

tomterm8

lostinrates wrote: »

She brought me up with the mantra she was brought up with that you don't ask people to do what you are not prepared to do yourself. I feel ATM some of our house is in a state of repair that would not make it fair to expect a cleaner to contend with.

I see things differently... personally, I doubt that there's anything in your house that comes close to the things I experienced when I cleaned a bar up in Manchester when I was a student. A bar with 50p shots on a Friday.

Would I be bothered by anything in your house? I doubt it.

But I'm too far from you to clean it:D

lostinrates

tomterm8 wrote: »

I see things differently... personally, I doubt that there's anything in your house that comes close to the things I experienced when I cleaned a bar up in Manchester when I was a student. A bar with 50p shots on a Friday.

Would I be bothered by anything in your house? I doubt it.

But I'm too far from you to clean it:D

Tom, if you were closer you think I'd have you cleaning? With your bramble defeating skills you'd make in side for tea breaks.....:D



Its really funny. Some of the conversations I have squashed with women being nasty about other women who clean and what they belief this says about a person. On a couple of occasions I've been in the position to point out while they are carping about someone who cleans houses they are enjoying their hobby of !!!! shovelling. It seems a little odd to get judgemental in those circumstances above all to me.