Only freedom will do

Secret_Saving_Squirrel

Belated new home wishes, sorry I missed the day. When we moved into our house ten years ago the boiler looked really old and we had plumbers round, sucking their teeth and saying they hadn't seen one of THOSE for years.... We didn't have the money to change it and it is still going strong, warm house and no huge bills so I assume it is quite efficient. So I am honouring it by keeping it until it dies.

AlexLK

edinburgher wrote: »

I think I'm a INTJ trapped in an INFJ's brain - the elegance of improved energy efficiency appeals, waste appals. Why pay over the odds to waste energy and create harmful emissions?

I won't even rise to the car comment, I've nothing against cars per se, just my idea of a dream car is more like a Tesla Model S that drives itself.... giving me more time to high five trees out of the window :rotfl:

If we're back to the personality tests, I started reading a little bit into that and found my result was scarily accurate in a lot of ways.

A car that drives itself is my idea of a nightmare. :rotfl:

edinburgher

Tree surgeon quoted us £350 to remove mahoosive ash from front garden. Seems fair, but less impressed at the £900 to remove the growing leylandii from the side of the house :eek:

My compromise to him was to ask what he would charge to remove the stumps + chip the trees if I cut them down with a chainsaw myself

Trying to bring a bit of order to the chaos, but it seems like we're only getting different chaos...

Removed small corner unit from fitted kitchen, need space for our tumble drier. The 3rd most expensive thing I've ever bought bar properties. A++, apparently I can control it with my phone and yes GG, it does have a light :rotfl:

Goldiegirl

Those leylandii can be a real pest.

We planted some tiny leylandii in our front garden when we moved in.

They were getting really big, and were making our kitchen dark

We were talking about getting a quote to get them removed, but then our neighbour accidentally burnt them down with a blow torch :eek:

He was VERY apologetic, and insisted on paying for the burnt offerings to be removed and also paid for replacement shrubs.

We never told him what a favour he did us with that blow torch!

You seem to have achieved a lot in a week. I'm impressed

Tilly_MFW_in_6_YRS

edinburgher wrote: »

Removed small corner unit from fitted kitchen, need space for our tumble drier. The 3rd most expensive thing I've ever bought bar properties. A++, apparently I can control it with my phone and yes GG, it does have a light :rotfl:

I think you'll find one of these :smileyhea has to follow any mention of TD with internal light. I'm sure she's copyrighted it :rotfl::rotfl::rotfl:

Good to hear things are going in the right direction. Order out of chaos - excellent skill.

Night, Tilly x x

Luckyinlife

Ohhh a a++++ tumble dryer Must of cost a bomb ed

Any tumble dryer with a A++ on it is mega coinage lol

Be cool if it told you how many KW it uses on the cycle you put it on tho

Watty1

:wave: Glad you made it safely into new home and order is slowing returning. Great catch up. Wishing you all much happiness in new house

Hollyboll

Glad you, DD and the fish are settling in …

On the junk, I've been surprised at what people will take on freeeecycle so might be worth a try - bits I'd have struggled to get out let alone lug to the tip have been taken free with pleasure by others, so a good win win …

Now that someone SENSIBLE :rotfl::rotfl: has a TD with one, Ed please can you let us know what the point is of an internal light? :smileyhea Does it just provide hours of entertainment for DD watching things go round? ….

edinburgher

Any tumble dryer with a A++ on it is mega coinage lol

Be cool if it told you how many KW it uses on the cycle you put it on tho

In the region of £485 after cashback and a £10 credit for removing our old device. Tried to buy two dryers for less than £400, but both sold out within about half an hour of finding them!

I don't know how many kWh per cycle, but the estimated annual power is c. 212 kWh/£32 :T

Does it just provide hours of entertainment for DD watching things go round?

I will let you know! She is fascinated by my parents' decrepit Indesit washing machine at their holiday house, so maybe :rotfl:

Think we just dodged our first cowboy builder. Quoted 60% more than someone with 20+ years experience did, mentioned a range of extra work that we should consider and stated that 'our roof was quite old and would probably need replaced in 10 years'. Which, interestingly enough, wasn't picked up by either the surveyor or other roofer

Solicitor sent on sale monies, I have more cash in my bank account than they will pay me interest on :beer:

Calfuray

Hey Ed

I'm glad you are settling in. I've been keeping up with your thread for the past few months, but have just been lurking. Think I might need to go update my thread!

Glad to know you are well, hope the new house is everything you want it to be

Cal