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Greying_Pilgrim

ed, I had a 'what would ed do?' moment yesterday

I was out with Baby Greying and bumped into an old dear who lives locally. We don't know her as such, but always say hello, exchange notes about the weather etc. Well, she pressed a fiver into my hand, 'for the baby's savings account'. It was incredibly kind of her, £5 is alot of money.

Anyway, I had 'that wobble' - you know, the stock market will (most likely -fingers crossed) give the better return in the long run, but it was given so selflessly and for BG's benefit, I'd much rather it goes into a 'safe' savings account so that BG gets £5.04p in 25 years time......... :rotfl:

Parental guilt at needing to do the right thing is naff isn't it? :rotfl:

And I'm not telling you which savings account I'm putting it in, as the interest rate is D.I.R.E - but at the moment, it is instant access and locally situated. I intend to move things around as savings build.... takes a step back to avoid well-deserved wrist slap

Greying X

edinburgher

Edinburgher doesn't slap wrists, you must be thinking of edinburgrrrrrr, he's out today

Anyway, I did exactly the same thing, paid in all the £1 coins that random little old ladies gave us in the supermarket when DD was a tiny tot no bigger than my forearm....

Yes, guilt is a funny thing.

edinburgher

Giant tarp has arrived - 6kg! :eek:

Karmacat

That's a big tarp

I can see, looking back, that you need it for the garage roof, but I don't quite get *why* you need it for the garage roof, is it stopping working somehow?

edinburgher

Cracked asbestos cement tiles. It rains = garage floods badly. Making hay while the sun shines and all that.

A_Frayed_Knot

edinburgher wrote: »

Cracked asbestos cement tiles. It rains = garage floods badly. Making hay while the sun shines and all that.

Better be quick - that's 2 days in a row its been nice and dry with a predicted dry overcast day tomorrow. Summer is officially over - we've had our 2 days sunshine.

Karmacat

Woah! Tell me you've got an asbestos-qualified contractor for those tiles?

edinburgher

Karmacat wrote: »

Woah! Tell me you've got an asbestos-qualified contractor for those tiles?

Why? I'm placing a tarp over the top of them, not moving them.

Karmacat

Oh! I thought you were sheltering them so they could be removed....

Ed, I'm not sure, but once something made of asbestos is cracked, tiny fibres too small to be seen may be given off ... this is a Health and Safety Executive page: http://www.hse.gov.uk/asbestos/dangerous.htm
and it does refer to damaged products.

Didn't you have something potentially dangerous tested? Was that these tiles? Am I going over old ground here? My grandad died of mesothelioma, so I'm a bit reactive about asbestos, sorry ...

edinburgher

Removing them will cost ££££, the best I can do in the short term is to cover them to prevent further damage and to perhaps line the garage ceiling with a taped polythene liner. I suspect thousands of people have leaky garage roofs like this, I doubt it's a big issue considering how little time most of us spend in our garages?