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  • Doozergirl
    Doozergirl Posts: 34,080 Forumite
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    This has to win 'most surreal post on MSE'. I cannot compute it. Why together, on the DIY board?

    https://forums.moneysavingexpert.com/discussion/5322967
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  • Generali
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    Doozergirl wrote: »
    This has to win 'most surreal post on MSE'. I cannot compute it. Why together, on the DIY board?

    https://forums.moneysavingexpert.com/discussion/5322967

    I have replied to your friend.
  • Doozergirl
    Doozergirl Posts: 34,080 Forumite
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    Generali wrote: »
    I have replied to your friend.

    Oh! With the help that PN has now provided, I'm howling!! :rotfl:
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  • ivyleaf
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    I can also remember big, white, frozen sheets on the line being brought in.... frozen sheets, bit of a nuisance when it happens to you.

    I remember my mother coming into my room one winter morning after she'd left washing on the line overnight. She was holding up one of my (Courtelle, "fully-fashioned" :D) jumpers by the cuff and it was frozen stiff, and she couldn't stop giggling :)
  • ivyleaf
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    edited 12 September 2015 at 10:59AM
    That's really annoying PN :( I don't know a thing about planning but I bet other folk on here will know whether what you mention would be allowed.

    (Not your extension, I don't mean. I mean whether what's been applied for would be allowed, because of the height difference.)

    Please let me know if you want me to delete this post and I'll happily do so :-) .
  • silvercar
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    You want to check restriction on the hours they can work. Also the mess they create, round here a big build would require an agreement of which roads to use for access (eg only turning left from main road into site) and a requirement to hose wheels on leaving site. Also they usually require the site boundary to be boarded.

    I would be concerned about parking (both lorries and vans on site and residents in the future.)
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  • Doozergirl
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    The lady with the bad teeth and spongy floor called you lot a bunch of f!!!ing idiots.
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  • CKhalvashi
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    Doozergirl wrote: »
    The lady with the bad teeth and spongy floor called you lot a bunch of f!!!ing idiots.

    We are, just very nice f!!!ing idiots :) I was going to post, but couldn't out-laugh Gen and PN!

    Taken DD's out today to a Serbian event in London, and taking them to the motor show tomorrow. Won't be exhibiting as I haven't got the car here, but it's a really nice event and for a good cause every year.
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  • michaels
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    Don't quote, will delete.

    There is some 'right to light' but only for proper 'rooms' not windows on stairs, bathrooms etc and the actual amount required is fairly low (but very complicated to do with the amount of sky falling on a level plain 1m of the floor....

    You may want to consider whether the changes might impact on whether you might get planning permission if you did want to make your maximum extension and possibly get the planning request in now plus discuss with the developer whether their might be a little quid pro quo over you not objecting if they don't. Not sure if you could also hit them up for a small goodwill payment against the disruption you are bound to suffer in return for not objecting....

    Let me know if you want any of the above deleted.
    I think....
  • silvercar
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    he DID go to Canada!

    Track him down, you could be in line for a massive inheritance!
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