I would just like to say

[Stanleysteamer]

Too right I will.
The awful truth is that they have been in that house about a year and they are still "camping".
My son is a DIY dufus (did not get the DIY gene) and so pays through the nose for "professionals".
He had a quote for the garden fencing and Patio that was over £10K. It has cost a lot less with me and Tom doing it.
Materials costs + Tom @ £150/day and me a £0/day. LOL.
Granddaughter's room needs a fitted wardrobe making, and then decorating and carpeting.
Their main bedroom need a total re-hash, and the garage needs turning into a man-cave/work-from-home office.
Tom won't be available again until September, and I shall be "busy" doing my own stuff.

We camped in our place in France for ages. So I knowhow they feel but then we didn't live there all year round.
To begin with, the kitchen was a metal shelving unit, a kettle, a toaster, a microwave, and a barbecue. We had two plastic bowls, one for washing up and one for washing ourselves!
The loo was connected to the waste with a flexi and it was flushed from the mains via a watering hose, at 7 bar!
The bedroom was a mattress on the floor. and two sleeping bags. We had no electricity for the first time we were over there, with snow on the ground, hence the generator!

Trades are a heck of a price and Tom is charging a decent rate.
Don't know why your son bought a house that needs so much work. My first wife and I made a real effort to always buy a place that needed nothing, or very little doing. We managed to buy three houses like that.
Still managed to find things to do on them!

Did far more since second marriage!

Think you either do DIY or you don't. My Dad was feckin hopeless, altho a brill decorator. Both Grandpas were engineers and one of them designed and built a "bungalow", made in sections and transported up to a spot on top of the cliffs some way from Hull. We'd call it a chalet nowadays.
It burned down, (holiday tenants) so he built another, bigger, better .....mad sod!

Look forward to a well-deserved time off!

 

[jamesmartin]

Addresses different issues.

I never said anyone was turned away but it is a fact turnout dropped.

It's estimated 3.5million people over 18 don't have photo ID in the UK.

Some of them will apply for voter ID but many won't as we all know they are among the least likely to be motivated to vote anyway and unlikely to vote Conservative if they are.

The Electoral Commission don't think in person voter fraud is a problem and it's literally their job to know.

It's a solution looking for a problem and a cynical political ploy to gain advantage.

You can argue around that all night but we both know that's true so I'll leave you to it.

your the one with the conspiracy theories, and bearing in mind most young people do have ids and the left are destroying themselves electorally with their identity politics in poorer left behind areas like the red wall ,what would be the point as labour voters are increasingly middle class virtue signallers

 

[Turktowner]

. I like jeeps and freelanders

You just had to go there dint you?

 

[Turktowner]

Aaand a happy apolitical start this morning to our friends in this ere (normally) happy an congenial fred. Sun is shinerin, window will be down an elbow will be out.

I don't need an identity card. I has had my jab so Boris knows who and where I am at all times now. I can also tune into the radio by fiddling wif my left ear..

Have a lovely day

 

[Turktowner]

Oh, has anybody changed out the rear corner caps on a Tratter before?
Seems you just drill out the rivits, pull off the old one an pop rivet the new one in place?

Ta

 

[Hippo]

I'm wondering what @Hippo is thinking of this hijack!

Tis political balls. All bollox is balls. It will happen regardless of the media circus talking bollox about it. Opinion is just that. Bollox anorl. Eye was watching the ospital program ont bbc 2 when it kicked oft. How they dealt wiv da walrus.

 

[derwendolly]

Woken early by a VERY heavy rain 'shower - probably better described as a deluge.
With reluctance, the wee one has wandered out to kip under the hedge. Why he went is not known but it was his choice.
After breakfast it is Operation Caravan Dealer time in the hope that they will send someone capable of repairing the problem they have caused.
themselves. Life would be so much smoother and more enjoyable if the people employed to do a job were capable of doing it!
I hope your day goes better than mine probably will.

 

[My Old Landy]

Morning all, I stayed out of the discussion yesterday as that stuff bores me lol
Have a great day!

 

[Hippo]

Woken early by a VERY heavy rain 'shower - probably better described as a deluge.
With reluctance, the wee one has wandered out to kip under the hedge. Why he went is not known but it was his choice.
After breakfast it is Operation Caravan Dealer time in the hope that they will send someone capable of repairing the problem they have caused.
themselves. Life would be so much smoother and more enjoyable if the people employed to do a job were capable of doing it!
I hope your day goes better than mine probably will.

Give them the option of solving their ill fitted parts problem or yer will put their name along wiv pic's ont caravan club forum and ask ont there why it has been fitted wring and how to solve it because they int, in N months. One assume there be a snail club forum.

 

[Hippo]

Bin arguing wiv me boiler. Wiring be different fer me new controller. Solved the puzzle by powering it ont floor un measuring contacts changing state.

 

[Hippo]

All this new new new fings int their house eye find concerning. It's fun having to make do. Part of the challenge of life. Everyfink on a plate and new... won't feel like their own home int years to come. They may not be bothered or dun't care.

 

[derwendolly]

Give them the option of solving their ill fitted parts problem or yer will put their name along wiv pic's ont caravan club forum and ask ont there why it has been fitted wring and how to solve it because they int, in N months. One assume there be a snail club forum.

We are both thinking along the same lines! It is one of the biggest dealers in Wales and prides itself on its enormous selection of vans and motorhomes in the country and although this is true the whole business is failed by their after-sales service.
Just had a look at reviews on trust pilot, 59% good, 41% bad, not a very good set of figures.
If you read some of the comments, most of the good reviews are from people who have bought caravans and motorhomes, all the bad ones are about their aftersales.

 

[Hippo]

Not been ter screwdfix ferra few weeks now. Nor wix, bnq, omebase or toolstation.

 

[derwendolly]

Not been ter screwdfix ferra few weeks now. Nor wix, bnq, omebase or toolstation.

Are you saving all your pennies?

 

[DanClarke]

Woken early by a VERY heavy rain 'shower - probably better described as a deluge.
With reluctance, the wee one has wandered out to kip under the hedge. Why he went is not known but it was his choice.
After breakfast it is Operation Caravan Dealer time in the hope that they will send someone capable of repairing the problem they have caused.
themselves. Life would be so much smoother and more enjoyable if the people employed to do a job were capable of doing it!
I hope your day goes better than mine probably will.

Best of Luck with getting the problem resolved.

 

[DanClarke]

Morning All
I am definitely unwell Got a real dog-cough, a tight chest and I am as snotty anything.
Sun is out and it is a lovely day again. Final push on this garden project.
Have a lovely day folks.

 

[Glasgie]

Guid morn

Crap day rain rain and some more rain

Went to work yesterday, boss did not even say hello WTF, definately start back full time next Monday.

Went for a de stressing walk last night, couple of pics, nice 130 parked at thev Normandy Hotel and wee ship sailing doon the clyde

and

Mmmm what to do today ?

 

[derwendolly]

Morning All
I am definitely unwell Got a real dog-cough, a tight chest and I am as snotty anything.
Final push on this garden project.
Have a lovely day folks.

Don't do it, there's plenty of time to wait until you are feeling better.

 

[My Old Landy]

I have put the second and final coat of paint on one wall of the lounge. Only three more walls to go lol

 

[Hicap phill]

Off on a bit to annoy @kevstar area..
Fort William here we go