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Def90man said:
Never mix the grapevine or some wise saying 😁
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"Ne'er mix the grape and the hop," as my old man used to say, silly beggar! You get a far wuss hangover through drinking rubbish wine or rubbish beer, the mixing don't seem to make a lot of diff, in my experience.
Drink water at the same time is a wise thing to do, so I have heard!! (Which is why Frogs allus have pitchers or bottles of watter ont table.) And I mean "carafes" not "pictures", that wouldn't do any good now would it!!!???:):):)
 
It's flipping 32 degs C here which is ridiculous. I am having to work in it as we suddenly have fambly coming to stay a few days. So no weekend for us. The house is nowhere near straight.:rolleyes:
But when they come, Monday evening, the weather will have changed and it'll be chilly and wet which is why some of the work has been hauling and cutting logs.:rolleyes:
Still enjoy the rest of your Satdis folks!
I'm just about cool enough now to go back out and get hot again!
 
Another thing that I've seen happen in areas which are a holiday destination is that the longer term tenancies may only be for 6 months or so during the quiet period, and in the summer the landlords try to kick the tenants out so they can make more money with shorter term holiday lets. The sort of place that makes, say £900 a month during the winter can make that much a week in the summer.

Personally, I've never had a problem with private renting. I know tenants and landlords fall out all the time, but it's never happened to me. It's not a bundle of fun from the landlords' point of view either. The people I know who've attempted to rent out spare houses have had loads of trouble. After the first couple of payments, rent is seldom forthcoming, and any furniture or carpets left in the house are quickly destroyed. Moreover, doors are pulled off their hinges, and something similar happens to the kitchen cupboards. The tops are broken off the taps and water left to seep through the floors and fetch the plaster off ceilings in the rooms below. In addition to this, you get the occasional DIY enthusiast tenant who performs unauthorised alterations. An ex-partner of mine and her husband returned to their rented-out house one day to discover that an internal wall had been knocked out and the debris deposited in the garden. Another friend who moved to Brighton and let out her flat in Birmingham was pleased to discover that her prospective tenant was a police officer. Oh great, nice responsible job, he's going to be sensible and no trouble at all. Soon she was to learn otherwise, as she was subjected to a barrage of complaints, such as that the toilet cistern took too long to refill. He started deducting money from the rent because of all the things that weren't to his liking. So she was left out of pocket because he ended up paying only a fraction of the original rent. By the time she's served the section 21 notice and gained a possession order (which was difficult because he was paying part of the rent rather than not at all, apparently) it cost her quite a bit to get rid of him, whilst in the meantime he'd had bargain-priced accommodation. I could go on but that provides a flavour of the experience. I'm glad I kept away from all that myself. It sounds very stressful.
 
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Hippo said:
Fink its because yer pick me wurds from stans reply. There be no dots in the origional post.
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No I read Stans post and licked it, he quoted you.
When I replied with my redaction of the lick it was after Stan edited his post (for what ever reason, I dont really care) but it brought up Stans quote from you only with his post now only ......

J
 
derwendolly said:
As you may remember I have been having serious problems with the water company and their very high pressure main which feeds directly into my property - it is almost a year now since they were supposed to be fitting a pressure reducing valve on the mains feed OUTSIDE my property and they have yet to do it. Until that is done I am not prepared to do anything on my side of the inlet feed. Water coming in at between 8 and 10 bps (?) is a lot of gushing water - I have had two husepipes burst in the garden!!
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Could turn yourstop cock right down to reduce the pressure may help 🚿🚿
 
I'm sorry to hear that @gstuart - I thought you were still pretty comfortable in the Discovery for longer periods. I've only driven one of the late model Discoverys once, and it felt like being in a hovercraft on wheels. About as wide as one too. It was like being on an air cushion.

For what it's worth, I dunno if downsizing to a smaller and supposedly cheaper car will help much. By the time you've taken the loss from depreciation on the existing one, bought another one, taxed and insured it, made good its outstanding problems (which it's bound to have), got it through another MOT and so on, you've probably only saved yourself a month's rent at Dorset prices. At the most.
 
Stone56 said:
Could turn yourstop cock right down to reduce the pressure may help 🚿🚿
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It's a bit like electrical resistance. It'll lower the effective pressure when the water is flowing - the more you let out the more the pressure will drop. With everything turned off, the pressure will be back up at 8-10 bar pretty quickly. So the poor old hosepipe will be straining at the seams if it's got one of those nozzles you can turn off. It's probably because you're in a hilly area @derwendolly People higher up will be complaining to the water board that their water isn't coming out properly so they've got to pump it quite hard. Something similar happens in parts of Derbyshire near me. People in the valleys have water that explodes out of the tap and hits the sink with such force that any crockery can be blown out onto the floor. An acquaintance of mine lost quite a lot of cups and plates that way, not to mention getting sprayed in the face with splashback.
 
Stanleysteamer said:
"Ne'er mix the grape and the hop," as my old man used to say, silly beggar! You get a far wuss hangover through drinking rubbish wine or rubbish beer, the mixing don't seem to make a lot of diff, in my experience.
Drink water at the same time is a wise thing to do, so I have heard!! (Which is why Frogs allus have pitchers or bottles of watter ont table.) And I mean "carafes" not "pictures", that wouldn't do any good now would it!!!???:):):)
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They put water in the wine here
 
To make things worser, the ferry captain who came on the run last weekend has cancelled all the runs for the rest of the day 🤔. He wouldn’t go beginning of the week in fairly calm weather and today’s only gusting to mid 20’s so there’s 400 cattle sitting on concrete until he gets the nerve to sail again. Apparently he doesn’t like this run
 
Brown said:
Another thing that I've seen happen in areas which are a holiday destination is that the longer term tenancies may only be for 6 months or so during the quiet period, and in the summer the landlords try to kick the tenants out so they can make more money with shorter term holiday lets. The sort of place that makes, say £900 a month during the winter can make that much a week in the summer.

Personally, I've never had a problem with private renting. I know tenants and landlords fall out all the time, but it's never happened to me. It's not a bundle of fun from the landlords' point of view either. The people I know who've attempted to rent out spare houses have had loads of trouble. After the first couple of payments, rent is seldom forthcoming, and any furniture or carpets left in the house are quickly destroyed. Moreover, doors are pulled off their hinges, and something similar happens to the kitchen cupboards. The tops are broken off the taps and water left to seep through the floors and fetch the plaster off ceilings in the rooms below. In addition to this, you get the occasional DIY enthusiast tenant who performs unauthorised alterations. An ex-partner of mine and her husband returned to their rented-out house one day to discover that an internal wall had been knocked out and the debris deposited in the garden. Another friend who moved to Brighton and let out her flat in Birmingham was pleased to discover that her prospective tenant was a police officer. Oh great, nice responsible job, he's going to be sensible and no trouble at all. Soon she was to learn otherwise, as she was subjected to a barrage of complaints, such as that the toilet cistern took too long to refill. He started deducting money from the rent because of all the things that weren't to his liking. So she was left out of pocket because he ended up paying only a fraction of the original rent. By the time she's served the section 21 notice and gained a possession order (which was difficult because the was paying part of the rent rather than not at all, apparently) it cost her quite a bit to get rid of him, whilst in the meantime he'd had bargain-priced accommodation. I could go on but that provides a flavour of the experience. I'm glad I kept away from all that myself. It sounds very stressful.
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As Landlords of 2 houses in a seaside, holiday town. We don't chase the holiday peeps. We actually encourage them to sign for 3yrs (well actually I think its 35mths). Because it costs them and us every time a new agreement has to be taken out.
Being remote Landlords we have agents and they visit and report as part of the deal. We fix everything that is listed, (you would fix it if it was your own house wouldn't you?)

Thing is those chasing rents are often chasing mortgage payments, We are not, We prefer long term.
Yes we have had 1 bad tenant but that's the deposit system and the letting agents so We weren't out of pocket (except for a few months rent cos it wasn't rented).

There are some good landlords and tenants out there.
We are now in 8yrs on 1 and 4yrs on the other which is sadly coming up this year at the tenants request to leave.


Oh and @gstuart dont be too worried about the no pets policy its a standard line in a tenancy agreement, if you ask they may likely accept a small pet, we have accepted cats and small dogs, May lose deposit on leaving for cleaning purposes though.

J
 
marjon said:
As Landlords of 2 houses in a seaside, holiday town. We don't chase the holiday peeps. We actually encourage them to sign for 3yrs (well actually I think its 35mths). Because it costs them and us every time a new agreement has to be taken out.
Being remote Landlords we have agents and they visit and report as part of the deal. We fix everything that is listed, (you would fix it if it was your own house wouldn't you?)

Thing is those chasing rents are often chasing mortgage payments, We are not, We prefer long term.
Yes we have had 1 bad tenant but that's the deposit system and the letting agents so We weren't out of pocket (except for a few months rent cos it wasn't rented).

There are some good landlords and tenants out there.
We are now in 8yrs on 1 and 4yrs on the other which is sadly coming up this year at the tenants request to leave.


Oh and @gstuart dont be too worried about the no pets policy its a standard line in a tenancy agreement, if you ask they may likely accept a small pet, we have accepted cats and small dogs, May lose deposit on leaving for cleaning purposes though.

J
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Glad to hear your experience has been better. Some tenants are like me and try to keep the place in one piece and go round filling holes, touching up paint, renewing tap washers and screwing door handles back on when they fall off. So the minor maintenance on this place from the landlord's point of view is virtually zero.

We've had all manner of cats since we've been renting the current house, despite it saying no pets in the tenancy agreement. It's often just so that they can enforce it if the animals are being a problem.
 
Stanleysteamer said:
Sadly yes I do remember that.
I am thinking that as you have the right to have a water meter fitted that may force them to come and do all the work needed to sort you and your problems out.
www.citizensadvice.org.uk

Changing to a water meter

Your right to have a water meter installed and the pros and cons of switching to a meter and be charged for actual water usage compared to being charged based on the rateable value of the property.
www.citizensadvice.org.uk www.citizensadvice.org.uk
We have a pressure reducing valve, as do many peeps over here as it is needed to stop the white goods going "pop" they are really not very complex things.
I bet a water meter has to operate on a lower pressure, others may know more accurately.
At any rate I don't think you have anything to lose by trying.
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The pipework at the main stopcock on my side is already set up for a meter.
 
gstuart said:
Blimey if that’s bar ur talking about that’s some 160 Psi , Christ , fingers crossed they pull there finger out and sort it out for u

Wonder if u could get a plumber to fit it for u seeinf it’s such a straight forward job and then send them the bill
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I live very rurally. My supply comes off the big main pipe as it travels from the huge one which is ongoing for many miles to other distant villages. It comes along the side of the adjoining farmer's field before reaching the little lane which runs through our hamlet Here, this pipe is fitted with all the necessary 'bits', including a prv, before it carries on away from our little hamlet and on and on and on to ? I am the only person in our hamlet who uses this 'new' supply everyone is still on the old disintegrating pipework. My supply is under so much pressure because it is 't'd off into my side garden from this main pipe BEFORE the prv is installed. All workers who have been given the job refuse to do it in my garden stating that it must be put on where my supply is 't'd into the main one BEFORE it comes onto my property. I have already had 2 major bursts between my stopcock and the main pipe where it is 't'd, the last one needing lots of work to reinstate my patio and taking four months to complete because of the amount of damage done to the underlying ground, four of the original paving slabs or any pieces of them have ever been found and all but four of the other twelve were found in pieces amongst the mud! It seems that this leak had been there for many months before it appeared overground - under my patio. Damage to the foundations of my bungalow is still to be assessed and can't be done properly until the ground dries out - this is over a year ago now and after all the rain over the last nine months the chances of it happening any time soon are remote! All workers agree that water under this pressure should not be entering my property and a prv is needed BEFORE it comes over my boundary. I do not store water anywhere in the house everything comes directly from the mains. ( I won't go into the costs of all the ruined appliances before the reason for all the troubles was discovered). I have had a prv installed before my (second)CH boiler. My house stopcock is hardly open! My gardener was lucky to be alive when the second hopepipe burst less than a meter away from him, even the visiting water company inspector remarked that this was very dangerous!!!!

I hope this gives you some idea of the situation.
 
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