• Hippo
    Hippo reacted to landowner's post in the thread I would just like to say with Like Like.
    It's a bungalow and I always leave the living room stat fully open because that's where the controller is. I keep hall, bedroom and bathroom at a medium heat and living room an kitchen nice and cosy. All pipes go into the attic and drop down into...
    Jul 19, 2025
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    Eye had bin int kitchen all afternoon. Planted me seeds. They is ont kitchen window sill. Made meself anuvva batch of mince and veg. Tis currently cooking int slow cooker. Had me tea at lunch time because eye can. Bin catching up on fings ont web...
    Jul 19, 2025
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    Jul 19, 2025
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    Eye is going to try it this year. Eye fink eye recall some make seeds that will wuk. Others dun't. Still going to havva go. Just planted anuvva 19 news seeds
    Jul 19, 2025
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    Might do this year Romanian guy next door says to eat em 🙂 (seeds)
    Jul 19, 2025
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    Normally the down stairs hall is one ov two rads yer leave stat free wivva good flow, to allow the boilerer to dissipate heat when the rooms are up to temp. It allows the boilerer to expell heat after it switches oft, leaving the leccy pump...
    Jul 19, 2025
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    yes, hallway , rad just needs a wet coat on now to finish
    Jul 19, 2025
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    21.6mm ov rain over nite. Collected 700 litres. That wuks out at about 32 square meters collection area. This matches some of the results from the larger rain falls we av had previous which is good. Large result like this makes the loss ov rain...
    Jul 19, 2025
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    Just spray it with water, if it looks fine then, it's the lacquer/clear coat.
    Jul 19, 2025
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    W has just spent time polishing up some dirty silver jewellery that she got from an auction. Just discovered that a kilt pin she bought for £40 is for sale on Etsy for €138.7! Have to admit she is very good at this!
    Jul 19, 2025
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    So cokroches and tratterers dun't want freelanders? Worrabout slugs and ear wigs?
    Jul 19, 2025
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    Yerbut what @Stone56 was getting at, even the lowest forms of life dunt want a Freelander :p
    Jul 19, 2025
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    My 15mm pipe bender doesn't do tight bends, only similar to the one in the picture that's why I thought 10mm pipe would be better, My brake pipe bender does 10mm so pipe should be hidden under the radiator, I'll paint the exposed pipe to match...
    Jul 19, 2025
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    Still not sure worrit was. Eye has seen me squirrels ignore most burds. Sat by em. Landing or taking oft by em. Or flying past em. Even biggerer burds like pigwings. But when maggys are about me squirrels leave me garage roof and go int trees or...
    Jul 19, 2025
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    Magpies? We have some squizzles near work that are plagued by maggies sometimes ...
    Jul 19, 2025
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    Not sure what that valve is there for, temp fitting? while work being done? Personally I would just take it back to the trunking and go from there neatly with 15mm. but then I have a nice pipe bender that could get from the trunking to the rad...
    Jul 19, 2025
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    Searched all of the house, all garments, both cars and a lot of outside. Still couldn't find the key to the polytunnel. So had to take the padlock off with bolt cutters. As everyone knows, we'll find it by buying a new padlock. Cool here...
    Jul 19, 2025
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    I finished the plastering because it wasn't straight Plumber and joiner fitted skirting and radiator on same morning working together I've since replaced the architrave and now replacing skirting and tidying plumbing up
    Jul 19, 2025
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    If yer ain't goranyfink to say, put a post up to tell us. We need to know these fings. ;)
    Jul 19, 2025
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    I'm well cheers. I just don't post very often but I do pop by fairly regularly 😀
    Jul 19, 2025
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    Orizontal bits get hit wiv more sunshine. So more potentual sun damage.
    Jul 19, 2025
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    On my Disco 2, the laquer coat has peeled off massively on the roof. Where I doubt anyone has put any polish on, far too hard to get to. 😜
    Jul 19, 2025
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    Gardener.
    Jul 19, 2025
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    Plasterer or plumber?
    Jul 19, 2025
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    This is the wonderfull job workmen did after plastering the walls 🤔
    Jul 19, 2025
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    Your right I spose I don't like compression joints on show so rather than solder a bend in I was thinking I can get a tighter bend in the micropipe so it looks neater. I also have a part roll of micro pipe in the shed and the rad needs a new...
    Jul 19, 2025
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    Saw that on tinter web, but "er indoors wouldn't let me go :rolleyes:
    Jul 19, 2025
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    Have you got day tickets to Swingerfest?
    Jul 19, 2025
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    Tidied part of me garage this morning to a (very) basic standard and binned some junk. Emptied my box of assorted drill bits yesterday and binned most of them (why I kept knackered bits I don't know). Got under me tratter bonnet this morning and...
    Jul 19, 2025
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    Or cut shortern in the pipe trunking make them both run above the skirting in a neat manner and lift the Rad brackets a few inchs higher. Or just remake the 1 that used to run along the wall from inside the trunking. or just the last bit from the...
    Jul 19, 2025
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