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Have you hidden the illegals away there until their status can be rectified?
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Have you hidden the illegals away there until their status can be rectified?
Room for a family of 50Have you hidden the illegals away there until their status can be rectified?
They are hiding in the apartment tonight - keep moving and you're safeHave you hidden the illegals away there until their status can be rectified?
....about you, yesYour “arsthetically pleasing” comments above, explain so, so, many things
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If you get two people your size, they'll never fit in those chairs wobble chops
Hey bro!!!! How the fuck are ya?
Na, can't do as we like here unfortunately but to be honest the house is plenty big enough for the 2 of us. Bigger house bigger costs, more cleaning more maintenance ect.
As for oil and creosote, all the timbers are treated and will last many decades ,
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All Good here, Been in touch with Karl aka "Not Carl Fogarty" and Jen from Spondon... both of them want me to visit them... am still waiting for them to return the favour... I can still remember the little shoe box home you had in Southall London, luckily you had the garage and the only guy to have a bed next to all your bikes and shit...
Edit** So i can be the 1st visitor of 2027 to come over ?? am sure you'll be finished with the renovations this year...
You didn’t tell us you had drafted in some help from a fellow forum member…..
Of course you can but I very much doubt we will be finished by then unless we win the lottery!
So not alot has happened house wise in the last month, too many social engagements.
But I am refocusing and gunna make a start on refurbing the big set of doors a d last 3 sets of windows.
This morning I set up the bifolds to see if everything was there and that they work ok.
We bought them disassembled maybe 2 years back and had never assembled them.
Happy days, everything was there and they work well.
Now I have to decide if I change em so 3 doors fold to one side and 1 door canbe opened on its own. Bit of a faf but doable.
Not sure... dont think they will be too much of a pain in their current set up..
Next up is pull em apart again, strip em back, some minor repairs then paint.
But I am refocusing and gunna make a start on refurbing the big set of doors a d last 3 sets of windows.
This morning I set up the bifolds to see if everything was there and that they work ok.
We bought them disassembled maybe 2 years back and had never assembled them.
Happy days, everything was there and they work well.
Now I have to decide if I change em so 3 doors fold to one side and 1 door canbe opened on its own. Bit of a faf but doable.
Not sure... dont think they will be too much of a pain in their current set up..
Next up is pull em apart again, strip em back, some minor repairs then paint.
They are 900mm wider and 150 higher than the existing set so will open things up nicely.
Just measured the panes of glass
Existing is 1.67 m2 and new is 2.88 so roughly 75% more glass, gunna let in loads more light.
Existing is 1.67 m2 and new is 2.88 so roughly 75% more glass, gunna let in loads more light.
That and Enfield advice!!
Crickey! Nearly 4 weeks since i last updated this.
Not much to report is why... been busy with other stuff. I have managed to get the bifolds stripped back, repaired and nearly painted.
This morning i got a first top coat of semi gloss on the interior side and this afternoon glossed the exterior side. Just one more coat to go on each. I will leave the last coat on the exterior till they are installed, the interior i will finish prior as then all the hardware can go on straight away.
B is off to auckland this weekend so with a bit of luck, i'll get em installed then.
Tomorrow im off to pick up enough cladding to finish the house.
I will not be able to fit it for quite some time but ive found some that will save us a bomb.
Its seconds due to blemishes in the primer and a few dings here and there but its a 3rd of the price of what i was using and is less work as it is pre- primed .
The stuff i was using was also cheap compared to regular retail but this stuff even better.
We talking $3.50 a lineal mtr copared to the $9 we were paying ( for what ive done so far) and if you can find the size we need, its around $20.00 per/mtr.
Given we need 200 mtrs of the stuff its quite a saving. So im gunna grab it while its there and store it.
Not much to report is why... been busy with other stuff. I have managed to get the bifolds stripped back, repaired and nearly painted.
This morning i got a first top coat of semi gloss on the interior side and this afternoon glossed the exterior side. Just one more coat to go on each. I will leave the last coat on the exterior till they are installed, the interior i will finish prior as then all the hardware can go on straight away.
B is off to auckland this weekend so with a bit of luck, i'll get em installed then.
Tomorrow im off to pick up enough cladding to finish the house.
I will not be able to fit it for quite some time but ive found some that will save us a bomb.
Its seconds due to blemishes in the primer and a few dings here and there but its a 3rd of the price of what i was using and is less work as it is pre- primed .
The stuff i was using was also cheap compared to regular retail but this stuff even better.
We talking $3.50 a lineal mtr copared to the $9 we were paying ( for what ive done so far) and if you can find the size we need, its around $20.00 per/mtr.
Given we need 200 mtrs of the stuff its quite a saving. So im gunna grab it while its there and store it.
So i we t and got all the cladding today, 48 lengths at 4.8 mtrs a length.
Ive carried 4.8 mtr lengths on the trailer before but not so many. Trouble is with the boards back far enough from the rear of the car ( for tight turns) there was 2.9 mtrs aft of the center of trailer wheels and only 1.9 in front. Not a problem at all with a small load but it was a lil bit shit with this much.
the trailer is rated for 1200 kg ( but i only go to around 800 as ive had 1200 on it and didnt like it) this load was probably around 500kg max but the weight bias made the tail start wagging the dog at anything over about 70kph.
I found this out on a short stretch of 80kph road. After that was about 5k of 100kph main highway.
So i took a detour up past our @Laava 's place. The road was deserted so i sat on 50kph all the way. Probably added 20 mins to the trip but got it home safe.
Anyhu, ive unloaded half into the lean to and am having a beer break!!
Ive carried 4.8 mtr lengths on the trailer before but not so many. Trouble is with the boards back far enough from the rear of the car ( for tight turns) there was 2.9 mtrs aft of the center of trailer wheels and only 1.9 in front. Not a problem at all with a small load but it was a lil bit shit with this much.
the trailer is rated for 1200 kg ( but i only go to around 800 as ive had 1200 on it and didnt like it) this load was probably around 500kg max but the weight bias made the tail start wagging the dog at anything over about 70kph.
I found this out on a short stretch of 80kph road. After that was about 5k of 100kph main highway.
So i took a detour up past our @Laava 's place. The road was deserted so i sat on 50kph all the way. Probably added 20 mins to the trip but got it home safe.
Anyhu, ive unloaded half into the lean to and am having a beer break!!
I have not.. ive pulled some trailer trash in my time though, does that count?You've never pulled a caravan
I was heading home one sunday after a warehouse party (a rare occurance as it was usually monday by the time I went home those days) on the M6 - infront there was a Range Rover pulling a trailer with a mini digger on it. It started swaying and everyone behind on all 3 lanes started slowing down. Anyway, it flipped the RR on to it's side and I managed to get past just as the wreckage stopped sliding. A dog that was in the RR was runnign about and a woman from the RR trying to catch it...she was more bothered about that that the three people still stuck in the car.
