Just checked the garage – don’t have it. Have you tried SLUGS? There is a website – they are very old beardy cavers formerly of LUSS. I don’t know any of them personally but if you are looking for a book of that age they might be able to help.

I’m looking to do similar and am equally clueless, choice is between soundbar or using existing 5.1 speaker set that I got with a Jamo DVR50 all in one package like this: –
http://img.clubic.com/00058349-photo-jamo-dvr-50.jpg

I am just unsure as to whether the speakers and active sub will wire straight into a new AV receiver? Any ideas? Connections on Jamo looked like this: –

http://img.canuckaudiomart.com/uploads/large/164801-jamo_dvr50_receiver.jpg

I’d probably go for one of those Pioneer receivers at Richer Sounds for 130 quid – its got airplay and I don’t need top of the range

I’ve only been on three biking holidays – on two of them 100 Euros a week would have been over paying the guides! Bike Verbier, the guides were the owners and it showed – couldn’t have been better.

Will try BasqueMTB next I think!

Some stoves are suitable for 12mm hearths such as glass, others are not. If it is then the hearth will never get hot enough to crack. Check the spec of your stove to find out. If it is not then it will be material dependent as to whether or not you section the hearth (from a risk perspective)- slate for example is more likely to need sections.

What’s the ball park figure for getting this done please?

I was recommended tubs and loos – think Cheadle or Poynton way. Not yet used them though

Yeah – go in via the sale tab and it works fine. Some serious bargains on lenses if you have radars or M frames already

In an ideal world the position I would like is just the other side of the chimney to where the original dish would have been. Pretty easy in terms of access i.e. ladder against the wall. Stove installer put a cowl on the Chimney pot about three feet away from where I would like the dish and it took him 5 minutes! I know there is more to a dish install but it won’t require any special roof access or such like. I would have no objections to the dish being lower if the signal is as good.

mark d – are your Y fronts a bit tight…

Where did I say I know everything? Just recounting the two local quotes that I received, which in comparison to alani’s £300 job were damned expensive. The kit was detailed on the quotes and I looked it up. Are you suggesting £700 to fit is reasonable?

alani – if you are an installer where are you based please? For the OP, I had two quotes middle of last year for complete new system. It did include more PIRS than you are quoting, 13 I think, but I was quoted not far short of a grand by both. One was wired, replacing existing wires (something about 2 core or 4 core) and the other wireless. Looked both up on web and equipment pretty cheap – perhaps 300 all in with the PIRS. Left 700 quid to fit it which seemed steep to me.

OK – so new wiring likely and drilled through to a place I decide. That’s fine.

I might get to keep the Sky box but it will have no functionality unless I remain a subscriber (flog on Ebay I guess?).

I should be able to buy a Freesat PVR and use the Sky dish that will remain.

That should work for me – thanks for the replies.

no one?

That Focus SAM looked pretty decent to me…and within budget!

Grange City might work for you – cheap at weekends

Royles in Wilmslow got done through the roof a few years back – someone had been in the shop to tape over some sensors apparently. Seem to remember that most bikes were recovered though. Manchester area is not short of monobrows though…

Green doesn’t mean waterproof, just resistant. If water is pooling it will have penetrated the boards – chip. ply or fibre.

I hated the idea but got ‘dragged’ along. Actually pretty good!

Pool can keep kids occupied for hours. It empties out after lunch. First thing (which seems to be 10am) its just horrible. If you have older kids then go to the pool in the evening as well as its a ghost town late on. Most annoying thing is that many of the activities (climbing wall etc) don’t run on change over day. which is the only visible evidence of tight fistedness.

Shop I thought was very reasonable. Accommodation was fine. Off season prices are better but the sites are just as busy, management told us they averaged 97% occupancy throughout the year! Apart from early morning in the pool, it doesn’t feel cramped though.

Really impressed with the staff as well.

That said, I’ve only been to the Penrith site. The new one down south looks great but it comes at a premium.

big plastic bath for the nipper, or sink if that young. Fibreboards up (and I suspect if its floor then it will be chipboard) and replaced as well.

Seems under control if they are bring the calcs to you. The money is owed assuming the numbers stack up but I’d be hinting that they could drop a bunch of flowers over for being so stoopid. To your mum, not you!

I don’t get the “use them or lose them” argument. If my butcher was three times the price for the same thing he can sod off. Its a two way street.

Our local butchers cost more and we use them, but its nearer a 10-15% premium. Supermarket meat, IMO has, bar the odd racehorse, upped its game in the last couple of years (unless you buy the real tat that’s more water than animal)

Sorry to lower this debate to a question but, what would happen if the incident got reported, the dog got put down? Would the owners automatically be banned from keeping dogs? I sense not. Didn’t I hear that dog laws are being tightened up? Anyone know what was included in that proposal?

All that is missing is a bi-plane flying over the ground with a champagne swigging Cook grinning to the crowds…our lot obviously seem to think they are winning for some reason. Has anybody actually told them they’re being stuffed?

Botham in for Stokes
Me in for Prior (I couldn’t play any worse than him)
Broad’s dad in for Broad (or his mum)
A small white duck called Bert in for Swann.

Now let’s play some cricket.

The other issue that affects recycling in this country full of greedy feckers is that no one likes to see someone else making any money out of waste. If a new technology comes to market that can exploit a waste stream that currently costs an arm and leg to dispose of then that should be a good thing.

What happens is that the waste generators see a profit being made and therefore think their waste is suddenly “worth something”. They stop supply or threaten to and demand huge sums for their newly described “feed stock”. This kills the margins and the new technological approach will grind to a halt. Waste generator goes pay to paying landfill fees and grumbles about that too…

You go to places such as Denmark and waste wood for instance is burnt for energy either locally or regionally. The producer gets a fixed price agreed a year in advance, as does the haulage firm as does the user. Everyone makes money, nobody grumbles.

Landfill sites are being actively ‘mined’ now. At least trials are being undertaken. You have to remember the ratio of stuff that was landfilled in the UK 15 years ago – still plenty of potential fuel buried down there! Metals at £150 – £800 per ton as well…

Ask for what you want – its your garden and they want it. There doesn’t have to be a rational valuation. WIll not giving it to them benefit you in other ways? Do you need the space or the cash more? Can they get planning to build on it if you give it to them – is it that big?

if you search on line there is a stove installer manual. Guide for self builds essentially but I seem to remember it talks about issues like these. We have a similar stove, no draw problems but the glass does get dirty regularly, which is easily cleaned but still a tad annoying. The wood we have been using is 5 years old so as dry as will ever be.

Is there a website anywhere? I don’t use FB.

Would make for a good option to avoid all the extra postage costs.

I live in Macc and not heard of him/them.

How much are we talking? What type of company? Is he the only investor or will you need others?

If he is likely to face big tax bills or capital gains himself, he can essentially write off a huge proportion of the money he invests in you as long as you issue ordinary shares and he keeps them for 3 years. You would also have to spend the money quite quickly.

HugeStew hinted at this – its called SEIS. There is also EIS which allows you to raise much more for your business but the terms are less generous for the investor (still bloody good though!).

In certain circumstances, investors using SEIS can actually accrue more than 100% of their investment even if the business fails! You will have to attempt a valuation though to assign the correct / fair level of equity to him. Ignore all the “techniques” though – tell him what you think its worth, let him respond and then agree somewhere in between,

A loan is far simpler!

Obviously not finished the decoration just yet! Organic – really like what you’ve done there!
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brassneck – school gate being traffic access or pedestrian?

Those that say don’t report – is it because of the unadopted nature of the road or general cba? I asked the zig zag question on here some time ago

http://singletrackworld.com/forum/topic/zig-zag-lines-outside-schools

FWIW I reported the lazy fat feckers (having got no where by asking them directly) and had two PCSOs on the gates very soon after. The fattest fool actually parked up on the lines right in front of them before scarpering when he finally clocked the hi viz ( no wonder cyclists get flattened). He got a lecture and a very firm promise that if he tried it again he’d be in bother. He’s never done it again.

So I little bi of effort and agro for me but the kids are a bit safer because of it.

I know Stevenage and Knebworth well so certainly don’t take in the BS on the website about shuttle buses. However, I don’t want to be standing around having bottles of piss thrown at me all day – which was the case at Donnington! I’m getting the impression that Sonisphere is a little better?

The “track between the two”…if one were to inadvertently lose one’s way, where would one stumble upon the beginning of this track, at all times being totally unaware of breaching the righteous and totally appropriate ‘regulations’ concerning the improper use of foot based transportation highways…?

Somafunk – please tell me where your friend lives and how good a lock he has on his barn…

I think my local coppers are too lax on this. We use a T junction from a 30 into a 30 every single day. It has a limited line of sight so you pull out based on what you can see. If traffic was doing 30 then there would never be a problem. The amount of accidents there is stupidly high with near misses a plenty. All because the school mums and arrogant git salesmen think that doing 50-60 is their right.

Seen one enforcement action there in 6 years and they were giving warnings…on a Sunday. Only ever time I’ve seen a camera van was once, outside a school, in plain view. Perfectly fair. The rozzers could make a fortune if they wished, but don’t. I would support them every step of the way if they did.

Its odd to me that these cameras are all over the shop yet my neighbours had their posh Merc stolen off the drive and police said they had no idea where it went. Is this just a case of all thieves having bogus plates with them?

I’ve run out!

dmorts – could be a business opportunity there! Miniaturisation of scrubbing technologies – would have to be driven by regulation though…

globalti – you mean horizontally away from the stove? The fireboard stuff comes right out to the edge of the recess and the stove is essentially ‘inset’. I did ask the installer about the plaster and he reckoned no problems…

I am toying with getting that whole wall skimmed as its a bit ropey. Its not a traditional plasterboard wall, it has a paper type finish on it.

dmorts – I too couldn’t quite understand the conclusions. I think they are implying outdoor air quality. Certainly I can smell ours when I’m outside which I assume means that there are indeed particulates present. Doesn’t seem to be much other information on lifestyles of those who contracted the illnesses?

If I turn off the wood burner, I use more gas and/or electricity. Can’t see that being a win.