Speaking as a honky white man I find it OK.

Is this the “ugly bike” thread renamed?

Good job they aren’t based in Scunthorpe.

Klien Mantra

Hmmm, the man from building regs wouldn’t be happy with a couple of the pics in your link Dobbo.

Funny thing was, when he came round to do ours I don’t think he had done a regs for an individual before, most people don’t bother or get a HETAS install. I was telling him what to look at, “There’s the install plate, no vent hole require less than 5Kw….” I’d looked so much into it I knew it all backwards by the end. He signed it off and made a sharp exit.

I got the flue and bits from here Fluesystems[/url] Loads of places do the stoves online for competitive prices, try to get your local places to come close to them, I took mine away the same day so no delivery for them to worry/charge.

The prices we had to line the chimney with cement or to for a flexible liner were horrendous.

I bonded with my house, roof, chimney and stove the day I fitted it. 😆

They’d have to offer me £100 voucher to come back to them and for me to recommend them. Please Email it to dobbo@dobbomail.com.

I find merlin are good now, plus the free sign up thing on the front page gives 10% off and delivery was quicker than CRC has been recently, there are other companies to try!

All stove installations now come under building control, the following will give the basics for stove requirements. It is not intended to be a complete explanation and if in doubt reference should be made to ‘The Building Regulations 2000 Approved Document J Combustion Appliances and Fuel Storage Systems 2002 Edition’ or the building control department of your local council.

I did mine myself, took the old open fire out bought the flue and connectors on internet for a good price, got the stove from a local showroom who price matched (they thought I was going to buy the flue as well I think). I fitted it with my next door neighbour in one day with a hired roof ladder. Easy to do and I got the building inspector round and got building regs on it. The only other cost was some beer and the cost of the meal we cooked our neighbours!

The roof parts a bit jiggery pokery taking the chimney off, but I re cemented the ridge tiles down while I was up there, a nice job to do all-round.

As far as I’m aware you defo do need regs or HETAS cert from about 2000.

Here’s WWTJS

10 years time they’ll probably all be working for ‘The Man’ worrying about the kids, money worries, mortgage round their necks, no free time….they should play it back to them then 😆

MM thats as funny now as the first time it was done about 10 years ago, and the way it brings up all those US bike sites will no doubt help the OP out no end. Where as edhornby’s site is UK and specific to what he is looking for and may not come up high on google searches, who would have thought that you could get better info by asking here than googleing.

I know nothing about guitars except I like what comes out of them I, yours does look sweet as a nut though.

Was it the pleccy?

I shall resist willy waving about my view though

TBH I hadn’t noticed it until you mentioned it. 8)

Hope the edited pics help!

It’s pretty easy.

Dig down about 18 inches, add half decent soil, kill weeds, walk on a bit, lay turf, the water it a lot regularly. We did our in Autumn so it’s just hard first cut and not been walked on much since laid.

Before

After

Not Nirvana related but these are a good loud new band that I’ve just got into.

The Scars MySpace

TBH, nothing surprises me these days, like you say scum.

Got a bit of the mad Torie Amos thing going on.

I think the BBC just made a mistake and showed last week’s episode again

Probably* just seemed like last weeks show because he kept repeating his same annoying catchphrases chief.

* I didn’t watch it I managed about 10 mins of the 2nd show before I gave up on it, shame it seemed to have potential.

Program just started on Radio 4 about what’s the future in the UK of nuclear for those interested.

The most obvious one Holding out for a hero by Bonnie Tyler.

This is interesting from CNN. Probably better watching the link in larger window.

Catholicism, Islam, Judaism, C of E etc. all bollox, I don’t even need to put IMO because it’s fact 😆

racist 🙄 Be fair now everyone hates the english except the english who are too self absorbed and stupid to realise this

TBH most English on here hate the English and are so sickened by the present government, the last government, probably the next government, the people, the place, the attitude, the land, the music………. it’s a big burden for most English to carry 😆

@nick, yeah guess you’re right, the Nazi EDL halfwits will assume that people actually support the terrorist bomber halfwits on the other side, and so it goes.

All sides have their extremists funnily enough, the only difference is the EDL don’t have the brains to start blowing up buses and tubes yet…..

That was worth going for a look…..

The forums got a Liftman, what are the chances of that. 😆

Probably dialled in and changed the settings in the lift PLC, the modem will probably have a PIN on it though.

What’s the new line for?

It’s not a bubble, it’s a lot of open minded people doing their best for a better future.

That’s good providing you’re open minded about nuclear as well. How big would the solar & wind farms be to power some of the larger cities in the world, plus all the transport and infrastructure behind them? Most self-sufficiency areas are just micro in comparison I expect.

Nuclear in the wrong hands or not used properly = BAD!!!!!!!!!! PANIC PANIC PANIC

HTH (Pre rolly eyes) 😆

I’d look forward to reading the ‘what went wrong’ report in a couple of years, if I didn’t think that the japanese nuclear industry are going to whitewash it

Depends on what part of what went wrong you are most interested in, the part that made them decide to build it on low level ground facing the ring of fire earthquake and Tsunami risk. Or the part that the backup systems failed, which I suppose is related to the first point.

Dobbo wrote:

fairly unlikely

Hopefully if there’s a likely hood of it happening and the UK being hard hit it will be taken in to account, maybe you should email BNFL and advise them to watch the program!

There was a program about the world being hit by a meteorite a while back where do you stop…

Nuclear power is one of the few viable alternatives to fossil fuel in my book and this will set the cause back a long way.

+1 Lessons can be learnt but rational must be maintained, the causes of what’s occurring in Japan are fairly unlikely in the UK and most or Europe!

Call in Andy Armstrong.