I am sure that you have found the two year extension of the PD distances. Single storey extensions 3m=>6m for attached. 4m=>8m for detached.
Assuming that you are not in special area etc. The two storey lengths are unchanged.

Some councils (like Guildford) have a formalized chargeable process for the quick informal chat.
Guildford’s website for planning is very good and you can find out what properties have planning – when they were approved etc.
The only thing they dont do well (unlike Spelthorne) is clearly show the “we like this – we dont like that” photos which could save you a bunch of time.

Although bloke in our office had to take Guildford to appeal (and won with all costs) for them not following their own rules and guidlines.

DC Rainmaker put up a review of the new GoPros today lots of geeky info

You are using a C2W bike to actually cycle to work – Thats your problem right there :-)

The battery pack is likely to be a NiMH rather than a Li_Ion
Component Shop is always good for that kind of stuff.
Highter capacity packs are available for a bit more, but this should still give you an increase in run time.
This would work with your old charger.

If you do want to go with Li-Ion from Smudge or whoever then you would have to get a new charger also. but the Li-Ion pack would be much lighter. I have an old NiMH Lupine bottle battery and it weights about a kilo on its own.

Think about where your buyer is likely to come from, the agent should have offices where the buyerer is coming from
we were pretty sure that our buyer would come from out of area.
We guessed our buyers would likely come from a flat somewhere closer into london and move out to somewhere to a bigger house with a fast train station.
one of the few things estate agents can do is to introduce a buyer to an area that they had not thought of. Zoopla will only show you areas that you have asked to see.

Have to agree to the pathetic build construction of Lumies

We have a Philips now which is LED and I hope will deal with the dimming better than incandesant.
It is just a single colour white one.

Also look out for the type that is just a mains powered alarm clock but provides an extension plug for you to plug in your normal bedside light, and almost any other bedside light will be better looking than one of the SAD lights.
Ours did die after a couple of years but was fairly inoffensive while it worked.

Phillips ones have 2 year warantee

Also, If you have had a job in the uk since April that was PAYE you would have been paying tax direct from your payslip at a rate that assumes that you were going to stay for the whole year , if so you can get a refund.

So your earnings in the UK for this tax year (between April 2014 and March 2015) was only what you earnt April2014-Oct2014. This may or may not be a big amount depending on how you fall in the tax brackets. Probably best case is earning £20k and working 6 months of the year as your earning for the year would be less than the personal allowance so you would get all of your income tax back.

New Isla bike in garage for next weekends 6th birthdy :-)

I am hoping that by the time they are 12 they will
a – still be riding
b- the required components will come from my “too nice to throw away – too cheap to sell” box.
Sounds like a good but unappreciated fork would solve your problem – £50 marzocchi or something. If its unridden by the time to sell the bike comes, then put the orignal fork back on.
http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/marzocchi-forks/111485192979?_trksid=p2047675.c100005.m1851&_trkparms=aid%3D222007%26algo%3DSIC.MBE%26ao%3D1%26asc%3D20140122125356%26meid%3Db668e87504fd4cfe84aff2bbd60fdb86%26pid%3D100005%26prg%3D20140122125356%26rk%3D2%26rkt%3D6%26sd%3D271637119983&rt=nc

I charge my batteries with an Accucel 6. This is a decent hobby charger which can do all the battery types at what ever charge rate you like – up to 5 amps and gives you a charge/discharge capacity so you can check the life remaining in your cells.

If I do let them charge overnight – I set the charge current low that they are just about to finish charging by the time I leave for work.
Or if I am in the garage I can set them at 1C so they are done in an hour or so.

I have to say my BiL place in Malapascua philipines

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It def a beach resort type affair sand island 1 mile long – no roads no cars etc.

Then travelling around for the culture part – rice terraces up north are great but I might be inclined to travel via Hong Kong and jump into China to have a look around there

Truk is micronesia – a good distance away.
All a bit american, live-aboard call “Agressor” etc

Editt – too slowwwww :(

I dont get the shutting down thing – that makes not sense.
Is he also confusing it with heat pumps which are often linked to underfloor heating.

If it is working at the moment then fine, but as the floor will have a much larger thermal mass than a radiator it will take longer to heat up. you might find in winter that it looses so much temp when the system is off it cant heat up in the two hours you have the heating on in the morning.
A better controller is a thermostat timer that does not simply turn the boiler on or off but allows you to selct a lower night temperature which probably means your boiler is off for most of the night but when there is a really cold night then it kicks in and stops the floor getting too cold so it has a chance to warm up in the morning

N

Well if she is a Cilvil engineer that would explain alot :-)

Ask her how deep patio foundations should be when the soil type has variable consistency.

Component Shop
http://www.componentshop.co.uk/12v-2600mah-compact-aa-nimh-battery-pack.html

10*AA @ £14.20

I have just realised the flaw in my master plan – how do you deal with actual added value – like extensions and re-builds etc.
:cry:

You have never heard of it because I am not in charge yet :-)

But maybe we need some kind of big change to stop your home being seen as some great cash cow. If the average house price in London is 450k+ and prices go up 10% in a year, that is 45grand “earnt” tax free ~75grand gross.
which is double the average national salary. That cant be right or sustainable.

The bit that the wealth tax completely misses it that it suggests that people want to spend that money and its optional like buying a Ferrari. I dont want to spend that money, I need a house for my family reasonably close to acceptable schools and work. They are expensive and I will have a huge mortgage and no spare money to pay a mansion tax.

I would happily give back anything that I have “earnt” through my home appreciationg in value if the same was done to the value of the home that I want to buy.

To that end I would support a 50% Capital gains tax on ALL houses which would cost me more making this current move, and really hurt the people who have not moved in 40 years, but It would almost completely remove the cost of relocating to a new job moving to a like for like house.
And even if you just started talking about introducing that tax – everyone who was sitting in a big house they have been in for decades would downsize asap which would free up the market further.

Top work Mr Lummox
:-)

I stopped for lunch here

http://www.kingsleyvillage.com/

on the way down to cornwall and they were advertising a 3+ for £240 ish (£100 off).
When I say advertising, there was a laminated A4 sign stuck to the wall half way up the stairs. I dont know how that compares to the ebay shops, but at least there is a known phyiscal shop to get back to if anything goes wrong.

The building housed a few shops, I assume it was the electronics one, but did not find the GoPro display.

http://www.blatchat.com/t.asp?id=222497

There was a bulk buy of some laser cut titanium grilles a while ago – Site is members only posting but you should be able to send a blatmail to the bloke who organised it.

I have a large Dixon sitting in my garage waiting for Mr UPS to deliver some pikes from France.
The medium is a better looking frame than the large – I dont like the seatpost/brace arangement.
14kg does not seem too bad with some real tyres and normal components.

PS I am 6 foot and think I have the right size but only riding it will tell

Rosebikes do some of the shimano sub-component spare type stuff – dont know if they do exactly that bit though.

I recon there is enough fibre there to light up you commuter like a TRON bike :D

Looking forward to photos

Cheers

Its the sitting in the sun with a cold beer that causes the requirement for excercise :D

I am kicking myself I did not take the bike to Spain earlier in the year when I had the foothills of the Pyranese to play with, I might have to pack some skinny tyres and do a few hilly intervals instead :cry:

Yes

If dangle screw is too far in – mech is too far back – reduced wrap on casette.
Wind screw out (more visable thread at head end) to let mech swing forward.
I found that it worked better and better until it did not change down from the biggest sprocket, then I knew I had gone too far.

He could try a Renthal ring. They are plain teeth, without gear change cutouts or thick/thin. I am using them on a 2*9 and 3*9 and they are fine. I dont expect to change between chainrings while under power so have not really found them worse changing gear.

Although if the 10speed chain is a little narrower it might hold onto the chainring a little more which would not help changing gear.

We have it in our house – its good and bad.
It works, warms house quickly great for drying clothes infront of a vent, no radiators etc.

There is also no thermal mass like a radiator so it cools down quckly.
Ours is quiet as mounted to concerete floor.

I think the big leccy bills comes from the fact there is no way to use the gas to heat the water so all hot water is electric immersion.

However it is difficult to control as there are no thermostatic vents, and as ducting to the vents heat up they “chimney” the hot air along those ducts so they get hotter. This means that it wont heat the floor the boiler is on. Hot air cannot be persuaded to go up to ceiling height, along a bit and then down again.

We offered 5K less than asking when buying.
We are looking at quotes of £8+ to replace with a standard system.
1 – to get heat downstairs
2 – to remove an obsticle to buying should we decide to sell.

N

Just back from Spian – 1000+ miles each direction (mostly in France obvs)

Yes driving standard pretty good – The Belgians are mostly crappy drivers.
The only thing did take a while to get used to was they expect you to move out really early to overtake something slower – If you dont put out they assume it is fine to waft along 1mph faster than you. – dont think it was deliberate as all the locals pulled out waaaaay before I would.

They do have a minimum speed limit and lorries are banned from overtaking cars (/other lorries?) in some places.

N

PS first day back at work today and I got TWO PUNCTURES on the way to work!!!!

By removing the 17t you have moved all the bigger sprockets closer to the mech.
If you put a washer between your derailer and the frame this will regain some of the lost space.
Rear mech spacing relative to casette is also a function of the width of the dropout. There was a recent post here from Brant who said that SRAM were basing there rear mechs on 6mm dropouts so would not reach smallest sprocket if used on a 5mm dropout.
I bet that slider is steel – and probably slimmer than an alloy dropout.

(might have been 6mm and 7mm but you get the idea)

I think that the Vicks Nasal Spray that Alan Baxter took was from an American pharmacy that had a different ingredient to the British version.

from Wiki
A few days after his return home, Alain discovered that he had failed a drug test. His sample contained a trace amount of levomethamphetamine, an levorotary isomer of the banned stimulant methamphetamine. Although levMethamphetamine had no significant stimulant properties, he was sanctioned by the IOC. Following an unsuccessful appeal, Baxter was disqualified and told to return his medal. The Alpine bronze was then awarded to Austrian Benjamin Raich. Baxter later proved the source of levMethamphetamine was from a Vicks inhaler that he had used in the United States. He had been unaware that the contents were different from those found in the UK version. The International Ski Federation accepted his explanation and banned him for the minimum of 3 months.
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Don’t know why you are pumping with core out?

I would fit valve + nut + core
Try to pump up.
When tyre seated, or nearly
Let down
Remove core
Fill milk
Re inflate.

I just bought the 2412 version of the monitor OP linked
It is the one with 1200 lines
very happy with it and compares favourably to two Dell 20″ 1200 line monitors that I have at work.
The little sound bar that clips under the screen is also good

Tile the floor
It is just soooo much better than paint
I got a pile of footsquare tiles from Wickes and three bags 25kg floor tile cement. All for £70 for a large single garage.
Its holding up really well including parking a car and using a trolley jack etc.
Somthing like this £7.58 / 9 tiles = 1m2

here

recent thread about bahco ? from Amazon

I didnt crash into the tree, I was falling off well before then, I just hit the tree before I hit the ground.
Dislocated shoulder and fractured it in two places. :cry:
I didnt even have anything to show for it until the MRI

Heard somthing similar but they only got the Isle of Sheppy, they ran aground on their third lap of the island.

I was up at Tarbert earlier in the year, there is some lovely sailing to be had round that area, but what are you going to do with the boat?
Do you want to cruise down the loch for lunch and back – is there somewher decent to eat 2 hours * 5knots away?
Re – moorings, you have to be really sure that you will be needing to use the boat *alot* to make it worthwhile.
For occasional use, something you can put on a trailer is much cheaper to keep, and keep in good condition, but of course it is much more hassle to put in the water so you never use it.

A drascombe lugger would be an OK place to start looking, can be had for £4k – easy to sail – space for a small outboard to help you out – fits on a trailer.

ps mooring comments based on southcoast prices -may be much less of an issue up there.

Depends where they are putting the endoscope

I had one inside my knee and I am bloody glad I had more than a throat spray.

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How was L’escala peak season?
Have been lots to Punta Montgo, but always out of / end of season.
Driving out this year begining August

should be fun but be “interesting” to see how crowded it is

Nick