Which way does the underground drain go? Could you tap into that?

Personal opinion about the pump idea – it’ll look messy, if it fails it’ll be a nightmare and it’ll probably be noisy as well?

The second idea, can you put the drain slightly higher up the wall so you can get some fall on it?

I was in a similar situation a few months back. I’d looked the guy in the eye and shaken his hand so it was his and the higher offer was turned down.

This for me x1000

I’d go with the offer you accepted from second viewers, because I expect the “chancer” to drop their £10k+ over your wanted price after the survey, for things that won’t cost £10k to sort out.

This is very likely to happen!

Don’t bring morals into it

Why not? If I agreed a price with someone then I will stick to that agreement. I asked for x, I got x and I am happy. Its money grabbing people like you who are making the whole house buying shenanigans a whole lot messier and stressful.

Don’t kid yourself that if the tables were reversed they wouldn’t do it to you.

That shouldn’t have anything to do with it. You sound like a 5 year old squabbling in the playground “yeah but miss, he did it first so why can’t I? Its not FAIR!!”

It all depends if you are a man of your word or more akin to something that I need to scrape off the sole of my shoe, with a stick, wearing gloves.

I think that statement should end the thread…. ;)

The plumber sounded expensive compared to what I’d paid recently but if a) they are the only person you can get to do the job, b) they did it right and c) there’s no way you could do it yourself then value for money doesn’t come into it – there is no other choice!

I got 3 days work out of a plasterer for £420 and he said he was going to raise his prices – I actually agreed with him!

Things which are too much for what you get in my experience:

1) Traditional estate agents – why would i pay 4 times the price to someone who would do a worse job than the online company I used?

2) Leaseholding fees to freeholders (£400 for a letter!!!)

3) Vacuum cleaners. £400 for a crappy Dyson? They must have big windows at their head office.

Smallest gear = more torque through frame = more flex in frame = crank hits frame?

Flamethrowers generally shoot some sort of flammable liquid out which is set on fire as it leave the machine – like a hose pipe of petrol which is set on fire after it leaves the pipe. So anything the liquid lands on will basically experience what it’s like to be doused in petrol and set alight.

The weedkillers are really just a powerful gas flame like a cooker jet or blowtorch.

Honda Jazz. Can get a road bike in with both wheels on no problem. MTB’s even less of an issue.

Although a Jazz isn’t that cool I see a lot more younger people driving them now as they are cracking cars and weirdly big inside for luggage/bikes.

Ive got some FSA k wing carbon bars that I love – i think I had the same issue as you and hunted high and low until I found the K wings which are just amazing.

Stealth ad too – might be selling them!

Just go to your local bolt stockists. They’ll have what you need for a few pence. I use Danlett in Huddersfield.

The problem is that putting a bike in most normal cars with both wheels on is more difficult than taking the front wheel off. I’ve tried it several times, it’s quite hard to drag it into the back. You need a high roof line as you can’t easily turn the bars too.

Most normal cars it’s just too much hassle – get an MPV type car and it’s easier but until you can just wheel it in I wouldn’t bother.

Front wheel off you can put a bike into most cars – it’s not as if it’s hard to remove the front wheel nowadays, no brake to release etc. Just pop the axle out and it just falls out.

When I ride BMX the one thing I always was told to do was give yourself an aim. Try to find a small bit of pavement or different colour tarmac or white line you want to manual the length of. Start at 5 or 10 metres and go up from there. Gives you something to aim for.

PM sent!

I am the (currently) tubby one on a Genesis TDF with flat bars, my wife has a very very small Spesh Vita.

Touring style more than anything else (pannier with sandwiches, bar bags etc). :)

Pies. That’s your answer.

And chips.

Never known any massage techniques that have done anything but make the area considerably more painful.

Had to be heated a fair bit and regularly and lightly massages and it worked a treat. Benefit of a good physio who knows their stuff!!

Huddersfield – but if he was in Sheffield I’d travel there!!

They might feel more quality but the reliability of VAG group cars is waaaay overstated… They might have been better in the 80’s and 90’s but it seems every broken down car I see on my commute is either a VW or Audi nowadays.

There were no, repeat no, midges there a fortnight ago.

That’s when we were there! We might have said hello to each other at some point on the bikes….

The locals were saying that the midges were due the weekend we were going home. Not sure how they know that but I think they were spot on from what I’ve heard the last week or two.

Some great quotes from him….

Comedian David Baddiel shared a story from a meeting with Stringfellow, writing: “He had a sense of humour beyond the haircut. I asked him what he’d be doing if he hadn’t ended up running strip clubs. He said: ‘Two words: benefit fraud’.”

I’d second the home joinery business – many more people buying kitchens etc online and need them fitting. You don’t need many thousands of pounds of kit to do it. More essential is returning calls/turning up in my experience….

You could do all sorts of finishing joinery as well as outdoor – fencing etc, maybe branch out into your own fitted furniture as well?

I was up there a couple of weeks ago and did 2 of the rides that were in a Scottish Forestry comission leaflet, they were excellent. Sort of rocky fire road/normal road mix but excellent scenery and I’d do them again.

https://scotland.forestry.gov.uk/images/pdf/rec_pdfs/MidArgyllCyclingLeaflet.pdf

If you look on Strava there seems to be sections people have ridden in the area but we needed something that our touring bikes would cope with.

I’m wearing a black thong in mourning

Bold choice for a funeral, but everyone grieves in their own way I suppose.

3: Ice is good/NSAID’s bad

4: dont even think about anyone prodding it unless you want pain x 10. IME massage/poking/rubbing just made things worse.

5: Did I mention ice?

good luck, it can be debilitating…

This is competely opposite to my experience and advice from the physio who treated me successfully.

He said Heat up and gently massage the Achilles – this did wonders for the scar tissue (might not be right term- painful bumps basically) I had and they were reduced after a few days and pretty much all gone after a few weeks.

Ice reduces swelling but heat allows things to move better and increase the range of movement.

Right – I have some good news!

I was referred to a private physio by my work as it was impacting on work. Thankfully we have a different provider now so I got some excellent care.

After a long first session of tests the physio found that as I had a weak right leg. Basically I damaged both Achilles – the left one got better quickly but the right didn’t. As a result he thinks I’d been favouring that leg for so long to reduce the pain it had been underused and become weaker. I could definitely tell very easily that I couldn’t do the exercises he was giving me on my right leg even half as well as my left.

He gave me exercises to strengthen the leg and to also re-learn my tolerance to pain in the affected area. He said that Achilles exercises alone wouldn’t work which was very true!

So after 4 sessions and putting in a lot of work myself I’m pretty much sorted and have ridden quite a bit on holiday and hoping to start running again.

I think this is a warning to people who try to self-diagnose. I would never have found out myself that this was the issue, and could have done long term damage if I went down the wrong path. I’ve had a similar experience with a damaged neck too.

I would say if you are treating the issue as soon as it happens the internet research and exercises based on that might be much better than waiting weeks for an NHS physio and worth a try before you pay for one. However if you’ve had the issue for months or years you need to see a good physio who will treat the problem at its source and correct all the issues which exacerbate the problem.

Unfortunately not all physios are good. Out of the 7 I have seen over the years only 2 treated the root cause of the issue to eliminate the problem, the other 5 treated the symptoms so the issue was relieved for a while then came back (I have a 10 year long story about my neck which I won’t bore you with!).

The best physio I went to I would gladly pay the £50 a session fee myself for the wonders they did with me.

I’ll be losing the diesel in my household soon. Replaced with a petrol hybrid.

Hopefully this will will offset the 18mpg my other car gets around town. 😁

The only one I’ve ever seen mentioned as different (after doing lots of research on various sites) is the BMW own brand rails which seem to take a different T track shape but you can buy new bolts for bike holders so you can mix and match if you have BMW rails.

I am always proud of my parents in that we always (and continue to do so) were treated the same as each other. If they couldn’t afford for the whole family to have something then no one had it – we had a next door neighbour who used to feed their kids sausages and fish fingers while they had steak or salmon!

i don’t have kids myself but if I did I would certainly make sure they sat with me on a flight, no matter what their ages were.

Disgusting sexist un-professional behaviour.

And also completely untrue.

The patch does indeed function as a pocket, but we’re not sure what one would actually put in there.

I am there must be an obvious answer to this…..

Osmo oil for sure. That’s what’s on mine!

Coat them with 2 coats before installation and all edges as they are cut. I helped my joiner so I was able to do them all as they were cut.

I used the matt oil and it gave a really nice finish. I did read some info on the Internet not to put it on too thickly, I wiped it on with a lint free cloth twice and it seemed to be ok but it turns out I did it a little too thinly.

I also used 400 grit sandpaper to very very lightly sand the surface then gave another coat, that gave a really smooth finish.

Osmo oil is great as it doesn’t smell as bad as tung oil and dries pretty quick. It’s easy to put on as a maintenance cost later too

I have to say I’ve not used my jigsaw for a while. I’ve been renovating a whole house (new electrics/plaster/plumbing/building work/kitchen/bathroom) and the only time a jigsaw was used was when I got a chippy to come and install my oak worktops and he used his own!

I have a small circular saw which I’ve used a lot and use small handsaws for intricate jobs.

Don’t bother then, just use paper!

**** tory bastards.

No, it’s the 21st century.

That Voodoo looks ace for the money.

Google sheets works exactly the same as Excel. I imported a complex Excel SS into Sheets and it worked fine, including the pivot tables etc.

I love it as my files won’t get deleted, I can access them on any computer and on my phone too. Brilliant.

Also, in winter time and when it’s wet, these steps are going to be lethal.

if you think they will be lethal you need to stick to a road bike then.

This is the root cause of the illegal behaviour

Rubbish. Saying how other people have treated them is like saying “hey it’s ok that he shot someone cos he was bullied at school”. One does not follow the other.

They could chose to move to sites and when they get moved on leave it tidy. They could choose to be an asset to the local community still. Maybe then they would be welcomed. But no, they CHOOSE (they aren’t forced to, they have plenty of options) to vandalise, litter and rob the places they stay, intimidate, then con and abuse the people around those sites.

And this is why they get away with it – people picking fault with any action someone wants to take against them. OK the hitler comment might be a bit far but I bet they are all laughing nowadays as they can paint themselves as a persecuted minority like LGBT/BAME/disabled/religious groups when in reality they are nothing like them and certainly don’t deserve any special treatment.

Roma groups are ok and you’d probably never see them, the scum that are the “travellers” make themselves out to be some sort of glamorous old fashioned community but they are just criminals who have used violence and intimidation, along with some legal loopholes in our society to basically do whatever they want.

Made an unbelievably strong wood bench 4m long for £60. Made it myself out of wood. Easy!

Isn’t that just normal damage you’d get from a chain coming off? I’ve got similar damage on my bikes, both side too from hitting logs etc

Sexist as well as racist…

Are you saying men cant wear petticoats and knickers? You’re assuming he meant women. You need to take a long hard look at yourself mate. ;)