Thanks for the input everyone.

I’m not a statistician but i’d say thats a pretty convincing lean towards induction (unless gas aficionados are a just quiet bunch)

Think i’m going to get an induction but leave my gas supply in place is till i’ve given it a couple of months.

Now just which one……….

Thanks everyone, the gas pipe actually runs down the outside wall so that would be one benefit if we could remove it.

just don’t want to make a costly mistake!

can you use le creuset style pans on them?

thanks @sofaboy73, guess i’m off to the bank then :(

thanks @5lab

oh no it was 100% an existing issue before i bought the house, can’t / wouldn’t try to prove otherwise. Its only come to light after removing the cladding. Only a hypothteical question as to whether its covered.

Can’t give any specific info on grade of steel that was used but judging by the other bodges i’m uncovering along the way it was probably shite. Think the trouble is that its boxed in by that cheap plastic shiplap cladding and the wind drives the rain up under it so the steels have probably been damp after rain for years

1) why wasn’t it rust-proofed in the first place? – if it was built in accordance to building regs it would be
https://nhbc-standards.co.uk/6-superstructure-excluding-roofs/6-10-light-steel-framing/6-10-7-steel-and-fixings/ (this reg might have been added since your extension was built, who knows?)

2) how long have the steels been in water for them to have completely rusted away? Steel (especially of the thickness required for structural work) takes years and years to rust through – I think there’s a question of whether correct maintenance was adhered to (ie not allowing a leak to persist for years), mitigating the impact of a water leak

Extension was built in the 80’s. I’ve owned house for 4 years. I only found out as i had to remove cladding to reseal the edge of a window that started leaking over the weekend.

I’m happy to put right but would rather not sink several k out of my savings only to find out its somthing that would be covered on the insurance had i claimed.

its a F45Ti and i’m just outside Brighton

Can you not just use it as is? To be honest I have a F35pro from 2010 which is still fine, how old is yours ma I ask.

i guess you need to get it flat, glue and then weights on top of it.

Sadly it ripped half way down the front edge. so its now in two complete pieces.

Can you not just use it as is? To be honest I have a F35pro from 2010 which is still fine, how old is yours ma I ask.

i guess you need to get it flat, glue and then weights on top of it.

We churn out a large amount of content using freelance writers. Even though we have strict policies around licensing,  good royalty free images are often hard to find so people in a bind occasionally google/copy. Thus we’ve had a fair few of these over the years.

as far as I’m aware there is some legal president but we generally remove the image and ignore. Not had one follow up as of yet.

However, IANAL and all that

Also if i know there is asbestos in the house i would feel obliged to say if selling. Even though the last vendor possibly neglected to do so.

Should be safe enough and the older stuff is encapsulated so why disturb it?

Knock the peaks and loose stuff off with a scraper (does a stalactite have a peak?), there’s no need to make it smooth. A decent plasterer will be able to skim that. You are potentially spending a fortune needlessly

Part of the reason is the lounge had a leak and a big section is knackered, the rest of the ceillings are pretty gash too. We had 4 plasterers quote and they all recommended overboarding.

The lighting circuit has some very dodgy junction boxes and the current lighting is in the wrong place or just plain wierd. – i’d like to add some downlights and rewire it which will involve cutting through the old artex.

Its a bungalow with a room in the roof and there is no insulation between the floors so it solve that i either have to take the ceiling down or the floor up.

Will make life easier in some respect if they go.

No you cut the board and you add a taper with your plasterboard rasp.

Ahh good info! was wondering what you do with the non-tapered joins

Skip the lining paper Bodgetastic. No reason you should see screw holes after you have done your taping.

Just so its clear in my head you should tape over the screws too,  not just fill?

I’ve seem some vids where people use scrim tape for the tapered edge then another tape that looks like masking tape for other parts

do you fill, sand the tape over the screws too?

Taper edge is OK so long as your room is a full number of taper edge boards high and wide. As soon as you have to start cutting boards down then your method might run into issues

Its not unfortunately but the majority of joints will be the tapered edges – not sure what to do with the butt ends

where they essentially cut out sockets with an axe? yes makes me wonder how any tradies got throug the 50’s and 60’s the all body parts and lungs intact.

The american way is just that – taper edge board, tape the edges, and ‘mud’ them then rub down smooth.

yes seems to be a very trans-altantic divide in techniques

also wondered what do they mean by mud? is it actual plaster or something like easy-fill?

Thanks all

When i bought house ceilings were tested for asbestos and negative. however since moving in i’ve discovered they are all overboarded with older asbestos positive artex underneith 😡

I’m not messing about with it and so got a removal company coming in next week. Also not prepared to overboard for a third time and leave it for the next owner.

Anyhow thats somewhat depleated my budget.

100% getting a pro in to skim them eventually but thought in the short term filling might look nicer.

Just don’t want the plasterer to turn up later on and go “oh mate, you shouldn’t have done that!”

Couldn’t work out from youtube vids if people were only filling before painting directly or you could skim over.

Another thing i’ve learned is boards run perpendicular to the joists and need to stagger the joints right?

I’m guessing there are more details there. Was the something a reasonable something or a highly inflammatory (to a 6 year old) something?

I’ve been told they were all playing a game where everyone gets a role, he didn’t like his and was playing up.  He was then told it was his turn to be what ever it was and tough luck  – this was the catalyst.

I’m sure that like every parent you think your own is perfect, but I would put it to you that a 6-year old is an unreliable witness. As Jon suggests, the four Fs apply here – First Find the Blinking Facts. For all you know your lad was the instigator, had been tormenting the other kid for weeks until that kid lost his rag and lamped him one. Then your kid comes running back to his parents, “Harry hit me!”

It was told to us by the teacher. I only said i didn’t have all the facts as it was relayed to my wife not me directly and i’ve not had a chance to ask either the teacher or my boy. But for the record he is perfect.

The story as presented isn’t implausible either, of course. We had one at school when I was around that age, he liked to kick. He’d run up to you, punce you one in the shin and run off. What if anything happened ultimately I don’t know, point is that some kids are little shits.

its plausable because its what happened. I love the way you’ve gone straight from him getting hit in the face to being a little c-unit that deserved a good shoeing :)

By not reacting, he will have done exactly as he’s been taught I would assume.

correct, i mean he should have blocked it!

find a kindly old Japanese chap who needs some free labour to have his collection of classic cars polished and fences painted.

I will however be speaking to his karate teacher about some ROI for the last two years of lessons!

Thanks all. I was assuming nothing would be the best response.

I’ve just not been in that situation so wasn’t really sure what should happen.

My son seems fine and so as long as the school raise the issue (which i have no doubt they will) i’m happy.

My wife is a little bit more emotional about it than me.

I agree that boys will be boys and rough play happens but its my understanding that my son said somthing he didn’t like and he just ran over and walloped him in the face – which is slightly different in my book.

I think its happened before just not to my son.

Well it sound like the parents aren’t going to be much good/take on any advice so give your son a pair of bombers and let him rip.

yup sure my dad would have just told me to hit him back twice as hard next time but i’m not sure that kind of advice is still “current” or advisable these days (or ever).  :)

Anything I’m missing ?

Punch down tool for the wall plate

RJ45 plugs and crimp tool if you are going straight to the router/switch.

Are you burying the cable or clipping to the wall? if its a short run i’d just get the best quality shielded cable you can so you dont have to  do it again. I’d also be tempted to double up

Presumably they know an alternative fitter who would be able to install on a day rate?

They do and we have met him and would happily use him however understandably  he doesn’t want to get involved until we have agreed a resolution

So, just to be clear, did you commission the window fitting company and the “joiner” separately? Or did commission the window fitting company who then commissioned a joiner of their choice?

just one contract with the window replacement company.

They then get the windows made. We had no dealings with the joinery firm until it went fubar.

the joiners don’t do installs or non-trade work apparently.

(however, we only got in contact with the joiner as the window guy had dissapeared and they have been very helpful – I think they are embarassed to  have their name associated with this they are sending someone to do a proper set of drawings/measurments FOC which they don’t normally get involved in. As they are the main firm in the area i imagine  they will end up making a replacment anyway and they have offered a discount should this happen. The windows themselves were good quality. This leads me to further believe the window fitter has cocked up the measurements.)

it’s imperative to run a tape over what you have before ripping out the existing.

you’d have thought right? especially if you are going to smash the old one to pieces.

its not even a couple of mm out either you can fit your hand through the gap each side where its supposed to butt up to the wall.

One of the companies suggested they could repair the original window it by cutting out the rotten pieces and splicing new timber in but we all decided to bite the bullet and get a whole new window as a future proofing excersise, so its annoying as we kind of wanted it to be near perfect.

before he ghosted us he was trying to blame the joiner for making it to the wrong spec but the joiner was saying he made it exactly to the drawings, i tend to believe the joiner as they are quite a well known and respected company locally. I’ve not seen these drawing because as i explained to him its not really my problem.

If he comes back and sorts it all out then we are happy to give him the money. We’ve never insinuated even once that he wouldnt get paid. However this latest tactic give me reason to believe it might not pan out like that.

thanks for the advice

Thank you, think my wife has been watching too many trashy programmes where they come in and leave with the TV 😂

Thanks everyone, i’ll do some research on those suggestions.

Once where is sorted i just have to deal with when and how :)

@andykirk the Instructor last week told me they ski on the glacier till July in les Deux Alpes.

Thanks Aidy. Thats what i hoped – i only opened the account in march so rate is ok – seemed a hassle to have to open a brand new account for this year.

I did read that MSE link previously but was still unclear.

Hi snow folks

Just got back from  Deux Alpes.  Family holiday with my wife kids (5 and 7) – was their first time on skis . I can ski ok (ish) We were there since good friday and as mentioned above had a mix of pretty good conditions apart from the wind.

I loved it but in hindsight it wasn’t the right resort for us. We went on a recommendation, coupled with the reassurance of gaurenteed snow.

ESF to be fair were brilliant but we had a couple of problems.

My youngest who is 6 next month was in the kindergarten bit as its 6 and under, and they wouldn’t go up the mountain with him (probably sensible) even though he was pretty good on the skis,  However my daughter went up on the second day and was pretty epic by the end of the week. If i had a do-over i’d probably say he was 6. The snow on the bottom slopes was patchy at best even after fresh snow in the first few days. so there was nowhere really for them to go.

My wife is a very nervous skier and pre kids we used to snowboard, she had a pretty bad accident (broken back etc) so its been a long lime to convince her to try skis (snowboarding is a definate no-no). This was our first winter holiday since then.

I loved going to the top of the jandri espacially on the few good snow days we had but it was mostly blues and reds, in reality too steep for her. The couple of greens there ware, were narrow with a drop on one side which she wan’t keen on either. Again the lower slopes were patchy mud.

I went to the top of the glacier a couple of afternoons with my daughter and skied all the way back which were some of the best times of my life. I’d decided to get the kids as many lessons as possible to progress their skiing  so double booked them. I can ski but i’d not dare try and teach it :) Looking back i realise i should have done more with them and i’m mostly p****d of with myself for not managing the holiday well. However if we go away again they are a pretty good standard now so its a double edged sword.

Thinking of trying again early in the new year. Can anyone recommend a resort that has a good mix of pistes but most importantly lots of wide, not steep (gentle?) greeens??

thanks.

X35-based eBike bought on bike to work scheme. 3 months and 980 miles in and it’s back with the dealer after the assistance stopped. Dealer couldn’t figure out what was wrong but Mahle are saying its the battery and sending out another when they have them in stock.

fingers crossed for you.

Sadly i personally think the X35 system is not fit for purpose for commuting in the UK. All my problems occured after riding on wet roads.

There are similar threads and situations to mine.

https://forums.electricbikereview.com/threads/mahle-x35-pas-sensor-problem.52383/

I don’t think that business to business purchases have the same user protections that normal consumers do.

No, currently having a bad month –  my macbook (also a POS :) ) just broke after 18 months – 6 months out of warranty. I went to the Apple store and they said oooh looks catastrophic we’ll replace it. They brought up my account and saw it was bought on a buisness acount then promptly changed thier mind.

Thread title is a bit misleading ;-p

how so? :)

I agreed to buy/lease/borrow (not sure which one) a bike, but ultimately parting with some of my cash every month over a fixed term. Bike has broken before end of term.

Thread title is a bit misleading ;-p

how so? :)

I agreed to buy/lease/borrow (not sure which one) a bike, but ultimately parting with some of my cash every month over a fixed term. Bike has broken before end of term.

What is the fault exactly? Could it be resolved with the buying of some components yourself? Better still – could the company buy them as the company owns the bike and is leasing it to you?

Possibly, there are several issues but the main one is a failed PAS. Trouble it is has had several and the last one failed within 4 weeks. This leads me to believe the issue is wider spread. However the error that comes back when its plugged in to the dealer App is error 0035 – PAS/sensor issue so thats what gets replaced.

Not really prepared to throw money (either mine or the companies) at it in these circumstances. the battery is cack and its a POS anyway in my opinion.

As munrobiker says the paperwork is simple (Google for sample salary sacrifice paperwork) and there’s no follow up, so its not like HMRC will be checking you did it right as long as your accountants ‘account’ for it properly.

If you read all the bumph for the scheme (which i should have done properly!) they seem to suggest you make a big saving on the purchase cost of the bike but i assume that the actual saving is that comes out of gross salary so you are not paying tax and NI on that money?

So what you say makes sense.

Is the any real benift to a scheme?

(You don’t even need a scheme to do it, just run it through your accounts – it’s easier for your employees that way and lets them buy a bike from anywhere they like, without the shop taking a cut.)

to be honest i don’t really understand the whole thing. Was a colleague who set it up. To me at the time it seemed a simple way to spread the cost of a bike for commuting. There were some big discount amounts mentioned, not sure what they equate to in real terms.

All i know is i now have a nice door stop for the shed.

Think i’ll opt for a 24 month intrest free credit card for its replacement and save my self the hassle.

Who made the POS ?

Well i guess the main problem is the electric system which is Mahle x35. Although bike has been back on warranty for non drive related issues too.

Don’t worry, i’ll be slagging it off at great length once i get it sorted :)

Scheme say nothing they can can do, balance is £600  :(

We have several employees on the scheme so have to act accordingly

thanks @benpinnik,  fortunatly (or not) in this case the employer is me.

I’ve paid off about 2 thirds so far so quite a chunk.

I’ve contacted the scheme.