General Chat

True :-S

Maggie, you reminded me of this

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zyeMFSzPgGc

:-D :-D

Thank you all for your concern and sympathy. My toe is still very painful and it looks like a big currant, the surveyor didn't even turn up, just a plumber and the last time I did any plumbing we were still using boss white and hemp but it worked.

Bah humbug!

Wrong holiday Sharron isn't Bah Humbug for Christmas...what would be good for Easter...ideas...what can we say if we "hate" Easter.

Hope toe settles soon, keep feet up and rest if possible.

:-D :-D :-D Allan!

I had something similar when they (yet again!) put in a new gas boiler - in February.
I took 2 days off work.
Day 1 part of the work was done - left me without hot water or heating.
Day 2 Didn't turn up
Day 3 Another day off work. Connected boiler, but were missing a piece
Day 4 finished the job, packed up and left.
That night, despite the heating being on, I was freezing. The boiler is in the airing cupboard in my bedroom.
Day 5 another day off work - phone them up, insist they send someone around immediately.
Foreman comes.
I point out the 6 inch hole around the pipe going outside.
'Oh', I'm told, 'That's final fix'.
'No it isn't,' I reply, 'It's a job not finished. Either that hole is filled in today, or I do it, and I charge £50 an hour'.
'You don't understand - we come around later and fix small things, like that, that aren't quite right' was mansplained to me.
'That is a job not finished', I insist, 'Not a 'small oversight'. I'm also not prepared to take yet another day's leave for you to finish a job I was assured would take 2 days maximum. Also, please don't patronise me. If this isn't fixed today I'll get a representative of your trade out to confirm that this isn't 'final fix' - and charge you'.

They sent the youngest (probably apprentice) workman around that afternoon to fill in the hole.
When I opened the door, he looked terrified!
I offered him a cup of tea, left him to it, and told him to take his time :-D
It's not the best job, but it was done :-D

At least it was a plumber who could actually do something, Sharron, rather than a surveyor who would have hummed and hawed over his electronic devices before saying 'I think you need a plumber'. :-D :-D :-D

Poor lad :-D :-D

I have an electrician coming on Monday because, for the third time, I had no hot water on Saturday morning.

It is not really much of a problem because the auxiliary tank provides more than enough hot water for us but they tell me there is nothing wrong with it each time and, indeed, it works immediately.

This is the new tank that would go off every time I had a bath for three months when it was first put in. I was forever having men in and they would go straight upstairs, ask any neighbour.

The massed intellect of my housing association and their contractors, Paynes of Heathfield, could not solve the problem. My ridiculous idea that maybe the thermostats were faulty was discounted because what do I know. Eventually, just to shut the stupid woman up, they changed the thermostats and we had hot water for a couple of years but the huge amount of silver solder in the system did mean I was also having an awful lot of plumbers in as well (think Monty Pythons milkmen!) to do a weekly tap washer change.

All this before I discovered that they had not bothered to bank off the pipe when they took the old tank out in the kitchen and had thousands of gallons of water soaking through the wall where the electricity meter is.

Anyway the surveyor needs to come because we share a drain with the house next door which has been bought and they have been putting sanitary towels and baby wipes down the pan and he needs to tell them about it because I have to live there.

All this and a black toe!

"I was forever having men in and they would go straight upstairs, ask any neighbour. "

I almost choked on my crackers laughing....wouldn't happen with a black toe...

So as it's obvious a surveyor IS needed maybe someone will say something nice for a change?? :-S :-D

I hope you didn't have to pay for the water that was soaking your wall :-S

One of the glories of living on a corner, 6 ft higher than my annoying neighbours, (on my right) is that any blockage from the left is likely, through gravity, to go straight down to their drain :-D

Just been upstairs to check something.
The neighbours new illegal structure (home made 'conservatory' on the back of the house) has the front glass 'wall' going straight across the line of the drains.
Oh dear.

Do we all have annoying neighbours building illegal structures I know I do ?

maggie .........


so do you need to get a surveyor in to check the line of your drains?

No, Sylvia. Just means, it there's a blockage, next door's 'structure' will have to come down. Shame.

Oh...now then....what can you put down to make it look like someone else blocked it....

:-D :-D :-D :-D Caroline!!! :-0

Yesssss ?? :-D :-D :-D

I was going to suggest causing or reporting a blockage :-D :-D :-D :-D



We had a cabin in a remote part of the province, the house had an indoor toilet that fed into a septic tank. One day about 2 months after we bought it ................. blockage

Call in the septic tank cleaner people .................

he found the pipe leading to the tank was blocked by socks, unknown bits of material and .......................

a large spring thingie used to support a camper unit on the back of a pick-up truck :-0 :-S :-D :-D

I wouldn't be quite so hasty.

It's not finished yet :-D

I'm waiting for them to ask me if they can replace the two bits of 6ft high wooden fence they didn't replace 2 years ago - the two bits that block access to the side of the structure.
I wasn't aware at the time, but they're meant to get permission from the Council before changing fences.
I always wondered why they didn't change them at the time.
They're pretty rotten, and t's a 6ft fall from my garden into theirs....
I may have to call in the council surveyor to assess them ;-)

(puts bigger padlock on very high side gate that gives access to back garden)....