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Exactly why I'd never buy one. You can hang a picture frame from the plasterboard. Anything heavier needs attaching to the block behind it, packing out to the plasterboard surface level. I used thick washers for a radiator I fitted once to someone else's house. It worked, but it was horribly...

The brickwork below is going to be removed at some point. So it needs to become a suspended floor at some point, the question is whether that point is now or when the chimney breast below is removed. I'd suggest the latter, just make good over the concrete for now. Having said that, if it is...

Politicians are controlling the judiciary. It's obvious, but some are still denying it.

Quite right. He was busy earning a living in the real world while the career politicians were at politician school, learning the fine art of spouting a load of words about nothing while offending nobody. If anyone never says anything offensive to anyone then they're not speaking from the...

It needs to go and be replaced with floorboards - either now, or when you do the room below. I'd just board over it to make it up to (roughly) floor height for now, do a proper job when you do the room below. If you were to do it now then you'd end up with a hole in the chimney breast and...

Here's a photo from a hole for the sewage system nearby... It looks a lot like clay while wet and undisturbed, and has streaks of grey clay within it. But see the mound at the top left, it fluffs up and crumbles when moved. We had some bank collapses, the boss of the company doing the...

Is your house piled? If not then how old and is it OK? Sand is inert, it's not going to biodegrade and sink as topsoil would. My understand is that the risk is that groundwater flows can move it around. But our sand seems to be pretty sticky, it has grains within it that go down to clay/silt...

That is possible. There are some utter rogues about. If it's occupied then it may be worth knocking on the door. Ask if you could come back and view at a time of their choosing, tell them that their agent isn't allowing viewings for some reason you can't understand.

Hopefully he's made his mind up by now, 16 months after the previous post.

Sadly they will be. Curry pans, litter and human excrement are the new culturally enriched countryside.

So... are kids becoming more awful, or is sensitivity to what people say more amplified? I strongly suspect the latter. And I doubt that the suspensions are generally justified or in anyone's interests. Kids have always been horrible. They often just need a chat.

I went for a weekend camping in North Wales. I'm pleased to report that this remains like the old days. Almost all friendly, trusting and decent. I suspect I'll be going to North Wales more in future. It could become our remaining little Ghetto. Really sad to hear what's happening to the...

I've said it before, nobody expects perfection from Reform. They're a messy bunch, doubtless a massive recruitment campaign is going to result in a few wrong uns getting in. But people would much prefer to hear someone making edgy comments that head towards politically incorrect rather than...

I'd very strongly advise anyone doing a genuinely useful degree to make it a sandwich course as I did. 2 years study, 1 year working on a placement organised by the uni with monitoring, then back for the final year. That year's work massively motivated me for my final year and set my career...

All a massive scam to massage the high unemployment figures that would have occurred otherwise due to the de-industrialisation that the govt were doing nothing about. Get young adults to waste their time studying nonsense for 3 years, that keeps them out of the unemployment headcount.

I wish there was an option to mix things up a bit more on YouTube. I watch on a Google TV dongle plugged into my ancient TV. It's very good at giving you more of what you've already watched. It needs a control to reduce how much it bases its recommendations on what you've already watched. Or...

Ah those right wing thugs that Starmer keeps banging on about. The electorate will decide. They're pretty good at seeing through spin and lies.

I looked at another one that was also a big bungalow. It had some cracks outside, mostly downwards from the bottom corners of the windows. Inside it had cracks you could stick your finger in at each end of every internal door lintel. The place was an utter disaster zone, I was told the seller...

https://freespeechunion.org/archive/toddler-kicked-out-of-nursery-for-being-transphobic “Teachers and school leaders involved in this insanity should be ashamed of themselves for projecting adult concepts and beliefs onto such young children. “It’s unforgivable for children’s vital early...

Those in dead-end jobs are the lucky ones that aren't included in that 1 million.