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Pack it in!

Well, I've just reported your reports, for wasting admins time.

I find it really annoying, I wish they'd pack it in.

You could build a dead weight anchor. Get a large bucket, something like a plasterers mixing bucket and fill it with a strong concrete mix. Suspend one end of a heavy duty security chain into it, with a bit of rebar or a chunky bolt poked through the end, coil some brick reinforcement mesh in...

To give him a good kicking?

It does sound sketchy though, relying on the friction of the foam for the whole lot to not slide down.

First problem is that the eye bolts might pull out, second problem is that the straps would mean the ladder is wobbly at the bottom end. Get to the ridge from the other side using a roofing ladder, then pull up another roofing ladder and place it on this side. But you'll need to be good with...

I have to add that this is very dangerous and you might fall off and die.

That was my first thought. Although could also use a block and chain with a beam clamp, still movable. The original idea of using a flitch beam would work, but it might be cheaper to just add an additional timber, or use 8x3 (or 9 or 10x3) The timber can be notched on the bottom at each end...

I had two dead legs once, got out of bed to answer the door and fell flat on my face.

He keeps getting booked, for goal hanging.

Doesn't that wear your stairs out twice as fast?

By the power of grey hair?

Slabs. Concrete paths are ugly, why go to the hassle of mixing concrete and waiting for it to set, when someone else has gone that trouble for you and will sell you the final product (slabs) for not very much money.

You can say that again!

I'm not proud... golf is boring! A good walk, spoiled.

Step the roof under the overhang. Ceiling joists only need be 75mm, use fence posts. Why flashing if it's under a soffit? Not needed.

He is toast, with the luck he's having, he'll probably land butter side down.

What's the scrap value here? between the 6 of them they would've made what, £20 each? Scumbags. https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cpvpr4j029po

Better than Germany, Italy and France? Why isn't being in the EU benefitting them?