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:D It’s one of those we only get the weekend to get anything done and the house is a building site at the minute. Missus and kids are back living with the in-laws so I need to get a wriggle on. I’m hoping the weather keeps up and I can enjoy some of it once it’s done. This is the last major...

This weekend I’ve been painting, mist coated the new skimmed walls in the master and kids bedroom a couple of days ago, yesterday I painted the master with two coats ceiling and walls, today I gave the master bed another coat on the ceiling and then painted the kids bedroom ceiling/wall two...

Is this the Mardi Gras Parade you’re talking about, where the organisers expressly rule against that behaviour and the cops will arrest you during the day or off Bourboun Street? https://www.frenchquarter.com/mardi-gras-rules/ “No Nudity You’ve probably seen or heard about the way some...

I have no problem with things being loud, colourful, exciting and all that jazz. My point is that they are often overtly and over the top sexual in nature. I get that a part of pride is that sexual activity between lgbt was illegal in the past so this is part of the expression of their self’s...

Pretty sure that’s a common occurrence in the Middle East. Either way, yes I’m sure it probably has happen before, to gay men or otherwise. Murders happen all the time for all sorts of reasons, you’re drawing connections between different murders in completely different countries with the...

How many other Eastern European nations which have aligned with the EU consider themselves "EU puppets"? How many EU countries are led by authoritarian fascist and ruthless regimes which murder and imprison their political opponents? Russia is no power block, they are a third tier economy, a...

I thought you meant there was a spate of killings in the UK, this is three different countries... there are murders in general in every country all the time for all sorts of reasons. I'm not trying to diminish how terrible these murders are but I don't think it points to some huge uptick in...

I don't think people are going to like what happens next when a proper Tory Tory gets the job and gets right down to Torying the **** out of us all. Austerity 2.0

"There has been a civil war in Ukraine since 2014." You mean Kremlin backed antagonists put in place due to the Russian puppet being ousted from power and the country being taken in the same direction currently enjoyed by most E. European ex-Soviet nations, a move towards Democracy, the EU and...

Great post, thanks J&K… this was the gun I was looking at on Amazon and had stuck in the shopping basket in the meantime so since it’s had a recommendation by your good self, I’ll push the button on that one. Got you on the stop flow thing, so long as it’s a bit better than the cheapy B&Q...

Time has come to fit another mile of skirtings/door trims and felt I should buy a decent silicone gun for the adhesive and caulking. I don't need any fancy expensive battery powered one but something a little step up from the cheapies you pick up for under a tenner that don't have any action to...

Well, everything's relative I guess... there's always someone in a worse position than you or an equally bad position at least.

If necessary repairs cost x amount then they should be deducted from the value of the property on the home report, unfortunately most surveyors do little more than eyeball a property and apply a value in line with the surrounding area. There's been suggestions here of doing things the surveyor...

It's even your attitude here that's quite telling, you know you're screwing these people over and gloating about it. People shouldn't have given you any assistance.

Sorry, I can’t stand this attitude … if you know the flat roof has failed then get it fixed properly, either that or admit it to the buyer and deduct the true cost of the repair from the sale price. Trying to patch over things to leave some poor family with the additional cost of removing your...

I was considering packing out behind the back box with an off cut bit of wood to pull the switch forward a bit bit longer screws will probably do the job. I’ve just noticed with the previous two plasterers I’ve had, they refuse to touch any electrics as “they’re not electricians”, neither am I...

When you have switches and sockets that sit flush with the existing wall and assuming the skim coat is between 3-5mm thick when finished, if this is leaving the socket too far back then what is your your typical practise for rectifying this? Also, do you handle any of this work yourself or...

The most annoying thing about the stuff they did is that it could have been done right and for not much more money at all… a lot of the stuff just seems like intentional taking the ****.

Stripping my walls and prepping for a plaster skim coat, I’m finding when removing the cheap PVC cladding on the ingoes that the majority of the windows are held in with nothing but the external rough cast render, magic, thoughts and prayers. Some of the other stuff is just as insane, the...

And what do you mean that it's been instigated to speed thousands of imminent job losses? Who is instigating it? What jobs, rail jobs? Why?