Search results

Harry B. With respects: The average gas bill is now around £1400 per year, 3 weeks actual earnings, over 50% of the population do not switch the C.H on as they cannot afford it, others switch it on for 1 hour in the morning, 2 hrs evening, yet they still get hit with huge bills (gas, water...

@ Mr H Bloomfield: I take on board all you have said, thank you. My views are: 90% of all UK homes contain such massive heat saving structural faults, faults that are so extensive that they cannot be corrected they should be demolished. I realise this is an impractical suggestion but...

@ It Minion: You make a lot of decent valid points thank you, but how do we get the message out to the public, and they ACT on it. For instance my close friend and neighbour lived in his small back-kitchen with a 2-bar electric fire and an overcoat and trilby hat always on his head. Why was his...

Reply to Stem; I am a insulation engineer of some 50 years standing. I say string vests do not trap air, its impossible, a myth. I read somewhere that in some nation like China they fall about laughing at the idea that a string-vest can save and trap heat, Westerners have tried it -but soon...

I have got it into my head that if houses were turned upside down like BOATS, and filled with water - the water would come cascading out so fast that and you cannot fill the building with water no matter how long or how hard you tried ? Lets imagine it was HEAT you are pouring into it, then I...

It should be mandatory in the UK for house builders to install door mesh. Because of climate change we are heading for a x 100 times surge in UK insect life and a nightmare increase in their survival and breeding rates. Due to climate change we need to ask: Is the invasion of the Super-Bug on...

We're not doing any paper advertising at the moment, besides one monthly well read Village Directory (which contains more than just ads). Our main money generator is our website, including our user friendly online shop. Can I ask what did your website cost, how many leads does it generate...

I am not looking for press advertising advice, I am seeking the FORUMS views on the success of the internet, on websites in general and the costs associated with it, and other trade peoples past or current impression of local news press classified advertising rates and response. This post was...

I am age 71, retired and am registered as a disabled person with limited vision. I was in the building trade for 50 years. I have a problem opening my eyes because my eyelids won't always open or lift upwards, it's a rare condition with about 10 000+ sufferers in the UK. The cause is unknown...

Reply to moderator: I live in Leeds, my interest in the New York Times is because I worked in the USA for three years and we visited New York often, it was a 2 hour drive.

During the last 50 years I have been a large user of classified press advertising. During this period most broadsheet newspapers have become tabloid [a much smaller size] the number of columns on each page have increased from 8 columns to 12 columns by reducing the font size and the column...

Your right, 100% per cent right. I am seriously ill, the hospital have cancelled four appointments for an injection which will alleviate my symptons. In between each appointment is a gap of 3 months, so I have suffered for 4 x 3 + 12 months because the Doctor cannot find time to fit me in. He...

Communism was a great idea, the problem was Karl Marx worked on the theory 'that those elected to power were honest men, patriots who had the interests and welfare of their brothers and sisters at heart'. He was wrong on this account and his political theory allowed a rogues gallery of mass...

I have had two adverse comments indicating the writers are happy with current prices, well I'm not. Glass Fibre Insulation is made from broken glass and mostly discarded glass bottles, a waste product, its poured into a furnace to be melted then goes through a candy-floss machines where the...

I need large quantities of DPC rolls, Damp Proof Course and Rolls of Roof Breather Membrane. Does any firm still sell 1 inch x 1/4 inch wood laths, in bundles of 100 pieces. Anyone got any better ideas than trying builders merchants.

* What the neighbour was charged is often immaterial as evidence, its what you were charged that matters, and take it from me many Judges are good at estimating the cost and expertise used on jobs, they often leave the Court and go out to the job to view it. 15 years years ago when short of...

THE BROADER VIEW AND PROTECTION OF CONSUMERS! Look around you, this is Rip Off Britain, look at the prices charged, then compare these retail prices to the actual manufacturing costs, then look at the high profit margins sellers make. At one time we did have in OUR COUNTRY [the voters and...

Insulation costs very little to make and do they know how to bump up the prices. Years ago it was very cheap to buy, now one contact mentioned above in post 4 wants £42-00 for a 10 metre sq m2 roll. The average house takes 4 bags so thats £168-00 gone. Bags of Fibreglass 3 x roll packs almost...

My reply and information is correct even today, and ten years from now. See above post. Builders have a land dealing dept, they buy land that they are not really interested in for themselves - then sell it on for a profit. If Wimpey make you an offer and fix the price sellers are impressed...