Energy price cap

[coppice cutter]

3 minutes ago, Steve Bullman said:

There’s bits and pieces we aren’t happy with. The general quality of everything is poor. If you look at the skirting board funny then lumps fall off. Kitchen might have another 3 years in it before it starts looking pretty tatty. Our outside wall round the garden is falling over. Building company have been aware of it for nearly 2 years ago and it’s apparently ‘in hand’…will get a pic later. House itself is rendered which makes me wonder what the brickwork beneath is like.

 

overall it’s just the unknown 

How does that get passed in the first place, surely that's a big part of the problem?

 

 

[Steve Bullman]

Just now, coppice cutter said:

How does that get passed in the first place, surely that's a big part of the problem?

 

 

The wall? It wasn’t always leaning obviously. Steadily got worse though 

[coppice cutter]

10 minutes ago, Steve Bullman said:

The wall?

No, just the general quality of materials and workmanship in the whole job.

 

When BL were building Allegros and Marinas that wouldn't last two or three years, we had houses and building materials that would last several lifetimes.

 

Who, or what, allowed standards to deteriorate to this level?

[Sutton]

This doesn't help either:

Construction materials shortage easing but prices up by 24% | Homebuilding

WWW.HOMEBUILDING.CO.UK

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The construction materials shortage is improving but soaring prices and labour shortages could affect your project

 

[kevinjohnsonmbe]

5 hours ago, Stubby said:

Decimal point in the wrong place Kev ? ( before you go swigging ) 🙂

No mate forty squid a month and most of that is the bloody standing charge!

[htb]

7 hours ago, kevinjohnsonmbe said:

No mate forty squid a month and most of that is the bloody standing charge!

Similar here, our monthly payment was £70, now down to £25 till March.

[GWYNFIL]

1 hour ago, htb said:

Similar here, our monthly payment was £70, now down to £25 till March.

I can beat that was 83. in a bit of credit. 60 monthly credit from joe public and me. new dd £6.15 till march the mind boggles

[Ty Korrigan]

12 hours ago, Steve Bullman said:

House itself is rendered which makes me wonder what the brickwork beneath is like.

 

Which is why they render, cheap porous block work.

Based on what I see in France...

   Stuart

 

Edited October 2, 2022 by Ty Korrigan

[Ty Korrigan]

On the French news, small businesses reliant on electricity and gas are closing upon the advice of their accountants, rather than get into debt.

I suspect that many of these were marginally profitable anyway.

Better to close than to run up debts to and risk losing your home though recent legislation has offered better protection against such scenarios.

Boulangeries and laundries especially vulnerable it seems.

 

Enquiries are lighter than last year, a sign that people are thinking ahead perhaps?

   Stuart

[Johnsond]

Drax: UK power station owner cuts down primary forests in Canada

APPLE.NEWS

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The owner of the UK's biggest power station, Drax, is cutting down key forests in Canada.

If you want to see pure madness and insanity at work the whole green ticket attached to the burning of wood pellets is it, mind you with £6 billion of subsidies alone it certainly is profitable.  Panorama would be well advised to take a look at UK renewables as currently it’s nothing more than a massive cash cow for predominantly overseas firms, which we the taxpayers are funding, value for money it is certainly not. 

Edited October 3, 2022 by Johnsond