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Like I said, seperate issue.

Nope, they are cheaper!! These were imported before any "fuss" over chalara started, so seperate issue really.

Yeah, dont know how I sleep at night!!! Building regs, its not a new build so who cares. Insurance pah! The stove was there when I bought the house!! (actually far safer than the open fire I had fitted before) Selling the house? HIPS has been scrapped so dont need it. If I had gone for the £1100 fitting then I woul dhave got a HETAS cert with it, but the same company told me all the regs and advised me to do it myself if I was a handy sort of bloke who didnt mind going on the roof, so I have done it all to the regs and it would pass HETAS if I ever felt the need to, but mostly I just put logs on it.

Yes they lost a few straight away. They were advised by me and others to get them in by March at the absolute latest, and the building of the pool was a bit behind schedule but the trees arrived early march (this year) and sat around for 7-10 days I think and of course March was actaully the hottest month of the year! SO they lost some, but they have plenty spare planted elsewhere on the same site so they will be planted this season, not the end of the world. Yeah, strange coincidence that Stevie!

Me too, so I'm not too bothered but conflicting reports have made me wary of letting anyone tow anything with my 3500 truck (what they do with their own vehicles is upto them) but from now on I think I will be more confident in allowing it.

I used black stove cement so the colour match is fine. It has cracked a bit but not much, its not leaking, more like surface cracks really.

Want an instant hedge around your £3M swimmming pool complex? No worries, instant Yew hedging arrived on a truck from holland and shoved in the ground in a line. Here it is getting its first ever cut. I wasnt nervous!!

Yep, morso, its awesome! Its been in since early november and only gone out once cos I'm still learning.

Quite easy I would say, except I've seen you at height and you looked a bit scared!! The £220 was for flue and the adapters needed at each end. Then I went to a blacksmith to get a register plate made and he said he always charges £30 for them (I gave him a load of unseasoned uncutup wood instead in the end). Then the frame for the register plate I made out of some scrap angle iron. The burner itself is a Morso Squirrel, I got for £760.00. Then bits and pieces to make the hearth (sand/cement etc) and tiles, and some cash to a bloke for rendering, I make it £1100 all in.

If thats the case then things would go bang if plugged in here but I didnt think it was that much of a difference. I thought they were something like 220v and we are 240v so not much difference. I could be wrong, has been years since I did electrics at college so dont really know anything.

Oh dear! Maybe the difference is more than I though!! Or it was just crap.

Ok, my bad, but yes I see what you mean. But below 4.25t everyone is ok.

Thanks. Yes very please with myself I am, was quoted £1100 for the flue and hooking up the burner (not including building the hearth etc) but the flue only cost £220 and fitted it all myself, was actually easy in the end. Still cant afford carpets though!

They have different frequency over there but voltage is pretty much the same, wouldnt be a problem with something like a fan, its fancy electrical equipment that you need to be a bit more carefull with when buying from the states and far east etc.

No not those, I mean the doorway fans. Ive seen those ecofans, very clever, but not really something i need. My stove is enclosed in a fireplace and so the heat can only come forwards anyway. I think they are best for stoves in an open location to stop the heat just going straight up.

When I bought my house I had a really nice open fire place made withing the old original fireplace that I found behind the gas fire in the sitting room. It was lined with fire bricks and as open fires went it was really good, very hot, and with free logs I didnt worry about the amound I was putting on and how much was going up the chimney. But, to be fair, it was crap!! Once lit it would roar for a few hours so you couldnt really go to the pub and leave it, then once it had settled down a bit if you left it a few hours it would go out. It would no way ever stay smouldering until the morning so it just never really got used that much. The central heating heating work fine so that kicked in most days before the fire ever got lit. so this year I finally got round to pulling out all the fire bricks and find the original fireplace again. Built new hearth, rendered the sides (but kept the red brick rear) shoved some flue down the chimney, made a register plate etc and shove in this. Wish I had done it right from the start!

Is there a UK supplier? That looks usefull!

Do you use those walking poles when walking round the local park?

Just looked at that other thread and decided life was too short to read it!

Yes, I have got fed up of looking into it in the past, this new web page seems to explain it all nice and simple. Everyone with a car license can tow 3500 (your average arb truck) with a 750kgs chipper/trailer. No towing test required. B+E etc is for vehicles over 3500, so no one needs that unless your driving a vehicle plated at over 3500 and we all kind of knew that.

If your only worth 60-80 a day then spending 40+ on diesel isnt a good idea. But proper freelancers would travel further if they are the man for the job. I've hired a climber from reading area before and he was on site here in gloucestershire for 8am no worries. paid him £200 a day I think, bargain!!

Gaylord! I've not been stressing as I have a pre 97, B+E and C1 etc etc can drive everything I own with no worries at all. But when I have employed people with post 97 licenses I have nto let them tow anything. I had thought that 3500+750 was ok, but others have said no towing at all with a 3500 vehicle. This site seems to clear it up. And yes Adam, I think this would leave you in the clear so print it out and keep it with you. Missed you too but not in such a gay way! Hows your rigging thread getting on?

It says its changing from then, but its also clears up the post 97 stuff.

Please move if this is in wrong area. Someone recently sent me a link to this page........ https://www.gov.uk/towing-with-car/driving-licence-rules-and-what-you-can-tow Can this be right? So after 97 makes no differnce at all and all the BS about seperate towing tests etc. is just BS? It clearly says 3500Kgs plus 750 trailer is fine for post 97 licenses, so what has all the fuss been about? A police friend of mine still says "no towing" if there isnt a symbol on your license for towing then you cant, but this goverment page seems to contradict that.

Id be up for that! My cuevos are as big as anybodies! (what are cuevos?)