woodworm

My mate just hired an Eastern European cleaner, took her 5 hours to hoover the house. Turns out she was a Slovak

Hi Nick I presume that it is sited outside (or away from your house), but do you have to fill it by hand or can you stack the billets in a wooden crate and then just load the wooden crate in with a tractor or loader of some sort? Mike

I would like to congratulate Steve and all of the people involved in helping to make this raffle the success it is. To raise over £4k in a month is absolutely amazing and is also a credit to the people who have bought the tickets. Makes me proud to part of the Arbtalk forum, especially when money is so tight and people are struggling withh the weather etc etc. You are all a bl**dy great bunch of people. Keep buying the tickets, I will be! :thumbup::thumbup:

Would also recommend Drain Doctor as being brilliant if anyone does have a problem. They quoted us £138 +vat to clear any blockages, no other charges or extras, and because he didn't actually do anything except lift the septic tank lid when he got here, there was no charge, so i gave him a crimbo drink for his time, and he called me back after the tank had been emptied to make sure that everything was ok. Quality service. Hope I havent broken any rules by posting this!

If any of you are on a septic tank sewage system, please be aware that with all this wet weather, there can be big problems with draining your house waste into the tank. On Friday, our downstairs toilet blocked up, so we called out Drain Master, who finally got to us yesterday late afternoon and looked in the septic tank and said its full. We only had it pumped out in July, but he explained that with all this rain, the soakaway which runs off the tank is just saturated with rain water, so the septic tank overflow has nowhere to go, and they are getting a lot of calls from people whose tanks are filling up with rain water which is filling up the drainage system in reverse, so the house system doesn't flow. As soon as our septic tank was emptied (luckily i know the tank emtying man really well so he got here really quickly), the house system immediately emptied. We were lucky, a woman whose tank he emptied yesterday at 2pm was on the phone saying her tank was full again at 5.30pm just before he left here. He says anglian water are having MAJOR problems and he thinks he will be working all day on the 25th. He will be charging £300 per tank on that day instead of £70, but I cant knock him for that. His phone is ringing non stop.

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Just done another tenner, I want those light guards and sooooo many other prizes. Woodworm

Thanks for sending my last lot of numbers through Steve. Just hope everyone can get the total up to the 4 grand mark. Gonna have some more before the draw. When is the draw Steve?

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Why not fella?

Elmia, the big one. Looking forward to a trip to Sweden again:thumbup:

Lets see what your talking about please fella. Pictures and info please

Firstly, convert it to a rear outlet instead of a top outlet, it will give out more heat using less fuel and as others have said, fill it brim full at night and shut down all the vents (including flue damper) and then in the morning open it up, fill it up and let it roar for 5 mins. Used to do this with our old one and every year when the chimney was swept, we only got about a handful of soot out. Used to light it in October and let it go out in April/may running 24/7. Best woodburner we ever had and far better than the smaller villager we bought when we moved which yes, is crap

From a customer's point-of-view, there's little point in asking if it's seasoned. because it always will be - even if it was felled last week and has been buried in a swamp since then What are you trying to say Tagger:confused1:

Yeah but about £10/cheaper so you nick all my customers

You gets what you pays for, prob felled them last week

My favorite response to anyone asking for my best price is just to tell them that a 4 cubic metre load is the cheapest. It works out to be about £2.50/cube cheaper than a a single cube but it's just what I charge, no discounts offered here as the shed is almost empty. Next year the prices will definitely be going up by £5/cube and then we will see if they moan. I would rather deliver fewer loads for a bit more money. Costs too much to run around for free these days

What a fantastic prize for the arborists!

I have to be honest Nick, that looks a cracking load of processer sized timber, and although i feel a bit embarressed to say it, yes, I would buy that load from you by the load at a previously agreed price, if i was a bit closer to you. I have previously never understood how anyone could take the risk of NOT buying by the tonne, but I do see your point. If you could guarantee me the same sized load of the agreed species at the agreed price, every time, yes I would happily go ahead. You've always done it your way, I've always done it mine, but its not to say its ever wrong to change your opinion or that "your" or "my" way is always the right or wrong way. Its called eating humble pie, but I'm not too big or ugly to do that occasionally, every days a school day.

Sorry Nick, as much as I respect you and your business, if i buy 26 tonnes of wood, i want 26 tonnes of wood, whether its oak beech or larch. I will have agreed a price with the seller for 26 tonnes of said species, and that price will reflect on the volume of timber i will get, if i get less volume than i expected, then that is my lookout, as long as there is 26 tonnes on board then thats ok coz thats what i wanted, but i dont want 24 tonnes coz i have paid for 26 or if there is only 24 tonnes thats all I will be paying for, REGARDLESS of volume Thats just my thoughts on it and thats how i work. Woodworm

Give Martyn Neve a call. I know there is a lot of ash and oak thats been down for a year that he is able to access. 07860 859633 and its not too far from you

Just had a phone call from a work colleague, who has just been offered a load of stihl chainsaws by an irishman from the back of a Mercedes vito or sprinter van, he said they were either brand new or almost new, and he could have them for £60 to £70 each. It was marked up as a hire van, but sadly didn't get a reg number or anything else, (muppet). The guy pulled onto the site near mildenhall suffolk and said he was heading towards Norwich (A11).

I would not buy it without one, otherwise how do you know what you are getting.