openspaceman
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How clean does it need to be? To my mind an annual sweep is to knock the build up of soot off so as it cannot support a fire so a bit of a cover remaining is not significant. A neglected chimney is a different kettle of fish as it could be close to being blocked with soot at some points ( I have seen a gas cowl used on a pellet stove so blocked the boiler room filled with smoke.) Similarly a tarry deposit from burning wet wood is going to be hard to shift.
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I have this kit Big Button Lock 12mm Liner Kit Flu-Flex Rods – Chimney Rods Direct WWW.CHIMNEYRODSDIRECT.CO.UK Expensive at over 200 quid but seems to work well with a cordless drill. I have used id with 5" liner and a 9" concrete lined chimney. I remove my stove and register, tape ply to the bottom of the builders opening and run 2 vacuum cleaners into the opening while I am working, with dust sheet over the top gap and rods fed in under that. Not really worth it to save £45 but not having to wait in for the appointment suits me.
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We did almost exactly this but started at 0800 and just 3 tanks after lunch and home. Machine driving was different and breaks shorter but the machines were uncomfortable, no glass, no heater so two artics extract and load and homeward. I haven't driven a modern machine with air conditioning for 15 years but the only reason to have a break then was boredom really. More recently doing arb groundwork, as two old men, a half hour break in the morning and 3/4 to an hour break at midday then crack on to finish by 3-4.
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Father was non violent, mother couldn't catch me and I kept away from the headmaster's cane so I've never tried it.
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I don't know the circumstances, the TPO may have been on it before the building or before the building was converted to a dwelling but if planning permission was granted (but maybe it wasn't??) then the tree should have come out as part of the permission.
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Yes it certainly was , I used to hate it, my mother would hold my nose to make me swallow it. Strange thing is when I have had it in later life as gel capsules I have deliberately bitten them to get the taste, nostalgia for simpler times perhaps.
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Wot no cod liver oil?
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Post natal bottles of mackeson were the order of the day, same dose of iron but sweeter
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he wouldn't have pleaded guilty of he thought he would be hanged rather than a minimum term and free.
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arrested, handcuffed, raped murdered and burned
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Shame 'specially considering the current old bailey case
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An update on this, I bought a cheap carb from L&S with 2 spare spark plugs, 30 quid all in. I previously had a diaphragm set for the original Walbro but I popped the non genuine one on and it runs perfectly. The throttle cable was badly frayed and gave out, as the genuine replacement is an inner and outer plus the two low tension leads it costs about 30 quid, so I bought a cycle gear cable (2m for £2), silver soldered a length at the trigger end and bent it to the S shape. The other end I made a ferrule from the nib of a ballpoint pen, added the spring from it to close the throttle. I crimped and silver soldered it. It seems to work well but the time involved makes paying the full price more sensible if you are busy working.
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So very apposite
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In days of old a knurling tool in lathe on an old piston (car) would pucker up the skirt a bit if it was slappping. In this case has the bearing been rotating in the case? Is the hole in the crankcase oval? Good luck with the repair but I wouldn't like to be the person that buys it after.
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Martin Lewis says the price cap is currently below wholesale prices and is bound to rise in April. Also no fixed deals are available at less than the cap, so yes my fixed price in March will end and a big jump.
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That's killing the goose...
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There are ways around that for a big company. At my work there was a pool of cars in which a top of the range Volvo featured, only the boss ever had access to the keys. Remember VAT is not the only element of tax. A pool car is an expense to a company and deductible from the turnover. There are many other benefits a company owner can enjoy at the company's expense, remember Tiny Rowlands, he drew no income in UK yet lived in a large house here, not owned by himself.
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I thought warfarin was banned for squirrels 😀 Seriously I'm sorry to hear that, best wishes
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I have made no political comment, I did not say what you have put in quotation marks. As we are bound to have tax I suggested a tax which was less easy for the very rich to be able to avoid paying in the way they currently do
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Hardly. The point is having a tax that can be levied at the point of production or entry into the country and paid by all so companies do not benefit from reclaiming it, as is VAT on most cars now.
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I'm a bit out of touch with what modern consumers aspire to but high end cars and personal goods for a start.
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Yes but it's a tax that rich people make good use of and find ways out of paying it from personal money. Again this is why I like a purchase tax on "luxuries"
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Bound to be TPO if they specified a 2.5m reduction. Ridiculous to even TPO such a tree adjacent to a building
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Diesel seems to have gone up to £1.47 at the major service stations and short queues, longer ones at the local stations but I didn't notice much change in price.
