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Have you seen the price of log stores? a cheap 2m3 store is £120. For that you get a cheap looking structure that might last 15 years as long as you don't throw the logs in. My dad wanted a nice log store for the garden... £300 for a decent looking one... He decided not to bother.... Unless you have redundant outbuildings seasoning your own logs could be expensive.... Perhaps if log merchants could sell cheap log stores they could push bulk log sales as well?

Yeah, some neighbours are a bit weird... I don't think your mum has any responsibility to pay for an 8 foot fence if a 5 foot fence would do. It also seems likely that the gap between the retaining wall and 8 foot fence would fill with crud leading to the fence rotting. If I was a suspicious person I'd suggest your neighbour wants to eventually knock the 8 foot fence down and make her garden bigger. As a matter of interest where would the wall and 8 foot fence be built in relation to the existing fence?

Tbh, I'm slightly confused. Why would you build a 3 foot high retaining wall between the gardens then build an 8 foot high fence in front of the retaining wall? Why not just build the retaining wall and then put a 5 foot fence on top? When the wall is being built it should be easy enough to cast in slots for the fencing posts. I'd agree where the wall/ fence are to go with the respect to the boundary before work starts....

I use a standard Gillette cartridge razor. Until last year I would use them about three times before they became blunt and I got a new one. Then I found out they weren't actually blunt but dirty (smeared with soap). If you get a cloth (like an old pair of jeans) you can rub the razor over the cloth and the razor is sharp again. I must get about 50 shaves from each razor blade now. It's a fair saving each year.

It looks like Brexit is working its magic then

It does seem a lot of work... If you are rarely going to use your lawn for vehicular access how about using a temporary running surface? TuffTrak

Surely in a case like this the police should be involved? They must know who done it and the evidence must be there?

I've never used them. I've personally never really seen the point of weed control for tree planting. I dare say weed control improves growth rates in early years, but when you plant a tree with a 200 year life it doesn't make much real difference. They must cost a fair bit in money and time? Have you factored in the cost of gathering them in 5 years time?

I think it's free delivery if you are at the end of their street.

That looks really interesting technology, however it doesn't seem that efficient in an environmental or financial sense... It turns 1kg of wood chips into 1kWh of electricity, that means only about 25% of the energy in the wood is turned into electricity.... that's not particularly good, especially when you consider the amount of energy required to cut down the trees/ transport the trees/ chip the tree etc. In a financial sense it doesn't seem that efficient either, I cant see a system like that costing much less than £500k by the time you include a new building & wood store etc. All for a system that produces 45kW of power. What does wholesale electricity cost? 5p a kWh? That means it only produces £2.25 of electricity an hour. Running 24/7 the system the system would produce £20k of electricity a year. You might as well leave the trees standing, buy a £10k diesel generator and use the diesel that would have been used to transport and chip the trees in the generator.

I've looked at the website mentioned by the original poster and it makes no reference to electricity production? To burn wood to dry wood just seems ludicrous to me. It seems obvious that kiln dried logs will have a far higher carbon footprint than logs dried in an open sided barn. This is a perfect example of a government policy, which sounds good on paper, not meeting one of its prime objectives.

It's £70 a m3 for hardwood logs plus about £50 delivery. tbh, it doesn't seem that cheap....

Anyone seeing what the President of the Philippines is up to? He's started a policy of policemen going round the Phillipines killing drug dealers/ addicts. Seemingly 3,000 people were killed in his first three months in office. He's called Duterte, so he has the nickname "Duterte Harry". In some ways I think he's doing a good thing, but it could be a slippery slope....

Every economist in the world agrees that if you increase the supply of something it reduces the price of that good. For instance if new log merchants open up in your area it reduces the price you can sell logs for. Why would millions of migrants to the UK not reduce wages for British workers? I know of EU workers in the UK working for £5 an hour. If you think migration is good should we not be charitable and send them to the third world? Perhaps send all those Syrian migrants to Africa to help the African economy? With the greatest respect a lot of the "academic research" that supports migration is heavily biased. Or do you really think millions of poorly paid migrants pay more in taxes than they take out in benefits and public services?

About 43% of Hungarians voted, and of those that voted 98% voted to keep the migrants out. It's fairly clear that Hungarians don't want migrants.... I'd imagine the non voters didn't vote because the result was obvious from the very start..... For a thousand years Hungarians were battling to keep invading muslims out of Europe. Hungarians also probably looked at things like the Cologne sex attacks and French terrorist attacks and decided they didn't want similar "cultural enrichment".

Tbh, I can see why a fence like that would cost so much. They've got to truck the materials into the centre of the artic circle. They've probably got to build an access road along the entire length of the fence. Then they will probably need an accomodation camp for the workers. It all adds up.

Yeah, you're right! I only expected about 95% of Hungarians to vote against accepting the migrants. To get 98% voting against is brilliant I think the only thing that could trump that referendum is Trump becoming President (see what I did there?).

I agree with you. However let's face it Labour no longer look after the traditional working classes. I can't think of another time in history when a political party has so thoroughly stabbed their core electorate in the back. UKIP are now the party of the working classes.

Tbh, some people are just cr4p with money. We've all seen television programmes about lottery winners/ celebrities that have spunked their millions away and are living like tramps.

tbh, I think Labour has had it's day. Labour should have been looking after the working classes by reducing the amount of immigration into the UK. However Corbyn wants to open up the immigration floodgates to the world. In it's present form I can never see them forming another Government.

I understand it's just the bark that is coloured. As a wood it might not actually be that special.

tidal power has been used for the last 1000 years... here is a picture of a tidal mill from France...

there are literally hundreds of locations in the UK where you could have tidal power stations... I'd imagine tidal power would use the same type of generator in each location, so you do get "economies of scale". what's your answer to power generation? just keep on burning the fossil fuels and watch the polar bears drown? buy gas from Saudi and watch them use the money to support Islamic State? Use nuclear and just hope that no nuclear power station is attacked by terrorists?

We all know that ships use zinc anodes to prevent corrosion. A lot of motorway bridges now have cathodic protection systems to prevent corrosion. imho, tidal power stations would have a reasonably long service life...

There is a company that plan to develop tidal power lagoons in the UK. The advantage of the lagoons is that it is easier to get the power when there is demand for it. I agree that tidal is the way to go for renewables. We have solar panels on the office and the power from them is unreliable. One day it's 4Kw of power then the next day it's nothing Newport - Tidal Lagoon