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Er its chess and board square colours aren't relevant so the joke stands - unless anyone knows different of course! Intellectuals eh what do they know!

As a Man U fan I was outraged by this and then I thought yeah that's about right, perhaps we could swap Sanchez for the hedgehog but I bet we would have to put some money to the deal!

You're dead right there is no need to highlight them they speak for themselves! I'm just amazed the company would post that particular photo on their website as it might encourage others to work in an unsafe manner. Nice frames though, finished yet?

Looks a lovely spot and great potential. Couple of possible problem areas to check out from your pic; Render on walls looks as if it may be bridging damp proof course. Gutter downpipe just discharging onto ground? Flat roof looks very flat - check fall and needs gutter. Wickes How-to-Guides might be useful depending on your experience level. https://www.wickes.co.uk/how-to-guides Good luck - it will take longer than you think but will be worth it in the end.

Used once not impressed with quality or responce to complaint wouldn't use again.

Which one? Did 9001 some years back in engineering big project. Got Woodmark certification some years back lot of work no customers interested so dropped it.

Fortunately still look younger than my age or so I thought popped in for buffet fixed price lunch at Indian restaurant recently. When we came out thought that was cheaper than I expected then saw a big notice saying special offer pensioner discount! Waiter obviously took one look and thought he qualifies no problem!

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Tree Alert link https://treealert.forestry.gov.uk/

Legally required to report that to FC if you think it's ALB. You can use treealert on the FC website to do that. May of course be something else. https://www.forestry.gov.uk/forestry/hcou-4u4j45

Could do with an 'ignore' button so any repeat offenders can be consigned to oblivion. It is however a great forum and so informative even if you lot can't agree on stihl or husky!

Company car and fuel taxable as benefit in kind - amount of tax I used to pay on mine made my eyes water! Glad to be rid of it only real advantage was servicing, tax and insurance costs saving. Better off now working for myself than I was when employed with 'perks' 15 years ago.

Sorry but as others have said it's down to you. Network Rail have a legal duty to maintain the railway in a safe condition. If a further accident occurred and people killed or injured they would be vilified and probably charged with corporate manslaughter amongst other things not to mention repair costs and disruption if they chose to ignore the situation. Why should they pay to remove/reduce your trees on your land which have been mismanaged? They have acted responsibly in cutting back on their side. You may not only have to deal with the financial and legal side but also the moral side if anything goes wrong. Additionally you don't really want it to get to the stage of Network Rail obtaining permission through the courts to access your property to carry out the work and possibly entering a ccj or legal charge against your property if you don't pay them. Also anybody wishing to sell and move may have a problem with the particulars of sale and 'known problems with the neighbours'. If your neighbours choose to ignore the problem that's their lookout but you need to cover yourself. Western Distribution trim back trees in my wood underneath power cables at their expense but that is because their lines cross my wood under a wayleave which is different to your case. Not easy for you but needs dealing with and a long term solution implementing.

If it heaves then it's not just the foundations potentially at risk, if it's a solid floor with no void underneath then floor could suffer from heave. As mentioned much more detail needed. When building first part of our house in our woodland (clay soil) had long sessions with Building Control over depth and type of foundations due to surrounding trees none of which were above 9" dia at base nor particularly close. Lots of useful info here; https://www.labcwarranty.co.uk/blog/how-to-reduce-the-effects-of-ground-heave-following-tree-removal/

SBR - it's waterproof

Hmmm. Well I took my pension money when I could as my final salary scheme went pop and also basically brought my company down as well. If you remember the talk was about people getting their money and buying Lambos. Having suffered the extortionate fees levied by our pension managers well if anyone was gonna have a Lambo with what was left of my pension (thank god for the FAS) it was gonna be me! Didn't buy a Lambo put it into property which we had started doing when my company was struggling. We buy modernish properties which require refurbishing. New bathroom, new kitchen usually, new carpets and decorate throughout nothing fancy. We let at reasonable rent preferably to families and while most just pay monthly after referencing we have taken people with bad credit ratings who are up front about it and put 3 - 6 months rent up in advance. The vast majority of our tenants have either owned their own property and can't handle it or don't want to take on the commitment. Most are okay, some are great and some are have been b******s. We don't get close to tenants but as my wife quotes "we've fed kids, cats, done the washing up, cleaned the place and ran relationship or financial guidance sessions". We're not perfect but we try to help where we can. If we weren't renting places out I don't know where most of our tenants would be as they mainly couldn't or wouldn't buy and the local councils/housing associations are snowed under. We're not all scum and neither are all tenants but its gutting when you walk into a property which was clean, well decorated and homely and its been neglected or abused and you have to start over plus the tenant lies their head off about the state of the place when they took it on despite photos to the contrary. On the other hand we've got some lovely tenants who have improved the property and look after it as if it were their own BUT it is THEIR HOME and that's how we play it. As for the bombardment of unsolicited letters from letting agents saying kick your tenants out and we'll get you more money - straight in the bin. The rent money obviously pays for repairs, insurance etc but the balance goes back into buying another place and providing a nice home for people who need it. If we get wiped out by a 40 ton truck one day our tenants have the security of a couple of years before executors can sell up plus first refusal on purchasing at a good discount. In a perfect world everyone could have whatever home they wanted no problem and England would thrash the Aussies at cricket every time. So we're not all rogues with angels for tenants and like arborists there are good and bad examples and we usually only hear about the bad. Letting ain't easy, you hand the keys over to a stranger on something worth nigh on £170k and hope! If you would spend your life worrying about it - don't do it. Think I might write a book about it one day but no-one would believe half of it.

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Can I have first dibs at checking how secure that load is? Alright I'll join the back of the queue.

I suppose next you'll be telling us she drinks too much and ends up legless!

Erbauer excellent quality and value Two year warranty. Drill and impact driver set really good. https://www.screwfix.com/p/erbauer-eri742kit-18v-2-0ah-li-ion-cordless-combi-drill-impact-driver-twin-pack/9478T?tc=IB6&ds_kid=92700022882492560&ds_rl=1241687&ds_rl=1245250&ds_rl=1244066&ds_rl=1249796&ds_rl=1245250&ds_rl=1249484&gclid=CjwKCAjwsfreBRB9EiwAikSUHUhi91e_Vbip9-phx64opDVwoV6RW1eKE62SWgC4mdtxZDBfLkRglBoCDJYQAvD_BwE&gclsrc=aw.ds

What a lot of tosh so I have a stihl chainsaw and have had the handover by the dealer and now I can't buy an air filter without another safety lecture? Or am I missing something?

Finding the spindle in flower in our wood. Sorry about the poor photos.

Great PR from Stihl piss off your regular repeat order customers. Mind you domestic market is probably much larger than the pro.

Wonder if the Belgian Air Force have a 'you break it you pay for it' in their employment conditions!