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  1. John Skinner
    My brother had a thick ply floor in his flat, put in by the folk in before him. Looks ok and is warm, but you're better off with the OSB. Ply needs to be sealed well and that's going to cost you both money and time. If you don't seal it and you break the surface (moving furniture etc) it starts to peel back and splinter. Then it just becomes a pain in the arse tbh. He had bits where the previous folk had sofa legs, dressers, beds, main walking areas etc that were all worn/splintering. Maybe look around and see if you can find a bulk buy bargain on some laminate. By the time you factor in the ply sheets and all the tins of poly to seal it ... it might work out cheaper?
  2. John Skinner
    Oh wives and gf's always frown on everything. That's why i tend to keep them facing the other way 😉
  3. John Skinner
    Aye, they are ok actually. Well ... as long as you watch out for any toe of fingernails that is 😉
  4. John Skinner
    So i just stuck 3 boxes of sage and onion stuffing up the girlfriend for nothing? She was complaining enough before. Now it's all turned out to be fake, she's gonna go mental. ... Only kidding. I'm sane. I don't have a gf 🙄
  5. John Skinner
    Oh yeah, minced or something. Don't want to have to endure watching them gag on the real thing, whole 🤮
  6. John Skinner
    Even if he doesn't lose 😉
  7. John Skinner
    This could make for a new twist to I'm a celeb. Those eliminated from/those that fail tasks, then get used for the eating trials 😲
  8. John Skinner
    Free Range, Prime Scottish Beef. Raised running free in the Scottish Highlands. Ideal for those that like a large portion 😉
  9. John Skinner
    Can you sign-up other people? Cause i have some family that .... well .... you know 😉 Also brings a whole new meaning to the term "Having friends over for dinner" 🤣
  10. John Skinner
    I was working outside in a T-shirt for 5hrs on Friday. It was fine (fresh, lol) till the sun went down around 3pm. Then OMFG was it cold. Most of the younger generation (oh god i feel 'so old' saying those words) have never experienced an actual cold winter. They see 2 flakes of snow and panic. When i was young we could build igloos in the garden out of snow. Sometimes having to dig the car out, and roads that were feet deep. Hell in the early 90's I had to follow the snow plough along the A96 just to get to Inverness to work. Drifts were higher than the car roof.
  11. John Skinner
    Oh i cannot complain about the quality or quantity of wood. Once again i got more than i ordered (by my estimate at least) and it's lovely looking, dry (approx 11%), large block wood. I just wish it would move and stack itself 🤣 By god aye. Nothing but rippling muscles here now .... covered by a few inches of whale blubber 🤭
  12. John Skinner
    Or in my case. Am i paying too much. If i'm spending 5hrs moving it, shouldn't they be paying me? 🤔
  13. John Skinner
    Understood 👍
  14. John Skinner
    My wood order turned up yesterday, about a week before i was expecting it and i didn't have the area cleared for the wood to go into. It was dropped (loose) at the front of the house. So i spent about 5hrs moving it round the back of the house, piling and loading into both cube bags and the wood shed. So after all that i am no longer coveting that massive woodpile ... unless it came with the barn. Which is what i could be doing with 👍
  15. John Skinner
    Well if you get one ... keep me updated 😉
  16. John Skinner
    So ..... is woodpile envy a thing? Because i think i have it right now.
  17. John Skinner
    Dropped them an email last night and got a reply this morning. Sorted for when they are working my area 👍 Thanks again, that was a great shout. .
  18. John Skinner
    Thanks for that. I'll look into that tomorrow 👍
  19. John Skinner
    Solar is something i will be looking into further once we hit spring (if we survive, lol). Aye, much the same as all our solar lights. charge up all day from what limited sun we get over winter. Come on for 5mins to remind us there are still there, then turn off again 🙄
  20. John Skinner
    Aye. The wood certainly isn't cheap now either. I think this is my third load of wood and peat since August, and must amount to around £1000 by now. But that'll do us well into Feb; I hope. I'll be more organised next year, buy in (or find, cut and store) during the spring and summer for next year. It's bloomin freezing up here 🥶 By the water too, so makes it feel even colder. * Always have the hope that someone local will drop me a load of wood to my, as yet, un-used tip site 😉
  21. John Skinner
    I honestly don't want to think what our gas central heating bill might be atm (or the horrendous figures it might be in the future) had i not switched it off back in July. For hot water alone we're around £18-£21 per month. Scottish Gas must think we've died or gone overseas for the winter. As we'd normally have the CH on 24/7 at about 23C. Thank god i planned ahead and installed the stove 👍
  22. John Skinner
    Aye, you're not wrong there. Using the old brown bin moving method, as it works better than the wheelbarrow and doesn't kill my back as much. Move it round the back, then throw it into the 4 pallet bays in the wood shed. Then what wont fit in there will have to go in the open wood store, and the remainder into two wheelie bins by the back door. Unless its snowing, in which case it'll all stay in the drive - lol 😂
  23. John Skinner
    Aye the smokeless stuff is all ash and no heat. I like my softwood, hardwood and nice big chunks of local peat. Might venture down the route of trying lumps of planet-death. But the black (gets onto everything) mess and the potential to foul the flue puts me off. My immediate issue is how to get the 6cube of loose softwood thats being dumped around the front of the house next week (or maybe later this week) round to the far back of the house without freezing to death in the process 🥶 lol
  24. John Skinner
    I can get about 3 full days burning (wood) until my ash drawer is brimming over. Or about 1/2-1 day if i've added some smokeless fuel. Discovered it's all but useless for producing viable heat, but is very handy for just keeping things going overnight. The volume of ash it produces though... it's atrocious. When this load is done, i doubt i'd buy it again.
  25. John Skinner
    Aye. Some folk are just daft as a brush. Had a friend put warm/hot ash into one of those rubber buckets and put it out on his new decking. Needless to say he needed a new rubber bucket ... and some new decking. It's just common sense. But sadly in all to many these days, that commodity is a tad lacking. .... says the guy that slightly melted the brush whilst sweeping up slightly warm ash this morning. To be fair, this WAS before my coffee.

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