Ice cream van's just driven past here. God loves a trier! Mine's a 99, mate.... Steephill - the ones that slavishly follow satnavs deserve to get stuck. Twuts. We're generally quite fortunate with deliveries. The girls order a lot online, and most of the guys are pretty good. Usual story - the minority gives everyone a bad name. R'girl's experience is unforgiveable. Apparently my gable end needs roughcasting. Ooh err, missus. The bloke made sense. It expains why it hasn't been permanently leaking. No issue with the join of the extension to the gable end, but the wall has been soaking up water and then it's working down in to the cavity where the wall was knocked through,and evetually some was leaching into the new hall ceiling. Sigh.
It's a place where beautiful isn't enough of a word....
I live in west central Scotland - not where that photo is...
The normal tarmac road leading up to us gets steadily steeper until it runs out at our drive at about 1 in 5 where it becomes an even steeper dirt track. You would think that would be deterent enough but van drivers seem determined to drive right up to the door. Just as well there is then a flight of a dozen steps to get up to the house which stops them getting any nearer. We do have a great view though which even the John Lewis men who delivered a new washing machine appreciated. Once they got their breath back .
The local farmer is very good about coming out in his tractor to pull delivery drivers out of our lane when they get wedged.
Last year a car turned up outside our house. We are in a little hamlet of 3 houses about a mile from the public road and although we have had the track surfaced, it ain't the M1. So they drove all the way up this narrow track, turned into the very rough and bumpy un-surfaced section that is our drive with a stream running down it. Opened our gate, drove through and up to our front door. I was in the garden and went down to see who it was as we don't get casual callers. Not ever. There was a couple inside having an argument. They wound the window down, said "sorry, we put in the wrong postcode", reversed all the way back out down the drive (leaving me to shut the gate behind them) and drove off. Now you'd have thought they'd have read the sign at the turning off the road which names all 3 houses here and thought 'that's not where we're going'? Or at least have stopped when they got to our gate?
I do wonder about people sometimes.....
Gardening on the edge of Exmoor, in Devon
“It's still magic even if you know how it's done.”
@Fairygirl leaks are always a nuisance because the water can track quite long distances inside structures coming out a long way from where it's getting in. Especially with the sort of wind we've been having just lately. Hope your man's got to the root of it - sounds very possible.
Gardening on the edge of Exmoor, in Devon
“It's still magic even if you know how it's done.”
Only sometimes? It made sense what he said about the water ingress. Having lived in another [old] house where leaks were a permanent feature, discovering the exact point of entry can be very challenging! The gable end is right in the firing line of every bit of wind and rain. Unfortunately, they'll have to put up scaffold either side of the extension roof, and the rear bit is right where I have a new border....
It's a place where beautiful isn't enough of a word....
I live in west central Scotland - not where that photo is...
Every workman who came near our old house was asked to be careful where they put their big clodhopping feet/ladders/scaffold..... I hope yours will be careful FG.
We have a leak too. Just a drip drip but noisy and, it seems to me, right below part of the roof where a big hole was made and then filled with PV panels so we need to get them back to check the seals. Forecast to pee down tomorrow so no doubt we'll find where it's ending up. At the mo it's going down behind the divider between Possum's room and the dressing room the previous owners built for their 3 kids to share. No idea where it goes after that but probably the kitchen ceiling. Good puzzle to solve.
I have seen some amazing photos on the net showing where people end up followng the satnav with no brain cells - mostly hanging off cliffs above the sea, steep slopes, quarries, in rivers........
Vendée - 20kms from Atlantic coast.
"The price good men (and women) pay for indifference to public affairs is to be ruled by evil men (and women)."
Your tales of deliveries makes my eyebrows raise. We’ve got a slightly different situation here. Nobody will deliver to our village (except the mail person). We bought a set of bookshelves and paid for delivery. Typically, it was only when we got a phone call to say there was something to collect in town that we found out that they didn’t deliver here. Luckily we had a Ute as well as my little sedan. It only just slotted in with part of it hanging over. 😡.
I’ve heard that the pizza shop in town will only deliver half way (to a bridge about 12 km from town) and the customers have to meet them there. I don’t like pizzas so it’s not a problem for us. 😫
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Mine's a 99, mate....
Steephill - the ones that slavishly follow satnavs deserve to get stuck. Twuts.
We're generally quite fortunate with deliveries. The girls order a lot online, and most of the guys are pretty good. Usual story - the minority gives everyone a bad name.
R'girl's experience is unforgiveable.
Apparently my gable end needs roughcasting.
Ooh err, missus.
The bloke made sense. It expains why it hasn't been permanently leaking. No issue with the join of the extension to the gable end, but the wall has been soaking up water and then it's working down in to the cavity where the wall was knocked through,and evetually some was leaching into the new hall ceiling. Sigh.
I live in west central Scotland - not where that photo is...
Last year a car turned up outside our house. We are in a little hamlet of 3 houses about a mile from the public road and although we have had the track surfaced, it ain't the M1. So they drove all the way up this narrow track, turned into the very rough and bumpy un-surfaced section that is our drive with a stream running down it. Opened our gate, drove through and up to our front door. I was in the garden and went down to see who it was as we don't get casual callers. Not ever. There was a couple inside having an argument. They wound the window down, said "sorry, we put in the wrong postcode", reversed all the way back out down the drive (leaving me to shut the gate behind them) and drove off. Now you'd have thought they'd have read the sign at the turning off the road which names all 3 houses here and thought 'that's not where we're going'? Or at least have stopped when they got to our gate?
I do wonder about people sometimes.....
“It's still magic even if you know how it's done.”
“It's still magic even if you know how it's done.”
It made sense what he said about the water ingress. Having lived in another [old] house where leaks were a permanent feature, discovering the exact point of entry can be very challenging! The gable end is right in the firing line of every bit of wind and rain. Unfortunately, they'll have to put up scaffold either side of the extension roof, and the rear bit is right where I have a new border....
I live in west central Scotland - not where that photo is...
“It's still magic even if you know how it's done.”
We have a leak too. Just a drip drip but noisy and, it seems to me, right below part of the roof where a big hole was made and then filled with PV panels so we need to get them back to check the seals. Forecast to pee down tomorrow so no doubt we'll find where it's ending up. At the mo it's going down behind the divider between Possum's room and the dressing room the previous owners built for their 3 kids to share. No idea where it goes after that but probably the kitchen ceiling. Good puzzle to solve.
I have seen some amazing photos on the net showing where people end up followng the satnav with no brain cells - mostly hanging off cliffs above the sea, steep slopes, quarries, in rivers........
I’ve heard that the pizza shop in town will only deliver half way (to a bridge about 12 km from town) and the customers have to meet them there. I don’t like pizzas so it’s not a problem for us. 😫