All our loft hatches have opened inwards to the loft space. It does mean having to use a big enough ladder for our type, but it isn't too difficult, and the hatch closes onto a lip, exactly the same way as a conventional door closes. I don't think I'd like one doing the opposite - if the catch fails, that's not ideal for your head! Hope you can get it resolved - safely and securely @rowlandscastle444.
It's a place where beautiful isn't enough of a word....
I live in west central Scotland - not where that photo is...
Ours used to open inwards but we had to change it to accommodate the pull-down ladder. It was one of the first things we did when we bought the house - I couldn't be doing with carrying the stepladder in from the garage and up the stairs every time I wanted to put something in the loft or fetch something down. We don't have a huge amount of storage space in the house itself. It's been 35 years now and the catch still seems to be OK - and we don't stand around on the landing so the chances of it failing randomly when someone is just walking underneath it are pretty slim.
Doncaster, South Yorkshire. Soil type: sandy, well-drained
We had yet another call from British Gas saying somebody would be coming to install smart meters in the next couple of weeks. I told them they wouldn't. I'd made it clear to BG that I don't want smart meters until there is a legal requirement to have them. I'm certainly not going to be without electricity or gas for any time during the winter months even if I did want them installed.
I agree re the smart meter, OVO keep pestering us to have one. My grump today, we finished a bottle of Olive oil today, there was loads of info on the bottle about how green they are, save water, no pesticides etc etc. Absolutely Nothing about recycling the bottle or plastic spout, do we separate the two or just chuck the whole thing in?
My wife bought me a lasagna from Asda today for some reason. It's an own brand poshed-up recipe made with chianti and traditionally cooked 'al forno'. The ingredients suggest that the chianti is watered down with 'red wine' and unless I'm mistaken al forno means cooked in the oven. Worst of all it says:
WARNING Contains alcohol. Extra care has been taken to remove bones, although some may remain.
How many bones does a grape have? Or didn't they bother fishing the rats out of the vats before bottling?
Either way it was actually very nice.
If you can keep your head, while those around you are losing theirs, you may not have grasped the seriousness of the situation.
Mine were installed back in 2016/17 by BG - and were SMETS1.
When I moved supplier to Shell - the readings stopped being passed to Shell (as they could only deal with SMETS2). BUT, my meters had their firmware upgraded over a year back (to SMETS2 compatible) and the auto readings and transmission then worked with Shell. Having said that, the gas readings, over the past few months have been intermittent at Shell's end (they appear on the IHD fine - so the meter is working) - and as no one seems to be able to fault find the process, the meters are now to be swapped out for pukka SMETS2 models.
When working, they are fine - and obviously give real time (ish) data to both the grids and the customer. And, to me, even when they weren't working well, all it meant to me was that I had to take manual readings once a month again. No great shakes.
Too may reports similar to the above. Even many new ones stop working and revert to dumb, some even cause long term overcharging. When we has our gas boiler re-newed the engineer noted we still had our old meters and he advised us to hang on to them a long as possible.
@Hostafan1 the problem(s) with smart meters? In excess of 10% don't work properly, or don't work at all. Numerous reports of gas connections in particular being damaged during installation and the engineer then saying it's not their problem. They shut off the gas and say it's up to the householder to sort it out. I'm certainly not risking going without gas or electricity for any amount of time during the winter months. I may consider one next summer (if we get a summer). I'm perfectly capable of taking readings manually.
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Hope you can get it resolved - safely and securely @rowlandscastle444.
I live in west central Scotland - not where that photo is...
My grump today, we finished a bottle of Olive oil today, there was loads of info on the bottle about how green they are, save water, no pesticides etc etc. Absolutely Nothing about recycling the bottle or plastic spout, do we separate the two or just chuck the whole thing in?
Contains alcohol. Extra care has been taken to remove bones, although some may remain.
How many bones does a grape have? Or didn't they bother fishing the rats out of the vats before bottling?
Either way it was actually very nice.