V8Druid
do it as well as you can,but learn to do it better
they have a habit of floating out of the ground a few years later if they're not packed full as buried
Furniss
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Close ish to us in Grand Bretagne, "groundhouse" I think they called it.in France IIRC ..... I've probably a dozen or so looking for a good home free to collector
V8Druid
do it as well as you can,but learn to do it better
just added some links Kev
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6feetdown
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Monkeybusiness
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Dave won’t care, he’ll have sold the house and bought a £200k Defender long before then!
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DaveDCB
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Your man maths is on point!
Furniss
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200k defender ....world has gone mad.
Bank hols here and the foreigners are in the area with their flash motors ....they stick out like sore thumbs
Bank hols here and the foreigners are in the area with their flash motors ....they stick out like sore thumbs
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6feetdown
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Had to pop earlier out this 20 mph bollocks is doing me people are fecking sheep200k defender ....world has gone mad.
Bank hols here and the foreigners are in the area with their flash motors ....they stick out like sore thumbs
V8Druid
do it as well as you can,but learn to do it better
bloody horrendous isn't it ... it's 20 in the village, but I just ignore it and do the usual 30 ... nothing fronting onto the road of any significance ... 's a farce
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6feetdown
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Same but seems more and more sheep are obeying their masters.
I was on a job last week, talking to guy said their fuel bill has gone up massively since introducing 20 . They have sent proper data to the the pricks in Cardiff along with a load of other firms data. The aholes won't even reply
V8Druid
do it as well as you can,but learn to do it better
doesn't surprise me in the slightest ... modern vehicles just aren't designed to ran at those speedsSame but seems more and more sheep are obeying their masters.
I was on a job last week, talking to guy said their fuel bill has gone up massively since introducing 20 . They have sent proper data to the the pricks in Cardiff along with a load of other firms data. The aholes won't even reply
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6feetdown
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He said its the constant braking of the vehicles that Is the problem. Absolute *****
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6feetdown
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Do you have a contact name? Quite like the look of the geowall planks
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Old Operator
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I have been working on all this, house insurance is a no go. Thinking of trying to settle jointly with house above, though wall holds up her ground. The legal costs & delays too great to risk fighting it. My solicitor / executor wants £220 per hour + vat to do 3 hrs work to try & get above property to take responsibility for the wall. Court costs can be £ 600 per day not inc my own representation. Had a retired master builder relative look at job & emails, he says settle if possible.
Have uncovered a brick underground cistern just in front of the wall remains running at 90 deg to it. Size about 6ft wide by 12 ft long by an unknown depth because it is filled in with brick ends. looking at others in the past I would guess that it is about 8ft deep. I think this will need to be pressure grouted particularly if the wall is to be brought forward slightly & given a thicker base. I thought this was there as I last saw it in 1965 when a 4 yr old boy! Some of the arched vaulted roof were broken into to allow rough filling with bricks from nearby demolition. (see pic) The site is such that no mechanical machines could get in unless they could fly so it is all handwork. I can see into the cistern top both ways & have pushed in drain rods to get length. I feared more tanks as the place was once a tannery with living quarters but as yet have found no more, after digging test holes wherever I could. There is a possibility of some small ones in front of the collapsed wall - these were shallow open topped brick 'sunken bath' things that animal skins were put in to cure. My dad was rather woolly on the exact place they were when he was alive. They may well have been elsewhere. I have a local builder of these walls coming to have a look. I have worked with him before. Hope we can do something between us. A source of funding is the main problem first.
Have uncovered a brick underground cistern just in front of the wall remains running at 90 deg to it. Size about 6ft wide by 12 ft long by an unknown depth because it is filled in with brick ends. looking at others in the past I would guess that it is about 8ft deep. I think this will need to be pressure grouted particularly if the wall is to be brought forward slightly & given a thicker base. I thought this was there as I last saw it in 1965 when a 4 yr old boy! Some of the arched vaulted roof were broken into to allow rough filling with bricks from nearby demolition. (see pic) The site is such that no mechanical machines could get in unless they could fly so it is all handwork. I can see into the cistern top both ways & have pushed in drain rods to get length. I feared more tanks as the place was once a tannery with living quarters but as yet have found no more, after digging test holes wherever I could. There is a possibility of some small ones in front of the collapsed wall - these were shallow open topped brick 'sunken bath' things that animal skins were put in to cure. My dad was rather woolly on the exact place they were when he was alive. They may well have been elsewhere. I have a local builder of these walls coming to have a look. I have worked with him before. Hope we can do something between us. A source of funding is the main problem first.
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Old Operator
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I got advice from a good local architect who only does heritage refurb, no new build. He said if he did pre app local council would demand soil stability survey taking 1 year & costing £8 to 10K , then design by structural engineer at least £5K & reconed on £30K+ to build wall. Property value has dropped 15% in area over last year. He also said if I was staying I could just quietly rebuild wall & say nothing - but was trying to protect me from questions over work by potential buyer's solicitor
His best advice was sell as is if I could. Have now managed this at auction, they have paid non refundable £22K deposit on fall of hammer. Auctioneer / agent says he has never known anyone walk away from the deposit & not complete. In some ways they have got a bargain but I have been relieved of a king size headache. Can get on with life, looking for a bungalow with some sheds etc. or something similar
His best advice was sell as is if I could. Have now managed this at auction, they have paid non refundable £22K deposit on fall of hammer. Auctioneer / agent says he has never known anyone walk away from the deposit & not complete. In some ways they have got a bargain but I have been relieved of a king size headache. Can get on with life, looking for a bungalow with some sheds etc. or something similar
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Monkeybusiness
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Sounds like a great outcome, well done!
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DaveDCB
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Glad you have sorted it, I’ve just auctioned a site due to complete this week - impressed by the process I must say!
I’ve had one property fall through after exchange, estate agent of 20 years had only ever had 1 other fall through before! I took the hefty deposit, but it took 4 months to re-sell, took a lot less for it, ran the house empty fully finished for the 4 months and had to make a horrible annual loan repayment which should of been covered by the sale of it in the first instance.. so I just about broke even after it all, and a lot of stress!
I’ve had one property fall through after exchange, estate agent of 20 years had only ever had 1 other fall through before! I took the hefty deposit, but it took 4 months to re-sell, took a lot less for it, ran the house empty fully finished for the 4 months and had to make a horrible annual loan repayment which should of been covered by the sale of it in the first instance.. so I just about broke even after it all, and a lot of stress!
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Old Operator
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I did sell the place & was given a bit longer to clear it as work was not due to start on the modernization for a while. It all looked pretty sick after I had removed all furniture. The kitchen is built into the valley side so damp. The new owner did not realize this fact until it was already hers!!! I lived there myself 1961 to 85. A bigger family meant more heat on so the damp problems were less. Also I gather weather has become much wetter lately, not helping. Solicitor then took ages to finally sort things
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Monkeybusiness
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It’s all fixable and any buyer needs to go in with their eyes open! A building in the side of a hill is a damp-magnet due to basic physics.
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