Owning your own home

Environmental health can enforce a clean up if it's a health hazard, take some pics and email them, but IME it has to be proper grim before they'll get involved. Foxes and rats and other critters will cause them to be more interested than piles of stuff.

How about I take some pics and you guys give me some opinions 1st? I am more concerned about me, as it's not hard to guess who grass them up... their garden is boxed in by 4 gardens - 3 on my side and 1 on the other. The 2 others on my side have sheds so can't see, the 1 on their other side has high fence, again, can't see. I have lower fence so that leaves me directly expose to their shit...

Do it.

I bet my house is miles shitter but fucking hell, this is the thread to boast about whatever you can get imo

Bob Bentley who I think may be on Hoe Street.

Really good advice @rive_gauche , I snuck a 10mm armoured destined for the garage in our extension foundations yesterday before the concrete oversite gets laid today. Your professional approach made me check the regs on burying and I didn't dig the trench deep enough or use tape so back out with the spade. I panic bodged.

Orrite. The new pile.

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kitchen

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upstairs

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bed

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and barf

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pretty chuffed. Moving in a week tomorrow. Bought a new bed and wifi enabled baby monitor last night. Need a fridge, a shed... and a lot of stair gates

^it's in Faversham, Kent.

Strong boast post. Congrats!

Very nice

that's the way to move out of London! and you're not even that far away. Nice trade up

My (rented) garage has lighting but no power. To run all the power tools I run an extension lead over from the flat, which means that the cable runs across the tarmac apron between the flat and the garage, but it's only for the periods I am actually working so it's fine.

I am now going to clear the garage out so I can put the new car in there- the car which has been wired for a trickle charger.

Can I use the lighting power in some fashion which is safe to run 12v into the car via a trickle charger so it stays topped up and happy, or will this burn the car to the axles and leave the entire row of garages as a terrifying memory in the minds of the local fire crews?

I'm not paying to run power to a garage that isn't mine, and indeed is owned by total cunts.

Holy crap, you get a lot for your money out there!

Congrats!

FUCK YES. Good work @Apone, doing the 'burbs the way they're meant to be done.

EDIT: looks like room for a little studio in that place

Change to hydroponic light bulb and use solar powered trickle charger on the dashboard?

A socket plug (don't know the English term...)?

Depends on a lot of factors but a trickle charger might only draw up to a few amps so in principle you could do it. Would be better to test the circuit but that would require access to the source cu, should also have an rcd somewhere but that's only if you are playing by the rules. Maybe use a lighting socket (small round pins low amp rating), normally used for table lamps. That would stop you or anyone else plugging a high current 13amp item in and wouldn't look so out of place on a lighting circuit.

If you're determined to do this then you must take all reasonable precautions to protect life and property.
Suitably rated overcurrent and leakage current devices will figure in there somewhere.

How much should a survey cost to have a look at a crack in the wall that's appeared in our flat and the flat above? What other work would they do apart from visual inspection?

Really nice. Just stalked it and that's the sort of place I could swap my current place that's nestled under the A102 for without a massive amount more money.
Not sure what I'd do with all the free time I'd have not having to clean all the dust/pollution off all the surfaces every few days though.

Well done Apone, Faversham was too far from London for me so I moved to Rochester and loved it. Enjoy exploring the Kentish countryside and turn the front lounge into a bike garage!!