Owning your own home

Sure, it looks pretty, but you're not going to want to kneed bread on it, and it's too warm to make puff pastry.

Amazing... 😁❤️

A shadow gap / poo in the shadows.

You've heard my difficult second album

The ventilation would allow it to dessicate tho

I thought it was shit

This thread is how we make Britain great again.

#MBGA

not going to want to kneed bread on it

Don't follow... wood tops are ace for kneading bread on. Am I slowly poisoning myself with Danish oil infused sourdough?

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Back to there best with third album ‘contemplation space’ a year later.

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christ alive

I imagine that it's the building fire certificate - they often compromise the data privacy of an individual if shared.

I had a case years ago when a major bank refused to give a client details of a transaction on his own account due to 'data protection'. They looked rather embarrassed when the judge asked which section of the Data Protection Act they were referring to. I helpfully gave their barrister a copy of the whole Act as an aide memoire. I'm nice like that.

I can't see how you can get a wooden countertop clean enough to not transfer kitchen cack onto something that is being rubbed against it hundreds of times (without scrubbing it down properly, which is going to end up destroying your surface in any case).

Pffft it all adds to the flavour

Ahhhh the joys of heating and hot water after a few days without them. New geothermal energy pump boiler thing (what do you actually call them, blind spot in my English vocabulary?) finally up and running. Of course the old one chose the one week with freezing temperatures here to shit itself completely. We very quickly went from "fuck this'll be expensive, is there any cheaper way out of this" to "shut up and take my money!"

Ground source heat pump?

I think I may have had a similar thing with the allocated car parking spaces at our block. There was a minor dispute over whose was whose so I helpfully ( I thought ) stuck my deeds copy of the parking map on the communal notice board.
The building management company asked me to take it down - something something about 'security' ?

We need to do something with the wood panelling and wood decking on our terrace, hasn't been touched in two years.

Think the decking just sits ontop of the roof so probably all needs taking up and clearing out underneath, both inside and outside of the panelling needs doing too

Anyone know:
a) what tradesman could quote for it?
b) what actually needs doing? varnishing? sanding? power washing?
c) anyone know anyone in SE?

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Powerwash. Then just let it age or put a layer if clear ronseal over the top.

for both panels and decking?

Yeah. Blast it all! If it starts to look like that again in a couple of years, blast it again.

Start with the panels and work your way down to the decking. How good is the drainage up there?

I have a power washer you can borrow.

theres a single drain under the tile where the BBQ is - but maybe ill lift them up and power wash under it too, lots of moss and weeds growing through. thanks

oh awesome, will PM you when i figure out what weekend to do it

Yeah. You're going to want good drainage.

It's fun and therapeutic. Enjoy.

I'd caution against power washing if there is any kind of supporting timber structure underneath. Attached are some pictures of the joists of a deck I had to rebuild for a client who had taken to regularly jet washing their deck. The decking material is usually much harder than the subframe which is just made from regular construction lumber so much more able to absorb damage from the jetwash. This means that you can be causing damage that you won't see. In the case of my client he was aware that the deck was becoming bouncy but didn't realise the extent of the damage until he fell through it and wound up in a plaster cast.

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