Owning your own home

I got one about 5 years ago. Replaced the battery twice now but the best thing I did was take it all apart, clean everything and reassemble. Dyson say not to do it but if you follow YouTube clips it's really simple and made a huge difference.

I bought a Dyson V8, and it has just enough battery life to vacuum the whole house, if you don't have to concentrate on any particular spot.
However the original battery lasted a year or so, and we replaced it with a Chinese compatible one offering much greater run time. Haven't regretted it.
For the place in France I'm buying an Erbauer wet & dry shop vac. Formerly known as a Titan. I have had one of these for 10 years and it's brilliant. Unclogs drains, can be hooked up to power tools, can vacuum up lumps of concrete, etc.

Should help clean up this level of spider activity!

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Cheers, might give that a go - along with a new battery - one popped up on amazon (fuck them too) claiming 3000mAh instead of the original's 2100, what's the worst that could happen...

If anyone wants a Henry, I have a spare one in West Norwood

I looked at the Chinese batteries, then considered my V7 having an uncontrollable thermal excursion whilst I was out, and bought the OEM one.

Would be interested, but only after we (hopefully) move. If you still have it in a month or so.

I have a big wired Shark for the proper vacuuming once a week or so and a small handheld Shark with dual battery pack for small stuff in the kitchen and my partner's HAIR in the bathroom.... liking the combination so far

the achilles heel for my sainted Shark appears to be leaves. if it so much as sniffs one it stops working for an hour, needs a quiet lie down in a darkened room and then splutters begrudgingly back to life once it's gotten over the trauma.

Well, there is that I suppose

Loving these snippets from France. They remind me of what my parents house/old houses looked like when they first bought them.

Got to say the tiling in your photos looks like great quality given its age.

In the current place their downstairs bathroom used to be an epic sea of turquoise from the sevs. As awful as it sounds, the exceptional quality made it look good. Unfortunately it had to come out to change the the floorplan.

It looks a bit like ours in that it looks tolerable/liveable from the pictures but that's because it's been lived in how it was for long enough that the things that need doing have been covered up.

We've run out of energy with ours a bit (at least with regards to the stuff we can do ourselves) but we're hoping a new bathroom will improve our quality of life a bit.

Anyone have a recco for a leaf blower?

It looks tired but not 'rip it out and start again, knackered' in the photos.

Assume it was immediately apparent when viewing that major work was required?

Those walls look fine in the pictures but once the furniture was moved you could see it was all blown. I took a nail out of one wall and the entire elevation of plaster came down with it.

The EA did some creative picture taking.

The EA did some creative picture taking.

Classic.

Still, at least when it's all done, it will be a decent job and wont need touching for ages.

Well this was a bit freaky! Not looked at any battery websites so wondering what sort of cookies LinkedIn is working too.

An hour after a battery chat and suddenly get an advert for batteries

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@ColinTheBald is your man.

Sup all

Does anyone have a good solitor? Ours were dicks when we bought so looking to find someone decent instead.

Well this was a bit freaky! Not looked at any battery websites so wondering what sort of cookies LinkedIn is working too.

An hour after a battery chat and suddenly get an advert for batteries

Nothing on LFGSS would do this.

But if you followed a single link off of LFGSS to anything that provides context, and if you keep all your browsing in one browser... just assume that you already have a Facebook cookie and that so does every other site and it's Facebook that put this together.

My advice remains:

• Google stuff (gmail, drive, etc) in Chrome, with 1 or 2 sites you absolutely trust (for me that is LFGSS) and get into the habit of copying links and opening them in Firefox
  
• Facebook never
  
• Browse the web with Firefox with NoScript installed and permanently in private browsing
  

Facebook and Google are tyrannical.

No lie, recently I was at my bros and my sister in law started chatting about dungarees (real life talk chat).

Minutes later dungarees popped up on, I think, my instagram feed, on my phone. No way have I ever been searching anything to do with dungarees on my phone or anywhere else.

Riddle me that. csb etc

tinfoil hat time - Facebook aren't bugging your phone. You've just given permissions somewhere and advertising algos are smart. sorry

advertising algos are smart

This should be the scary bit, not the microphone conspiracy.

She uses siri, and i was on their wifi, that is all i could come up with.

The algo's aren't that smart, I got no interest in any dungarees and I breezed straight past it. Suckers....

Gethin at Knights has been excellent for us. They're Chester based but doesnt seem to matter these days anyway

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01244 896600

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http://www.knightsplc.com

Edited: probably won't want his mobile out on a forum so.will pm them to you.

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