Owning your own home

That's kind of what I'm thinking - save up for a worst case scenario and if I fail to hit the target, or there're complications, at least I've got some breathing space.

just say alex from park road budd

i've put a small flower bed in (like 1ft deep) along the underside of the front wall and the rest of the flooring is that fancy plumb slate (but bigger chippings). they keep going in the soil and flicking all the soil and crap over the chippings. other gardens are a complete tip and they dont bother going in there, just my nice new garden :-(

Never known if it really works but my gran used to leave 1lt clear plastic bottles of water on the flower beds to keep cats off and swore it works.

Claymore mines.

Cats HATE claymore mines.

Odd. They do like crapping in loose wood chip. I wonder if they also like slate chips. Apparently you can piss in your garden to get rid of foxes as they small that someone else has marked the territory. Not sure if that works for cats though.

Front garden. Also, smell of human urine wafting through the open window, while better than cat shit, still not ideal.

Does big cat poo (lion, tiger etc) work?

Get a cat. Your own cats don't tend to shit in their own turf therefore, once it's claimed its territory, you'd be fine.

Failing that, I have heard chilli powers of sorts would work, but being a cat lover, please can I ask you to lay things down won't actually harm them, as I am sure there are chemicals or whatnot can be used etc etc.

I'm currently using Mumford & Wood. Haven't installed yet, but looks very good quality so far.

Mumford & Wood are very good, spendy though? Can highly recommend London Box Sash Windows Ltd, beautifully detailed, great quality and come pre-finished.

http://www.londonboxsash.com

Spendy, especially when you get the toughened glass, secure by design, etc. add-ons. I can't remember how much ours was, but I think it was in the region of £750 for 1200 x 800 casement in painted wood.

Nice. Much bright. Very light. Your whole house will be good different.

Doesn't work, been at it for a year and I still get foxes.

we put down some cargo type netting (basically similar to the type of netting you get when you buy a bag of satsumas from the supermarket) but stronger and more plastic like. apparently they dont like the texture of it so don't go near it. doesn't look very nice having it out the front but thought it's worth a try. the issue this morning was that we put it over the plants and soil and covered most of the slate chippings and left a thin strip of about 20cm wide and a cat still managed to place one right where there wasn't any netting! now i can't get my wheelie bins out without dragging a load of cat poo across my front path! #firstworldproblems

Has he given u a quote ? I've just contacted someone to quote us making a unit to the left of the chimney breast but he ain't been out yet

Went all Faling Down at the estate agents on Monday evening when having failed to answer a fundamental question about building control for over a week they then came up blank again having been left alone since last Thursday to get the answer from the seller.

By Tuesday night they were still stalling so I gave the manager both barrels and within 20 mins he had rung the seller, made them understand that they had not provided the answers we needed and got a commitment to sort it out. FAAAAAAACK! That's two weeks living at my fucking mother in-law's the whole time needlessly delayed as the fucking estate agent hasn't done the one simple fucking thing I'd asked them to do nearly every fucking day. Total waste of time. Where do they find these cretins?

I'd be far more zen about it but I've got a baby in tow and since we've been squeezed into the tiny suburban terrace with the in-laws she's gone from a sweet, happy to play by herself smiley little thing who sleeps though the night to a needy, clingy screaming mess who won't be left alone, eat or go to sleep.

These fucking fuckers fuck with people's lives with their total incompetence and then think they can fob you off with platitudes. What other fucking industry would keep a customer with a baby waiting in temporary accommodation for two weeks while they just didn't bother properly reading or understanding your repeated and increasingly urgent requests?

CUUUUUNTS!

Ahhh. That feels better.

That's bad, sorry to hear that. Perhaps since there's no longer a chain to collapse on your side they don't treat it with any kind of urgently? Wouldn't surprise me.

I was doing the (twice) daily phone calls a couple of years ago - horrible. Hope it works out.

she's gone from a sweet, happy to play by herself smiley little thing who sleeps though the night to a needy, clingy screaming mess who won't be left alone, eat or go to sleep.

My mother-in-law is the same.

^genu-lol

Ah it's not the end of the world. Just needed to have a bit of a rant.

Let it all out brah. One day I'm going to release a concept album made up entirely of the sound of me punching estate agents in the back of the neck. Until then the only release is to rant.

Could you make it a gatefold double album and do conveyancing solicitors on sides 3&4 please?

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