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Adequate ventilation
The two side walls have a screened/meshed off two or three inch gap at the top and I keep the two sky lights on the "just open a crack" latch setting. I assume there's enough of a cross breeze to help as I've had no issues with rust on tools. There is what looks like water damage on the doors but that is from splashback in rain as the deck outside it comes pretty much right up to the threshold. It's done nothing more than discolour the wood at this point though. I tend to treat the front face of the shed when I'm doing the annual deck oil though which helps with beading a lot of that rain splash off.
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Did you insulate yours at all?
No, it came pre-lined but I've not bothered to insulate. If it were an office or something I would be more inclined but I'm generally doing something manual in there and I've not had a problem with condensation on tools or anything as there is good ventilation and I don't close the sky lights all the way.
Actually managed a pretty full service of my road bike with the new clear space the other night. Including drying the washed/cleaned chain in front of the patio heater (if I'm in there in winter doing something where I'm not moving around as much, it is more than enough to point towards me and keep me warm, I heat myself rather than the space).
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When I was labouring for Fiddy BITD, "someone" (genuinely wasn't me but none of the other trades would own up) dropped a hammer in the brand new bath we were putting in. Because no one owned up there was a long, tense bun fight over who was going to replace it as the homeowner rightfully didn't want a repaired bath when he paid for a new one.
Ours was one of those where you twist the cap on the overflow to operate the plug. It had just deteriorated over time. So replaced with a clicky push plug and all stainless. Getting the old one out was a fucker as the cable access was on the opposite side to where I could reach. Ended up just busting the fucker out. It was going in the bin anyway.
I have also resealed the bath a couple of times now. Mainly twice because the first time was shit, but didn't contribute to any major leaks (to put @aggi 's mind at ease). In the intervening years I got a fuck load more caulking practice in elsewhere in the house so it's a bit better now. I prefer using a blade to get the old stuff out. I've tried the solvent stuff but it always leaves some semi-disolved gunk in the deeper recesses and I'm paranoid that will negatively impact the new stuff from going on properly.
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For us it was the overflow, plus ms_com and mini_com running a deep bath. Got a video call while I was in the US for work where water was pushing through the kitchen spot lights, them both standing wrapped in towels crying and the smoke alarm going mad as it had got water in it. Grateful for the fold out bath panels when it came time to replace (plus the 4,000 mile distance when it was actually happening).
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Mum's Dad was pretty senior in the TA and my Mum's Mum was an orangewoman. Her sister was RUC reserves or specials or whatever they were called so there was nothing bad said about them in my family. Like I said, I get literal shudders when I think about how I used to think life was like when I lived in NI.
Later in life, my cousin married a guy who used to be in TSG (or whatever the RUC used to call them, I just knew them as riot cops). He said their land rover would just roll into whatever was going on, they'd pile out, hammer the shit out of whoever was with reach, grab a few, jump back into the land rover and fuck off before the tyres caught fire. He said he was told that if the land rover stopped and the doors opened, anyone with arm's reach was fair game. He drives a private ambulance now.
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I don't see the relevance of people saying "why didn't he just stop?" or "I would have done X" or at least I think it's easy to say when they don't have the same background or set of circumstances as Chris Kaba. Fuck knows what he was thinking when he tried to get away. He either feared for his life (justifiably when he is four times more likely to be killed than I would be in that situation before you add on the weapons intel for the car or his history - which I feel was released tactically as the officers couldn't have known who he was at the time, unless I've missed that they did somehow in the reporting) or he just didn't want to get caught and thought he could get away. Saying things like that implies more than a small amount of victim blaming and whatever he was guilty of at the time or previously, he was unarmed and we haven't had the death penalty in this country for a while.
I was always brought up to respect the police (the RUC as they were then). And that was easy to say and do, coming from a very typical Protestant family in a very typical Protestant town. I couldn't understand why they got bad press. Until I actually left NI and started learning more about what it was like to be Catholic and/or Irish in the same place I grew up. Border or random road checkpoints were fine for us. The peeler or the soldier would see my Dad's nice Protestant surname or clock his post code and wave us through. Former RUC or squaddies that I have met since have told that they were ordered to make life difficult for anyone of an opposite persuasion to us; get everyone out of the car in all weathers, empty the boot, make them wait around, etc. Knowing this it's easy to see why people would at the very least, dislike the police back home. And that's the soft stuff. I worked in a 24hr garage during university, across the road from one of the last army barracks in South Belfast. One guy from up the country started working there. Proper culchie name, GAA tops and hold all etc. As soon as he realised the army land rovers would do laps of the petrol station on their patrols, he quit as he was paranoid that "the Brits would get him". As an ignorant prod, I thought he was daft. And I'm ashamed of that now as it it very likely the Brits did get someone he knew or someone in his family in living memory.
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Still considering a Stage 1 for the VRS (although I'll probably wait until the next service and ask the garage if it's up to it), so I thought I'd see what the insurance would be like. Getting quotes back that are less than I'm paying now!