Tell Me Something............Anything!

[Barry]

Oh well, it must be "the exception that proves the rule".

[Pigmy Pony]

Had some interesting customers over the years, but how about this one?



He and his wife have provided me with work for many years now. Really nice people. I was there this morning, drinking their coffee and eating all of their bourbon biscuits.

Timothy is now 86, but still keeping busy. Munich next month, and Singapore in June I believe. Long may it continue

[Mikeandvan]

In my new flat now, at 925 pm its cheap for Brighton. I got lucky here, bang In the centre of town , well the Hove part of Brighton, a classic regency building, basement flat, loving it so far. Can't believe I spent 2 yrs out in the sticks. Beach is a few minutes walk, or 30 minutes with my poor arthritic pooch. No more buses for me, god I fucking hate buses. Neighbours are quiet, only one adjoining property, the flat above, next door is a business. Roads a bit noisy but might try my hand at some cheap double glazing. Put up 2 kitchen shelves yesterday, only took me 5 hrs, my mate says they look OK, but I'm not so sure, he assures me they're fine, and the issue is my low shelf esteem.

[Barry]

Good news there Mike.

Around here you would have to pay ~ £1,600 a month for a flat like yours.

[Pigmy Pony]

In my new flat now, at 925 pm its cheap for Brighton. I got lucky here, bang In the centre of town , well the Hove part of Brighton, a classic regency building, basement flat, loving it so far. Can't believe I spent 2 yrs out in the sticks. Beach is a few minutes walk, or 30 minutes with my poor arthritic pooch. No more buses for me, god I fucking hate buses. Neighbours are quiet, only one adjoining property, the flat above, next door is a business. Roads a bit noisy but might try my hand at some cheap double glazing. Put up 2 kitchen shelves yesterday, only took me 5 hrs, my mate says they look OK, but I'm not so sure, he assures me they're fine, and the issue is my low shelf esteem.

Listen to your mate Mike and give yourself a break. There will always be times when we can be a bit hard on ourselves, be sure to balance it by giving yourself some credit when something works out right

Depending upon how old your window(s) might be, another option could be to change the existing double glazed units to lami/tuff mix, ie toughened glass inner pane and laminated glass outer pane. Very good at reducing sound transmission, and gives more security too. Or even go for triple-glaze. Whichever, avoid 'Cloudy to Clear' glass replacement firm, their prices take the piss. Find a local one-man-band tradesman.

[Macca]

Listen to your mate Mike and give yourself a break. There will always be times when we can be a bit hard on ourselves, be sure to balance it by giving yourself some credit when something works out right

Depending upon how old your window(s) might be, another option could be to change the existing double glazed units to lami/tuff mix, ie toughened glass inner pane and laminated glass outer pane. Very good at reducing sound transmission, and gives more security too. Or even go for triple-glaze. Whichever, avoid 'Cloudy to Clear' glass replacement firm, their prices take the piss. Find a local one-man-band tradesman.

It's a rented flat so that's putting better windows into someone else's house at your own expense. Okay so you get the benefit while you live there but it still jars with me a bit.

I have decorated some of the rentals I lived in but that wasn't expensive. And they really needed it!

[Barry]

It's a rented flat so that's putting better windows into someone else's house at your own expense. Okay so you get the benefit while you live there but it still jars with me a bit.

I have decorated some of the rentals I lived in but that wasn't expensive. And they really needed it!

My thoughts exactly - though when I rented bedsits as a student I would bill the landlord with the decoration costs (usually just a couple of tins of paint or emulsion), and more often than not they would pay.

[Pigmy Pony]

Our landlord is not too much of a tightwad, so through cooperation we all do ok - We pay for decorating and carpeting the house and for lawn treatments, because we need it doing when it needs doing, and not just some cheapshit 'good enough' solutions.

When it came to building the fences and roofline, I did the work and the landlord paid for the materials. I don't mind that, it means we end up getting what we want to live with and the landlord gets a bargain. The Rock Door at the back of the house was a thousand quid door, but I got it for free and just gave up half a day of my time, so I let him have that. And when it came to re-roofing the garage, I gave him a price that undercut the other two quotes, and still made a decent wage out of it

Bottom line is me and Anita know that we will not have things the way we like if the landlord had to pay for it all.

[Mikeandvan]

Listen to your mate Mike and give yourself a break. There will always be times when we can be a bit hard on ourselves, be sure to balance it by giving yourself some credit when something works out right

Depending upon how old your window(s) might be, another option could be to change the existing double glazed units to lami/tuff mix, ie toughened glass inner pane and laminated glass outer pane. Very good at reducing sound transmission, and gives more security too. Or even go for triple-glaze. Whichever, avoid 'Cloudy to Clear' glass replacement firm, their prices take the piss. Find a local one-man-band tradesman.

'Shelf esteem'.
I didn't want to replace the windows only put some cheap and easy form of double glazing up as the noise from cars is a but much up to about 8pm. Saw some cheap ones on the Internet, plastic I think, but I have blinds anyway so will hardly see them.

[Mikeandvan]

It's a rented flat so that's putting better windows into someone else's house at your own expense. Okay so you get the benefit while you live there but it still jars with me a bit.

I have decorated some of the rentals I lived in but that wasn't expensive. And they really needed it!

I've already spent 200 notes on putting up shelving, as there's absolutely no bloody storage.