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Impressive how they’ve led with a photo that looks like a render from a 90s 3d video game

Yeah. Check out the ridgeway for some castles.

All the good stuff is long gone. The home I grew up in will be demolished for some basic shitbox in time.

Is this an evangelical prison?

Welyn and Hatfield authority is an ambition free zone.

They gave up basically after years of folks moving in and ignoring them and doing whatever the fuck they liked.

The same, but supersized.

Only in person do you get a sense of how dreadful it really is. And should you go inside it...

I dont understand this trend of trying to make houses look like're some kind new build.

The regs forces their hands to a certain extent. As does their imagination.

FWIW I thought the sub looked legit. Hands and dial pip looked slightly weird though.

The existing wasn't worth saving, but the replacement is a gopper.

Seems a bit ridiculous having massive windows in a hallway? Wouldn't they be better in, you know, rooms you actually use? There will some stupid unmaintainable skylight / roof lantern thing at the top too, which just gets covered in shit and can't ever be cleaned.

Where I was bought up is full of houses like that, now. Division one footballer basic bitch houses.

Suspect you'd need to make some kind of additional salary sacrifice agreement to have it taken from your gross income. Get an accountant.

under quite strict regulations so not allowed to be linked through a potentially flakey wifi.

Yes - wirelessly linking them together on their own proprietary private network is how they should work, and the tech for doing so has existed forever, see any multi-device wireless burglar alarm from the 90s.

Yeah. Until there are some infrastructure changes where we are, EV is off the table. I'm skeptical of plug in hybrids, suspect if we got one it would run on the petrol engine most of the time which seems silly.

The question is more, is it realistic to expect the existing to cost me less over the next 3-4 years than new, given the new will have warranty and not need an MOT.

Advice please :)

Lease is up on our 2020 octavia in July. Currently we pay £160 a month for it and we paid £800 down payment originally when we signed up.

The equivalent new Octavia is £250 a month and £2k down.

Would you extend the lease again, or get a new car?

It is due an Oil service, and obvs. an MOT in July (where I suspect we'd be looking at tyres), and the warranty is up.

If I was time rich I'd have at it.

Strolls move on Sainz was a++

The rest was a bit boring

Vibes in the McLaren garage must be great.

You can wire the £15 ones together if you happen to have stripped your house back to the brickwork

Wirelessly [non-wifi] linking them together should be a feature of the cheapest reg-meeting alarms. The tech to do so is ancient.

Yeah figured prep and disposal is a large chunk of that.

neighbours getting it done forces our hand, annoyingly.

How do I tell them that using red brick is going to look shit and too matchy-matchy with their gaff. I think sand - like Stevos - is the right thing to do.

Our neighbours just got quoted £3.5k just for the wall, which doesn't seem like great value :(

How much did the front garden wall set you back? Need to do ours.

You'll have some folks come along in a mo to tell you the smoke alarm downstairs going off didn't wake them when they were sleeping on the top floor. Whether 'connected' smoke alarms means 'smart' IDK, but on balance it seems like a good idea to have all of them go off if one of them does. This should be a feature of £9.99 smoke alarms, but it isn't.

Any tips for doing it as neatly/safely

Multitool, in case you were wondering.

It’s possible they did a shit bleed. Iirc dampers usually have another chamber with some nitrogen in it as an expansion vessel or volume compensator - if they leak you get the same kind of issue.

Yep - on the bike your body weight and the leverage will make issues with the internals more apparent.

First guess is that there is air in the damper and the clunk is the shock progressing undamped until the air is compressed and the piston hits resistance.

Is that the front of the house? It’s gopping

But if you are in it you don’t have to look at it I guess