[Dazzler]

Thanks for the Feedback @tohis

The Lexus would be more like my Camry Hybrids. I find my brother's Prius a bit gutless with the 1.8 V 2.5 petrol. His Top of The range Prius Itech also has a fairly harsh ride on lower profile tyres. I haven't driven any cars with dual clutch transmissions. A bit scared to test drive too many cars (I usually end up buying something) 

[meehalych]

- looks like I can't load the forum while in Russia - now I am in Helsinki
+ the vacation still goes on)
+ the construction of a townhouse is over) I have visited the place and made some notes to be fixed.

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[Dazzler]

Exciting stuff Misha. Sounds like life is good! Steady Girlfriend,  lots of travel, new place...

[meehalych]

Exciting stuff Misha. Sounds like life is good! Steady Girlfriend,  lots of travel, new place...

And a new rc helicopter - yet another present from my girlfriend. This one I can fly in apartment

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[meehalych]

-  I can not load the forum when in Russia. The browser says the page is not found, so now I am using an anonymizer

[Shambles]

-  I can not load the forum when in Russia.

Next time you're in the motherland, PM me your IP address and I'll trace it through the system

[MrWB]

+ Had Friday off as holiday and had a lazy weekend!
- Old house in another city needs £5.5k of work in order to get on the market unexpectedly.
- Current house had a small leak come through the dormer roof.
+ Had emergency house insurance cover through the bank account!
- Insurance company arranged with contractor, but contractor kept failing to call to arrange to turn up.
- Lots of chasing and eventually contractor phoned.
- Contractor turned up later than promised and in the dark for roof work.
- Contractor blamed the ridge line, all needs pulling up apparently.
- Contractor admitted that it could be the felt on the flat dormer roof immediately above the leak, but said he couldn't see properly because it was dark and that he hadn't used a proper light but in his opinion it was the ridge line (that incidentally would cost mega money to fix and wasn't covered by the insurance). Said water "could" be tracking - but there's absolutely no evidence of that - and water is pooling on the felt on the dormer....
- When challenged about not using a light the contract then claimed he had.
- When asked if he could provide a temporary fix in case the weather turned (which is what the insurance cover was) he said that's not what he did....
+ Insurance company agreed with me.
- But they need to launch a full investigation.
- That could take three days.
- And it's 10 days from winter with very changeable wet weather.

Sorry, needed to offload... Really annoyed....

+++ New tyres on the i30, and I'm really happy with them!

[Dazzler]

- Current house had a small leak come through the dormer roof.

- Insurance company arranged with contractor, but contractor kept failing to call to arrange to turn up.
- Lots of chasing and eventually contractor phoned.
- Contractor turned up later than promised and in the dark for roof work

Unreliable contractors seem to be a worldwide problem - no wonder I do anything I can do myself rather than use them!

Sorry, needed to offload... Really annoyed....

No probs, glad we are here to help. 

[MrWB]

Unreliable contractors seem to be a worldwide problem - no wonder I do anything I can do myself rather than use them!

Indeed. Really annoyed that the insurance uses a small unreliable contractor instead of a national firm that have less to gain by trying to make the job bigger than it is.

My thought was to get the insurance company to arrange to get someone out. If it can be fixed within the cover limit, great. If it can't then at least get them to do a temporary fix and I can get it sorted elsewhere more permanently....

Obviously that whole plan's up a creek without a paddle now - so just hoping I can get it sorted otherwise before the next downpour....

It's only a small leak but I'd hate for it to get worse/get to the electrics....

[Dazzler]

Yes, very frustrating!

[PhireSideZA]

Merry Christmas, all! I hope you all have been behaving on here (or at the very least pretending to).

So far so good as I haven't read about any of you lot in the news yet

 

[Doggie 1]

My arrest has been suppressed.

[meehalych]

+ I got the keys from my new home)
- gonna spent lot of money soon - just bare walls inside

+ Merry Xmas and Happy New Year, lads!

[Surferdude]

Enjoy.

[Dazzler]

Exciting times! @meehalych

[The Gonz]

Sounds like some fun to come. удачи 

[Doggie 1]

Enjoy the process. 

[Shambles]

- just handed over close to £6000 for the youngest's first motor

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+ youngest will have a pleasant surprise as I've secretly organised a showstand presentation, complete with ribbons, bows, lights, music & video recording for when we go to pick it up (next Thu)

+ I love giving gifts

- I hate paying for gifts

[CraigB]

Your daughter will be stoked with that Steve

[eye30]

One word -texted?

 Don't forget to post vid of the presentation  so we can see her delight of being handed the keys.

[Dazzler]

Wow! I feel a bit embarrassed now for being so tight! 

Mind you, both of mine got generous sums from Mum's estate...

[kittikat]

+ I got the keys from my new home)
- gonna spent lot of money soon - just bare walls inside

+ Merry Xmas and Happy New Year, lads!

-  LADS!!!   

[Doggie 1]

Where did that IE go?      

[Doggie 1]

- just handed over close to £6000 for the youngest's first motor

(click to show/hide)

+ youngest will have a pleasant surprise as I've secretly organised a showstand presentation, complete with ribbons, bows, lights, music & video recording for when we go to pick it up (next Thu)

+ I love giving gifts

- I hate paying for gifts

Oar sum.   

[The Gonz]

-  LADS!!!   

But 'lad' is a badge of honour and achievement, Cecelia. See what happens every time we call each other girls?

[kittikat]

I could point that 'girls' is an insult but 'lads' is a compliment, but I won't bring down the mood in the 'men's shed' with my petty pedantry. 

Don't worry fellas, I'm only pulling your respective chains.   

And before this thread takes the usual low brow off topic tangent, you know that's not what I meant.    

I'm too much of a lady to make those sorts of innuendos.     (that's my story and I'm sticking to it)

[The Gonz]

In who's endos did you mean exactly?

[Phil №❶]

You realise that you just make us want to meet you even more Kitti. 

[kittikat]

In who's endos did you mean exactly?

'nu' of course.   

You realise that you just make us want to meet you even more Kitti. 

I'm a bit elusive in reality.  I'm waiting for the next meet up to be arranged in Melbourne.

[The Gonz]

I'm waiting for the next meet up to be arranged in Melbourne.