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by Gavster
Fri Oct 17, 2025 11:10 am
Forum: General
Topic: Wales 20mph limit
Replies: 125
Views: 35538

Re: Wales 20mph limit



As bad as Islington. I went to park on a regular on-street bay for 1 hour, opened RingGo, added the bay number (61562) which said about £7 an hour, went through to the final screen and it said £14.25. For one hour, because diesel. On a residential street in Islington. FML.


Are you sure it ...
by Gavster
Fri Oct 17, 2025 8:40 am
Forum: General
Topic: Wales 20mph limit
Replies: 125
Views: 35538

Re: Wales 20mph limit

As bad as Islington. I went to park on a regular on-street bay for 1 hour, opened RingGo, added the bay number (61562) which said about £7 an hour, went through to the final screen and it said £14.25. For one hour, because diesel. On a residential street in Islington. FML.
by Gavster
Wed Oct 15, 2025 6:48 am
Forum: General
Topic: That there London
Replies: 21
Views: 434

Re: That there London


Yeah I think a lot of major cities have had it much worse than we have.


Yeah, Los Angeles is fricking wild, if anyone thinks homelessness is bad here, they should see LA in the wintertime. The entire Skid Row neighbourhood - not just one street - is a campsite, far worse than anything I've ever ...
by Gavster
Tue Oct 14, 2025 7:11 pm
Forum: General
Topic: That there London
Replies: 21
Views: 434

Re: That there London

Twenty years ago the largest collection of scrap fridges in Europe existed just down the road from me and now it’s gone with a massive stadium which hosts some amazing concerts on one side and Sadler’s Wells theatre on the other.

Bring back the fridges!

https://pbs.twimg.com/media ...
by Gavster
Tue Oct 14, 2025 2:39 pm
Forum: General
Topic: The House Projects Thread
Replies: 2815
Views: 801373

Re: The House Projects Thread

Mito Man wrote: Tue Oct 14, 2025 2:28 pm Does he tell you to do your own research?
More or less, yes, he does :lol:
by Gavster
Tue Oct 14, 2025 1:41 pm
Forum: General
Topic: The House Projects Thread
Replies: 2815
Views: 801373

Re: The House Projects Thread

They're quite normal reasonable people when you meet them, it's just that the guy has an absolute obsession with being right, even when he's completely wrong. He'd fit in here 😅
by Gavster
Tue Oct 14, 2025 1:26 pm
Forum: General
Topic: The House Projects Thread
Replies: 2815
Views: 801373

Re: The House Projects Thread

I was sympathetic to them at first, but the longer it went on, the more it became clear they have zero intention of doing what the courts have been telling them to do. They've definitely had more than enough opporutnity to sort things out.

Earlier in the year they had the support of a comprehensive ...
by Gavster
Tue Oct 14, 2025 10:57 am
Forum: General
Topic: Randomness
Replies: 9707
Views: 1917650

Re: Randomness


My E-Class was turned into an Amsterdam Coffeeshop at Heathrow Park and Ride.

Little baggies on the floor, torn up pieces of Rizzla packets, radio re-tuned to some London pirate station.

Never again


Damn, that's crazy!

It also makes me glad I used the Heathrow park and ride last week where ...
by Gavster
Tue Oct 14, 2025 9:49 am
Forum: General
Topic: The House Projects Thread
Replies: 2815
Views: 801373

Re: The House Projects Thread




that looks pretty disgusting, but it makes life pretty straightforward- you’re keeping nothing.

that means you can happily lift up that flooring that looks a bit damp or rip out an old cabinet to see what’s behind without having to worry about damaging anything.

Pay someone else to get rid ...
by Gavster
Tue Oct 14, 2025 8:26 am
Forum: General
Topic: The House Projects Thread
Replies: 2815
Views: 801373

Re: The House Projects Thread

Cheers mik and while it does sound like a big moment, it's more like the beginning of the final chapter. Believe it or not, there's a slim chance we could end up back in court once more. The chances of that are thankfully getting slimmer by the day because we believe the neighbours don't have a leg ...
by Gavster
Mon Oct 13, 2025 7:00 pm
Forum: General
Topic: The House Projects Thread
Replies: 2815
Views: 801373

Re: The House Projects Thread


To be fair at least there won’t be any nasty surprises because you know everything is going to need to be done, and I’d be happy if every bathroom I started looked like that, when they’ve been done well and maintained well they’re harder to strip out :lol:

And stud walls go up easy enough if you ...
by Gavster
Mon Oct 13, 2025 6:58 pm
Forum: General
Topic: The House Projects Thread
Replies: 2815
Views: 801373

Re: The House Projects Thread


that looks pretty disgusting, but it makes life pretty straightforward- you’re keeping nothing.

that means you can happily lift up that flooring that looks a bit damp or rip out an old cabinet to see what’s behind without having to worry about damaging anything.

Pay someone else to get rid of ...
by Gavster
Mon Oct 13, 2025 6:53 pm
Forum: General
Topic: The House Projects Thread
Replies: 2815
Views: 801373

Re: The House Projects Thread

Gavster wrote: Mon Oct 13, 2025 4:56 pm
Image
This view is from the hallway and there should be a wall and a doorway between the camera and the bathroom :o

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by Gavster
Mon Oct 13, 2025 6:48 pm
Forum: General
Topic: The House Projects Thread
Replies: 2815
Views: 801373

Re: The House Projects Thread

Those are some of the 'cleared' images, it was far, far worse to begin with.
by Gavster
Mon Oct 13, 2025 5:47 pm
Forum: General
Topic: The House Projects Thread
Replies: 2815
Views: 801373

Re: The House Projects Thread

Mito Man wrote: Mon Oct 13, 2025 5:26 pm Fucking hell the state of that
In a recent interaction they stated they had already started renovations :shock:
by Gavster
Mon Oct 13, 2025 5:46 pm
Forum: General
Topic: The House Projects Thread
Replies: 2815
Views: 801373

Re: The House Projects Thread


Does this mean that the legal stuff is over, the flat is yours, and they're out?


Nearly. The last 8 months have been a crazy drama with a load of developments which I’ve not shared here.

However, as of 4pm today, legal posession of the property has reverted to the freeholder, I.e. me. They ...
by Gavster
Mon Oct 13, 2025 4:56 pm
Forum: General
Topic: The House Projects Thread
Replies: 2815
Views: 801373

Re: The House Projects Thread


if you’re not changing the layout, what are you planning?

strip out
electrics
heating
plastering
kitchen
bathroom
decs
flooring

Just get a decent layout drawn up by a draughtsman (you can probably do it yourself with an app these days) then mark your what you want in each room. It’s not going ...
by Gavster
Mon Oct 13, 2025 4:05 pm
Forum: Cars
Topic: Decent car YouTubes
Replies: 3658
Views: 962821

Re: Decent car YouTubes

His videos have a combined 31 million views in the last 30 days across his two channels which is probably in the region of £150k ad revenue, plus each brand integration would be paying something like £20k per video for two videos per month. So that's around £200k a month, plus all the other income ...
by Gavster
Mon Oct 13, 2025 1:30 pm
Forum: General
Topic: The House Projects Thread
Replies: 2815
Views: 801373

Re: The House Projects Thread

DeskJockey wrote: Mon Oct 13, 2025 1:00 pm There's only one thing for it: you're going on Grand Designs with an impossible project, unrealistic budget and timescales, no experience as a (DIY) builder, and the sky-high hopes of the terminal optimist.
Also get someone pregnant halfway through the build and we're on :lol:
by Gavster
Mon Oct 13, 2025 12:54 pm
Forum: General
Topic: The House Projects Thread
Replies: 2815
Views: 801373

Re: The House Projects Thread

It's a really hard call tbh. One approach is get it done to a fairly basic spec with almost no changes, because that's going to limit the renovation cost and therefore also limit the financial risk.

On the other hand, changing the layout etc could make it more desireable, but that also comes with ...