Meh now have a leak in the roof. Waiting for the roofer to peer at it tomorrow and assure me it'll be expensive

Quote from: EtchedPixels on February 09, 2014, 08:19:38 PM
Meh now have a leak in the roof. Waiting for the roofer to peer at it tomorrow and assure me it'll be expensive

Seems that the multiplier is 400. My basic job cost 420 + 400 if I wanted X done as well. Maybe that's Home Counties rate?

Good luck!

Dave G 

It depends who you use, of course. My mother's house in Kent lost five tiles during the Christmas Eve storm. A roofer was up there for about five hours or so and charged £180 for all the repairs. It could have been a lot worse.

Good luck, Alan.

Quote from: daveg on February 09, 2014, 10:13:02 PM
Seems that the multiplier is 400. My basic job cost 420 + 400 if I wanted X done as well. Maybe that's Home Counties rate?

Probably - Swansea tends to be cheaper than the South East. Some storm damage and also while he's up there going to fix some other problems that we knew would eventually need fixing. Could have been worse but still going to be a bit under 500 quid, but a lot of it probably money we'd have had to spend in a few years time.

Compared with those people who have had 3 feet of water in their house since Christmas it's minor!

Man, what's going on there?! Just saw some more stormy-wave footage on the news. Two people getting swamped by a 4 story wave. Nasty looking.

Quote from: scottmitchell74 on February 10, 2014, 02:27:15 PM
Man, what's going on there?! Just saw some more stormy-wave footage on the news. Two people getting swamped by a 4 story wave. Nasty looking.

It's not good and there's still more to come.

Tragic for the poor folk who have lost their farms and homes.

Dave G

Whilst we don't fit into the more important category of people affected by the Thames now starting to flood in the Home Counties, the Wye in our little town has burst it's banks which is really rare. The main bridge into the town from the Forest of Dean/Tintern direction has the biggest collection of washed away complete tress jammed against its arches I have ever seen. In the exact same spot in the summer I sat on my bike on the bridge and watched about 6 river carp more than two feet long lazing in the sun on the surface.

According to Sky News, FGW now have no trains leaving Paddington due to flooding at Maidenhead. So......their service to the SW is now limited to the bit between Reading & Exeter!

I can't believe what I see & hear on the news +(BBC here in NL) if they keep talking about protecting property, you can end up without a Country to put it in......
I really feel for all of you in the UK; you have a BIG problem.....
When I was living in the New Forest area, somebody asked me, where I would be looking for when house-hunting... I answered, min. 40mtr(110Ft) above sea-level & at least half-way up the local watershed.
people thought I was mad...... Here in Amsterdam, I live ±2.5mtr(9Ft) BELOW sea-level and my feet are dry.....
Gerard 
P.S.: keep the faith guys;it will end...

And we had snow today in Mansfield - laying too! Soon turned back to rain, and then clear sky. Likely to freeze tonight, so slippy slidey tomorrow morning. I will stay in bed - another benefit of retirement!

Yeah , snowing now in Bury on & off , more due overnight ........but yet more rain forecast for Ric

Quote from: keerout on February 11, 2014, 03:08:27 PM
I can't believe what I see & hear on the news +(BBC here in NL) if they keep talking about protecting property, you can end up without a Country to put it in......
I really feel for all of you in the UK; you have a BIG problem.....
When I was living in the New Forest area, somebody asked me, where I would be looking for when house-hunting... I answered, min. 40mtr(110Ft) above sea-level & at least half-way up the local watershed.
people thought I was mad...... Here in Amsterdam, I live ±2.5mtr(9Ft) BELOW sea-level and my feet are dry.....
Gerard 
P.S.: keep the faith guys;it will end...

Jerome Van Heck and his team have arrived from the Netherlands to help relieve the floods in Somerset

Am I the only one whose pile of stuff needing to be sprayed with paint is now 3 months long ? Not good modelling weather

Extremely wild in the North West today/tonight. I guess most have seen the news about what's happening on the railways and roads, but basically all the major motorways in the area have been or are closed in sections.
Crewe station has suffered roof damage and downed OHLE which caused a fire.
WCML closed between Preston & Penrith between 7 - 9pm tonight.
I have 1 fence panel gone so far and another 2 unlikely to last the night.
I have to collect my Mum from Manchester Airport tomorrow night - glad it wasn't tonight for both of us

While in no way wishing to minimise the appalling-effects of the floods and weather currently being experienced by our British members (for whom I have sympathy because we experience them as well), I have to say that (in my ignorance), when reading the  thread's title 'Everyone weathered the storms?' I honestly thought that it was either some sort of 'in-house' contest or mass-effort towards a common goal that was somehow related to a forth-coming exhibition which members were to be attending.

If it wasn't a 'collective effort' and was a question for the general membership, then my response would have been 'No, I use them straight out of the box, just as they come', followed by a time of wondering exactly how DOES one weather storms.

It's all to do with the language.......