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frangar

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  1. According to some of the log burner groups I’m on some council building control either now charge lots eg £500 or just say you have to have Hetas sign it off meaning in effect you can’t do a self install. I’ve been waiting for a reply for a simple planning enquiry for a month now from the local council so I don’t hold out much hope for something more complicated.
  2. In an ideal world yes but it seems it’s impossible to get Hetas registered person to sign off something where they haven’t supplied all the parts as well…which strikes me as wrong but there you go. I am tempted just to get someone to fit a new flue and register plate and say it was like that when we moved in but apparently that might be frowned upon too. Seems like another “jobs for the boys” scheme really.
  3. The trouble is that finding a HETAS etc approved fitter who is happy to fit a stove they havent supplied or isnt DEFRA approved is nigh on impossible and without the whole install being signed off as such can lead to a heap of pain with local council building control/house insurance should there be any issues it seems. Im just grateful that the same rules dont seem to apply to boats at the moment. Its Shipshape stoves that do the refurb units and you can indeed get all the parts still to make a new one...but realistically I think its only the doors and the legs that I could use from the existing one. Cheers....Ill check him out
  4. Yes it seems you need to get a stove signed off by an approved body or indeed building control from the council and only the latest eco type stoves are acceptable although like a boat I’m sure there are blurred lines if it’s a replacement. I’ve heard the new type stoves don’t like to slumber as well which is annoying….guessing made worse in a house by having a tall flue. I was hoping to keep the squirrel as I’ve got one on the boat so not only very happy with how they work but could also share spares & parts but seems it’s not to be. I shall have a look at all the recommendations and take it from there. Thanks to all for your input.
  5. Boat related but not for a boat… The Morso Squirrel in our “new” cottage is sadly life expired…..the back plate is warped and the rest of castings are thin…joints are opened etc.. so it needs replacing…I think it’s about 30 years old so it’s not done badly. Interestingly we have a sweeps cert from last year giving it a clean bill of health…so we need to replace it. I’d happily replace like for like but sadly you can only seem to get an updated “eco” squirrel now which seems to have one door doing the firebox & the ashpan which seems a backward step and must mean more dust etc. I could rebuild the one we have but then I think I’d have fun trying to find someone to fit it as it seems getting a non approved stove signed off in a house is nigh on impossible. I’m probably going to need a new flue liner and register plate etc. So there seems to be a massive choice of 5kw stoves from cheap Chinese machine mart specials to designer stoves with curved doors whose glass alone costs around £600 to replace. I need one no bigger than a squirrel 1410 due to the size of the fireplace. Anyone have one of the new squirrels? Or something else similar. I’m not keen on the “boatman” having heard they aren’t as controllable. I want to burn wood but have the option for solid fuel as well. I do prefer cast iron but that might be because im old fashioned and to me steel/welded I think of as “cheap”….which looking at some prices it isn’t now!
  6. I let them self lower as they are designed to do! It might have been! I pointed out that if they had ones that were so poorly maintained they crashed down when lowering they might like to spend less time in the tea hut and more sorting or reporting them to the powers that be…..
  7. I’m on the blacklist for Hatton….ever since I told them how their paddle gear actually worked….went off in a huff.
  8. We have learnt a lot about embankments and cuttings since canals and railways were constructed. Chatting to a senior CRT asset engineer the other week it’s interesting to learn how much less steep the banks would be now if they were constructed to modern thinking. You only have to look at modern roads to see this. Without major land acquisition and reconstruction neither the canals or the railways to some extent will be immune from land slips.
  9. A metal cage filled with stone or similar
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  11. Derek Pearsons boats in the background....he was living aboard in Audlem until quite recently..still have one of his chimneys in use...must be getting on for 30 years old now....wish I could get him to make me another!
  12. To get back on topic….. Ive read reports on farcebook that there’s been another slippage not far from the first….does anyone know if this is the case and if so how bad it is?
  13. It seems to be same here in Worcestershire but to be fair CRT were sensible.
  14. If it helps the property I’m buying has previously had to ask CRT for permission about a couple of planning issues regarding extensions and building work as it’s next to the canal in a conservation area. The correspondence in the planning file from CRT has been of a very positive and helpful nature with no undue petty rules etc. This is not in your area however but don’t be too afraid to ask. I have to say out of all the people I’ve had to deal with over the purchase of the property I’ve found CRT to be the most helpful and quickest to reply of all the official bodies….really can’t fault them so far. Personally I’d start with the area office and go from there to see where you end up. Also talk to the local planning people…they often offer a pre planning advice session. They may or may not charge but it’s good to get the local planning on side. A friend of mine who has a grade 2 listed house was rather crapping it when the listing officer visited but the chap was really helpful and offered all sorts of advice.
  15. I remember that too. Prob around 1997/98???
  16. Well ive got them from various motor factors over the years....some of us still run vintage cars!!...BL was still using them in the 70's & 80's
  17. They were quite readily available in halfords and other such car places....any decent motor factors should do one...Gulphers usually only blow a fuse if they are gummed up with something.
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  21. There was a rumour a few years ago that it was trying to slip on to the railway line next door....dont know how true this was if at all...but it is quite close and if so that wouldn't be a cheap fix. I would think either one of the chains or there is another private marina owner who has brought up another similar sized marina recently and now has a small portfolio of midlands marinas...not sure who their backers are mind you.
  22. It will be interesting to see what it sells for...as with all auctions the guide price is usually the lowest that would be accepted...Im guessing it will go for a lot more...prob around £1.5-£2m...unless there is something odd happening which there might be to sell through auction rather than via a business broker or agent...and of course there is the auction fees to add as well.
  23. Hes a little unique in many ways....apparently that whole site used to be a scrap yard before he brought it and built his house and sold the rest to a developer for the other houses....the owners of the scrapyard once had a bit of hospital equipment in and found one bit really hard to cut...turned out was a block of uranium or similar...and might now be buried on the land somewhere. The house also has a working periscope....taken from a royal navy sub that he knew was being scrapped.... Was a shame the house we were looking at all fell through cos I think he would have made a great neighbour!!!
  24. Fairly sure it's a bare hire....so you need to provide everything you need....and it might be a bit of a crawl underneath to do the base plate.
  25. He liked a tunnel....theres a tunnel from the house to the dock....he was thinking of a tunnel to the pub over the road....and had others planned....
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