MtB

Those are to prevent small children drinking the electricity that might otherwise leak out and stain the carpet....

Is this a rather coy request for someone to donate an old narrowboat? Or do you have a boat already? Its really not clear what you are asking. Aha, I just seen the other thread by the same poster. The answer is yes, this IS a request for a boat.

The position regarding branches and trees overhanging a boundary is clear in law. The overhanging branches belong to the neighbour whose tree it is, but they may not encroach over the airspace above a neighbouring property. If they encroach, the neighbour is entitled to cut them off in line with the boundary but must hand the cuttings back to the neighbour who owns them. I suspect the position is less clear if a random visitor cuts the branches of and chucks them back over the boundary but I suspect if push came to shove, it would work out to be the same.

It's a vast improvement in my opinion. Very much to the point. "Making life better by water" always struck me as rather silly and pointless slogan. Still however, missing any info on how to donate.

Exactly. In fact I suspect the total licence fee income from those who rely on the CRT showers is only tiny proportion of the cost of providing them. Let alone there being anything left over to maintain the navigation.

Good point. So a typical value *could* turn out to be 0.000001% then.... "Up to" being another of those weasel terms.

Pi is a ratio. Doesn't have units that need converting! Which I guess was your point.

I read it as a suspiciously round number, so probably made up. The actual value (once we decide on what was actually ans supposedly being measured), is highly unlikely to be a multiple of ten.

Easy to say, but a second hand set seems to cost about £3k+ ... Or am I looking in the wrong places?!

I suspect it depends entirely on which subcontracted engineer gets sent out to you on the day. Some will be great, others less so.

My guess is they employed a cheap web designer to produce their website, and s/he nicked the CRT logo idea. I wouldn't be surprised if it appears on other websites they've produced, too!

Indeed. Racking up the licence fee to a more realistic £5k or £10k a year would do wonders in terms of collapsing boat values. AND help CRT with the finances.

I'm not sure how either would help in an unheated boat on a day like today, when the RH must have been close to 100% all night and all day. The air inside the boat will have slowly changed, vents or not, and the interior RH built up to the same as outside I'd have thought.

Straight away I smell bullshit. 80% of what? Any technically competent poster would have said.

CRT are not a charity. Surely it's up to you to fund your own showers like the rest of us do. Oh, hang on a sec!!

And not only that lot, but nothing works when you get back to the boat plus a fridge full of warm food!

How about asking ChatGPT? Actually, I just asked for you: who's refurbishing lead-acid batteries in or around London? Many thanks!! ChatGPT said: If you’re in or around London and looking for companies that refurbish or recycle lead-acid batteries (or offer battery reconditioning services), one good option is: BatteryLab+ — they offer deep-cell reconditioning / de-sulphation services for lead-acid batteries (including forklift batteries, industrial batteries, UPS-type batteries, etc.), using portable equipment so they can come to you. batterylab.co.uk ✅ What they do They perform “battery reconditioning” / desulphation that can restore many lead-acid batteries to roughly 85–95% of original capacity. batterylab.co.uk Their process can revive batteries that might otherwise be destined for scrapping — a good option if you have old industrial, backup, or solar-bank batteries. batterylab.co.uk Since you’re in Loughborough, that’s outside London — so I’d check with them to see if they cover your area (or whether they’d travel or accept posted-in batteries). If you like — I can pull up a full list (10–20) of UK-wide companies/ services that refurbish or recycle lead-acid batteries (with postcode/radius filters) so you can pick ones reasonably close to Loughborough. Do you want me to build that list for you now?

A hand bell quarter-peal I think. 🔔 Congratulations! 🔔 Two ringers, each ringing a bell in each hand. Way beyond my modest abilities!

I somehow however, doubt you'd have been able to extend beyond the building line and insure yourself against it being enforced! But I agree with your general point, insurance against enforcement on a future buyer is available and cheap as it so rarely happens. If enforcement is gonna happen, it usually happens immediately you breach the covenant (I suspect).

Restrictive covenants can sometimes be ignored, specifically when the legal entity entitled to enforce them no longer exists. Careful research is required first!