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It's a bit like the cam belt on a car, albeit not nearly as expensive: once it's done you can cross it off the worry list, and it's not unheard of for the wrong size packing to have been used previously.

Any idea what happened?

I get spoiled on Virgin, which really is fibre into the house unlike others who actually often end up using BT copper for the last 100 or so metres. 66mb down, 5.4 up just now.

Bear in mind speed test result on mobile connections will vary depending on the activity on the mast. If dozens of folk are streaming TV off the same cell, you'll suffer.

Not unpopular with me, but inaccurate.

Would it be feasible to clean off, apply anti rust, raise the floor with self levelling cement for example and then repair with glass fibre matting?

A bit late to come back to this maybe, but asking for sympathy dealing with self inflicted problems isn't going to get much traction. Looking at your list, you've got: 10 messages and some PM's telling you stuff you already know which should qualify for a short polite cut and paste acknowledgement which includes a recognition that a more personalised answer would be better but is beyond the capacity of the Mods. Sorted. 3 apparently offering useful input. Focus on them. 6 pm's discussing process - having worked in central government it sounds familiar: the process is everything, the product a complete accident. Should be secondary. Pick 5 people, mods and others who have made proactively sensible suggestions, including some who will challenge you. Give then a week to revise Moderation. Get them together on Skype / Hangouts / whatever. Establish the rules of engagement on the call - no over-talking, no insults, stop speaking after 1 minute then resume if the chair allows it, majority vote wins. Accept compromise. Apply agreed and fully visible processes consistently. Review everything in 1 month, then 3, then 6. Prerequisites - all hatchets buried outside the door, 'senior manager' prepared to accept and support outcome.

I'd have asked him what his aspirations were .. then gently lowered his expectations to somewhere around zero.

When you do the blacking give some thought where the gloss will end, the latter sometimes doesn't sit happily on top of the former. Get in there as soon as you can to pressure wash whilst the weed etc is wet. Warming up the blacking helps a lot, but if the hull is really cold it will thicken whilst being applied as it cools off. Use rollers and well as brushes to push blacking into the pin holes and welds. Wrap them in clingfilm in between uses and bin them when they fall to bits, which might be before you've finished so have spares. I reckon you can get round a 70 footer on your own in about 5 hours if all goes well and it's not cold. Then you collapse in the pub, so one coat a day after maybe a day to to prep and an overnight dry-out.

Simply indicative of them seeing it as a house and having no real intention of cruising.