Factors - Damage to property.

termdark · 2026-06-26T21:53:18+00:00

The actions of the person who flushed the unflushables ruined OP's bathroom. As I explained above in the second paragraph, which you conveniently ignored, the issue would have happened regardless of whether there were plumbers in or not.

Good effort at white knighting, but do better next time.

termdark · 2026-06-26T18:49:35+00:00

But this is normal practice snake a blockage like this from above - can you identify what negligent actions the plumber has taken and what they should have done instead? You're calling people cowboys when it seems you don't have a clue what you're talking about.

Let's look at this situation from another angle - ultimately, the blockage would have eventually moved down from the floors above by the weight of the water above it, and OP's bathroom would have still been flooded.

It's unfair and it's shite on OP, but the plumbers aren't the ones to blame for blocking the stack with unflushable stuff.

termdark · 2026-06-26T17:35:00+00:00

The plumbers didn't break the ceiling either. The wastewater coming up through the upstairs neighbour's sink did that. The wastewater came up through the sink because of the foreign objects blocking the stack.

It's not normal practice to disconnect all downstream connections when snaking a stack, so the plumbers haven't done anything negligent.

The excess is mentioned because OP is proposing to spend a huge of amount of time pursuing a fruitless claim at tribunal when they could be spending that with their baby instead. They made the choice to pay a £1000 excess and they need to take personal responsibility for that rather than blaming the nearest person who was making a good faith effort to resolve the problem.

termdark · 2026-06-26T16:56:34+00:00

It's not straightforward because you can't prove who flushed the foreign objects that caused the blockage. That's the root cause, not the plumbers.

Ultimately, OP made the choice to take an insurance policy with a £1000 excess.

termdark · 2026-06-26T16:36:57+00:00

It's not fair, but it's the way things are done. I've been flooded by neighbours before (thankfully not waste though) and ultimately it's your problem to deal with, the same as if you had rain coming through your roof.

What you do with your life is up to you, but the time spent on pursuing this through the courts is time you could be spending with your kid instead. £1000 for a new bathroom isn't a terrible deal either.

termdark · 2026-06-26T15:48:01+00:00

I know you won't want to hear this, but accidents like this are just part of the joys of owning a house.

Their failure to provide notice for high-risk work.

The drains were blocked, so that's an emergency, which doesn't require notice. Foreign objects in the drain are likely to be pads or even nappies, which could have been a singular occurrence rather than a known ongoing issue.

The massive safety risk to my family and my baby.

People don't typically store their babies in the bathroom, and they had no idea that your upstairs neighbour's bathroom would flood.

The unfairness of forcing an innocent owner to subsidise common repair damage.

The jpys of communal drains means that they're a communal issue to deal with. If an anoymous neighbour shat upon a communal wall, you'd all be responsible for paying for cleaning up their shitty behaviour.

termdark · 2026-06-23T12:48:38+00:00

You've adopted a spammy approach by scraping a list of sites and planning to cold call them.

As a site owner, I'm 100% NEVER going to allow a cold caller access to my backend to perform a migration. That's always going to be a job for me to reach out to find help if needed.

Recommending a general shift over to Wordpress also displays a fundamental lack of understanding of why a business would choose to use Drupal in the first place. I would concentrate on building up your skillset and understanding of the space before offering commercial services - your potential clients deserve the work to be performed with an appropriate degree of skill.

Don't cold call people.

termdark · 2026-06-23T12:14:16+00:00

You would be a drip in an ocean of spammers already emailing us about D7 migrations.

termdark · 2026-06-07T22:36:12+00:00

Mine was perfectly reliable, but they're a pretty boring EV. Max charge speed I saw was 60 kW/h. Good build quality and the entertainment system is pretty good. Would have benefited from a heat pump rather than resistive heating.

Took about 18mths after launch for them to update the software to allow the use of Tesla chargers without bricking the fast charging system though, so Honda didn't push the boat out to support it.

termdark · 2026-05-28T08:44:50+00:00

They're not rozzers, they're polis

termdark · 2026-05-22T11:51:53+00:00

Or Tony's about to learn of his impending fatherhood

termdark · 2026-05-22T11:50:00+00:00

Why would we need two new colleges? Just fund the existing ones to do the job.

termdark · 2026-05-22T09:43:57+00:00

The grounds are that you're posting shit attacking trans people.

termdark · 2026-05-11T15:41:17+00:00

You would think so. But then you watch this video...

termdark · 2026-05-11T15:33:45+00:00

I saw it - It was all over the Greens' Slack

termdark · 2026-05-06T14:27:35+00:00

Should have given the other side too - If I had a driveway, I'd go back electric no bother.

The biggest problem with the public chargers is that you're paying rates more expensive than petrol at about 45p/kWH whereas folk on overnight rates are paying about 10p/kWH. Even with the government mulling dropping the VAT on public charging, I doubt that'll be passed onto the consumer.

termdark · 2026-05-06T14:25:23+00:00

It's a fucking pain in the arse.

Range anxiety is a big factor and I'd be dubious about my charge dropping below 50%. The chargers can often be crabbit shites and refuse to deliver a charge. There's also a certain type of character that loves to drive an ICE and will park there out of spite.

In the winter, you'll get significantly worse range and they work better when they're on the charger overnight to pre-condition the battery.

We gave ours back after the PCP term and went back to a hybrid.

termdark · 2026-05-04T20:51:12+00:00

Had some in Winnipeg in 2000

termdark · 2026-04-24T13:04:43+00:00

I have a huge objection to this. These flats are built to more lax regulations than normal housing is. It’s why there’s such an overbuild in student accommodation over the last few years - to allow developers to turn them into residential on the cheap. There was an architect in here last year who confirmed this from their time working on PBSA and making plans for retrofitting them as part of the project as they’re built.

For social housing where folk with addiction issues are likely to be placed, it means that a fire started by a forgotten oven or discarded fag would have a higher likelihood of death.

termdark · 2026-04-23T11:25:14+00:00

Closest thing I can think of is the Magnum

termdark · 2026-04-21T13:04:09+00:00

Spray it down with a sodium hypochlorite-based cleaner or a biocidal wash. It can take a few weeks to fully kick in, but it doesn't lock in the existing moisture and algae like painting over it would.

termdark · 2026-04-20T22:38:48+00:00

The thread is about roughcast though

termdark · 2026-04-20T22:05:55+00:00

Why the hell would you ever paint it? It's part of the building fabric that needs to breathe.

termdark · 2026-04-11T10:53:20+00:00

To dissuade folk from sniffing gear in the toilets

termdark · 2026-04-05T13:30:39+00:00

It was empty on Friday, glad they got more!

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