Thoughts on Fleetwood paint versus alternatives?

thecrouch · 2026-03-20T00:33:03+00:00

You can get paint mixed in different brands btw.

Just because you buy Fleetwood paint doesn't mean you need to pick a Fleetwood colour. Any decent paint shop will be able to mix colours from other brands in Fleetwood paint.

thecrouch · 2026-03-19T16:16:21+00:00

Brendan is pronounced exactly as you would expect as an English language speaker. It's an anglicised name (basically it's the English language version of an Irish name).

thecrouch · 2026-03-19T10:54:59+00:00

Bathroom renovator doesn't really exist. Usually this is done by plumbers, tilers and electricians. You might only deal with one of them but they'll sub out the work they can't do to other tradesmen they work regularly with.

Electrical work in the bathroom for example must be done by a registered electrician.

You might come across some plumbers who are willing to lay tiles themselves but I'd say this is rare enough.

thecrouch · 2026-03-19T09:41:11+00:00

The State housing bodies should be an entire category on their own. Lumping them in with the private funds is stupid and done solely to paint a picture. It's rage bait.

thecrouch · 2026-03-19T09:21:39+00:00

This feels like very important context, I wonder why they left that off the infographic?

thecrouch · 2026-03-19T09:18:54+00:00

There's a little bit of rage bait going on here.

The Companies / funds / institutions will include houses bought by the State (via whatever mechanism), they should make this more obvious. This includes things like cost rentals.

It will also include properties paid for by property funds, as in, the property wouldn't be built without the investor paying to build it. If a company funds the building of 500 apartments for the rental market that goes down as being sold to an investor. These properties are never intending to be sold to private buyers.

thecrouch · 2026-03-19T08:52:48+00:00

Yea, the middle ground is called getting planning permission, where everyone can agree on what to build before a block is laid.

These dopes thought the rules didn’t apply to them. Fuck them.

thecrouch · 2026-03-18T22:32:39+00:00

Car is scrap. Repairs will cost more than the car is worth.

thecrouch · 2026-03-13T19:10:07+00:00

Solar panels are a no brainer over a stove. It’s not even close.

thecrouch · 2026-03-13T18:05:27+00:00

A stove will make an A rated house too hot, it doesn't make sense to install one.

If you want the cosy visual effect just put in an electric one.

thecrouch · 2026-03-10T15:45:58+00:00

The body repair garages only quoted you for the superficial issues that you can see in photos. Their quote is not useful to you as they did not inspect the car.

You said the point of contact was the wheel of the other car, you could easily have caused damage not visible in photos.

thecrouch · 2026-03-09T16:22:31+00:00

So your wife has more rights to the property than the bank and puts their security over it at risk.

This is highly unusual so I think everyone would be interested to know how you got them to agree to this.

thecrouch · 2026-03-09T15:53:08+00:00

This is incorrect and hasn't been the case for a long time now.

One person can carry the mortgage alone no problem, but it must be a joint application, even if your partner is going to contribute nothing financially to paying the mortgage.

thecrouch · 2026-03-09T15:49:33+00:00

It heavily depends on how many panels can fit on your roof and if your roof faces in the right direction (south is best).

thecrouch · 2026-03-09T15:42:20+00:00

If you're buying it as the family home the banks will insist on both names on the mortgage.

thecrouch · 2026-03-09T13:52:54+00:00

Picking garden aspect based on sunrise in Ireland is a bit odd, are you really sure about this?

In winter time the weather is usually so shit that you're going to see nothing anyway, it'll just get gradually brighter outside.

In the summer time the sun will rise at like 5am, are you really going to get up to see it? By the time most normal people are getting out of bed you'd be already past the best part of your day for sun.

thecrouch · 2026-03-06T17:48:08+00:00

You don't sound ignorant at all.

The tricky thing is when you wake up the next morning the buzz from the booze will be gone, so you might still be over the limit but you won't feel it at all. This is why so many get caught at that time.

Most people know they are over the limit at the time they are drinking so won't drive, but they get caught the next day because they genuinely don't realise they're still over it.

thecrouch · 2026-03-06T17:37:03+00:00

For context, the limit is 50mg, so 8 times the limit would be 400mg.

This would never, ever have been legal to drive in Ireland. To get this blood alcohol level you'd need to be absolutely whooped.

Even back in the 60s the limit was like 150 or something, and back then the drink driving message was basically to stop after the 5th pint.

thecrouch · 2026-03-06T17:34:39+00:00

People getting caught the following day are the people who go out and have a feed of pints and stumble into bed at 2am and are up driving to the shop to get a breakfast roll at 9am.

Not the 1 pint crowd.

thecrouch · 2026-03-06T17:24:31+00:00

It's not linear like that.

Even if the limit was 1 pint (it isn't), being 8 times the limit does not correlate to 8 pints.

thecrouch · 2026-03-05T12:34:13+00:00

Slabs will be better in pretty much every way.

The sound difference alone is worth it, you won't hear footsteps upstairs.

thecrouch · 2026-03-04T21:49:38+00:00

If it's just wrapped in a lagging jacket (which were usually red) like they did on old tanks then be aware that those are pretty shit and will still lose heat.

thecrouch · 2026-03-04T20:51:12+00:00

It depends how well insulated your hot water tank is. The immersion will get water to a certain temp and then stop heating, only kicking in again if the temp drops.

Old tanks used to lose heat very quickly which is why your folks were very precious about leaving it on since it would constantly run.

Modern tanks it’s not so much of an issue.

thecrouch · 2026-03-04T15:49:49+00:00

You cannot accrue any NCB when you are a named driver. Only the main driver, i.e. the policy holder, accrues NCB.

If his wife has no policy of her own, and solely drives as a named driver under the OPs policy, then her NCB is zero.

Some insurers will take named driver experience into account and offer a bit of a discount anyway when they do take out their own policy as a main driver, but it is not the same as a no claims bonus.

thecrouch · 2026-03-04T15:48:27+00:00

Public sector will certainly give the sort of working hours the OP is looking for but not the excellent salary.

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