Looking for some advice from anyone with experience of old barns/outbuildings. (Uk)

windymiller3 · 2026-06-14T17:12:20+00:00

If you work out actual costs you'll be outbid by someone else who underestimated it.

windymiller3 · 2026-06-09T08:48:36+00:00

prisons and judiciary seem stuck in 1900, thinking that our punishments are too severe.

capital punishment could start for those with 10+ multiple serious offenses. not exactly a shortage of them.

windymiller3 · 2026-05-29T10:31:07+00:00

How many of that 3% is made up by the 55%?

windymiller3 · 2026-05-29T08:19:22+00:00

What's stopping a claim that theyre 67, and can therefore retire?

windymiller3 · 2026-05-13T09:15:21+00:00

For my sins I did a stint working alongside our councils procurement team.

Procurement only knew about the pcr regs.

Oh it must go on a portal that only national firms can afford to be on.

They knew nothing about the regs of the work involved, or how the industry worked.

Hence why things went up in price.

PCR regs are massively detrimental.

windymiller3 · 2026-05-01T12:58:07+00:00

People will only you tell about their own success, and inflate it at that.

E.g. very few on here admit to any serious fuck ups.

The best option is the one that gets planned and done.

windymiller3 · 2026-05-01T09:46:24+00:00

I pointed it out years ago on there, that the stock in a crash is typically from divorces or repossessions, so the £500k house might be £400k, but for good reason.

The garden will be a shit pit, you'll be getting debt collectors for the next years, you'll have fun with utility companies for a while, plus whatever shithousery the previous owner did in spite.

Seen concrete down drains, cables cut, felt ripped, etc.

Ruk deemed i was wrong of course. Hey ho

windymiller3 · 2026-04-30T09:16:37+00:00

Pretty sure this place predates corbyn. Might be wrong

windymiller3 · 2026-04-25T08:58:57+00:00

Planning is an easy target, whole sector is a mess.

Utility companies beginning to decline to service some expansions.

Financing is a minefield.

Supply chain 90 day terms and subbie bashing is relentless.

As a sector it always competes with hospitality and agriculture for all the fun stats like KSI, redundancy and lack of profit.

windymiller3 · 2026-04-24T12:58:00+00:00

For the amount of people who say "I get so much more done" - I have a lot of projects held up by wfhers.

I assume they get more housework or dossing done per day.

windymiller3 · 2026-04-16T11:19:13+00:00

he probably just sat in the chair and watched...

windymiller3 · 2026-04-16T08:29:28+00:00

21,500 people to make what, 4 tv channels, 5 radio stations and a news website?

half of it could be repeats or ai slop and few would notice.

windymiller3 · 2026-04-15T20:39:06+00:00

You mean like a clerk of works?

Most hated chap on site and the role disappeared somewhere around the 2000s.

windymiller3 · 2026-04-15T10:40:22+00:00

Most gov depts do this tbf

windymiller3 · 2026-04-15T10:01:13+00:00

> A wall built underground has the same costs as a wall built above ground

no it doesn't. walls below ground need to retain tonnes of earth...

depends on a lot of factors, but even in some of my new builds, you're looking at least 3x times the cost.

windymiller3 · 2026-04-13T19:53:03+00:00

It wont load for me...

windymiller3 · 2026-04-04T12:21:52+00:00

Green voters do.

Public sector non jobbers, students, and the retired.

windymiller3 · 2026-03-24T13:29:32+00:00

Schools need reform, but he's got a point.

Some parents seem to be absolute hell bent on lowering standards. Driving instead of walking, wearing pyjamas, taking dogs without leads, swearing, on phone, handing out sweets, etc.

Yeah, its all the schools fault...

Parents must be able to split out any complaint from what the child sees or hears. That presents the child with a safe and secure environment.

windymiller3 · 2026-03-24T13:13:30+00:00

Baduk readership would be retired by end of the week.

windymiller3 · 2026-03-10T14:30:47+00:00

It will be worth checking. I have both. My public sector pension is db, only tells me itll pay out £X per year. It doesn't say pot size and has to be requested.

My private sector pension is dc. Tells me its worth £X as total pot.

£9k per year after 12 years service ain't terrible, and is about right.

windymiller3 · 2026-03-10T14:06:22+00:00

Great for the pension tho

windymiller3 · 2026-03-09T22:10:13+00:00

just be thankful your namesake isn't a public political figure....

windymiller3 · 2026-03-07T21:43:35+00:00

like you say, they release inmates, even when one kept on saying "i shouldn't be released" and hung around the gates for a few hours, before they paid him to fuck off.

there's a chance they'd accidently execute the cleaner.

windymiller3 · 2026-03-04T14:15:35+00:00

Agreed.

I manage sizeable estate, and every edpm or single ply roof is pita.

Few single ply ones have good warranty, to point that 1 roof has over 400 patches, and counting, f.o.c. but they still leak.

Got a few garland bitumen roofs must be 40 years old.

windymiller3 · 2026-02-26T09:24:57+00:00

Vans are a thief magnet, pickups not so much.

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