Isolated Blurt Thread

[oggbashan]

Og,

Out of ignorance I will ask the question. What are the financial and aestetic drawbacks to replacing ALL of your green tiles with red and selling the green? Obviously there is labor costs involved, but if the tiles are that valuable, maybe you could get a new roof without a major financial outlay and get any other issues fixed at the same time. Not to mention that it should reduce the trauma of getting additional work done in the future for less cost.

That's a reasonable question but it isn't that simple. My neighbour's house and mine are almost clones, using the same architect, but my house was built in 1939 and his was built in 1949 probably using left-over tiles from pre-war. The green Belgian tiles are valuable to us two but most of the very few houses in a twenty-five mile radius that had the Belgian tiles had already been re-roofed many years ago in modern UK tiling. I suspect that the architect/builder used those green tiles because he bought them as a job lot in 1938/9. I originally thought that it would be easy to get reclaimed replacements but not only are our roof tiles an unusual colour but they are a non-standard size, at least in England. There are new and reclaimed tiles that look similar but the dimensions are different enough to make mixing them impossible.

At the moment and probably for the next ten to fifteen years my roof, including the temporary fibreglass fix to the valley, is waterproof and sound. The few cracked tiles don't matter because there is a large overlap between the tiles. The problem has been of our own making. Both houses were soundly built and have been well maintained by the current and previous owners so the roofs had not been allowed to deteriorate to a state that required complete replacement. If I could get fifty tiles of the correct dimensions my roof would probably last another 70 years.

Og

 

[TheeGoatPig]

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[Tarakin]

I try to help and get bashed for it in return. Some of you who think you know me really have no fucking clue.

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[sadangel]

*Sure wish there was as much effort put into one of the writerly threads as there is the others today. *

*sigh* I know.

I try to help and get bashed for it in return. Some of you who think you know me really have no fucking clue.

*hugs* Some of us adore you. Don't worry about the rest. They don't count!

Now appearing on Twitter: proof that Amicus is Scott Baio.

OH DEAR GOD! I'm glad I never liked him.

 

[carsonshepherd]

I wish my honey was here.

I also wish I had some wine.

 

[TxRad]

That's a reasonable question but it isn't that simple. My neighbour's house and mine are almost clones, using the same architect, but my house was built in 1939 and his was built in 1949 probably using left-over tiles from pre-war. The green Belgian tiles are valuable to us two but most of the very few houses in a twenty-five mile radius that had the Belgian tiles had already been re-roofed many years ago in modern UK tiling. I suspect that the architect/builder used those green tiles because he bought them as a job lot in 1938/9. I originally thought that it would be easy to get reclaimed replacements but not only are our roof tiles an unusual colour but they are a non-standard size, at least in England. There are new and reclaimed tiles that look similar but the dimensions are different enough to make mixing them impossible.

At the moment and probably for the next ten to fifteen years my roof, including the temporary fibreglass fix to the valley, is waterproof and sound. The few cracked tiles don't matter because there is a large overlap between the tiles. The problem has been of our own making. Both houses were soundly built and have been well maintained by the current and previous owners so the roofs had not been allowed to deteriorate to a state that required complete replacement. If I could get fifty tiles of the correct dimensions my roof would probably last another 70 years.

Og

GO to the factory that makes the red tiles. Take a piece of your green tile and see if they can make you up what you need as a special order. it may cost a little more per tile but you will have the tiles and a few spares just in case. I did that on an old Spanish house I had in California, many years ago. The tiles in that case were wider, flatter and shorter than what was normally used.

 

[Guest]

I try to help and get bashed for it in return. Some of you who think you know me really have no fucking clue.

I'm so sorry.

 

[sadangel]

I wish I actually cared anymore. *sigh* Somethings aren't worth it. Some are. Which do I go with?

 

[Isid]

I wish I actually cared anymore. *sigh* Somethings aren't worth it. Some are. Which do I go with?

the ones who are worth it... always...

 

[Misty_Morning]

OMG!!!!


I found has browns in my freezer left over from the last time I made a breakfast casserole.


Damn...just cut up an onion and had some scattered and smothered hashbrowns.

Better than the IHOP or waffle house at 4am in the morning.

The only thing missing was a bunch of drunken friends.


I need to fix that.

Hey you folks in the north...it's still in the 90's down here in Florida...best get yer asses down here.

 

[playwithlezli]

OMG!!!!


I found has browns in my freezer left over from the last time I made a breakfast casserole.


Damn...just cut up an onion and had some scattered and smothered hashbrowns.

Better than the IHOP or waffle house at 4am in the morning.

The only thing missing was a bunch of drunken friends.


I need to fix that.

Hey you folks in the north...it's still in the 90's down here in Florida...best get yer asses down here.

With a warm and loving invitation like that, who can say no! Packing my bikini now!

 

[sadangel]

the ones who are worth it... always...

 

[Gizzmotick]

I want you to think about what you said too.

All of it.

 

[playwithlezli]

It's 22F here, that is a nice sounding number you gotta admit! 90 sounds crass and harsh. Really. I mean, who wants 90? All those hot women wearing halter tops and short shorts. It would be horrible. I am pining for parkas and toques just thinking about it.

 

[Misty_Morning]

With a warm and loving invitation like that, who can say no! Packing my bikini now!

Lez!!!


Good to see you.

I take it that the camping season is over?

If so...get yer ass down here...oh...and leave the cold weather there, please.

 

[playwithlezli]

Lez!!!


Good to see you.

I take it that the camping season is over?

If so...get yer ass down here...oh...and leave the cold weather there, please.

Just my ass or shall I bring my other assorted bits as well

 

[Misty_Morning]

Just my ass or shall I bring my other assorted bits as well

Espcially the other ...."bits".

 

[playwithlezli]

Espcially the other ...."bits".

alright! I am already packing!


(I said packing!)

 

[oggbashan]

GO to the factory that makes the red tiles. Take a piece of your green tile and see if they can make you up what you need as a special order. it may cost a little more per tile but you will have the tiles and a few spares just in case. I did that on an old Spanish house I had in California, many years ago. The tiles in that case were wider, flatter and shorter than what was normally used.

I've been googling for the factory. It is about half and hour from Calais. They will make tiles to order but I have found three factories in Kent that will also make tiles to order. One of them is an English subsidiary of a French manaufacturer.

Og

 

[Gi_Venus]

*sigh* it is time for coffee!

 

[oggbashan]

*sigh* it is time for coffee!

It is. I've just got back from depositing another load of surplus books. Sorting them out is a wrench but did I really need four copies of Daudet's Lettres De Mon Moulin in French?

Coffee is good.

Og

 

[oggbashan]

Britain? British? English?

I've just been banging heads together on another site about definitions of Britain. This is what I was trying to explain:

"The British Isles" is only a geographical description that includes the Irish Republic. It has no meaning in political terms.

"The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland", UK for short, is the normal description for the country ruled by Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth The Second and the Parliament at Westminster. It might, or might not, include the Isle of Man and the Channel Islands depending on the context.

"Great Britain", GB for short, is the Kingdoms of England and Scotland and the Principality of Wales. GB excludes Northern Ireland.

"British" includes English, Scots, Welsh, citizens of Northern Ireland and the colonies and dependencies of the United Kingdom such as Gibraltar and the Falkland Islands. Immigrants who become citizens are granted "British Citizenship". Their descendants born in the UK can be English, Scots or Welsh etc. The new British Citizens can call themselves English, Anglo-whatever, or whatever-British but could still support their former country's cricket team without jeopardising their "Britishness". "Britain" doesn't have a cricket team.

"English", no matter what the French think, does NOT include Scots and Welsh.

Almost all of the "English" are descended from immigrants if you go back far enough. So who are we to complain about "newcomers"?

Og

 

[trysail]

I've just been banging heads together on another site about definitions of Britain. This is what I was trying to explain:

"The British Isles" is only a geographical description that includes the Irish Republic. It has no meaning in political terms.

"The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland", UK for short, is the normal description for the country ruled by Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth The Second and the Parliament at Westminster. It might, or might not, include the Isle of Man and the Channel Islands depending on the context.

"Great Britain", GB for short, is the Kingdoms of England and Scotland and the Principality of Wales. GB excludes Northern Ireland.

"British" includes English, Scots, Welsh, citizens of Northern Ireland and the colonies and dependencies of the United Kingdom such as Gibraltar and the Falkland Islands. Immigrants who become citizens are granted "British Citizenship". Their descendants born in the UK can be English, Scots or Welsh etc. The new British Citizens can call themselves English, Anglo-whatever, or whatever-British but could still support their former country's cricket team without jeopardising their "Britishness". "Britain" doesn't have a cricket team.

"English", no matter what the French think, does NOT include Scots and Welsh.

Almost all of the "English" are descended from immigrants if you go back far enough. So who are we to complain about "newcomers"?

Og

Og-

You have to admit it does get a bit confusing for we auslanders. Has it become necessary for us to consult with the Scots and the Welsh to see how they're feeling this week prior to choosing which word to use? Is "United Kingdom" a misnomer that need be consigned to the ashbin?

 

[oggbashan]

Og-

You have to admit it does get a bit confusing for we auslanders. Has it become necessary for us to consult with the Scots and the Welsh to see how they're feeling this week prior to choosing which word to use? Is "United Kingdom" a misnomer that need be consigned to the ashbin?

"United Kingdom" is the correct term. Politically? Is any country wholly united?

What irritated me was that the people who needed the explanation were all British born, bred and resident from their birth. Only new British Citizens have to study the make-up of the United Kingdom. It isn't really taught in schools.

Og

 

[TheeGoatPig]

And now my car is leaking oil. Sigh...