Gripe of the day - What is yours?

[admin]

Fixed. Switched to Google DNS 8.8.8.8 rather than the original setting of ISP provided on my router.

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[Luckypants]

Excellent

[Sir Trev]

My neighbour. Their extension was done on the cheap and the slapdash digger driver went over the boundary line by several inches when excavating their patio. The promised backfill of course never happened and the end post for the chain link boundary fence was not replaced. I've given them more than a year to make it right but I'm now fed up of the gap in the fence, allowing any lowlife burglar free movement between our back gardens, so I'm fixing it myself. And now my back and knees are killing me!

New fence post has been Postcrete'd in, a bit of aluminium strip from my old compost bin has been repurposed as a tension bar, new bit of fencing spliced into the old one, several wheelbarrow loads of soil moved from the high side to the low to infill the gaps left behind. I still need to re-level the ground under the new bit of fencing to make it dog proof but that will have to wait for another day...

And their garden still looks like the Somme after the bombardment. They have a lovely patio and new furniture on it, but the view is just appalling - rubble, broken pallets heaps of chalky subsoil!!

[admin]

Originally Posted by Sir Trev

My neighbour. Their extension was done on the cheap and the slapdash digger driver went over the boundary line by several inches when excavating their patio. The promised backfill of course never happened and the end post for the chain link boundary fence was not replaced. I've given them more than a year to make it right but I'm now fed up of the gap in the fence, allowing any lowlife burglar free movement between our back gardens, so I'm fixing it myself. And now my back and knees are killing me!

New fence post has been Postcrete'd in, a bit of aluminium strip from my old compost bin has been repurposed as a tension bar, new bit of fencing spliced into the old one, several wheelbarrow loads of soil moved from the high side to the low to infill the gaps left behind. I still need to re-level the ground under the new bit of fencing to make it dog proof but that will have to wait for another day...

And their garden still looks like the Somme after the bombardment. They have a lovely patio and new furniture on it, but the view is just appalling - rubble, broken pallets heaps of chalky subsoil!!

Been there myself many years ago.

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[Luckypants]

Originally Posted by Sir Trev

And their garden still looks like the Somme after the bombardment. They have a lovely patio and new furniture on it, but the view is just appalling - rubble, broken pallets heaps of chalky subsoil!!

But they have a 'look at me' photo of it on SM so that's OK.

[Sir Trev]

Another one from me. Sorry (not sorry).

Our internal water stopcock is not working properly so before I call a plumber to replace it I went outside to check the external one. Got the cap off the access point and... there a large brick jammed in there. Cannot even see let alone get to the stopcock. Eh? Found a number for Thames Water from their website and gave up listening to the hold music after 20 minutes and used their Web reporting feature. Of course the bot could not understand my issue and eventually gave up, saying someone (hopefully human) will contact me.

Good job we don't have water gushing everywhere. Flip knows how long I'll be waiting for the callback.