Christian McArdle ( snipped-for-privacy@nospam.yahooxxxx.co.uk) gurgled happily, sounding much like they were saying :
And which leads to far more resources being used in manufacture/distribution/waste...?
It is if you understand English comprehension.
Christian.
Aaron Borbora ( snipped-for-privacy@merton.ox.ac.uk) gurgled happily, sounding much like they were saying :
Clue: Wooden windows do not necessarily mean leaky/creaky/windy/single glazed.
It's perfectly possible to get draught and watertight hardwood sash windows with sealed unit glazing... and which will last a hundred times longer, whilst looking infinitely better, than tupperware.
Personally, I'd love to find some decent double-glazed replacements for our Crittal steel windows with real leaded lights. But until then, I'll quite happily live with these. This house would look *awful* with tupperware. Far worse even than the naff secondary double glazing that's in place on some windows at the mo.
It is his business, as it affects the environment he lives in and quite probably the value of his property. Also, as your opinion was not relevant to the question asked, does that mean you are an annoying, interfering petty little busybody?
I'm teetering on the edge of my computer seat awaiting the arrival of new posts. Any thread I've started in the past has died out after three replies.
Being the neighbourhood busybody took me one three minute phone call this morning (followed by about half an hour of gloating, but I could multi-task during that bit). Developing a sudden usenet habit has proved to be a much bigger time waster. Have you people got nothing better to do? Guess your wives have dumped you and the kids hate you etc ;-)
Cheers!
Martin Pentreath
Martin Pentreath (martin snipped-for-privacy@hotmail.com) gurgled happily, sounding much like they were saying :
Ah, well, that's because you're using Google Groups...
I would rather have a set of rules (and this is important) agreed by a majority of residents in the proposed area and consistently operated using a supplement to the council tax paid for by people in those areas. If it has value, then people should be willing to pay for that value.
This is not what happens. The reality is that the whole thing is at the behest of petty bureaucrats. That's wrong.
Fair enough, but it wasn't my issue.
Really there should be agreement by polling the residents in a CA or proposed CA that that is what they want. Then they should pay for the cost to enforce it.
Usually goes with the syndrome. None affect me personally.....
It isn't, and I do.
We do not share customs, we allow more into the country, and allow the segragation. We do not share laws, we change them to suit other cultures. We do not share organisations, as most, do not allow "anyone" into them, or exclude them by title.
I remember about your feet but hadn't realised your other dimensions were equally impressive.
But do you comprehend comprehension?
In a conservation area?
Ian
Do you think that Merton College, Oxford (to choose an example at random) should be able to do anything it likes to its buildings?
Ian
I was thinking about this as I wrote. I don't think they should (but wish they would paint my bathroom). The windows in my room are very pretty but have been fitted with secondary glazing for practical reasons. If they wanted to intall PVC I'd imagine that most people would be outraged and never leave them alone about it. In the past they could do what they liked and were even proposing in the
19th C to knock down Mob quad. It's interesting to see what they have kncoked down before planning came about. It could be argued that the College is as nice as it is today only beacuse they were free to do what they liked. If they were constrained by Oxford City Council would the College look so good? Could they have put up Grove buildings as it meant cutting down a load of trees? Progress can be both good and bad, I suppose.
Yes - the Royal Cowes Yachting Club on the IoW had to take their PVC out a few years back and put wooden ones back in.
You can get some perfectly acceptable (visually) PVC sash windows these days.
Nah. Not when you see it in context, installed in the house.
I came across a super 5 bedroom Victorian mill owner's house for sale that had the date of erection carved, enclosed within scrolls, in stone over the centre of the frontage, plus it had been completely refurbished, new kitchen and bathrooms + ensuites, had a swimming pool and games room in the cellar, and I could afford it.
It was in very good condition, except every window was replaced by dark brown PVC printed with a "Wood Grain" photograph finish. It just yelled at you "Tarted up on the cheap to sell".
DG
ian henden ( snipped-for-privacy@henden.co.uk) gurgled happily, sounding much like they were saying :
And you can easily get far better hardwood sash windows.
This would be "period" as in coal fires, hideous air pollution and adult life expectancies of around 40 years, would it? Period as in no sewage systems, outdoor privvies, dubious sanitation and rampant infant mortality?
Or are you just picking and choosing which bits of the period the house was built in you'd like to preserve and which bits you'd like to forget?
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