Peggy's Mundane Thread

My ex used to invite them in, and take their books, because he was bored being stuck at home on his own all day. The only way I could get my place off their list of welcoming homes was to move.

In other news, it really chucked it down in the night.

I have a leaky wall.

I also had to get up for a leak, about 4.45 a m

knecht wrote:

I have a leaky wall.

This is when we should be thankful for bucketloads of rain.

If we didn't get the rain, you wouldn't have known you have a leaky wall.

Czarcasm wrote:

knecht wrote:

I have a leaky wall.

This is when we should be thankful for bucketloads of rain.

If we didn't get the rain, you wouldn't have known you have a leaky wall.

Truly, you are such a clear thinker that I am shamed!

Following your lead, I shall now consider the cost I shall incur in finding a builder and paying him to fix the wall as my contribution to the local economy. I will really be playing my part in the Big Society.

knecht wrote:

Czarcasm wrote:

knecht wrote:

I have a leaky wall.

This is when we should be thankful for bucketloads of rain.

If we didn't get the rain, you wouldn't have known you have a leaky wall.

Truly, you are such a clear thinker that I am shamed!

Following your lead, I shall now consider the cost I shall incur in finding a builder and paying him to fix the wall as my contribution to the local economy. I will really be playing my part in the Big Society.

Bizarrely, I feel your pain bro. In the true spirit of mundanity, it turns out that I too have a leaky wall.

I rendered/tyroleaned a wall this week. I did have to take down a rather unkempt bush hedge first, but that's another story. Anyway...



On the other side of the wall, ground level is at the point where the drip bead is. So, when it rains, I get seepage on this side of the wall (see the discoloration on the lower portion just right of centre)

Visually, it will only get worse.

Painting it won't solve the problem, and water-sealing it will mean getting build-up behind the wall and the render blowing.

I face the expense of masking it somehow, perhaps a small bush shrub of some kind, I don't know...

I'm pretty sure I'll get further seepage at different points too, as time goes on.

Any suggestions to remedy this most mundane of problems, would be most welcome.

My leak seems to be starting at third floor level (small but tall house) and then 'cascading' down to the floors below. Access to the wall is going to be very difficult. No space to get a ladder in there if big work needs doing. Even getting a ladder there at all will be hard. My brother suggested using rock-climbing gear to get down the rock-face!

I'm hoping that all that will be needed is to clear a blocked gutter or similar or, at worse, refit a loose stone in the rubble wall but to get a look at it I will have to get into a friend's garden on the cliff above me and look down at the roof. It's not caused a problem until this year when we've had so much rain.

As for doing this myself - I hardly know how to tie my shoes so all this sort of builder-type stuff is beyond me.

Czarcasm wrote:

knecht wrote:

Czarcasm wrote:

knecht wrote:

I have a leaky wall.

This is when we should be thankful for bucketloads of rain.

If we didn't get the rain, you wouldn't have known you have a leaky wall.

Truly, you are such a clear thinker that I am shamed!

Following your lead, I shall now consider the cost I shall incur in finding a builder and paying him to fix the wall as my contribution to the local economy. I will really be playing my part in the Big Society.

Bizarrely, I feel your pain bro. In the true spirit of mundanity, it turns out that I too have a leaky wall.

I rendered/tyroleaned a wall this week. I did have to take down a rather unkempt bush hedge first, but that's another story. Anyway...



On the other side of the wall, ground level is at the point where the drip bead is. So, when it rains, I get seepage on this side of the wall (see the discoloration on the lower portion just right of centre)

Visually, it will only get worse.

Painting it won't solve the problem, and water-sealing it will mean getting build-up behind the wall and the render blowing.

I face the expense of masking it somehow, perhaps a small bush shrub of some kind, I don't know...

I'm pretty sure I'll get further seepage at different points too, as time goes on.

Any suggestions to remedy this most mundane of problems, would be most welcome.

A french drain on the other side of the wall would sort it out, you basically need to get the ground level the same both sides of the wall, other than that a tanking system plastered onto the wall on your side would keep it out but you would need to strip off the plaster that you have already done.

You shouldn't use a ladder for anything that high, anyway, Knecht. Elf n safety, innit.

If I had a leaky wall, which I don't think I have, it wouldn't be down to me to fix it. It would probably mean yet another increase in the service charge, though.

Might watch a bit of sport later.

There's a lot of those walls around Devon and Cornwall. Mundane block aren't they

Charlie Wood wrote:

There's a lot of those walls around Devon and Cornwall. Mundane block aren't they

dick

Iggy wrote:

Czarcasm wrote:

knecht wrote:

Czarcasm wrote:

knecht wrote:

I have a leaky wall.

This is when we should be thankful for bucketloads of rain.

If we didn't get the rain, you wouldn't have known you have a leaky wall.

Truly, you are such a clear thinker that I am shamed!

Following your lead, I shall now consider the cost I shall incur in finding a builder and paying him to fix the wall as my contribution to the local economy. I will really be playing my part in the Big Society.

Bizarrely, I feel your pain bro. In the true spirit of mundanity, it turns out that I too have a leaky wall.

I rendered/tyroleaned a wall this week. I did have to take down a rather unkempt bush hedge first, but that's another story. Anyway...



On the other side of the wall, ground level is at the point where the drip bead is. So, when it rains, I get seepage on this side of the wall (see the discoloration on the lower portion just right of centre)

Visually, it will only get worse.

Painting it won't solve the problem, and water-sealing it will mean getting build-up behind the wall and the render blowing.

I face the expense of masking it somehow, perhaps a small bush shrub of some kind, I don't know...

I'm pretty sure I'll get further seepage at different points too, as time goes on.

Any suggestions to remedy this most mundane of problems, would be most welcome.

A french drain on the other side of the wall would sort it out, you basically need to get the ground level the same both sides of the wall, other than that a tanking system plastered onto the wall on your side would keep it out but you would need to strip off the plaster that you have already done.

Fu(k.

Could Imaybe clad the lower side of the wall as a bit of a feature. Cos it's tyroleaned, it won't be fully flush.Summat like this...?



Cheers Iggy.

Son-in-law played a gig at Perrenporth last night, whilst we babysat. Had Princes William and Harry and Princess Eugenie in the audience. Does that make him by appointment.

It would make it look a bit better Czarks, the main thing is to make sure the wall can breath.

pepsipete wrote:

Son-in-law played a gig at Perrenporth last night, whilst we babysat. Had Princes William and Harry and Princess Eugenie in the audience. Does that make him by appointment.

This doesn't seem to be in the slightest bit Mundane, Pete. Are you sure you're on the right thread?

Went to the post office today. And the Co-op. And the library.

Stand easy.

I'm sat in tram 66 heading towards Siegburg.

Andy_Symons wrote:

pepsipete wrote:

Son-in-law played a gig at Perrenporth last night, whilst we babysat. Had Princes William and Harry and Princess Eugenie in the audience. Does that make him by appointment.

This doesn't seem to be in the slightest bit Mundane, Pete. Are you sure you're on the right thread?

Not at all sure, but can't find a thread for Son-in-law activity.

Watching Moonraker with my two sons.... Possibly the mundanest of Bond films ever.

And we're sharing a bag of Aero mint balls.

Moist_Von_Lipwig wrote:

I'm sat in tram 66 heading towards Siegburg.

Get your kicks in tram 66?

pepsipete wrote:

Andy_Symons wrote:

pepsipete wrote:

Son-in-law played a gig at Perrenporth last night, whilst we babysat. Had Princes William and Harry and Princess Eugenie in the audience. Does that make him by appointment.

This doesn't seem to be in the slightest bit Mundane, Pete. Are you sure you're on the right thread?

Not at all sure, but can't find a thread for Son-in-law activity.

I could start one for you Pete. Not sure what I'd say in the opening post, as I haven't got a son in law (nor indeed am I likely to acquire one), but I'm always happy (well, willing) to help. We could call it Pete's Son in Law thread.

What's his band called?

pepsipete wrote:

Son-in-law played a gig at Perrenporth last night, whilst we babysat. Had Princes William and Harry and Princess Eugenie in the audience. Does that make him by appointment.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j6XmNoauuOo&feature=related

Peggy wrote:

pepsipete wrote:

Andy_Symons wrote:

pepsipete wrote:

Son-in-law played a gig at Perrenporth last night, whilst we babysat. Had Princes William and Harry and Princess Eugenie in the audience. Does that make him by appointment.

This doesn't seem to be in the slightest bit Mundane, Pete. Are you sure you're on the right thread?

Not at all sure, but can't find a thread for Son-in-law activity.

I could start one for you Pete. Not sure what I'd say in the opening post, as I haven't got a son in law (nor indeed am I likely to acquire one), but I'm always happy (well, willing) to help. We could call it Pete's Son in Law thread.

What's his band called?

Have not got enough to say for a seperate thread (which I could start myself) the band was called four core but unsure what the latest version is called.

I have a blocked down-pipe.

How on earth do I get up three stories in a very limited space (about 6 foot deep) with a ladder?!

I had an uncle who retired and then died falling off a ladder whilst clearing a gutter. I might pay someone else to do it......

It might need rodding.