Aspman

Rain warnings out again till Monday. Our useless build simialrly claimed that it was the wrong sort of rain that's why we got ingress in the living room bay window. I didn't know it was ok to only make houses weatherproof in one direction.

And lo.. https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-tayside-central-67199044

Mine was ok but maybe it was an oddity and I only had it a couple of years

I'd read (not substantiated and can't provide source) that the Range Rover was subject to a recall. I know there have been a few fire risk recalls over the years. I wonder if you failed to have a recall carried out on your car if you could be held liable if it did something like this.

Knowing the SNP the money will be held back until the constituency votes "the right way".

I always wonder about these state visits to disasters, unless he's rolling up his sleeves and putting the marigolds on what 'effin use is a visit from a politician? It's a photo op for him to point at wet things and look sad. Probably disappointed he can't blame the storm on Westminster or Thatcher but give them time I'm sure they'll find a way.

We've had some amazing skies as well post-storm. I think it must make the air extra clear with all th dust washed out.

There is a reason they say never discuss politics and religion.

IMHO any scheme to reduce or limit driving in the city centres without a corresponding increase in public transport spending in the same area is simply revenue raising. They also increase pressure on car sales which benefits some party donors.

One hopes that the car park owners will be refused their insurance claims for not following best practice. A few big losses might change attitudes where legislation hasn’t forced it. Or possibly the car owners insurers may go after the car park owner to recover losses.

I thought you had to Sorn or they fined you for not telling them you don’t need tax. Catching people out was the whole point of sorn wasn’t it?

@Rooted I know it’s always been bad down at that corner but I don’t think I ever remember Fiskens flooding.

Well the pump held up and actually never seemed to even struggle. Very confused as to what caused the trouble the other week, either we got more rain here or the floats got stuck again and they didn’t switch on. But we had a big leak in the living room from the little juliette balcony above the bay window there. Either the drain pipe is set too high and the water pooled or the mastic failed and the water was getting forced in around the lintel. Don’t buy an old house they said, things always go wrong and they leak 🙄

I think thats the scary bit. Of course the worst weather happens overnight as always.

The storms seems to be getting squeezed by high pressure over scandinavia making the worse of it into a nasty narrow band over NE Scotland and not that bad in the West. They've shut one of the bridges in Perth and have closed all the flood gates (must have found the keys or been able to wake Davie at the depot up long enough this time)*. * Perth council in the last flood didn't shut a couple of the flood gates and the water flooded some of the city. Lots of excuses from Met office didn't say, Pitlochry Dam didn't say they'd opened the sluices. But basically they didn't shut a gate they should have. https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-tayside-central-67053128

We've poked holes and let the water out the string is a good call. We think the little juliette balcony is retaining water, there is a pipe out of it but it's not running well, I checked it for blockages the other week and there were non but I don't think it's set at the lowest point. Half-arsed as usual. It's letting water build up then then pressure just pushes it through any weaknesses. I ended up taking a core bit and cutting a hole in the composite plank to let me feed in a wet vac and sucked out about 20l of water. It'll come back but it has reduced the drips for now. Rain has been off for about the last 90min but just restarted for round two. Tonight is looking the worst with heavy rain midnight to 6am. My Dad is local to George so getting the same updates, he's at the top of a hill in town so will be ok unless he gets a leak.

We've got water coming in the ceiling of the front room already, started with the last storm. Something is unsealed at the front so when the wind hits in it comes. Rain is like a hosepipe in a hurricane right now. Weather apps showing this as the worst part of today so I'm hoping that's right. Checked the drainage system a few days ago and lo, one of the pumps isn't working. They only work one at a time anyway so as long as it keeps running we're no worse off but we have no backup. I ordered a petrol pump from amazon yesterday. Could only get a a little 2 stroke for delivery today but it can shift 15000l an hour in theory. Not feeling great I have to say

Not sure I'll sleep much tonight, new field drain got us through the bad weather the other week just but this is supposedly worse.

No EV here 😉 I've spoken to a few HP engineers now and they are designed to be 24/7. But really what that means is available 24/7 not running 24/7. We've 5 zone underfloor heating down stars with a single 'zone' for upstairs rads. The heat generated by the HP is actually pretty tepid, it only runs at about 35C (hot water is 60C) and is designed to give out a low amount of heat over long periods. The slab the underfloor heating is set into is supposed to work like a massive storage radiator. With the HP tariff we could pretty easily put our high energy periods (hot water) into the cheap hours. We only heat water for 3hr a day (again runs on thermostat so will cut out when reaches temp) but I could pump the room thermostats to go high during the cheap hours to take us through the evenings.

If electricity hits parity with gas then a heat pump starts to win for people in new houses. Running costs will flip in favour of the electric source. My tariff is up now so I'm on electricity at 27p a day. But there is an option of a heat pump tariff with 6 hours of 16p, 3hr of 45p (peak) and the rest back at the standard 27p. It'll be a PITA to rejig all the timings for that and we need to cut the heating completely in the peak hours (cooking will be expensive) but it might work out cheaper to use. It makes a false assumption that the heat pump is only on for 6hr a day when in reality mine is only off for 3hr when the hot water goes on. Off meaning will stay off no matter what the thermostat says.

Maybe I'm cyncial but there have been many stories of the years about runaway cars and most have either ended up as something stupid like accelerator stuck in the carpet, it's just gone quiet or the driver ends up in court. So for me, balance of probability is that the driver is at it for attention or a numpty.

Evri seems to be very random. We have a great Evri delivery person never had a problem with her. It's APC that are my courier devils. Never had anything but issues with them

Yeah it's a doddle to spot when you know how. Lot of people aren't aware of eye dominance. My son is left eye dominant but right handed and had to do archery left handed.

I had a Clio that would do that regularly, sissor arms in the door were hinged on split pins not solid so they'd wear out quick. Luckily the glass never disappeared and you could pull it back into place

Got to change energy contract fixed deal is up. I thought I was getting stiffed at the time with electricity at 25p a unit but tbh it's seen us through the drama. New tariff is 27p a unit which ok isn't great but I had been expecting it to be closer to 40p. Buuuuut the standing charge up 111% A hundred and eleven fecking percent. They're not blaming all that on inflation the shower of b£$"£%$