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Post by gninnam on Apr 24, 2024 18:52:23 GMT
Just had a quote for a new garage door..............
Didn't expect it to be so expensive!!
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Post by hifinutt on Apr 25, 2024 10:38:30 GMT
was it a standard size ? what sort of price was it ? non standard of course cost far more
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Post by gninnam on Apr 25, 2024 19:29:38 GMT
Standard size.
Its a roll over type (he doesn't do the other types as he says they are too easy to bypass) - the panels are at least 50mm thick and is all electric
£2.5k
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Post by robbiegong on Apr 25, 2024 20:16:51 GMT
Just had a quote for a new garage door.............. Didn't expect it to be so expensive!! Honestly everything is expensive now, particularly anything to do with build construction etc, even down to the smallest bits, just crazy. |
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Post by macca on Apr 26, 2024 19:16:30 GMT
Standard size. Its a roll over type (he doesn't do the other types as he says they are too easy to bypass) - the panels are at least 50mm thick and is all electric £2.5k That's not that bad for one of those. Thought you were going to say five grand! |
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Post by macca on Apr 26, 2024 19:19:31 GMT
I would like shutters on all my doors and windows. 25mm armour plated, stop a anti-tank rocket at medium range.
Automated, and they come down fast like Star Wars doors.
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Post by Bigman80 on Apr 26, 2024 19:41:18 GMT
I would like shutters on all my doors and windows. 25mm armour plated, stop a anti-tank rocket at medium range. Automated, and they come down fast like Star Wars doors. 🤣🤣 Bricks around the door wouldn't stop anything, but the garage door would be left standing 🤣🤣 |
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Post by antonio on Apr 27, 2024 9:10:43 GMT
I would like shutters on all my doors and windows. 25mm armour plated, stop a anti-tank rocket at medium range. Automated, and they come down fast like Star Wars doors. Is this in a police 'no go' area?  |
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Post by hifinutt on Apr 27, 2024 10:22:48 GMT
builder finished off drive today , taken quite a few days and its only small . impressed but the amount of work has been impressive . hire of digger to dig it all out . then grab lorry to take it away . then concrete edging put in place with cement mixer needed
then 11 tons of stone to make sub bass delivered by grab lorry
then edging with block paving and whacked down with wacker plate . finally 5 ton of hot tarmac with a roller . impressive . like these guys , they are thorough, thy do bus garages and hospitals etc so had to wait over 7 months to get them
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Post by macca on Apr 27, 2024 11:17:59 GMT
I would like shutters on all my doors and windows. 25mm armour plated, stop a anti-tank rocket at medium range. Automated, and they come down fast like Star Wars doors. Is this in a police 'no go' area? Police station used to be literally round the corner but it closed about ten years ago and is currently being turned into luxury student accommodation. Four murders in last five years, all within a hundred yards (last one was a double murder, woman shot her two children dead and stabbed some bloke, although he survived). Right across the street from me! Quiet as the grave here most of the time though. |
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Post by hifinutt on Apr 27, 2024 11:50:23 GMT
Flip thats rough ! We used to live near brixton and it was a bit like that
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Post by macca on Apr 27, 2024 12:47:44 GMT
Flip thats rough ! We used to live near brixton and it was a bit like that I lived in Liverpool until '87 Let's walk into town? - no can't go that way because a swat team have cordoned off the road while they shoot it out with some gangsters. And getting woken in the middle of the night, almost every night, by police helicopters with Nightsuns combing the neighbourhood for some scally. I mean it was like living in 'Bladerunner' or something. Worst was when the rozzers got those American police sirens. You could go out any time of day or night and it was just a constant sound. I moved from there right out into the countryside, which took a bit of adjustment  |
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Post by robbiegong on Apr 27, 2024 13:41:44 GMT
Flip thats rough ! We used to live near brixton and it was a bit like that Brixton's calmed down a lot ages ago, very different now. Manchester though, you hardly ever used to hear anything about the place, (apart from football of course), nowadays though, there seems to always be something gone on there. |
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Post by misterc on Apr 27, 2024 13:45:34 GMT
A roller shut door stock garage size 20mm thick electric powered is £995 via Gorilla doors, at home we have a couple of up and overs with 35mm armour plate reinforcing them, two smoke gennys, some well placed strobes, and a couple of extra 'Naim' sirens four dead bolts, two extra rock locks. It will slow them down enough to think. We live in a pleasant area. However I have lived in a place where lebanese troop carriers would fear to tread.
Today, a real gem an Audionet Planck CD player, interesting fault still playing with it, new bar & plate intercooler 70% more efficent installed on the junior beast alone with some nice H&R full front and rear antiroll bar kit plus whiteline non pussy drop links. A zoom call to the states with a new client. This evening a relaxing meal out with Anne, then some chill time with music.
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Post by hifinutt on Apr 27, 2024 18:29:41 GMT
Flip thats rough ! We used to live near brixton and it was a bit like that I lived in Liverpool until '87 Let's walk into town? - no can't go that way because a swat team have cordoned off the road while they shoot it out with some gangsters. And getting woken in the middle of the night, almost every night, by police helicopters with Nightsuns combing the neighbourhood for some scally. I mean it was like living in 'Bladerunner' or something. Worst was when the rozzers got those American police sirens. You could go out any time of day or night and it was just a constant sound. I moved from there right out into the countryside, which took a bit of adjustment funny thing an Mp said where i live is a no go area recently and all over the newspapers ...rare to get a murder ,they do all drive like colin macrea tho |
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Post by macca on Apr 28, 2024 9:06:37 GMT
I lived in Liverpool until '87 Let's walk into town? - no can't go that way because a swat team have cordoned off the road while they shoot it out with some gangsters. And getting woken in the middle of the night, almost every night, by police helicopters with Nightsuns combing the neighbourhood for some scally. I mean it was like living in 'Bladerunner' or something. Worst was when the rozzers got those American police sirens. You could go out any time of day or night and it was just a constant sound. I moved from there right out into the countryside, which took a bit of adjustment funny thing an Mp said where i live is a no go area recently and all over the newspapers ...rare to get a murder ,they do all drive like colin macrea tho They all do that here too, the worse the conditions the faster they go. If they had Macrea's skills and car then no problem but they don't. Although clearly they think they do. Crime is actually quite low here, for a city. I think the murderers just congregate in my area for some reason. |
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Post by hifinutt on Apr 28, 2024 9:51:59 GMT
Trying to sell a house on behalf of executors [ in a voluntary capacity ] its in a mega desirable location for the local population . 3 bed but sadly the dear chap there who was elderly seccumbed to the sprayfoam loft insulation con . now its unmortgable !! seems this is holding up the sale so thinking of getting in a company to remove . This stuff is a pain
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Post by hifinutt on Apr 28, 2024 14:24:03 GMT
managed a visit to Winterbourne gardens where they have opened up some incredible woodland walks near the lake . utterly stunning really for a place almost within walking distance of the city centre . just millions and millions of bluebells . wow ... never seen it like that before not my pic  Winterbourne Bluebells by , on Flickr |
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Post by stevew on Apr 30, 2024 20:29:01 GMT
That sound you can hear is me loosing yet another marble. I’ve just gone and bought a cd. Having sold shed loads and given Oli a car load, and a battleship cd player I’d put it all behind me. No more storage nightmares.. it’s all vinyl and streaming for me, yes sireee. and then I find that I’ve lost one of my favourite album downloads during a Russian malware attack on QNAP NAS owners and then I find out that every streaming service will only supply two tracks from the album… and it’s never been out on vinyl. So.. there we are. First world problems.  |
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Post by Bigman80 on May 1, 2024 5:01:30 GMT
That sound you can hear is me loosing yet another marble. I’ve just gone and bought a cd. Having sold shed loads and given Oli a car load, and a battleship cd player I’d put it all behind me. No more storage nightmares.. it’s all vinyl and streaming for me, yes sireee. and then I find that I’ve lost one of my favourite album downloads during a Russian malware attack on QNAP NAS owners and then I find out that every streaming service will only supply two tracks from the album… and it’s never been out on vinyl. So.. there we are. First world problems. If it makes you feel better, Im yet to see a copy of that in the CDs you gave me. There is still one large box to sort out though. |
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Post by stevew on May 1, 2024 6:11:02 GMT
It’s an album that I used to play in Mumbai in the flat, so very nostalgic memories.
Still don’t understand why Qobuz would only have two tracks available and red line the rest. Hey ho.
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Post by mikeyb on May 1, 2024 6:55:09 GMT
It’s an album that I used to play in Mumbai in the flat, so very nostalgic memories. Still don’t understand why Qobuz would only have two tracks available and red line the rest. Hey ho. It's not Qobuz, it's the music label or artist that only gives them access to 2 tracks, that's why you sometimes lose an album or track in your favourites, the music label or artist has removed permission to use them. Happens with all the streaming services. |
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Post by stevew on May 1, 2024 7:43:10 GMT
It’s an album that I used to play in Mumbai in the flat, so very nostalgic memories. Still don’t understand why Qobuz would only have two tracks available and red line the rest. Hey ho. It's not Qobuz, it's the music label or artist that only gives them access to 2 tracks, that's why you sometimes lose an album or track in your favourites, the music label or artist has removed permission to use them. Happens with all the streaming services. Ahh.. ok. I still love streaming, but there are some downsides. Thought I’d countered these by having a NAS… and can only blame myself for not backing up properly. |
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Post by hifinutt on May 1, 2024 8:12:04 GMT
wow , did you used to live in Mumbai ? must have been fun
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Post by stevew on May 1, 2024 8:51:45 GMT
wow , did you used to live in Mumbai ? must have been fun We did! 97 to 2002. More of an extreme experience rather than fun!!! It’s a tough place to live and bring up kids, but we had all the benefits that come with being a well paid expat. However when the plane took off for the last time to come home I was almost delirious. Hifi there at the time was appalling… and duties on imported kit was 110%. So I would carry in a linn LK series box (pre/power/cd) that neatly fitted my briefcase. They always checked the suitcases, but never hand luggage. Great experience though. |
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Post by hifinutt on May 1, 2024 11:43:24 GMT
wow i bet it was a fab experience . we have been to Pakistan twice and loved it . everything was so green when we got back
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Post by stevew on May 1, 2024 11:56:39 GMT
wow i bet it was a fab experience . we have been to Pakistan twice and loved it . everything was so green when we got back Mmm.. I was responsible for commercial activity for our company in Pakistan. One of the most worrying trips… and this was before 9/11. Our agent in Karachi took me out for a meal on my first night and proudly told me how they were now assured of getting me back to the airport as the warlords had given the govt assurances that foreigners would no longer be kidnapped for ransom demands. My heart sank and my palms went damp. For several days we went for meeting after meeting to offices where you parked in a basement car park, and at each one was a surly guard nursing a Kalashnikov and spitting out red paan juice. I’m sure it’s a lovely country to visit and I knew a number of really nice intelligent welcoming people. But.. oh the politics. |
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Post by hifinutt on May 1, 2024 13:53:12 GMT
wow what a story !!
we trained at colleges studying anthropology and all sorts of stuff ready to work in Pakistan . however there was huge violence in Karachi and it never did come off . we were going to work near Sahiwal with some people groups from minority groups . The people are so incredibly friendly as you say .
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Post by macca on May 1, 2024 17:55:41 GMT
One of my brothers was in Islamabad for three years with the FCO. Long time ago now.
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Post by bencat on May 2, 2024 9:47:38 GMT
Today I got a quote from a Joiner for fitting two bespoke CD storage cupboards to fit the alcove either side of the fireplace . £1500 and it will give me about 2900 CD space . This would mean that I could get most if not all my CD,s under the bed in boxes out which is what my wife wants . However this seems like quite a large amount for what seems like a not too difficult job . Not going to do anything till June when I return from a visit to my brother but will I think try and get some other estimates and see what they come out at .
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