Snow - Not good

[Suggers]

2 small patches is good
(checks underarm)
We went for the "warm roof" principle - near as dammit, no leak whatsoever in the void.
We were told snow this pm, but no arrive - the sky is clear & the stars are twinkling - f*****g cold tho....

[GB_Groundworks]

got back from the pub had the lads round for beers and whiskey, benefits of living alone again haha its now snowing again here in sheffield as of 2.46am haha

[Suggers]

Where's the wild wild women ?

As in -
Cigarettes and whiskey and wild wild women
They'll drive you crazy, they'll drive you insane;

recorded long ago by Red Nichols and the Natural Seven. :laugh:

[Suggers]

Since I was a whippersnapper, I remember my old man telling me that the original basic "Building Regs" construction for any domestic dwelling roof, was based on it being to with-hold the pressure of a yard of snow sitting on it ?
Since when has the UK ever had a yard sitting on it's roof ?
Is this true?
???

edit - maybe it was a foot - seems so long ago....

[rab1]

yes, it was the building standard of the empire, all colonial buildings are designed to take the weight of 1 foot of snow covering on the roof. this includes Jamaica,India etc. why, i dont know.

[lutonlagerlout]

yep i heard roughly the same stories suggers,i was told a ton of snow
btw a lot of the guys fruit cages at the allotments have collapsed with the weight of snow,no fun @£200 a pop
LLL

[flowjoe]

Spent 5 hours yesterday clearing our road and neighbours drives, its a drainman thing (base instinct to dig) so was happy to get out the house.

During the morning highways (contractor) turned up to fill the grit bin at the top of our road, (only 12 days after 30+ neighbours had complained it was empty), i made the lads a brew and they told me that the pikeys were digging out the bins as fast as they could fill them and then flogging the grit to homeowners. tw%ts !

P.S - Who broke the brew cabin this morning ?., bloody cookie using all the webspace with his new website no doubt.

Use your own welsh webspace



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[rab1]

wee brothers work have them on holiday entitlement for the foreseeable. concrete works, no pouring in this weather

[GB_Groundworks]

gritters just been upto the top of my very steep road, filled the bin but didn;t put any grit down or plough it, was a 6x6 foden he backed up could have put a litle down or ploughed it. i cleared 2 tracks the full the length the other day, brought a big plastic box worth of grit down and hid it behind my garden wall i live about half way down. for future use, covered the box with the cut up bits of my xmas tree by morning it was all gone.

the annoying thing is i didn't need it i can get in and out in my navara but someone stole it to do their path i reckon.



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[Wills gardens]

Getting bored of all this snow now, been stuck indoors for a week now, all sorted with paperwork and pricing plans so just twiddling thumbs

Not even worth me doing leaflets drops yet

[seanandruby]

My works car is stuck in M O T garage, has been there since Friday. Got to wait till it opens then drive to work 90 miles.

[Injured]

Starting to melt here (Widnes, Cheshire) and got bit of sleety rain last night. Hopefully be gone within the week and can start work again Monday. The sooner the better. Not done a day since 17th December.

[lutonlagerlout]

got to work today and the client asked could we put the job back a week till the snow has gone
yeah sure
just sit at home and watch the kid starve :;):
temp is definitely higher today
but apart from that 1 inside job all the rest are outdoors,no goers when its like this
LLL

[RAPressureWashing]

Same here last working day was 17th Dec, have quotes to do, but surfaces are covered in snow

[dig dug dan]

managed to go in today to build some trellis from scratch, and fell a tree.
Got a bad back to boot, no truck as my old one sold, and new one not here till this week, so my mate drove us.
Can't get back to this job until it thaws. Got footings to dig an pour for a pond and wall.
off to do some back stretches ???