Quote: Gavin @ April 3 2012, 12:44 PM BSTHow much is the house?
It's listed at $284,000 but I expect it will sell in the $230,000 range. It has 5 bedrooms and is 3,000 square feet which Google tells me is 278.709 square meters.
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Quote: Harridan @ April 3 2012, 12:48 PM BSTMy employers are having the decking in the garden power-washed. It's driving my eco-friendly self to distraction seeing how much water is being used!
Isn't water renewable?
Quote: DaButt @ April 3 2012, 12:49 PM BSTIt's listed at $284,000 but I expect it will sell in the $230,000 range. It has 5 bedrooms and is 3,000 square feet which Google tells me is 278.709 square meters.
Thats very reasonable it'd be roughly £177,585 in real money, which won't get you much over here.
Quote: Harridan @ April 3 2012, 12:48 PM BSTMy employers are having the decking in the garden power-washed. It's driving my eco-friendly self to distraction seeing how much water is being used!
Yeah, it's not like the stuff falls from the sky ... 
Power washers are fairly frugal with water. The stream is under very high pressure and there isn't a lot of volume coming out of the wand. It's no worse than watering the yard for a few minutes.
Quote: Gavin @ April 3 2012, 12:49 PM BSTIsn't water renewable?
Well they aren't using sea water, they're using tap water that has to be processed and sanitised before it can be used.
Quote: DaButt @ April 3 2012, 12:51 PM BSTYeah, it's not like the stuff falls from the sky ...
Power washers are fairly frugal with water. The stream is under very high pressure and there isn't a lot of volume coming out of the wand. It's no worse than watering the yard for a few minutes.
Well he's been at it for 40 minutes already. It looks like a swamp outside just a few days before we have a hosepipe ban because we didn't have enough fall from the sky last winter.
Quote: Harridan @ April 3 2012, 12:53 PM BSTWell they aren't using sea water, they're using tap water that has to be processed and sanitised before it can be used.
I think my water bill is something like $3 per thousand gallons (and that includes the sewer) and I live in the middle of an almost-desert.
Trust me, it's better than if they were using wastewater from their toilets. 
Quote: DaButt @ April 3 2012, 12:43 PM BSTFor the next 5 weeks, my younger brother and I will be the same age.
Oooh that's pretty cool.
Quote: L.E. @ April 3 2012, 1:23 PM BSTOooh that's pretty cool.
My parents didn't think so at the time. I was conceived on their honeymoon and by their first wedding anniversary Son Number Two was on his way.
My mother warned my daughter that we were a fertile family; she was pregnant after 6 weeks of marriage.
That is pretty mad!
Quote: Harridan @ April 3 2012, 12:48 PM BSTMy employers are having the decking in the garden power-washed. It's driving my eco-friendly self to distraction seeing how much water is being used!
Least it may get rid of the rats, they don't like showers.
Quote: sootyj @ April 1 2012, 6:25 PM BSTOuch, sympathy is there anything you can do for the pain?
Quote: dellas @ April 2 2012, 4:47 AM BST
Awww so sorry you feel bad AJGO, hope your'e better today.
Heh, thanks for the sympathy. And I was barely fishing!
Was very ow yesterday, better enough to type a bit today, you lucky things 
Glad to be home now as it's bloody freezing outside. Snowing on and off all day though it didn't lie. Weird weather - I blame the Government. 
Billwill is knackered as he has been plumbing all day.
Quote: billwill @ April 4 2012, 12:51 AM BSTBillwill is knackered as he has been plumbing all day.
The depths ?
Quote: Oldrocker @ April 4 2012, 12:53 AM BSTThe depths ?
Heights, Depths, who knows.
Just lots of brass thingies, copper pipe, spanners etc.
By Gum, you don't half have to do them nuts up tight to avoid leaks.
I now have a super duper kitchen tap, in advance of the rest of my kitchen.
Quote: billwill @ April 4 2012, 12:58 AM BSTyou don't half have to do them nuts up tight to avoid leaks.
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