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well duh, the whole point of me doing it apart from saving dosh is because i want a challenge, thats been the whole point of everything in my life...i have repped you as well as it seems repping makes you feel good il give you a thanks as well so you can sleep today adding to the various times you have been repped and thanked!

Ryan, this works a treat...your a star!

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ok so i have checked my councils regs and it is: Detached Garage (exempt if) It does not exceed 30m2 floor area and is either: - a. more than 1m from any point of the boundary of its curtilage or b. Constructed substantially of non-combustible materials so i can build a 7.5x4 as opposed to my initial 8x4 concrete blocks are none combustible so iit can be right upto the boundry so im calculating it to cost 500quid without roof and door (i already have a double glazed window) roof will cost quite abit i think and door will cost 100ish so im thinking 1100-1200 all in. thats electrics insulation, boarded up inside skimmed plus a nice concrete base...i can then dump all my tools inside and lock the door till the next project!

digger hire 150quid, or myself 1hour a day i can do at least 1 mtre will take me 20 days or less if i call the friemnds round for tea party (thatls cost 30quid!) then that saved 120quid (150-30) can buy my daughter her wooden play thing with the swings slides and tunnel

il pop a picture up once ive finished......do you actually know what goes into block paving? i see building a garage/shed much easier than paving....by the way whoever asked - i do have a cement mixer and a whacker plate (from all my block paving projects) if i list all the things i have done it will take me ages but i have mastered skimming (using 10 bags of thistle finish as my training instructer - cost : 50quid as opposed to 700quid to go to a couse for 5 ddays. Took my 2 years to do the insides of my house (dul rewire skimming plus built an internal wall of BRICK 3metre by 2.4 metre plus fitted kitchen and bathroom all real wood floowing carpeting ripped cielings down and drywalled and plastered, retiled the roof replaced all soffits and drainpipes. e.t.c guess what my house is still standing, the water drains nicely. the tiles are still up on the bathroom walls and the silicone is stil white in the bathroom (after 4 years of me and family bathing) the only thing i havent done yet is laid foundations well level foundations but i think i got my answer now from this forum and my usual diy forum (use posts and a stringline) I will make the garage as large as can be within regs and hopefully post a picture in bout a month or 2 depending on how tired i am digging the footings (have you ever dug in clay) i only said mate sarcastically, i would dream of having someone so negative as a friend, id say something like common powdermonkey lets clean your drains coz your house nearly got flooded last week in the downpours and youd be like no way its too dangerous and hten go and spend 300 quid on a 'roofer' unfortunately im not a rich person that i can spend 1300 on labour for 2-5 days work (id rather do it myself and save the cash then i can fullfill my dream of paying off my mortgage and having a few more kids.

hi powdarrmonkey, i asked for advice, saying 'its stupid' doesnt actually help. i am a plumber by trade, one year from my nic (electrics) qualification, have block paved over 100m2 of land perfectly (mine, friends e.t.c) and there is nothing that i dont think i can manage doing by myself (obviously with help from friends and family) i am not a guy that gives up and will take advice from everyone but i hate comments like the one you made.A standard builder has learnt from experience exactly how i have learnt my fulltime job (i have no qualifications apart from 3 GCSE's. I am not building a bridge for gos sake, fine i will do a 4mtrex4mtre shed and then do another one at the side (which will fulfill building regs) i just wanted to see if anyone else has experience which some have been giving and been very helpfull. My english probly isnt very good and these kids will probly outdo me in an english test but i dont give up, maybe il post a picture once finished. end of the day only one person can have a problem and i have already had a word with him (my far neighbour (im in a detached house) anyways rant over. Do you know how hard it is to find an actual competent builder their all cowboys id rather do it myself, save the cash and fund my gas safe course next year. i dont give up mate, i dont go out, i dont even go on holidays.i plan my next challenge!

those are the only rules to keep within, also obvously electrics need to conform.... but thats bout it as far as i can see... worse comes to the worse il put a flatish roof an cover with loftboards and felt them up.

No outbuilding on land forward of a wall forming the principal elevation. Outbuildings and garages to be single storey with maximum eaves height of 2.5 metres and maximum overall height of four metres with a dual pitched roof or three metres for any other roof. Maximum height 2.5 metres within two metres of a boundary. No verandas, balconies or raised platforms. No more than half the area of land around the "original house"* would be covered by additions or other buildings. In National Parks, the Broads, Areas of Outstanding Natural Beauty and World Heritage Sites the maximum area to be covered by buildings, enclosures, containers and pools more than 20 metres from house to be limited to 10 square metres. On designated land* buildings, enclosures, containers and pools at the side of properties will require planning permission. Within the curtilage of listed buildings any outbuilding will require planning permission.

nah ive checked planning permission is only required for outbuildings that are going to be used to live in, and also if they are above 4Meters tall with an apex roos (3 Metres with a flat roof)... when u say pour in the footings in one go, can i mix and pour then mix and pour and mix and pour till done? or just pour pour pour??

Its Clay Soil and il need to step it probly 3 times as its on a slight slope. can you elaborate on the posts part...?? stick posts in and use a string line (as i am stepping i will need to use posts on both ends of the steps? the tool is the one you have described (put on top and fill with cement and hten rest blocks on top.... il probly use it a while and get fed up then try ding it alone and get fed up agin

well 2 days if they actually work from 8-4 unlike most who work from 12-2

basically i wana build a 8metre by 4 metre x 2.5 metre high (3.5 to the top of apex) breeze block workshop (i have an okayish largish garden) how deep to do the footings and what mix to use for the foootings? i done a little research and came up with 1x6 OPC cement and Ballast how do i level the footings - do i just make it fairly level or perrrrfect? will also need to wait for that brickie to arrive i hope its as easy as they show it on tv lol i have ordered 4 packs of blocks 2 tonnes of sand and have 6 bags of cement ready and waiting (il buy cement as and when needed i got 1000 pounds to do it in, already spent 300 quid the quotes i had were all 1300> for labour only WTF its only 280 - 360 blocks and 2 days for a competent brickie

burgemaster is correct, that is the only way to resolve these niggly profile issues on vista, a bit of a headache sometimes but it works

ive had these issues before, you need to disable all removable disks (card readers) in the BIOS and then install windows and then re-enable them. ...sorry just seen someone has already given the suggestion!

thats wierd, i live in dewsbury too pm me your number and il call you.

can you try assign a static address through the dhcp server with the correct mac address??? i dont know if this will work as i have never had to actually do it but i heard that if a mac address is assigned a static on dhcp then dhcp will always give it that mac the certain static as opposed to it finding a dynamic - if that makes any sense!

im presuming you have imaged it then trying to do a repair??? if you cant get the cd to load then its either one of 2 things: 1. you imaged an amd system and trying to do the repair on an intel - this wont work most of the times its a little hit and miss - cant help you here 2. you imaged from a board with a chipset different to another board (intel to via or nvidia to ati, intel to nvidia e.t.c) - in this case you need to uninstall the actual motherboard drivers BEFORE you image the system. i think its because when using the windows cd to load up it actually looks on the hard drive to load drivers and if they are not there it loads default drivers - in your case as the drivers are there its trying to load the board drivers or cpu driver and then bsodding. where are you based? im tired so havent had a chance to read the whol thread but as ive had this problem before i thought id add my tuppence! im sorry if im repeating others ddcmp

i recommend O2, im paying 12.50 for a static IP with 20meg down (i get 18mb on average) and 1.4mb up, freephone support....and discounted if you or anyone you know has an O2 mobile!! and you actually get to speak to 3rd line support if you let them know that you 'know' whats going on.

i had the same problem in the end coz of thier realy crap CS and their ability to do nothing but pee people off i decided to contact the adjudicator end of the day they were trying to make me pay for broadband i never recieved and they were sending bailiffs to scare me into paying. this is one of the replies i got after contacting the adjudicator: contact add: David Horsfall [david.horsfall(the at sign)Pipex.Net] Thank you for your email in response to my letter accepting the offer I made to clear the balance on the account. I can advise you that with every case I deal with I give feedback to the Heads of the responsible departments. Bulldog continually reviews its procedures and processes in order to improve our level of Customer Care. As you will be aware like all Internet Service providers a lot of money is spent on advertising our products and in employing sales people to generate business. It is therefore in our interests to deal with and satisfy the customer’s needs in a prompt and timely manner in order not to lose the customer, as regrettably, we did with your account. With regards the promptness of our reply to your emails. I am sorry if we failed you in speed of our response to any emails you have sent. Bulldog target is a response to 80% of the emails it received within 24 hrs and 98% of all emails within 28 days. As I stated in my letter I am sorry that we did not resolve this matter before you found it necessary to take the matter to the Adjudicator. I trust my reply is satisfactory. Kind regards David David Horsfall Customer Relations Pipex Limited dont even try posting on www. my-bulldog-hell . co . uk/forum its all bought out! you need to go throught their tech support and (use email) as they telephone support never actually log calls and never log them correctly, then wait for them to fix it or fob you off then contact CISAS. I basically ordered another BT line and got o2 broadband as i needed the Net urgently but pipex aka bulldog reimbursed me all costs for new line once i won lol

ghost it and then do a windows repair, 9 out of 10 times its worked for me. you just need to make sure that they are both either intel or amd as thats where you will have probs.

hi all, my names DDCMP, im a technician at quite a few schools working for a subcontractor in West Yorkshire.....i dont have any qualifications unfortunately but im hoping to start mcp's soon (its a little hard with the child and a mortgage and a wife who loves clothes). i have quite a bit of experience on the hardware side of things as thats where my career started (working for a well known hardware manufacturer) anything else .... feel free to ask!

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i had the same probem in one of my schools, basically after a search of the web and trying to find out what would exactly fix it and trying different ways i did the folllowing: stopped roaming profiles for the specific user, deleted all folders under c:\users\ and then went into the registry and deleted all keys relating to all the users under HKLM\SOFTWARE\MICROSOFT\WINDOWS NT\CURRENTVERSION\PROFILELIST - i think it was that key. then i popped the roaming profile back into AD, got the user to log on and log off so it created a new profile and it worked - took me 2 visits to figure it out im sure theres probly an easier way but this was ages ago and the school was getting rather annoyed.