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How very strange, it's almost like there are many different sorts of uPVC window frames. We have had almost all of our windows replaced with uPVC most of wich have been in for 12 years. Now, houses don't come much more exposed than this one .... I'm on a peninsula sticking out into the Atlantic and ...

Yes .. what Green Aura said .... peel a bit and if it makes you cry, it's horseradish.
100 times worse than the most pungent onion.

Sorry, still fairly mild, comparatively and drizzling - we're up to double figures tomorrow apparently :cheers: Yep, so are we apparently. Last night it bottomed out at +6c and it's now 8.6 and mainly overcast. Ann - we are not used to sub zero here so pipes etc are not postiion to avoid freezing. ...

Mmmh, the only wood frames you can get here are teak, and I'm not sure where that comes from or how sustainable it is. I realise that PVC is totally non-green but when it comes to economics I can be persuaded to the dark side :evil1: PVC frames can be bought ready assembled for reasonable money, tea...

Thanks for that Red, I will soak some beans tonight and try that tomorrow. The ingredients on my tin of beans are ... beans 40%, tomatoes 27.5%, water, sugar, maize starch (cornflour ?), glucose-fructose syrup, salt, acetic acid, paprika, cayenne pepper & celery. So maybe I will omit the allspic...

Just to stop condensation I would always go with double glazing. You could always get the windows joiner made, my dad in the 60's was a joiner and I grew up in a double glazed house. He made the units himself and we were always snuggly warm. Yes, I agree, and if you can still get aluminium frames I...

Does anyone have a recipe for ordinary baked beans ? NOT Boston baked beans or any other fancy bean bake concoction ... just plain old Baked Beans in Tomato Sauce. I'm ashamed to say that I love tinned baked beans and as it's the only commercial vegetable item that I buy, it would be very nice to ma...

Please don't take this the wrong way guys but I was sure you were all kidding.... It has been like this for a month where I am. Happy new year Ann, or Happy Hogmanay. You must remember that although you get cold winters "up there", you do have the benefit of .. um ... ah .. oh yes, Irnbru...

Yours is bigger than mine then
But mine are ones that haven't stopped growing since last spring.
If you want to get into a comparison match ... I have nasturtiums in flower along the front of the house and daffodils that should be in bloom next week.

was given some lovely tomato plants a couple of years ago that had been raised in peat. I thanked the donor, grew them on organically & slipped the "don't distroy peatland habitat, use coir (sp?)" chat in over tea & biccies. He would have just composted them, mine had all damped o...

Just to wind you poor frozen souls up even more, here is a photo I have just taken this morning ... Potatoes.jpg These are self sown potatoes growing outside between my polytunnel and a drystone wall. I have no idea what variety they are or where they came from as there has never been any potatoes p...

Do you have a special kind of glazing Odsox? :scratch: We get no heat gain from the sun blasting into our living room in winter whatsoever because there is just no heat in the sun (whatsoever) at this time of the year. The original window glass was ordinary although the replacements are Pilkington ...

There are actually building regs which deal with this and you'll need to comply with them. Have a look at http://www.windowstoday.co.uk/building_regs.htm hth Lynne Not sure that UK building regs are that important in Portugal :lol: We have exactly the same situation as you as we had a huge floor to...

Yesterday and today the minimum here was +3.5c
Still cold though with a slight ground frost.

Hi Tony - Happy New Year! Hubby won't even entertain the idea of getting Visa or Mastercard - he was ok in the UK when we had a Visa debit, but before he & I were together, he had debts of over 30 thousand on credit cards & learnt a hard lesson the hard way.... I understand his thoughts on ...