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- Sat Mar 22, 2025 8:41 pm
- Forum: How are you preparing
- Topic: What Preps are you doing this week? Part 12
- Replies: 367
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Re: What Preps are you doing this week? Part 12
Water....the jerrycans, that’s what I need to do, and empty and clean out the muck in the waterbutts, our backup. They might be heavy but the 25l fit the space well added bonus is the cupboard under the stairs is concrete so weight isn't an issue I've also got a drum tap so if needed decanting/ usi...
- Sat Mar 22, 2025 2:45 pm
- Forum: How are you preparing
- Topic: What Preps are you doing this week? Part 12
- Replies: 367
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Re: What Preps are you doing this week? Part 12
Water stocks tipped out and refilled
- Sat Mar 22, 2025 2:44 pm
- Forum: How are you preparing
- Topic: What Preps are you doing this week? Part 12
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Re: What Preps are you doing this week? Part 12
Ordered stuff to bolt fire escape ladder to wall Rawlplug R KER 2 part epoxy that uses normal sealant gun 12 mm drill bit 12 mm hole cleaning brush 10 mm x 130 steel threaded studs I got the brush off ebay and the rest from tradefixdirect I can use the anchor plates that came with the ladder. I hav...
- Sat Mar 22, 2025 12:58 pm
- Forum: How are you preparing
- Topic: What Preps are you doing this week? Part 12
- Replies: 367
- Views: 26791
Re: What Preps are you doing this week? Part 12
Ordered stuff to bolt fire escape ladder to wall Rawlplug R KER 2 part epoxy that uses normal sealant gun 12 mm drill bit 12 mm hole cleaning brush 10 mm x 130 steel threaded studs I got the brush off ebay and the rest from tradefixdirect I can use the anchor plates that came with the ladder. I hav...
- Sat Mar 22, 2025 9:43 am
- Forum: How are you preparing
- Topic: What Preps are you doing this week? Part 12
- Replies: 367
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Re: What Preps are you doing this week? Part 12
I dont miss my garden but still miss my wee chickens, loved them. I read a wartime book on it and copied that, it was the deep litter method and it worked for me. And I remember buckets of diamthingy earth too - pale pinkish? :mrgreen: This is a sort of gray white colour guessing some comes coloure...
- Fri Mar 21, 2025 9:28 pm
- Forum: How are you preparing
- Topic: What Preps are you doing this week? Part 12
- Replies: 367
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Re: What Preps are you doing this week? Part 12
Been on the allotment the new drive belt now means the rotorvator is now unstoppable :lol: need to slacken the lever a bit tomorrow :mrgreen: 20250321_181954.jpg I see why, vertical gardening is so much harder :twisted: Not sure what's going on click the picture and it loads up thr correct way :lol...
- Fri Mar 21, 2025 7:30 pm
- Forum: How are you preparing
- Topic: What Preps are you doing this week? Part 12
- Replies: 367
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Re: What Preps are you doing this week? Part 12
Been on the allotment the new drive belt now means the rotorvator is now unstoppable
need to slacken the lever a bit tomorrow


- Wed Mar 19, 2025 2:42 pm
- Forum: How are you preparing
- Topic: What Preps are you doing this week? Part 12
- Replies: 367
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Re: What Preps are you doing this week? Part 12
Got my escape ladder. Looks ok. Had a rethink on the bolts, as they could crack the brick. Chances are the 150 year old mortar's soft, plus they'd be near the rebate ie edge. Phoned the installers, and they reckon the middle bit (transom) would be strong enough. So I ordered two hooks to go over th...
- Mon Mar 17, 2025 9:06 pm
- Forum: Homes and Retreats
- Topic: Forced into getting a smart meter
- Replies: 13
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- Mon Mar 17, 2025 6:32 pm
- Forum: Homes and Retreats
- Topic: Forced into getting a smart meter
- Replies: 13
- Views: 2009
Re: Forced into getting a smart meter
There was a brief power outage in my neighbourhood last year (unknown cause) and when it was restored I found my old pay-as-you-go electricity key meter wasn't working any more, so I got onto my supplier EON and they said they'd have to replace it with a Smartmeter. To come to the point, I LURV my ...