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Originally posted by Nocturnal Submission View Post
I think that "loft" and "attic" are fairly interchangeable terms when it comes to home residences but rarely used in relation to old industrial buildings.
In my mind's eye, attics always have old desks and sepia-tinted globes in them...the dust of ages illuminated by a slender shaft of late-afternoon sunlight playing through a small propped-open window, the only discernible sound the distant bark of a dog from a neighbouring field.
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Originally posted by WOM View PostFinal question: what do you do about the cistern up there?
I'm going to have a combination boiler installed which will enable me to decommission the tanks. TBH, I've never really been all that happy about having a number of large water vessels at the top of the house, just waiting to sprout a leak,
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Originally posted by Nocturnal Submission View Post
Trust me, the grouting is one of the least problematic of the things that need doing to the kitchen to make it look even vaguely decent.
It seems to have reached an uneasy truce with the RCD.
Let us help spend your money!
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The UK limit for contactless has been raised (in response to COVID hygiene concerns) to, what, ?45?
Daewoo make appliances?
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In the urban residential context here, loft has two very different meanings.
The more common is the "repurposed" former light industrial space that first took off in SoHo in the 70s (when such spaces lacked certificates of occupancy, not to mention all kinds of mod cons) and has since spread widely (including being used for new construction in the "style").
The other is older, but less common, and generally used for particularly small spaces with high ceilings in which either a sleeping platform or a storage space has been constructed. This is a very high end example from Greenwich Village
And yes, just to piss off Ton Ton, there are a handful of (industrial) lofts that include (sleeping) lofts.
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- Mar 2008
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- Revelling In The Hole
- England, Chelsea and Tooting and Mitcham. And Surrey CCC. And Wimbledon Dons Speedway (RIP)
- Nairn's Cheese Oatcake
Originally posted by caja-dglh View Post
My understanding is that you are generally in the process of removing people from your household rather than adding them. So why convert the loft (adding square footage) rather than fixing sub-par living space first?
Let us help spend your money!Last edited by Nocturnal Submission; 14-01-2021, 00:25.
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Originally posted by caja-dglh View Post
A tube of caulk will cost you less that 20 quid (with dispenser). I think it is slightly cheaper and going to fill the intervening five years before you do the kitchen.
How is the oven?
It's a skill getting a good bead though. I'm terrible at it.
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Originally posted by WOM View Post
I thought old houses had a water holding tank in the loft / attic. Am I misinformed, or are you just mucking about with words.
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A couple of things, on the recent content:
1) I looked it up, all by myself
A chaebol (Korean: 재벌; lit. "rich family") is a large industrial conglomerate that is run and controlled by an owner or family in South Korea. A chaebol often consists of many diversified affiliates, controlled by an owner whose power over the group often exceeds legal authority. The first known use in an English text was in 1972. Several dozen large South Korean family-controlled corporate groups fall under this definition.
Originally posted by Amor de Cosmos View Postphones that take feeds
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Originally posted by WOM View Postbacksplash
That's all for now, thanks.
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Originally posted by TonTon View PostWhat's this? I'm assuming it means something like "phones that you can't use to pay for parking with", but I can't see how it means that.
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Originally posted by Amor de Cosmos View Post
That's right. My phone allows calls and texts but doesn't do internet stuff, except for a few things I can specify (podcasts for example.)
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