Moving, moving, moving

Deadman

Christ on a bike. That's some place! It'd be a couple of million easily here in West Oxfordshire.

FX_Munkee

Will you be inviting Mr Vai round to do the grass?

robgilmo

TTony said:

BigMonka said:

And is this the place where you were looking to get a mobile signal booster too?

@BigMonka ;
Yes.  I think I have it sussed now.  Even though I've got zero bars mobile signal on my phone, I can pick up a decent 3G signal - good enough for ~30mbps, using a specialist (and all legal) antenna, and EE have a 64Gb/mth contract for £30.50.

What antenna is that then? That sounds like a good plan for us. Is 3g a normal internet connection?

TheBlueWolf

So are we all invited round for jollies or do we just hunt you down via Google Maps?

You've got a beauty there....enjoy!

BigMonka

TheBlueWolf said:

So are we all invited round for jollies or do we just hunt you down via Google Maps?

You've got a beauty there....enjoy!

That should totally be a fretboard treasure hunt challenge! Each contestant puts £5 donation into tFB then the first person to find @TTony 's house on google maps wins a prize!

Jalapeno

Now comes the hard bit.  Just mind your back !

TTony

TheBlueWolf said:

So are we all invited round for jollies

Bring your own banjo, cousin.


There's a scary long list of jobs to get done, but it's structurally sound (unlike the last place we *were* going to buy), reasonably warm (though I hate to think of the oil consumption of the Rayburn), and largely dry.

Jalapeno said:

Now comes the hard bit.  Just mind your back !

Part of the rationale for buying this place is to effect a life-change.  More outside.  More active.  More exercise.  Which should hopefully help overall fitness, including my back ... 

(Plus, I'll continue to visit my physio, even if she's almost an hour's drive away now).

Jalapeno

TTony said:

though I hate to think of the oil consumption of the Rayburn

We've got an oil boiler - for heating & hot water - turn the heating off for the late Spring, Summer, early Autumn. Get through about 2.2k-2.5k litres/year - a LOT cheaper than my Dad who has gas in a far smaller house. Heating Kerosene has come down a lot in the last 5yrs

TTony

We had an oil boiler in the last place - worked well, efficiently (and relatively cheaply).  We used about half of your consumption for heating & water, although supplemented by a multi-burner stove that provided a lot of heating when it was on.

Trouble with the Rayburn is that it's ON.  Permanently.  You can switch the heating part off, but even then the cooking system is still ON.  Permanently.  Whoever thought that was a good idea??

So I think that the Rayburn might be going.  To be replaced with an ultra-efficient oil boiler for heating/water, a multi burner (as before), an elec stove for cookerying and a solar panel array.  OK, the feed-in tariffs aren't what they were, but we'll get free elec and can switch it to heat water too, so should still payback within 5-ish years.

Sporky

Where's your workshop thread? Sporky needs his ducting fix. Half normal design consultancy rate.

GSPBASSES

How about this for an idea to help you out on your guitar building. When you build your new workshop, how about building a bachelor pad over the top of it, where I could come live. I would move all my machinery and my stock wood in to the work shop. You then have free access to all of my machinery, we could work together and you could become part of GSP as my student. I could then live upstairs rent-free.

mellowsun

Have you considered getting an air source heat pump? A friend of mine replaced his oil system and Aga with one and his heating costs are now minimal.

TTony

mellowsun said:

Have you considered getting an air source heat pump? A friend of mine replaced his oil system and Aga with one and his heating costs are now minimal.

Yes - looked at both air source and ground source systems.

Main problem with both is that they seem to be better at providing general background heat, usually via underfloor systems, and the payback period is 10-20 years.  With an efficient boiler, we reckon we can get our oil usage down to well under 1000 litres/yr for a conventional system, which would push the payback out beyond the 20 years.

Investment in solar panels (for electricity rather than hot water) will be far less intrusive, and have a better payback, so on an either/or basis, it's the winner.

TTony

GSPBASSES said:

How about this for an idea to help you out on your guitar building. When you build your new workshop, how about building a bachelor pad over the top of it, where I could come live. I would move all my machinery and my stock wood in to the work shop. You then have free access to all of my machinery, we could work together and you could become part of GSP as my student. I could then live upstairs rent-free.

Even better Graham - you could have the log cabin (2 bed, hot & cold running water, bathroom) at the top end of the garden and then you'd not have to live "over the office"!  Commute would be <5mins.

Only drawback is that I'd be a fairly "mature" student, and by the time you'd taught me half of what you know, it'd be time for me to find a younger student of my own to pass the knowledge on again ...

Sporky

You'd be the original odd couple, like Jack Nicholson and Walter Cronkite.

BigMonka

TTony said:

GSPBASSES said:

How about this for an idea to help you out on your guitar building. When you build your new workshop, how about building a bachelor pad over the top of it, where I could come live. I would move all my machinery and my stock wood in to the work shop. You then have free access to all of my machinery, we could work together and you could become part of GSP as my student. I could then live upstairs rent-free.

Even better Graham - you could have the log cabin (2 bed, hot & cold running water, bathroom) at the top end of the garden and then you'd not have to live "over the office"!  Commute would be <5mins.

Only drawback is that I'd be a fairly "mature" student, and by the time you'd taught me half of what you know, it'd be time for me to find a younger student of my own to pass the knowledge on again ...

Dibs on being the young padawan, my wife and kids are welcome too right? 

TTony

BigMonka said:

Dibs on being the young padawan, my wife and kids are welcome too right? 

Sure.

The chimneys need sweeping, the leaves need raking up, the grass needs mowing, the whole house needs cleaning (and then decorating, and then cleaning, and then decorating), so there'll be plenty for everyone to do.

And the log cabin does have *2* bedrooms, so one for GSP and one for you & yours.

Sporky

I think we can all see where this is going.

@TTony in Victorian slumlord scandal...

BigMonka

TTony said:

BigMonka said:

Dibs on being the young padawan, my wife and kids are welcome too right? 

Sure.

The chimneys need sweeping, the leaves need raking up, the grass needs mowing, the whole house needs cleaning (and then decorating, and then cleaning, and then decorating), so there'll be plenty for everyone to do.

And the log cabin does have *2* bedrooms, so one for GSP and one for you & yours.

\:D/
  Sound great, as I have to do all those things currently at my house but without the benefits  )

TTony

Sporky said:

I think we can all see where this is going.

@TTony in Victorian slumlord scandal...

I prefer to think of it as an "opportunity" rather than a "scandal".