On 03/09/2019 22:13, Mathew Newton wrote:
On Tuesday, 3 September 2019 19:22:11 UTC+1, ARW wrote:

BTW it looks like the plasterers did a good job, a nice continuous seam
of dot and dab at the top of the boards with no gaps.

Yes, although there are some gaps at either end (and down the sides) so not perfect from an air tightness perspective. Better than many I've seen though!


You see some of the **** I see at work on new builds.

And a bit of air movement keeps the damp away:-)

Some years ago when coal was losing it top position as King of heating
houses (I suppose it depends where you lived in the country as to what
fuel you used in those days) my Dad [1] went to a seminar about the
benefits of coal fire.

The speaker asked the audience "Name all the benefits of a coal fire"

Some of the replies were

1. You can spit on it
2. You can burn everything without having to go out to the dustbin
(and that is when the dustbin men carried the bin from your garden)
3. You can burn evidence before the wife sees it
4. Santa needs the chimney



[1] He was a subsidence engineer for NCB/British Coal


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Adam