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Old 18th April 2019, 19:41   #1
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the car looks to have sprung a leak.
I think I'm losing washer fluid as liquid is dripping right where the washer bottle is.
I'm home now so it will be a front bumper off job in the next few days.
I think the car hill get a hovering first, its been a work horse these last 3 weeks having made a number of trips to the tip also with a loaded trailer.

I now know why I have a Tourer. That rubbish would not have gotten near my saloon and my saloon could never have transported all those tools.

Been away for about 3 weeks at my daughters and son in laws "new" house
Been doing the holes for socket box holes and channelling for a rewire.
Marked floorboards as a warning about central heating pipes and sparks still went through one!
Removed bathroom suit
Taken down stud wall and "larder" wall.
Erected a new stud wall incorporating stair banisters and a door frame.
Pulled down half the kitchen ceiling
new fence with concrete gravel boards and fence posts.
One of the posts was a nightmare, 18 inches below ground we came across concrete. Was it protecting drains, after some "research" decided no so chipped away an inch at a time. Hours later turns out it was no more then a lump of concrete.
Hung wooden drive gates
Removed all kitchen units and most of the plumbing, now only water to outside tap
removed 2 radiators
put some screed down to enlarge kitchen floor

The kitchen looks so much bigger without the old stud wall and now that it incorporates the larder.

I'm to go back later in the year to replace garage roof.

I work quite slow so it has taken me 3 weeks to get to this point

Home for a rest, I do like my home and my bed which I'm now off too, ta ta

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Old 18th April 2019, 19:55   #2
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Well luckily, there is nothing else to leak near the washer bottle, so that can wait.

Very well done with all the bits and pieces, and soon the orders will start coming in from members for work.
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Old 19th April 2019, 02:51   #3
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Flat roof or pitched?
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Old 19th April 2019, 07:49   #4
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Flat roof or pitched?
flat but thinking of changing to pitched.
I have an idea how to do it but getting the angels right will be my undoing, also tucking the felt in on the corners will make me think.
Would use OSB board which ever style roof they go for. Ordinary felt if flat but I wondered about felt shingles if they go pitched.


Would look nicer pitched but it is more time consuming and also more expensive. They only intend to be in the house about 5 years


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Old 19th April 2019, 07:51   #5
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Well luckily, there is nothing else to leak near the washer bottle, so that can wait.

Very well done with all the bits and pieces, and soon the orders will start coming in from members for work.
oh please no
No one would want to pay me by the day, just the job.

I ache all over, not sure if it is the bed I was sleeping on on the work

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oh please no
No one would want to pay me by the day, just the job.

I ache all over, not sure if it is the bed I was sleeping on on the work

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Ah that's the thing with exercise, once started you should do it regularly, so take on the work, and by the way, who mentioned pay?
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Old 19th April 2019, 09:44   #7
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mmm bumper off and the washer bottle is almost full. have stuck about 1 1/4 litre in and still no drip.

I'll let the bubbles "burst" then top some more.
I thought at one point it may have been dew dripping but the drip was too perfuse I thought for that.
Oh well, perhaps I'll polish the headlights while the bumper is off

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Other sources of "leaks" can be air con drains which will drip much more in this warmer weather. Alternatively next door's cat or dog could be likely suspects! Sniff and taste test of the puddle may be ruled out in that instance!!!
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Old 19th April 2019, 10:12   #9
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Other sources of "leaks" can be air con drains which will drip much more in this warmer weather. Alternatively next door's cat or dog could be likely suspects! Sniff and taste test of the puddle may be ruled out in that instance!!!
I wondered about air con drain but I thought that was about centre just behind the engine. This was dripping front off side.

Is there anything air con that could drip in this location?

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Do you have an undertray fitted? if so, is it outside of the area of it, and you could take off that little panel below the water bottle to observe that.
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