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Re: Snow-watch

Postby Pinch » 04 Mar 2018, 19:48

Blinkin 'ell Roger, looks you guys had it quite rough up there far yonder.

I reckon you still have time to build a snowman a bit like RogerM's jobby. You could build it near your gate to stop any lonesome wanders strolling in, although, it might encourage. I don't suppose many ramblers are out n about in all that snow.

Makes us southern softies look a bit daft with our mere dusting, which incidentally has now gone due to rise in temp/sunshine and now lots of rain. Yippee! 8-)
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Re: Snow-watch

Postby RogerS » 05 Mar 2018, 20:18

Two JCB diggers, a hop, skip and a jump and he was F...R....E....E :D
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Re: Snow-watch

Postby Malc2098 » 05 Mar 2018, 21:38

RogerS wrote:Two JCB diggers, a hop, skip and a jump and he was F...R....E....E :D


Well done!
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Re: Snow-watch

Postby Doug » 06 Mar 2018, 22:05

I’ve been mending bursts for the past 2 days, I took out a 10m run of copper pipe with 9 bursts along its length, a basin tap that had frozen so hard it had forced the spindle out of the body of the tap but I think this one takes the prize a concealed solid brass shower valve that was situated in an internal stud wall that the frozen water had caused a 3” split in :shock:


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Hopefully tomorrow will see an end to fixing bursts
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Re: Snow-watch

Postby TrimTheKing » 06 Mar 2018, 22:28

Hell's teeth! They need to turn their heating up a couple of notches!!! :shock:
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Re: Snow-watch

Postby RogerS » 06 Mar 2018, 22:30

But why so many bursts ? Poor insulation ? Unheated houses ?
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Re: Snow-watch

Postby Doug » 06 Mar 2018, 23:20

RogerS wrote:But why so many bursts ? Poor insulation ? Unheated houses ?


Unfortunately the occupants got stranded by the weather, they should have been back home before the Beast arrived but only got home Monday by which time the damage was done. That & they livein a very exposed part of Derbyshire & yes the pipe work was insulated but clearly not to the minus 16 that the forecasters said we got.
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Re: Snow-watch

Postby Jimmy Mack » 08 Mar 2018, 09:08

Another bucket of snow this morning in West Yorkshire... Daddy day care ....hmmpf


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Re: Snow-watch

Postby TrimTheKing » 08 Mar 2018, 10:20

Yep lashing it down again here in North Cheshire but temps at about 5deg and rained overnight so little chance of it settling by the looks of it...
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Re: Snow-watch

Postby Rod » 08 Mar 2018, 14:17

Sunny 9C but breezy down here.

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Re: Snow-watch

Postby Dave R » 10 Mar 2018, 18:36

Hey! You lot sent it my way! thanks a lot.

This was Monday evening about an hour after it started.
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The next morning.
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Fortunately it was above freezing on Tuesday morning and I was able to clean up the driveway and sidewalks. Wednesday it was -13° and the snow was frozen hard.
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Re: Snow-watch

Postby RogerS » 10 Mar 2018, 18:42

Share the lurv, Dave...share the lurv :lol:
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Re: Snow-watch

Postby Dave R » 10 Mar 2018, 18:50

:lol:

I do appreciate it. Got to run my snowblower. Twice!
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Re: Snow-watch

Postby RogerS » 18 Mar 2018, 10:06

DaveR, you could have run your snowblower without the turbo on!

We've got it back and this time our larder is a little bit barren as we've been caught out. :(
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Re: Snow-watch

Postby Rod » 18 Mar 2018, 12:25

We got another load this morning, about 150mm.
Looks a bit slushy so perhaps won’t hang around for long.
The weather forecasters got it spot on.

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Re: Snow-watch

Postby Woodster » 18 Mar 2018, 12:38

We’ve had about 100mm in Dorset overnight. I’ve just cleaned the snow off the car in case it freezes as I need to go out on Tuesday.
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Re: Snow-watch

Postby Dave R » 18 Mar 2018, 13:18

I hope you don't starve Roger. Ours is finally melting away but I'm not putting the snow blower away just yet. A few years ago we had about 14 inches of snow on May 2. Two days later my wife and son did a little Nordic skiing in the park near our house.

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Re: Snow-watch

Postby Rod » 18 Mar 2018, 14:11

We’ve had snow in May a few years back - I’ve a photo somewhere with my Apple tree in full blossom and snow on the ground.
Certainly didn’t help the Apple crop that year!

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Re: Snow-watch

Postby Pinch » 18 Mar 2018, 14:24

Yep, this was our view this morning here in carrot crunching Darset.

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Re: Snow-watch

Postby Malc2098 » 18 Mar 2018, 15:56

About 3 pm from even more carrot crunching Mid-Devon!

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Re: Snow-watch

Postby selectortone » 18 Mar 2018, 16:03

The view from my bedroom window this morning:

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Re: Snow-watch

Postby Doug » 18 Mar 2018, 21:34

Took the opportunity to have a go at snow angel faces today :lol: :lol:

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Re: Snow-watch

Postby Dave R » 18 Mar 2018, 21:43

:D :D
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Re: Snow-watch

Postby Rod » 18 Mar 2018, 23:00

Evil!!

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Re: Snow-watch

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