Double glazing should last for many years and weather well – that’s what it is designed to do. But 18% of the double glazing owners we spoke to had problems in the first 10 years after installation. Plus, as double glazing gets old, it may need repairs and eventual replacement.
Most common double glazing faults
Windows/doors becoming difficult to open/close
30%
Windows/doors dropping over time so that they don’t fit as well
I feel its the environment not the brand or make of double glazing. Acid rain never really left us and sand blowing in from the Saharan work together to grind down any water seal in our homes over time. And we all know buildings move with traffic vibration. If you live in a windy damp spot even triple glazing wont last that long.
A few years ago I wrote a thread on build in designed redundancy. Double glazing is another good example of this. Unlike the old single pane where it was easy to swap out any broken glass…. with double glazing you need to replace the whole window frame. There made to measure and there no common sizes. And company’s know you just wont replace one….. most people have all of them replaced at the same time.
We all know countries have problems with immigration, its not ideal, it would be nice in a perfect world to get a good balance…sadly its not to be…people need a chance to settle and become part of communities it doesn’t happen overnight, negative discussions do not help
The American immigration system is a bit odd and would cause trouble in the UK.
Lets start off with grants and loans.
“Immigrants who arrived in the United States with aspirations to start their own business can taken advantage of a number of grants and loans. These include business development grants, as well as discretionary business grants from the Department of Health and Human Services.”
These grants and interest free loans aren’t available to those born in America. If me and kenty moved to America from the UK or EU, we wouldn’t get them.
It seems you have to come from a 3rd world country to qualify but they include Russia, China and India with a few other strange ones like Israel.
The Americans fast track whole ethnic groups too like Crimean Tatars.
Both me and kenty would have to spend years going thru immigration processes before being allowed to stay due to being from the UK.
It seems if you can speak English as a first language and have an education…. America really dont want you and will do all they can to make you leave.
Its the total reserve of the UK/EU immigration system.
This is so open to abuse by criminals its beyond a joke. America seen many a dead voter still voting over the years and I have a feeling all these “voters” will be receiving 1400 bucks.
I can float in on a beer barrel and ask for this payment too.
I’m sure most of the budget will end up in the pockets of the few instead of the many. Congress didn’t vote this thru to help the working man and lobbyists worked hard to ensure that.
This will lead to the same kind of trouble that followed the world war adjusted compensation act too.
Why wouldn’t people talk to you? Unless someone experiences somthing. directly with you they may stop talking to you they may not….we all know the JC rules regarding that….even I chat to you now since you have become a full time member again
Chatters used to chat to A Rev…you don’t get much nastier than that….so you have no argument there…..you chatted to Tracy as did many others she was the nastiest thing that graced JC for years….even witnessing her abuse she was still chatted to by many….that doesn’t mean she wasn’t nasty….it meant a blind eye was turned for a quiet life or abuse being targeted their way
anything else?
That really two faced . Why would you talk to people you don’t like just cos there regulars?
I block users all the time who annoy me and rarely take them off.
Tracy can be a bit of a mad cow at times…like all menopausal women…. before that it was …errr hmm… night nurse withdraw.. and before that it was…
Ok… she a bitchy old cow
Rev was just sad with little contact with the real world. Even now I still think of him and how tiny his world really was. I’m not going to talk about his personal circumstances on here, it wouldn’t be right. He was really cool on voice and had a plastic sex tape sense of humour.
He made me wee me panty’s laughing at times
And I think that’s my point… some come across really badly in a text chatroom.