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Started by STEMO, 27 May 2019, 15:57:01

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STEMO

Mathewsons is on telly, Thursday at 8 on Yesterday. Programme is called bangers and cash.

dave the builder

Quote from: STEMO on 28 May 2019, 15:46:53
Mathewsons is on telly, Thursday at 8 on Yesterday. Programme is called bangers and cash.

been watching all these on Sky tv  :y

watch online catch up

more rust than some of my fleet  ;D

STEMO

Quote from: STEMO on 28 May 2019, 12:27:07
Just in case someone doesn't know what the hell we're on about:

http://www.omegaowners.com/forum/index.php?topic=144682.msg1898678#msg1898678
According to a local, and the best explanation I've heard:
The wall used to be higher and served as a retaining wall for the land behind it. This land has now been dug out in order to form the car park for the pub, which didn't exist at one time. So they are no more than weep holes, or surface water drain holes.
I'm having that, because it's the most plausible explanation so far.

dave the builder

Another theory or potential use
as there is trellis retro fitted, climbing plants could be trained through the pipe to grow the plants to form a screen

as for weep vents in a retaining wall ,they would be at the base of a wall,
to drain the water low down, high up weep vents would only drain surface water
the lower down water retained, would freeze, pushing the wall due to frost heave
plus , it looks like a relatively recent, cement mortar wall  :-\

ronnyd

Quote from: dave the builder on 31 May 2019, 12:05:56
Another theory or potential use
as there is trellis retro fitted, climbing plants could be trained through the pipe to grow the plants to form a screen

as for weep vents in a retaining wall ,they would be at the base of a wall,
to drain the water low down, high up weep vents would only drain surface water
the lower down water retained, would freeze, pushing the wall due to frost heave
plus , it looks like a relatively recent, cement mortar wall  :-\

Trust you to spoil all the theories and fanciful ideas with logic and common sense, spoilsport.  ;D

dave the builder

Quote from: ronnyd on 31 May 2019, 21:10:26
Quote from: dave the builder on 31 May 2019, 12:05:56
Another theory or potential use
as there is trellis retro fitted, climbing plants could be trained through the pipe to grow the plants to form a screen

as for weep vents in a retaining wall ,they would be at the base of a wall,
to drain the water low down, high up weep vents would only drain surface water
the lower down water retained, would freeze, pushing the wall due to frost heave
plus , it looks like a relatively recent, cement mortar wall  :-\

Trust you to spoil all the theories and fanciful ideas with logic and common sense, spoilsport.  ;D
;D

Ideally , you need to find the builder and ask him WHY he put the pipes in
BUT....
he's been paid now, so ,probably changed his mobile number, un-contactable   :D

STEMO

I'm happy with the weep hole/surface water explanation, unless anyone can definitively disprove it.

Varche

I will now be passing thru the village on Sunday.

I will see what I can do if I have time, if it isn't raining.
The biggest joke on mankind is that computers have started asking humans to prove that they aren't a robot.

Nick W

Quote from: STEMO on 31 May 2019, 22:17:41
I'm happy with the weep hole/surface water explanation, unless anyone can definitively disprove it.




only if they're genuine Trade Club holes, collected from a long established dealer.

dave the builder

Quote from: Nick W on 01 June 2019, 00:06:19
Quote from: STEMO on 31 May 2019, 22:17:41
I'm distraught with worry over all this , I can't trust the weep hole/surface water explanation,  :'( :'(




only if they're genuine Trade Club holes, collected from a long established dealer.
Indeed

they look like fake holes to me, and will probably leak air out of each end   :o

Poor Uncle Stemo is probably loosing sleep over this

ask for a refund and put in a big fat compensation claim in

you can't let these people get away with it  :y