Edgware GN, Bounds Green.

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Re: Edgware GN, Bounds Green.

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Yes much more important to have some GNR six wheelers to go behind the Stirling single...
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Bigmet wrote: Tue Aug 06, 2024 1:46 pm Yes much more important to have some GNR six wheelers to go behind the Stirling single...
G'Day Gents

:lol: :lol: :lol:

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I forgot to post some pics of the baseboards being varnished.
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Re: Edgware GN, Bounds Green.

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Hi Manna,
Been a while. Last I saw you were some what forced to throw in the towel on model railways so great to see you back at it! And you're living it up here in QLD, I hope you're enjoying it.

The baseboards look great. Looks like youre living in a Queenslander? A nice spot for building a railway it seems.

Very excited to see how you progress mate.
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Re: Edgware GN, Bounds Green.

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G'Day Josh.

Yes it's been a bit of drought in the model rail department, but now happily getting back into it. yes it's a type of Queenslander, not one of the fancy ones with the all round Verandahs, but it's somewhere to put my model railway. Still lots of work to do, replacing all the fencing, new gates, still no electricity, Generator's, sola panels and Batteries, but they work.

Still have three new baseboards to build, same size as the others, six weeks and they'll be ready.

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We lived in a high set weatherboard house with 10' 6" ceilings, all VJ tongue and groove with a tin roof. When we put it on the market the estate agent listed it as a Queenslander. He got short shrift with that from me. It wasn't a Queenslander. It was built in about 1948 as a home for returned soldiers. It didn't have all round verandahs or ornate mouldings inside. Some people (mostly real estate agents) jump on these names hoping it'll push up their commission.
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Re: Edgware GN, Bounds Green.

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Good idea to varnish the boards. Is this due to the conditions?
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Peterm wrote: Thu Aug 08, 2024 1:27 am ...Some people (mostly real estate agents) jump on these names hoping it'll push up their commission.
You have to sympathise though, when the truthful description of most property would have to include some of: original structure constructional standard indeterminate; very incomplete maintenance record; compliance status of installed services unknown; materials now classified unsafe may be present; locality liable to: flood / wildfire / hurricane / tornado / extreme high temperature / extreme low temperature / earthquake / ground settlement / faulting / tsunami / grapefruit size hail / metres deep snowfall / persistent noxious plants / plagues of cockroaches / natural radioactive gas emission / unsuitable development at the whim of local government/ uncontestable eviction by national goverment / Acts of God.
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Wot - no obnoxious neighbours?!
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Ex-Pat wrote: Thu Aug 08, 2024 4:50 pm...no obnoxious neighbours?!
Well of course, but you cannot say so, nor put it in publically accessible print, (applies in common law territories) lacking rock solid evidence that the truth is on your side, and even then being very careful to determine whether the potentially aggrieved have deep enough pockets to ruin you; lest action is taken for slander or libel (or both if valiantly going for the double!).
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Bigmet wrote: Thu Aug 08, 2024 4:28 pm
Peterm wrote: Thu Aug 08, 2024 1:27 am ...Some people (mostly real estate agents) jump on these names hoping it'll push up their commission.
You have to sympathise though, when the truthful description of most property would have to include some of: original structure constructional standard indeterminate; very incomplete maintenance record; compliance status of installed services unknown; materials now classified unsafe may be present; locality liable to: flood / wildfire / hurricane / tornado / extreme high temperature / extreme low temperature / earthquake / ground settlement / faulting / tsunami / grapefruit size hail / metres deep snowfall / persistent noxious plants / plagues of cockroaches / natural radioactive gas emission / unsuitable development at the whim of local government/ uncontestable eviction by national goverment / Acts of God.
covered in the UK by "would suit DIY enthusiast" or "excellent potential" and similar
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G'Day Gents

No I have a good neighbour, lot of homes around here are owned by people that live elsewhere (myself included).

Yes the boards are/will all be varnished, inside and out, humidity is the big killer up here, most timber is Hardwood, some of it is 'Very' hardwood, one fence post I have is so hard I had a job drilling holes in it, a sharp drill made it smoke !!

During a good clean up I removed some very old Lino, under it was old newspapers, on one of the scraps of paper, was an article announcing the Death of President Harding, ( November 1923), which makes this house at least 100 years old.

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Peterm wrote:
It wasn't a Queenslander.
Seems like most people these days don't know what a real Queenslander is (the house style I mean, not the State of Origin NRL team/supporter) and almost any timber clad house may be listed as such to make it seem more valuable.
aleopardstail wrote:
covered in the UK by "would suit DIY enthusiast" or "excellent potential" and similar
AKA 'a renovator's delight'. :D
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materials now classified unsafe may be present
'Includes many original features' 8)
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Re: Edgware GN, Bounds Green.

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Bigmet wrote: Thu Aug 08, 2024 4:28 pm
Peterm wrote: Thu Aug 08, 2024 1:27 am ...Some people (mostly real estate agents) jump on these names hoping it'll push up their commission.
You have to sympathise though, when the truthful description of most property would have to include some of: original structure constructional standard indeterminate; very incomplete maintenance record; compliance status of installed services unknown; materials now classified unsafe may be present; locality liable to: flood / wildfire / hurricane / tornado / extreme high temperature / extreme low temperature / earthquake / ground settlement / faulting / tsunami / grapefruit size hail / metres deep snowfall / persistent noxious plants / plagues of cockroaches / natural radioactive gas emission / unsuitable development at the whim of local government/ uncontestable eviction by national goverment / Acts of God.
My late cousin had a real estate business and sold out partly because he was ashamed at the antics of some. He never went into details with me, but he was as honest as the day is long. I'm sure there are others that are just as honest, but the rotten apples get the whole barrel a bad name, just like bus/taxi drivers etc.

I like what you've written there, Bigmet. Noxious neighbours really should be included. :lol:
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Re: Edgware GN, Bounds Green.

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G'Day Gents

Another small step forward. Yesterday the 4th 8ft board was built and is now standing in the 2nd bedroom, a start was also made on the board across the center, which will become the Hertford North branch and part of the Bounds Green carriage sidings (only a couple of sidings though) I'll add a drawing of the track plan, which may change when I get to lay the track.

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Re: Edgware GN, Bounds Green.

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Can see how the track plan is going to operate, with through traffic and workings over the bridge, should be a good display ground for your many DIY builds. What are the overall layout dimensions? The space available looks generous.
Peterm wrote: Fri Aug 09, 2024 12:56 am ...My late cousin had a real estate business and sold out partly because he was ashamed at the antics of some. He never went into details with me, but he was as honest as the day is long. I'm sure there are others that are just as honest, but the rotten apples get the whole barrel a bad name, just like bus/taxi drivers etc.
They lag a long way behind politicians, legal profession, journalists, used car salesmen; (and I have total regard for our local bus drivers - on board observation now added thanks to a bus pass what with being an oldie) the saving grace is that the properties they are pushing do physically exist and you can if required take a knowledgeable person along to help examine what's on offer; and there's not much can be hidden as they are 'low tech' at bottom. (I have not that long ago been asked to do just that, couple of hours with the power off to determine that the wiring was sub-sub-standard, first with the original ring main installation disrupted into a bird's nest, and then many 'add-on' outlets and lamps 'daisy chained',some lamps needed three switches made to come on, and that's before we get to inadequate fuse protection... All good news as it was a probate sale and the price was much reduced by a 'total rewiring and make good' estimate, so nowhere remotely in the advertised 'move in' condition.)
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