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Hi there, My children and I are adopting 4 ex-battery hens and seeking a secondhand home for them, let me know if you have anything, of any style that might fit four feathered ladies in. I can collect at your convenience this weekend or during the week. Warmest, Hannah

Dear EDF families, I am a Mum to three well behaved children between 6-14 years. I have been a homeowner for 17 years but our current house in Forest Hill is up for sale and we will buy a new home upon sale of the latter. In the interim we are seeking a short term housesit offering free garden care/ pet care, if required, as a part exchange. I am a professional garden designer and also do maintenance. We are also very experienced house and pet sitters and have many five star reviews on Trustedhousesitters.com Please get in touch if you'd like to ask more questions or would like to meet up to see if we may be a good fit for your needs or to help you make a decision. Tel 07900 560 516 @wildcontained Warmest, Hannah

Another recommendation for Steve who just came to fix our Siemens washing machine — very fast diagnosis, quick preventative fix…. Definitely book this guy. 😄

To start ASAP using K Rend HP12 product to do one final smooth skim layer, to start ASAP?-let me know your experience and timings if possible. Many thanks

Dear Sir/ Madam, We have a two wall kitchen extension (outside) that needs one smooth finish coat to go on but it needs to be able to stick to a now dry K Rend HP12 product. Normally a textured silicon product would go onto this as a finish layer but it?s far too bumpy and stoney and not what I?m wanting. Can you help finish this job please with a smooth non textured finish? Get in touch if you think you can complete this job professionally. Many thanks?.

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Hi 👋🏻 We are seeking urgently someone who can replace one long window pane in a 1930s four panelled bay wood frame window and a small pane (23cm x 13cm) in a wooden front door. Please let me know how soon you could do a job like this and the price? We are based in ED side of Forest Hill. Thanks!

Seeking an experienced painter with good references to do minor repair and paint our wooden window frames ground floor and first floor before it?s too cold? it?s a 3-bed 1930s semi, just front of house. Thanks

Thanks! I?ve found someone now who is coming to look tomorrow, if it doesn?t work out then I?ll be in touch ! X

Any recommendations / quotes for someone who can rectify an existing uneven and sloping shed base and then to erect a flat packed 12x6 foot potting shed please? Thankyou

Dear ED folks and families, I?m a face painter of three years and Mother of three under eleven years. I?m wondering what people now feel about making potential bookings since lockdown has been easing? I haven?t painted since March so I?d be a bit rusty. Any thoughts/feelings/ideas are highly welcomed at how this could work so all involved would feel safe yet entertained? At the moment it seems I can paint within a maximum of six people in one gathering including me?! So this could include booking a face painter for a small birthday party. Or I could do detailed work on one or two children at their home? Or outside in a park or garden weather permitting. These things would be assumed at any small gathering: Using anti-bac hand gel before any new face. Cleaning all brushes with 70% alcohol. One sponge per person (I do this anyway). Keeping paints and surfaces regularly wiped down with anti-bac fluid/wipes. Very regular water changes. Any other thoughts and suggestions welcomed. Thankyou in advance!

Hello! Seeking a builder or construction company who is passionate about sustainable construction/retrofitting or Passivhaus or equivalent and looking for an interesting local family home extension project to start ASAP. Any recommendations along these lines welcomed too... has to be experienced or trained in sustainability though. Please pm or post here, Thankyou

Thanks mrs R it?s defo a consideration if this idea is exhausted and zero results. Thanks for the reminder! Hxx

Hiya, seeking tips/advice, have you ever hosted such a thing for your child?s birthday party? Or hired out roller skates? Looking to borrow skates or hire a company to do one. Any thoughts or ideas welcome... Many thanks

I also bought all nappies second hand often from EDF but also found a few in charity shops and second hand baby sales. You can get some real bargains out there (put a few 'wanted' posts up) with a bit of patience and perseverance so done this way it turns out to be a real saver financially and environmentally, with reusing reusables...

Hi! I hear you... I had the similar feelings for all my babies and I used cloth on all three though for the bigger drinking babies I used an eco disposable at night. It is a little difficult to start off but as other posters have said once through the initial stages of getting ones head around the cloth system it's actually rather fun and enjoyable. The nappies feel good quality and the designs can be gorgeous to look at. I find when the baby is small you require about 20 'fitted' with wraps nappies as there is so much explosive changing that is required with a small baby BUT once the baby is past 5 months it all mellows, slows down and far less changing needed. After about six months I used the Velcro pocket nappies with colourful designs, I found these as quick to get on/off as disposables and loads of people comment on how nice they look during the summer when the nappy was visible. In terms of drying we hung nappies over a radiator airer or hung outside on a hook peg thing to air off before finishing off drying indoors. In the summer it's ALOT easier to dry but both is fine and you know it's not going to last forever. Also you know you can tell your child when he or she is older that you used cloth nappies on them and helped to prevent toxic landfill and air pollution. In terms of temperature I've never washed at 90 degrees. Usually on at 40 with sometimes a 60 to make sure any potential bacteria is killed. If you put them in sunlight it also helps to kill germs and reduce stains. All the best with it whatever you decide but I don't think you'd regret the cloth option as long as you van commit to it from whenever you start...😊💓

If it's a homebirth team you're looking for then it's the Birchtree midwives (with Kings) you need...leave a message on this number and they usually call back the same day: 020 3409 0704. This team is what Brierley used to be. I just had my third baby with them and they were truly amazing!!

If its homebirth you are keen for then Birchtree are your first port of call. They have the highest % of home births in the area and have the best continuity of care. I'm in the same area as you and just had my third and I was with the the Birchtree. Their landline is 020 3409 0704 ext 2. Leave a message on there and they usually call back within 24 hours. They were incredible with me. Amazing women who truly put the preggo woman first.

Hello! Is there anyone locally who could come and do a very small bit of neat skimming please as soon as possible and give a rough cost please? Our bathroom fitter has just told us he doesn't do skimming and we have two bits of wall and a hole in the ceiling to fill in until we can complete the bathroom. Both patches are roughly 1 metre by 1 metre each. And it would just need the skim coat. Let me know your availability and quote. Many thanks

If you are interested in doing birth preferably without hospital intervention then the best ever book in my and quite a few Mum friends of mine is Ina May's Guide to Childbirth. This was the book that convinced me I could do this... Even if you'd prefer a hospital birth it can really help one understand the whole process and what our bodies are actually capable of doing naturally.

Hi all, any advice on this please? We'd like to install a dishwasher in the kitchen, we don't have one and we'd need to lose a cupboard to fit one in. Do I call a plumber first and then a joiner to sort the cupboard out? Or would as plumber do it all? I assume it would need to be near the kitchen sink? Thanks for any help/info.

Thanks for the pm Brad, I hadn't ticked the box for replies, I'd love to come along on a Thursday, I might be able to come tomorrow...H

Hi again, this is an interesting discussion! But slightly off topic on this thread but could be continued on a different thread maybe? In response to your point though, your radiators do sound really good, and definitely they sound a lot more durable and could keep you warm over the years ahead. They also sound much better than the setup we have here. As our system is very old and clunky and is currently not working anywhere near what is 'normal', neither economically or environmentally, plus the fact that we need to extend onto a brownfield site at the back plus the fact that the floors will be taken up anyway and insulated, plus the fact that we will be using repurposed materials as much as we can find/is possible, and I could go on with more and more reasons then we are still very much considering this option. I hadn't thought about the aesthetics of having no radiators on the walls, and actually I rather like how they look, infant I might even miss the radiators if they do go, so it certainly wasn't for that reason that I have been looking into underfloor heating, but to be honest if it was for that reason then I don't really have a problem with that too. But as I said before I appreciate a chance to debate all these things and I appreciate you sharing your point of view, but things perhaps aren't as black and white as what you are suggesting... Anyway, back to topic, if anyone knows any builder who has had experience with 'eco- refurbishing' or retrofitting projects in the past and would like to quote for one here then please do get in touch! Thanks...