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Old 23-04-2009, 2:24 PM   #1
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How do I get fence panels home?
Hello - I need three 6 x 5 fence panels for my garden. No problem to find, but how do I get them home? The delivery cost is as much as the panels themselves which seem crazy to me.
I've got a giant Ford Galaxy and they're too big to fit in that. If I put some plastic sheeting on the roof, opened the windows and tied them onto the roof with twine would that be legal? I only have to travel about a mile and a half.
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Re: How do I get fence panels home?
No Tranny owning friends?




























































(van)
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Old 23-04-2009, 2:33 PM   #3
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Re: How do I get fence panels home?
Sadly not.

No friends with vans either
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Re: How do I get fence panels home?
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I've got a giant Ford Galaxy and they're too big to fit in that. If I put some plastic sheeting on the roof, opened the windows and tied them onto the roof with twine would that be legal? I only have to travel about a mile and a half.
No you could end up shedding the load

Either tranny van or pay for delivery
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Re: How do I get fence panels home?
Cant you get them delivered? I know B&Q deliver them when you order them.
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Re: How do I get fence panels home?
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Cant you get them delivered? I know B&Q deliver them when you order them.
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Hello - I need three 6 x 5 fence panels for my garden. No problem to find, but how do I get them home? The delivery cost is as much as the panels themselves which seem crazy to me.
I've got a giant Ford Galaxy and they're too big to fit in that. If I put some plastic sheeting on the roof, opened the windows and tied them onto the roof with twine would that be legal? I only have to travel about a mile and a half.
Jim do you just read the first and last line of threads?
You do this quite a bit
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Re: How do I get fence panels home?
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No Tranny owning friends?
Theres an element of pulp fiction to that....bring out the tranny, the tranny's asleep! Well wake the tranny......

I'll get ma coat.
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Re: How do I get fence panels home?
Go to the store and buy them, then wait for someone with a transit van to appear and offer them £10 for a local delivery for both you and the panels. I guarantee someone will take your hand off for such easy money.

I did the same when I picked up a kitchen worktop
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Re: How do I get fence panels home?
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Jim do you just read the first and last line of threads?
You do this quite a bit
hmmm, i'll go back to school i think!
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Old 23-04-2009, 2:43 PM   #10
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Re: How do I get fence panels home?
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hmmm, i'll go back to school i think!
You asked that girl out yet?
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Old 23-04-2009, 2:44 PM   #11
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Re: How do I get fence panels home?
she doesnt work here anymore, there was another thread about another girl but the feeling there is not recipricated
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Re: How do I get fence panels home?
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You asked that girl out yet?

I love how Jim can't post anywhere without being asked this
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Old 23-04-2009, 2:48 PM   #13
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Re: How do I get fence panels home?
I just think it's hilarious asking for advice about girls on an AV board. I'm surprised nobody advised him to switch her off and back on again.
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Old 23-04-2009, 2:49 PM   #14
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Re: How do I get fence panels home?
I think you can get inflatable ones...




Roof racks that is...
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Re: How do I get fence panels home?
Little trick I heard about when buying fence panels from B+Q
The price tags are often just stapled on, with a single staple.
Very common indeed for them to come off, as the fence panels rub against each other in storage etc.
So it's easy enough, allegedly, to use the labels off cheap fence panels to buy expensive ones.
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Re: How do I get fence panels home?
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Go to the store and buy them, then wait for someone with a transit van to appear and offer them £10 for a local delivery for both you and the panels. I guarantee someone will take your hand off for such easy money.

I did the same when I picked up a kitchen worktop
Genius award goes to CloggyNL.

I'm gonna go buy me transit van!!
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Re: How do I get fence panels home?
They're £50

The fence panels are costing me less than £20.
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Re: How do I get fence panels home?
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The fence panels are costing me less than £20.
Three 6 x 5 panels for £20?!?!?
I hope you live somewhere sheltered.
Ever seen the start of the Wizard of Oz?
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They're £50

The fence panels are costing me less than £20.

Ah, there appears to be a flaw in my idea...
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Little trick I heard about when buying fence panels from B+Q
The price tags are often just stapled on, with a single staple.
Very common indeed for them to come off, as the fence panels rub against each other in storage etc.
So it's easy enough, allegedly, to use the labels off cheap fence panels to buy expensive ones.
Or another trick. Just march in with some old fence panels & march out with new ones, they'll never notice the switch & the CCTV will prove you did enter the shop with some fence panels.



Arrest that man
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Re: How do I get fence panels home?
try somewhere other than B&Q.

For example a local garden centre
They may have lower, or even free delivery.

I know my local DIY shop will deliver such items for free for anyone in a certain short radius of the shop.
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Re: How do I get fence panels home?
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Little trick I heard about when buying fence panels from B+Q
The price tags are often just stapled on, with a single staple.
Very common indeed for them to come off, as the fence panels rub against each other in storage etc.
So it's easy enough, allegedly, to use the labels off cheap fence panels to buy expensive ones.
I used to do this in the shop by me, cept swapping co-op value coke prices for Tab clear.

Ahh tab clear.
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Re: How do I get fence panels home?
At £20 for three, I'd wait for the next stiff wind and watch them blow home.
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Re: How do I get fence panels home?
Honestly, they don't need to repel hordes of slavering orcs. Just screen off my garden from my neighbours.

Why am I having to justify the price I'm paying
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No idea... Maybe it's badge snobbery, do they even have a badge?

Dave
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Honestly, they don't need to repel hordes of slavering orcs. Just screen off my garden from my neighbours.

Why am I having to justify the price I'm paying
No offence meant.
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Dave
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No idea... Maybe it's badge snobbery, do they even have a badge?
you can always tell the chavs by their cheap fence panels.

Wait a minute, chavs don't bother replacing fence panels....

(or can you get Burbury pattern fence panels?)
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Re: How do I get fence panels home?
If its only a mile and a half away from home, cant you run them back on your head?.....
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If its only a mile and a half away from home, cant you run them back on your head?.....
Haha!
Yeah, have some fun with that!
Dress like a junkie and see how long it is before you're reported.
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