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Southside piledriver

Postby HelenD » Mon Jan 27, 2014 6:22 pm

Someone on the South Side had a new piledriver for Christmas and it's been driving me mental ever since. :( I'd like to find where the bugger is so I can stick his plums in it. That ought to make it quieter :twisted:

Grrr. :evil:
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Re: Southside piledriver

Postby penguinmonkey » Tue Jan 28, 2014 11:06 am

Is it possibly from those new flats they are building next to the White Cart at the bottom of Deanston Drive. There is a massive crane on site at the moment
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Re: Southside piledriver

Postby sandabound » Tue Jan 28, 2014 11:37 am

Helen are you near a railway line ? they're doing a load of piling just now (night shift)
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Re: Southside piledriver

Postby HelenD » Tue Jan 28, 2014 3:47 pm

It's not during the night, just all day long. They had a piledriver a few months ago when they started building those flats and I couldn't hear it more than a couple of blocks away. I went past there the other day and there was a guy whacking rivets with a sledgehammer. Doesn't really explain it, though. It's loudest by Queen's Park and it doesn't explain why the noise appears to be bouncing off the houses on the Victoria Road side when you stand up by the flagpole. I thought it might be the new bus depot by Cathcart Road or something going on at Hampden. It was quite loud when I was walking along Eglinton Street by Cumberland Street.
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Re: Southside piledriver

Postby HelenD » Tue Jan 28, 2014 7:45 pm

Found it. Yes, it's a piledriver. It's on the Viridor waste recycling development on Polmadie Road.
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Re: Southside piledriver

Postby TA_Ealing » Tue Jan 28, 2014 7:56 pm

My office is right next to that bloody pile driver. Does my head in from 8am until 4pm.
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Re: Southside piledriver

Postby pingu » Wed Jan 29, 2014 2:00 pm

sandabound wrote:Helen are you near a railway line ? they're doing a load of piling just now (night shift)


most of the north side of the city is getting pummeled by these guys at night...usually kicks off at 1am ish

last night was especially bad

great when ive got the window open cause my house is boiling

:(
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Re: Southside piledriver

Postby sandabound » Wed Jan 29, 2014 2:31 pm

pingu wrote:
sandabound wrote:Helen are you near a railway line ? they're doing a load of piling just now (night shift)


most of the north side of the city is getting pummeled by these guys at night...usually kicks off at 1am ish

last night was especially bad

great when ive got the window open cause my house is boiling

:(


They need to clear the line by about 5am, get a kip then ::):
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Re: Southside piledriver

Postby Josef » Thu Jan 30, 2014 9:25 pm

pingu wrote:
most of the north side of the city is getting pummeled by these guys at night...usually kicks off at 1am ish

last night was especially bad

great when ive got the window open cause my house is boiling

:(


In January? in Scotland?

I'm glad I'm not paying your utilities bills.
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Re: Southside piledriver

Postby sandabound » Thu Jan 30, 2014 10:24 pm

They were in my neck of the woods last night & one of my dogs is scared of fire works, he was up all night shaking like a jelly, not to worry he kept me up with him for company.
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Re: Southside piledriver

Postby pingu » Fri Jan 31, 2014 10:00 am

Josef wrote:
pingu wrote:
most of the north side of the city is getting pummeled by these guys at night...usually kicks off at 1am ish

last night was especially bad

great when ive got the window open cause my house is boiling

:(


In January? in Scotland?

I'm glad I'm not paying your utilities bills.


the joys of having half a dozen layers of insulation and decent windows, i only use the heater in the living room but it keeps my whole house roasty toasty. the draw back though is that when it comes on at night it gets a bit stuffy.

im about £20 a week on leccy, (is that a lot?) i dont have gas
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Re: Southside piledriver

Postby Bingo Bango » Fri Jan 31, 2014 12:14 pm

Saw my nickname in the thread title so had a look, but you seem to all be talking about something else.....
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Re: Southside piledriver

Postby pingu » Fri Jan 31, 2014 1:24 pm

Bingo Bango wrote:Saw my nickname in the thread title so had a look, but you seem to all be talking about something else.....



southside?

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Re: Southside piledriver

Postby HelenD » Fri Jan 31, 2014 5:38 pm

::):

Twenty quid a week on leccy? Only if I have the heating on for a hour or so in the evening and wear ski-gear at other times. I have a fairly large one-bed flat with single glazing. I'm looking at about forty-five a week at the moment.

Piledriver's quiet just now (1736). Usually he gives it laldy at about this time of day, like a drinky person just before last orders.
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Re: Southside piledriver

Postby banjo » Fri Jan 31, 2014 7:53 pm

my three bedroom semi costs £22.00 p/w gch.£15.00 p/w leccy.downstairs[stone floors]freezing.upstairs toasty hot.
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