Piling: talking to the contractors; (now) not so clueless of Lancaster
Ah, heart-in-mouth stuff this. The phone goes - new number - no half second when you can adjust to the person you know is on the other end because the name flashes up on the screen.
Starting a phone conversation with a technical expert, but hoping for an emotionally literate, customer-focused, technically easy to understand response is not a pleasant feeling. Add to that a mobile phone with a hiccup and a slightly distracting tomcat (Sid) who fastens himself to my leg in mid-sentence, a re
From the blog "Salamander Cottage"
Time and time again throughout our build a remark made by an army chap that worked for me years ago comes to mind, "Time spent on reconnaissance is never wasted".
I also became absolutely convinced that very few companies treated self-builders seriously, especially on the civil engineering side (and we had a LOT of that on our site). As an example, I'd done a fair bit of research on gravity retaining walls, how they worked, how to calculate the various loads acting on them, etc, as origina
