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  A total station is very expensive and needs skill. I've got one sitting on a shelf but use tapes for buildings. That would change if measuring hundreds of metres or on steep slopes. I was taught by a mining surveyor. Satellites would not have been much help to him, had they existed. But the skills in using a tape are always useful....and I've had a hitech surveyor make huge errors and not notice, because he didn't give it a visual (or leg- pace) check. But I acknowledge that a significant proportion of us can't do the maths.
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  By Nickfromwales · Posted 4 hours ago
  
  Use solvent weld and fit a couple of T’s and cleaning eyes for routine ‘cleaning out of gunk’. Push fit is shart, compression bulky and ugly as feck, sorry! As for AAV’s: You only need one if the discharging water can occupy suffice pipe area on its way down / out to create a vacuum in its wake. That’s the main culprit for slurping and *gurgling wastes. If this is a ground floor kitchen discharging into a drain outside, it’ll defo not need an AAV. *Gurgling wastes at the kitchen sink are caused by those horrid combination sink traps where the appliance connects via a stubby spur. This means that the water discharges between the sink plug hole and the trap, so you get to hear every last slurp…. PLEASE, T off the waste pipe and install a washing machine trap, and connect the appliance(s) via one of those: As your pipe exits horizontally to outdoors you have a T instead of a bend, with a cleaning eye: This allows you to ‘rod’ into the sink and down to the outdoor drain. ”Minted lamb, sir”. 👌
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  What are you proposing? If it is required as part of the validation process, then it will be needed to be provided upfront.
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