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Today is a sad day, After over 5 years of dutiful service my Makita SDS has drilled its last hole I have put this through some serious abuse over its time with me, its cored 6" holes through concrete, drilled probably tens of thousands of reasonable sized holes for me. broken down numerous walls, its been dropped in a river, its had no grease in its gearbox for months, and today I finally managed to burn out its brushes......

Dear all, as some of you will know I have been fighting for planning permission down in Devon and Torridge District Planning department have fought me all the way, even slapping a demolition order on a garage I was building under permitted development ( I appealed that as well) . Well I did my own appeal ( not difficult) and of four points the council original refused planning permission for they capitulated on three of them after I presented my evidence ( they had this information all along) . I have just received an Email from the Secretary of State inspector to say she supports my appeal on all grounds with no condition other than those already agreed with the council. She also mentioned the councils objections that I proved we're not valid supporting my evidence. Torridge council has such a bad reputation for being a PITA. You cannot go into a builders merchant without hearing builders complaining about the council. After the build I intend taking my story to the local press, " is Torridge Distrct Council planning fit for purpose, I think not" just to show they are wasting council tax on fighting planning appeals where planning should've been approved. I have also heard from my architect that the government are going to take Torridge into " special measures ". So, hip hip hooray, now the serious questions on this forum will start to appear.✌️

Well girls and boys here are a few pics of the site and work so far ( we could start before the appeal result as we had planning approval for a bungalow that had the same downstairs so the appeal allows us to build an upstairs. Pic 1 shows how high the water table is. Pic 2 shows my finished garage, pic 3 shows the footprint. more to follow:-

Congrats! Looking forward to reading all about the build.

I used the CDM Wizard app (free on iphone) to create worklists etc for each trade. Have to say, no-one ever came near us from a H&S perspective during the entire build.

BTW, the issue isn't one of legality, its one of satisfying your insurers (or the LPA in the case of TPAs) that you have adequately secured the site whilst the build is in progress. My suggestion would bew to keep the site secured until the build is complete -- but there is nothing to stop you putting up your permanent perimeter fence. and removing panels covered by it.

Just make sure that the fencing is only security fencing too - if its been put up to protect trees (or Root Protection Areas) then it has to remain in place until completion. How much does he want btw..?? Going rate is £2-2.50 per panel inc feet etc here per week, so £8-10 per month. Bear in mind you can buy it for £20 or so per panel you may be better off telling him to take his out and then buy your own to fence in a smaller area if needed and sell at the end.

I would say when there are no hazards, e.g no scaffold to climb on, no holes in the ground to fall into etc. Mine is not fenced in. Most people keep asking when are we moving in, it looks that complete from the outside.

When you are happy for the oiks and the potential injury claimants to have easy access?

You just want a new one. Nothing wrong with that. Face it. - You worried about facing Faye..... just a little bit... just a teeny weeny little bit? Hmmmm?

does the joint in the mesh help with airflow as well? the guy is FOS and from the sound of it has been from the start. I stayed out of this as you didn't need another person just to express how poor that product is. but its starting to annoy me now. I thought he said it was powder coated? do you have a picture of what you ordered in the first place? I think you are being very kind (if not too kind) not mentioning the company name.

Our builder actually paid them and I paid the builder. Things are strained enough with the builder for a multitude of reasons and I wouldn't expect any help from them in this case. I might take a road trip up to the supplier for a face to face "chat" about where we go from here.

My thoughts are with you at this sad time.

Brushes. BRUSHES. Those are serviceable items. Just fit new brushes and it's good for another 5 years.

Should have gone to specsavers, its @Barney12 gap, not mine. Where I win is that I can now ignore sure fripperies as window gaps because I know I'd be better off burning it down than trying to fix.

Bonfire night went well. I burnt my house

So this is where the process is broken !!! Someone on here did their own design - and I've done a lot of tweaks to ours too - so I doubt there is any SE or architect that would be involved on either of those builds. My SE has purely done steel calcs - the rest of the "structural" design is standard elements as per the Building Regulations or robust details etc and will be signed off by the BCO. So how do the HSE want to work with that one..?? The other query I have is how HSE are going to track these builds with the "estimate vs reality" calculations on labour. For example, according to the QS estimate for my build I have an estimated 22 week duration with 2213.45 hours (!!!!!) effort involved. Based on a 6.5hr working day, that equates to 340 man days effort, or an average of a little over 3 people per day on site. None of those figures will trigger the HSE F10 at the start of the project and its within a good margin before it could (at 500md / 20+ for 30 days) So in completing the paperwork, as it doesn't need filing then no-one is checking to see if there is a PD and the PC is me with subs. In the end we will get a building that is built to someone elses initial design, with SE calcs for bits, and a BCO signing off that it meets stat regs..! Oh, and a warranty by another company just for good measure..!