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No they got paid what they were due They are three scouters and one said to the site manager You had one thing to do and you F####d that up Sort us some cash Or we'll trap ?

There’s a small site in Cumbria that has been told 20 weeks for more bricks So they are taking down three partially built homes

Spot on

Not really No holiday pay no sick pay no pension

One of the sites we are on have struggled like most places to get trades They where let down by two bricklaying gangs 13 tubs of premix had to be thrown in the skip Monday a three gang arrived No mortar till today Rather than risk loosing them the company has paid two days waiting time £1800 There’s no real sign of things slowing down

Unless you are thinking of selling A structural warranty is pointless CML is even more pointless as many lenders don’t recognize it HSBC for one

You will need to put paper tape over it Stuck down with easi-fil Then sanded off

Normally pretty straight I joists also

They will know that you can’t easily replace them and if you do You may get a worse company There would be less mistakes if construction was quiet But in saying that Your paying an hourly rate and would be quite reasonable to point this out On large sites nearly all ground-workers will be on an hourly rates But the companies they work for can acutely quantity every job they are doing This time of year they should be working on if they fall behind In waiting 60 days for my invoices to be settled The only time that changes is when we do work for self builders He should be treating you better

NO

We used to put chicken wire in all the time Mainly when going over groups of pipes In the days before there where fibers added to the screed Ideally you need 50 mil of screed Though I’ve tiled floors that have barely covered the UFH pipes

Easy fix get your render company to do it on there way home Tube of Free repair colour match from k Rend Hacksaw blade the following morning

I didn’t But we repair loads Just-a case of being careful

When I do the the plastering tiling - render for self builders I give them a clear choice Buy the materials yourself or pay the vat on the materials

Gates Gates

Exactly But when you pay cash you know exactly why they want cash You will find companies or individuals that simply can’t or won’t zero rate materials You then make the decision to go elsewhere Or claim it back at the end We spent 3k on gates and motors He simply wouldn’t zero rate The nearest price was nearly 6k With vat He had no problem Zero rating It was no hardship to claim it back at the end

Asking for cash in hand isn’t exactly lawful But many individual trades will ask and expect

The labour will be zero rated But with some trades they may want you to pay the materials vat and claim it yourself Others will zero rate the whole amount

Soundproofing and fire proofing is a big part of my business It is quite easy to soundproof and exceed building regs

A Pattress is a sheet of ply fixed between the studs before Pb To allow you to fix rads and TVs etc

You can add a layer of ply or patras if you know where things are going

Hi clay content doesn’t sound like bad ground Our build was high Clay and our next While we went deep we used strip foundations and intend to do so on the next two plots which are also high Clay Some SE like using piles Lucky for us ours only uses them as a last resort I’d get a second opinion

You will get far better and probably cheaper results using MF Chanel and framing