ToughButterCup

Here's our architect's answer to your question

Is it me, or is this thread still unnecessarily hard work ? I ask because I think it a compliment if anyone responds to my posts. And that response - no matter how much I disagree with it - is a starting point for my own thinking. Gentle responses are harder to draft when upset.

Talk. Listen. Come back to us with the result if needed.

I learned that the hard way too. For me the rule has become: work with people who raise my game: as well as force me to think hard, but laugh harder.

And yet.... and yet... houses do get built. I think this thread is another data point underscoring the aphorism that; Systems and people show themselves for what they really are when -not if- things go wrong

Now thats both interesting and reassuring.

Ooooofffff, when I tried that, our builders ducked and dived, bobbed and weaved. Took me ages to learn the lesson. And just a little longer to sack them.

Thats how we found out that the guy who set out our plot made a one meter error. So I paid him £1 less than he charged. (But bought him a pint in the pub)

Here Be Dragons. For me, that's a Red Flag.

Air test, leaf blower... erm, how? And how half-arsed ?

Dave .... be kind ... @Lincolnshire Ian wrote ' ... Our council will start charging us council tax ...' Ian: the answer is No.

That's it..... I knew that necking is the precursor to fracture. My mum did warn me.

Is that a 'General Rule' ? Snug fit , plus a quarter turn ?

Ah, thanks. If (like me) you don't know what to search for - or indeed if a topic is searchable - you can't find it. So just in case anyone is researching the same topic - - the seach term I used is bolt tightening torque calculator And here's the result. There are also downloadable apps that do the same thing ( but better?) Well I never. Who knew?

OK, so I've bought my wrench. How tight should I set it ? Where do I get guidance for all those hundreds of times we've all tightened ( over-tightened) bolts?