ToughButterCup

When are passers-by going to finish asking me when we are going to finish? I know, they've just stopped for a chin wag - to be nice, to pay a compliment. Some even are interested in the answer. Sometimes I cant read the mood quickly enough and give the wrong type of answer: It depends [...] What do you mean by finish ? [...] Never. Five years [...] There's an online colleague I have called @Onoff : let me tell you a story about him [....] I had an instructor in the Army who told me I had two speeds; dead slow and stop. He was right. I think in future, I'm going to answer - "When you see me cutting the grass on a Sunday morning" (We have no plans for a lawn) How do you deal with the question?

Good example of poor labelling. Could have written Installed on ....... (Date) Danger ? No, swimming allowed. Danger ! No swimming allowed.

In which case, they aren't for you. Which makes me wonder if I have more money than sense.

Welcome. Bang on. I promise you, each of the questions you ask are actually answered in the site. I notice this is your first post, and since I haven't got time to help this morning , I'll just suggest that you use the site search utility - which can also be accessed direct from google. Here's an site search example for build costs spreadsheets And here's the same on Google . The search 'string' (phrase) used was site http://www.buildhub.org.uk: spreadsheet of build costs And before the google-haters on here jump down my throat , other search engines are available. Happy reading. ian

Openreach isn't BT. (The OP is about reaching BT) All large organisations mess their customers about : I do not seek to defend them - maybe the Notice To Quit and complaint to the Ombudsman might sort things out. I hope so. Malice is a strong word when applied to people (the organisation cannot be malicious, but their staff can)

Yes.Ours slope is at least 2 meters (more often more) across the site (25 meters) . The fence behind the 14 tonner is 2 meters high. The raft has 64 piles underneath it (£6500) because we are on Made Ground . Piling took one day, everything finished in 3. This photo shows the fall across the site.

4 meters plus a bit like this (in Durisol). Blocks laid on edge and cut open at the top - (called a soldier course) . Look at the pool of light at the far end of the beam ... it looked like this where two beams crossed (met? ... dunno the technical term). The lower beam is the one shown above. Then the whole shooting match and caboodle was encased in very sloppy concrete

try suggesting that to other family members.....?

Washing basket with washing in.... will the door open with the basket in front of the machine?

Micropolitics matters.

I'm making a rain garden out of a plasterer's bath. I need to make an overflow out of 40mm pipe. Like this : The overflow is simply the top end of the 40mm pipe. I need to make a 41mm hole in the bottom of the bath and seal the pipe in place. With a gland of some sort. (The green shape above) The gland would need to screw into the bottom and the top of the bath base and allow the 40mm pipe to fit it , top and bottom . But I cant for the life of me think what such a fitting is called. Spent an hour on SF and TS, got nowhere. Hard of Thinking Lancaster.

Useful: usually. But excess grates.

I was just trying to move the conversation on from arid point scoring. But, what the heck......

Unless on Headington Hill or Boars Hill, you'll be thinking about flood planes then...

Lads, can you not disagree in a more instructive way? One of the ways I taught teachers to teach was to get them arguing for a concept with which they disagreed. Why don't you both try that? Much more interesting.

It occurs to me that the ditch - in use I bet for a very long time - is probably just blocked by 'over-use'. Might it be a partial answer (to the overflow problem) to dig another ditch very close-by and discharge to that ? Then take the opportunity to clear the original ditch?

Move the ditch. I know it sounds simple to the point of flippancy, but if eye-soreness is the only issue then ....

I would not even begin to be worried about it. (the 'start'). Take a photograph of the work , upload it to some photo-hosting service: that'll date stamp it. When ( more likely if) anyone asks, point them to the documentary evidence.

Should. But we don't. I wish we did. Yet another of those '...buts...'

https://www.easymerchant.co.uk/underground-drainage/inspection-chambers/budget-manhole-bases-risers/ accessed 08032021

1 Approved Document H1 Foul water , Diagam 10 page 17. 2 Drainage in National BIM Library 3 The differences between the two explained google is quite powerful. There are many other search engines.

This is a repair, correct? BC have no issues with repair and maintenace.

Persistence, Persistence, Persistence.

Obvious, but sincere and well-meant .... buildhub. You can usefully spend at least a month reading here. Yes, many threads go off at tangents, but often asides are useful in themselves. If I were to start again I'd spend time writing summaries of the threads that interested me, and then follow any links provided there. I don't have time to dig it out now, but one thread here deals with passive slabs, and that in turn lead to a paper by Hillard Tanner, us working together and a suggestion from him which lead to a very substantial saving on the cost of piles. Oh, welcome ?!