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A very very good idea indeed: although over the longer term it's a thankless task. Evidence from a series of time lapse images on our site stopped a ridiculous claim for payment dead in its tracks. The images clearly showed an employee engaged in criminal behaviour causing several thousand pounds worth of damage and very significant delay. Here's the relevant advice about use of security cameras on site. Briefly, tell folk you are taking photos. If things go pear shaped, you could be asked to surrender the images if you get a Subject Access Request. Here's the detail of how it helped us.

Graduate Apprenticeship based on Accreditation of Prior Education and Learning is a genuine route for the non graduate to to achieve higher qualifications. It's a system which promotes real parity of esteem. Lancaster University promotes exactly that approach. There are already many non graduates doing Level 7 courses.

Part of their pride in excellence. (And an excuse to charge eye-watering fees)

Pursuing the German theme John, it would be brilliant if the German Apprenticeship System were adopted here. In the UK, lack of Parity of Esteem between professions and the trades means that pride in excellent workmanship - universal in Germany - is rare here.

Depends on the granularity you want. Play with it.

Is there a list somewhere of thermostatic showers which can be serviced from the front? What some manufacturers might dub EziServis?

Online, via Amazon. If I'd have known that wasn't a kosher German set, I'd never have ordered them. See! Even the Germans can't get the staff these days!

Window cills, and a bit later cupboard trims. I've found a router more useful and quicker than hammer and chisel sometimes. Neater too.

You appeared at that time to have saved an empty post , F. So I deleted it - after checking I saw the same thing on my laptop, phone and PC Apologies if I made an error. Ian

I just love it. The Germans having to think a bit, and work out how to put items on their database which dont conform to metric measurement. I can just picture what it's like in a German office when someone asks "What size is that bit?" "Really?" The looks, the head shakes. Does my soul good just picturing it.....

Maybe you should have known before they arrived.....? £600 is the West Lancs price - but they would arrive in November

How will I know I've got one of those when I get one?

Imperial, not metric router bits ? Hmmm, we going to £SD as well then? Rods, Poles, Pecks soon ? Got to hand it to Bosch though, they're quick off the mark.

Oh dear, hard hats folks... trombe walls... had to look it up. I dare you to read this The sheer number of times the term Thermal Mass was used, bound to wake the Sleeping Giant.?

Dont rub it in. I'm embarrassed now. That whole mess epitomises , for me anyway, all that's dreadful about the German upper crust - the deep level of group think - the incestuous nature of it all. I mean remember Monkey Gate? Wasnt it not so long ago that they thought they could test vehicle emissions by subjecting monkeys to the exhaust fumes? God I hope I've mis-remembered that .?

Yes. And yes, it was bang on for each pile. Except one ? ( refusal required about 200Kn.) The last one. You couldn't make it up.

Hmmm, @Andrew.... our piling company wouldn't come on site without a proper site geotech. survey and two trial pits. Reason? Risk reduction. To get a 45 tonne rig on site is expensive....

Normally I would simply hide my ignorance, but since I'm the OP ..... Whassa location tab? Whassa bump stop? I know you're busy...quick pic will do.

Hello welcome. Yes, us. Here's a site search for the term Durisol and my screen name - in short too much information . There's warts and all in that list. Up and down sides, disasters and high points. Some quiet fireside reading for you. This site has a really good search engine. Try it.

Exactly. I've driven VWs since the split screen beetle (my sister gave one to me - left hand drive). Never even thought of buying anything else. Never again. Arschgeigen ! (Tr lit. Rectal violins)

You want feedback from our BioPure digester? Really?

That price is bang on for NW Lancs

Wooden wood

Does anyone have a recommendation for exterior paint for our window reveals please? It has to be Dark Grey , RAL7016 so Ronseal 10 year external paint won't do .... unfortunately

By sheer chance, a bit of promotional material landed in my In Box and by greater chance, I read it. Here's the online version The Enhancements make the difference, runs the tag line. From the pdf version: and It was the ' ... the seal stays uniformed through the entire circumference of the seal, regardless of how it’s installed...' that got to me. Its almost as if Polypipe knew that I was first fitting my soil pipes because it '... stops the seal from distorting and becoming dislodged from the fitting when being installed ...' Thats The One : the One for the incompetent first time PlumBodger: the one that stays sealed no matter how much of a bodge. Now then, off to find a supplier. Tell ya wot BuildHubbers, if you have an hour to waste, try finding one. Go on, I dare ya! Oh, they are listed alright, but when you ring up nobody , and by nobody I mean not a single one of the listed suppliers knew what PolySoil was . And its been supplied according to Polypipe since August 2019. Ring the Rep. Nice bloke. Yeah mate, pop into XYZ company in Morecambe. They have it. I was there Tuesday and they have it in stock. Greased lightning visit to said plumbing shed. I'm no shrinking violet - but the vision of disdain and sourness from the two 30 something very overweight females on the desk made my withers shrink, in fact they disappeared into my stomach. Both identical jerkins, identical glasses, identical resting gaze - would have shamed a Sour Puss. Eying me warily. I'd been careful to wear work trousers and jacket. Deep breath Big smile - Me I'd like some PolySoil piping please - about 4 meters. LeftHandSourPuss Got none Me Ermmmm, RightHandSourPuss You mean Polypipe Me No, PolySoil LeftHandSourPuss Got none Me Ermmmm, I looked at the floor; New Big Smile tried again. Same result. And then, a ray of sunshine. A bloke with a smile walks past (wearing same jerkin as the SourPuss twins) and says Come round the back and I'll show ya what we've got. Brilliant. Off round the back to look in SourPuss' Den. He showed me the racks of Polypipe that they had. All of them full of bags of white plastic bags each with a few fittings in them. Not one individual fitting to be seen - just a sea of white bags. He rips one open. Hallelullia - the fitting has (as the Polysoil blurb says) a single blue EPDM seal. Thats what I mean, I say relieved, delighted even : Polysoil pipe Is it? he says .... We call it Polypipe Why? I ask. And then explain how I came to ask for PolySoil instead of Polypipe This bit takes some believing (well for me anyway) " Well the order number is the same, and as you can see the parts come in white plastic bags. So we won't nercessarily know that these bits of the Polypipe range have become Polysoil - we don't even see them - we dont need to because the order and part number is the same as the old range of pipes and parts." So these bags could be filled with lemons, you wouldn't know what was in them ...... Yep, I just sell them. I don't need to know. Who's the Dummie? Or maybe thats what happens when two Dummies meet in a Plumbing shed. Blind leading the myopic.