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Lack of appropriate preparation

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I'm no good at this am I? I just don't see it (yet). I'll get there.

Moving swiftly on , an 87.5 degree bend is 87.5 because....?

Echt? Didn't know you were a plumber.

Quatschkopf !

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Come on then.... what's the half degree for? Come to that, what's two and a half degrees for? Tell me that plumbers ? Dare ya.

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....