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Exactly correct ( === ) . Here's a memorably informative post from a few years ago: it might help ....? Two authors ( @Jeremy Harris and @Stones ) provide really good summaries of the issues. The soft and smelly is as hidden as it can be in the UK. Vee Tschermans are not so skveemish.

That's what Durisol does. (Did)

My name's Ian and I'm 69 and eleven twelfths. I'm likely to die before anything new-fangled fails: so I wish I'd chosen to make a few really important lights and sockets to be hard-wired - and make the rest as sexy as I could get. I'm told that @SteamyTea controls many things in the house with his brain. And @pocster....

@The Reverend is here for a quiet life (ostensibly) leave the poor man alone. Leave 'im to mind his knotweed in peace.

Any glass in that sample ... eh?

Brilliant question. It's the key question to ask. So many tasks in house building are repetitive and simple. And that tempts so-called professionals to cut and paste text from one specification to the next. On our build two or three times a principal merely signed off a piece of work that was done by a junior member of staff. And in one case that error caused a fortnight's delay and cost quite a bit of money. The quotation that you've been given appears to me to be more about expectation management than a sensible evidence-based costing

I'm rendering a wall in what proves to be the hottest day so far: despite a forecast of overcast. I thought it was an ideal day. But. The first coat dried faster than I thought it would: consequently the render mesh wouldn't embed in the mortar. Warran eejit - all I needed to do was put the first layer on for a meter or so and then press the mesh into that. But I had the bit between my teeth. Can I put the render mesh on the wall at the same time as the next 'layer' ? In other words put the mesh on the scratch layer at the same time as the render for the top coat?

Its no secret, loads of us have used them : Tanners in Eire. Superb. Saved the price of their fees many times over.

The set up cost for our piles was about £5000. The additional cost of (unplanned - 'where we might want to put a garage' ) piles was £50 each. We threw in a couple of others between our piggery and the house for when the piggery is extended 'into' the house Have a read of my stuff about piling. Overall cost for 146 sq m was £6500.

Sauna. Sorted.

The BCO himself agreed with me that if I did as suggested above - fit and later remove - was fine: he had fulfilled his duty. He did not encourage me or condone removal. He then, with a knowing grin, also said that that was exactly why Grand Designs generates such howls of derision from most builders. How many non-compliany staicases are featured on that program ?

Hope Festool does their own version. Bet there'll be a spit-roast in there, chip frier, pizza oven, a slow cooker, a waste disposal unit, anna drinks chiller OK, it'll be £7000 quid, but think how much @SteamyTea could earn going round self-build sites. It'd keep him too busy to post on BH ....😝

Really ? I asked him for a concise problem statement ... and that appears to me to be (as above). The statement is concise - but importantly NOT precise. Because, as @craig says he has sent the documentation from the manufacturer. But the BCO does not say how or in what way the documentation is insufficient - thus He is asking us to trawl through all the documentation from the supplier and map that onto the relevant Building Standards. Now call me old-fashioned, but should that task not have been done at Building Regs submission? Or the previous BCO? We've all got too little time. I have a strong feeling that I'm just going to get a bit of 2 by 4 and screw the damn thing onto the window frame (via a threaded sleeve or dowel screw) , get it signed off and then take the protection down.

Have a read of this from my BCO ... Our wonderful treble glazed windows upstairs go floor to (almost ceiling) Yawn. I feel like banging a piece of 4 by 2 on the wall in front of the windows , getting it signed off and move on.... Write to the manufacturers asking for certification ? ... life's too short. Now I know how Grand Designs stair cases become non - compliant.

Saved for a good read later this evening. Thanks Damon. Ian

Which is exactly why I asked the question. For a 'Switched - On ' Buildhub Member, visiting their build once a day or so, how would she / he tell that the ends were smears instead of full 'perp' ends? I've spent a little while trying to find examples on YT. No luck.

Now show me a smear, please....... (in other words how does a non-brickie tell the difference betwen the two [a perp or a smear])

What's a Perp End please?

That looks a beautiful place to be. I'm wincing a bit about the roundtrip to Srewfix, but other than that .... no coronation, no BoJo or Truss. Wha's not ter like? You giving English lessons out there then ? 😉

My career in brief: Army > Sports administration and training > International trade (East / West Berlin) > Teaching (Y1, 2, 3, 4) > University Lecturer to train undergraduate and post graduate teachers and research ... The very best teachers I have ever met (and trained) have all been direct entrants to the job - maybe 30 or 40 individuals overall. After I retired the teaching recruitment system changed - no need for a degree anymore. Just a willingness to do what the Head teacher wants. Because the market knew best. Well, the market is now voting with its feet. Potential recruits go elsewhere.

Dead for how long?

Exactly right. In Germany, the training system whether technical or theoretical is based on the notion of" Parity of Esteem" between the sectors. Students can move from one sector to the other at the end of each academic year providing they pass that year's exams.

Okay, name one education minister who made any real difference to apprenticeships.

Education and Training policy has always been and will always be set by people who have no interest in either.