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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.

My instinct here is to say to you: just do it. And if anyone reports it to the council and they decide to take some kind of action, it'll only be retrospective planning permission. You could argue that it was to improve safety

They now live next door. @mr rusty, two Series 4 Bosch machines....

Ah Launceston! That's Charles Causley territory. Wonderful man.

Welcome. There's a job for you. If you go straight up the M6 junction 33 I'll be waiting there for you. You'll be as more busy than you've ever been

Silence in the first instance. CDM 2015 - the householder is a Doemstic Client? If so, it's nowt to do with the client. '... Any insurance ....' ? contents, house, car, Who contracted the chippy?

First of all welcome to Buildhub. BH, .....Internationally famous and well known as the Fifth Emergency Service - or is it the sixth - after the Coastguard? As @Dave Jones says above, crack on. Do you have proof of the Party Wall Agreement? If so, pop a copy through their letterbox. Communication is a tricky art: I bet that 99.99 percent (I'll need to check that stat with @SteamyTea) of all problems aired on this Forum would disappear if people could talk to one another over a cuppa, hubba, or haggis or whatever.

Optimism bias is standard for self-builders. What you really need is a network of experienced builders / building professionals around you. Build a team of generalists around you then ... network, network, network. Buildhub is a good start.

I've told this story before on BH, can't find it so here's a shortened version .... A neighbour of mine is sometimes employed to do what he calls The Sunday Morning Chop. Arrives on site at or just after dawn, cuts down the trees concerned. It's 10:30 before anyone 'twigs' (no, I'm not sorry at all), and Monday morning before anyone can get a TPO. Mostly he's off site by 11. If he gets fined (rarely) , the customer pays it. The deal is that he gets paid in the weight of wood felled. Which is promptly sold (and hauled off by) the local log merchant. Couple of grand for a Sunday morning's work. "Worth gettin' out-o-bed fer lad......"

Very warm welcome to you. We're a nosey lot: photos, maybe?

With but - note - one (1) flush button. That's an opportunity for serious misunderstandings innit?

Here's a playlist by Peter Millard: it details his experience of all sorts of sprayers. I recommend his video channel because he's reliable, his videos are well-presented, no waffle, no look-at-me-being-cute. https://ytube.io/3dZv

Get the children indoors folks: yer man's at it again.