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  1. Triassic
    My current specialist household insurance runs out soon and I need a new policy. The current insurance covers the old house, now being demolished, the cabin we are living in, two shipping containers full of furniture etc, a digger, contents of a garage and shed and a sit on mower etc. Very soon we will start the new build, which will be done in work packages, with each package clearly defined, so that I can leave the various contractors to do their bit. So what type of insurance do I need to cover the above?
  2. Triassic
    A neighbour and I hired a Timber Wolf industrial shreader for a weekend for £75. We shredded brash and trees up to four inch in diameter. Well worth the money.
  3. Triassic
    It's the first time he's done anything like this, a fairly simple rectangular box of an extension and the architect has failed to impress him, so the request for an additional £1500 for some dimensions to be added to show the setting out of an internal wall and a few windows was too much for him.
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    A friend's building a large extension, the planning drawings only had two dimensions on them, length and width. When he queried this with the architect he was told that fully dimensioned construction drawings would be an extra £1500. So he and the builder are making it up as they go along!
  5. Triassic
    The other thing Allan is finding is that his builder keeps missing a day here and there, he didn't work a full day Friday and only one guy on site yesterday for part of the day. From what the guys on site have said, the builder has six jobs on the go, consequently he juggles jobs to try and keep everyone happy.
  6. Triassic
    I agree you should pay as soon as possible, however the builders terms were payment within Seven days and as my mate works away he was a bit taken aback to receive calls, emails and text asking for payment within less than 24 hours of receipt of the corrected invoice.
  7. Triassic
    He's going to go for option three, he's going to set up an account with the builders merchant and allow the builder to order goods for the job against the account. His main worry was the builders apparent lack of liquidity and the fact he'd tried it on by submitting an inflated initial invoice.
  8. Triassic
    A friend Allan) has just called to talk through a problem he's having with his builder. Basically the builder completed the first week on site, building a large lounge, kitchen and dinning room extension. As agreed the first invoice was submitted on Thursday via email, but it arrived without any of the supporting materials invoices as had been agreed in the contract. So Allan emailed the builder pointing this out and after a bit of to-ing and fro-ing a new invoice with the supporting paperwork was submitted for a lower amount late on Thursday night. Allan then goes to London on business early on Friday, anyway during he day he gets an email and two voice messages on his personal phone (switched off because he's with a client all day) wanting to know where the invoice payment is? He only gets these messages when he turns on his personal phone on 6.27pm train home. He emailed the builder saying he'll deal with it over the weekend. He then gets a call on Saturday from the builder saying that there is a problem with a delivery of materials booked for Monday morning, from a local builders merchants. Apparently the BM have just been taken over (true) and have cut his business credit limit. Allan is a senior project manager, so has done all the due diligence on his shortlisted builders, before appointing this one. He's now worried about the builders liquidity. Any suggestions as to the best way forward that will protect Alan's position?
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    To be honest I'm trying my best to recycle, reuse and give stuff away. Mind you, having advertised ten household items on EBay, I only managed to sell four items, I then put the six items on Frrecycle and buy,sel.swop and managed to get rid of two more items. I put a large sign outside the site advertising free wood but only had one guy coming to look, but he only wanted " nice logs". So Im starting by burning the shingle roof tiles. The officials I talked to regarding a permit to burn, said such things only apply to businesses and although frowned on, a private person would probably not get into trouble burning, so long as the fire is small and there is no smoke. The shingles are so dry they are like burning paper! The plastic is going to the local recycling centre where they have a plastics skip. The bricks will be reused and the concrete paths crushed for backfill for paths etc.
  10. Triassic
    I need a window schedule, my architect didn't supply one and the frame company say, just wait till the frames up and get the window companies to come and do a site measure. What's best?
  11. Triassic
    No doubt a number of these firms will be going bust very soon. As we have already seen by the frantic back peddling and web site remodelling, as companies try to distance themselves from Grenfell Tower.
  12. Triassic
    More details on the decomposition product produced in a fire are described in this report here, https://firesciencereviews.springeropen.com/articles/10.1186/s40038-016-0012-3
  13. Triassic
    Remember also it's probably the smoke that kills and not the fire! If you've ever burnt manmade foaminsulation product you'll have noted the plume of acrid black smoke!
  14. Triassic
    If you look at the risk of a fire from an ASHP you may wish to move your washer and drier into an external utility room, as we have just done.
  15. Triassic
    Some reports in the US regarding heat pumps overheating resulting in recalls. https://www.cpsc.gov/Recalls/2017/carrier-and-bryant-recall-heat-pumps
  16. Triassic
    I removed our BT cable from the demolition property and rerouted it to our temporary accommodation.
  17. Triassic
    The simple answer is YES. An internet search lists a number of recalls and reports of incidents involving heat pumps. Which did a report based on Government information, here is a simple graphic of the results
  18. Triassic
    It's just a shame that although there have been a number of cladding fires over the years, the learning from these events has not been acted upon. Here an article that deals with such a cladding fire in the UAE http://www.probyn-miers.com/perspective/2016/02/fire-risks-from-external-cladding-panels-perspective-from-the-uk/ quote - "The exterior of the supertall (302m) The Address was consumed in flames and thick black smoke, with more than 40 storeys burning simultaneously at one stage. Investigations are in hand, but the fire in Dubai’s 18th tallest tower appears to be similar to the fires in the external cladding of the 352m Marina Torch residence (21 February 2015) and of the Tamweel Tower (18 November 2012). Fire spread in external cladding has been the primary issue not only in these three major Dubai fires, but in others in the Middle East and China. It is widely suspected that the presence of combustible aluminium composite panels was responsible for the fire spreading alarmingly rapidly up the exterior of The Address. Composite panels are made of a thin outer metal skin of steel or aluminium and cores of insulating material, which historically have included combustible materials such as expanded polystyrene (EPS) or polyurethane (PUR), but the Dubai fires involved polyethylene (LDPE) cores."
  19. Triassic
    Here are the facts regarding the Lakanal fire, they make interesting reading, including the bit about the Cladding. https://www.designingbuildings.co.uk/wiki/Lakanal_House_fire Quote - The inquest focused on the cladding panels that had been fitted as part of the refurbishment in 2006/07, which were found to offer less fire resistance than the panels they replaced, and enabled the fire to spread more rapidly than expected. According to the jury; ‘This was due to a serious failure on the part of Southwark Council’s building design services, its contractors and its subcontractors’.
  20. Triassic
    As yet we've not had any discussions about the suggested root cause, a defective fridge. How often do we read about domestic fires caused by faulty white goods, yet the manufacturers are getting away with only issuing warnings, followed up with a verrrrry slow repair programme. Maybe as part of the investigation we should be tightening up the white good regulations and giving Trading Standards the teeth to insist that is a product is found to be faulty, in such a way as to cause a fire, the manufacturers are obliged to immediately replace it and not dither about with extended refurbishment programmes that go on for years, in the hope that consumers won't bother.
  21. Triassic
    An interesting read. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grenfell_Tower_fire
  22. Triassic
    I agree, however we also need to address the cause of the fire.
  23. Triassic
    Let's hope they treat the root cause, faulty consumer goods. How many fires have there been of late, all down to poor quality consumer goods. I'd make the manufacturers take them all back and replace them, if they go bust in the process, good!
  24. Triassic
    Wholesalers destocking in preperation for the next down turn!
  25. Triassic
    You can buy straight lengths of 110mm pipe without collars, might be easier to fit ! The collar then becomes a double collar and these can be bought separately. Regarding the route of the pipe. If it were me fitting the pipe I'd want to turn the Tee in the soil stack until the inlet points directly at the location of the new loo. How big a gap have you got between the two sets of joists? It may not be big enough to get the "correct" fall. You may have to compromise and just install the pipe with what ever fall you have!
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