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@Onoff this one’s for you https://fb.watch/kW_hYMP1fl/

Try changing the f ing blade 😉

There’s your issue . Non professional using non professional tool . 👍😎

Thanks for the hidden tag . As a professional I would suggest you man up and use a multi tool . The black n gold ones are best . Boom 🤯

Bit by bit then ? Build it up ?

Should I keep going back to it if it slumps and ‘ push’ it back in ? . Or is the objective to do it once and leave it ?

Shuttered this . Went pretty well - but some gaps where concrete didn’t slump enough . Did ‘chop’ it with a trowel . Best way to fill these and not slump and fall out ? Just a stiff concrete mix ???

Goodies for me !

Aka “ doing a schofield “

No . I’d like that .

If you do it nothing will happen . If you don’t then Sod’s Law will work . Prevention is best 👍. For a small fee I can stand there naked to deter people . It’s not the first time .

I did think you can get padlock type covers for tap outlets . Failing that stick a locked box over it ( serious suggestion btw )

Cctv , gun , taser , naked man . These are slightly unhelpful suggestions I know .

That’s what you need to sort for your marriage / ceiling sake 😎 ( I’m not helpful , I know that )

Your fault 🤣

Indeed . Delusional aspirations of building a house also .

I started this thread ! So NO grumpy old men ! . Young virile girlies yes ….

True . My SE confirmed in general he over spec’d by 350% .. wtf ! For my foundation insulation ( concrete raft ) I had a spec . I called around and just couldn’t get any product at that level . Finally a guy said to me “ are you building a 10 storey ncp car park ? “ . I said no . He then told me to tell my SE to (expletive deleted) off and half the requirement . This I did . SE lowered the spec ‘ over the phone ‘ to half what was required ; which I could find at a sensible price .

I saw it ! You said ture - that’s coz you are pissed 🍺

He's a true self builder. Post and ask, post and ask, think about it, post and ask...before you know it a year or 2 has gone and it's still not done......

It would seem so. Also with the elusive "sound test" . Told which 5 houses are being checked ( so make them comply ) then 'shall we say' be less inclined with the others..... It is a mockery. Thats the thing with self build. Who is going to f up their own foundations. Have minimal PV and not connect them etc. etc. etc. etc. - I suspect the number of self builds that cut these type of corners is very little.

Hmmm . As an ex software engineer I used to think this . People will ‘learn’ more about technology as it’s used more in their life . In my experience it’s the complete opposite. If they can’t turn it off/on to ‘fix’ the issue or click an icon it’s beyond them . Number of people who can’t set the basics for their router . Can’t work out if their PV is generating or how much . Change a battery in a device ( ffs ! ) . Humans are getting more stupid .

Quantum mechanics is being touted as an explanation to consciousness. So you’d better be careful - she knew what you were thinking btw “ life energy “ = 🍷

My sparky recently became mcs accredited for solar etc. He’s no cowboy ; used him countless times . Told me he’s been to a site ( new builds ) where sometimes just 2 pv panels are put on a roof just so a sap tick box gets done . What’s more worrying is sometimes on finished builds the panels aren’t even wired up . It’s an absolute joke / shambles . But of course it looks great as “ PV was installed “ 😞

My SE told me he’d been to sites where eventually he has to walk off . The example he sited was a known developer; the workmen were chucking coke cans etc in a particular corner of the slab mesh before the concrete pour . SE told them to remove it ( apparently it was a lot ) . Lazy or what . Concrete got poured over it . Likely that corner will crack/fail probably not , but if it did …… . He told me this because of how good and meticulous ( yes ; correct word ) I had been on my foundations . Gold badge ⭐️ for me 😎