tillywiz

thank guys man came today klinker in pit to high no cover over klinker and seems sillted up drainage field not where we thought 90degrees in opposite direction and where it was meant to drain to has been filled in to a lot higher than garden but was the drainage field from the first build in the 30s . the very dry weather has exacerbated the problem of the sillting plus tree roots searching out the water. perc test underway seems to think very promising just a question of ordinary drainage field or mantair and becker tunnels.

if one is ito install a much bigger drainage field for a septic tank do we by law need to have a full percolation test done . we have had very little rain if any over the summer period and our ground had inch wide cracks in it from lack of rain and now the septic tank seems to be a problem draining away.any observations or an answer to the question would be excelent .

looking at that work ,incompetent lazy and corrupt obviously thinks your a sucker and that he will get away with it ripping you off for the job.

we are in somerset but round this neck of the woods the ones who are working few and far between seem to spend more time driving around to pick up gear rather than actualy doing anything .i guess to time is not on our side.

just to let you know we had lantern removed roof redone and new lantern fitted correctly company called thermal roof did the rubber as you will see from the first pics to the ones now the difference

hi joe so are we 70 and 75 my dad was a civil engineer and his generation had morals but i think my sons agegroup were the last group to know right from wrong now it seems right is what they want for themselves and wrong is what the customer wants the so called builder who came on recomend as a good worker etc from the architect services felt he did not have to work took £4000 deposit of use for as he put it to get the best price for materials .It turned out the vat were at him and our money was used for his overdue vat bill.then came the excuses for days where he did not turn up twice his mother died you would have thought he would have remenbered that one.when the celotex insulation was in short supply we had to hire a vehicle and drive round to collect the required quantity but he sat on his arse not even so much of a thankyou for going.when he finished our jub he had the cheat to steal the extra sheets from the shed while we were walking the dogs.he called himself a carpentry service i do better with my chisels than he did.as for comunication he would ask me something and if he did not like the answer he would ask the other half ,if that was not what he wanted to hear he would then just please himself.as for the other trades i could write a book about them.

thing is guys we need to get a good fall from the back to the front away from the house so far none of the so called lanscapers have been able to answer how one gets the correct falls on a wet bed and how the dickens they are not going to get them looking like badly done crazy paving.you should see the state of our kitchena guy called woody did it or rather he had this other guy with him and he dissapeared presumably to rip off some other poor soul .cost us just shy of £1000 still sething about that.

someone said looks like you got a local cowboy sorry but they are all cowboys.they are either busy ripping off someone else or they are quoteing you mega bucks in the hope that you will be the next sucker on the list. to rip off .builders roofers carpenters plumbers not to mention patio and landscapers.seriously hacked off with the lot of them.

we are at a loose end to find anyone who can mix and lay the concrete base for porcelain pavers.we recon its a two man job with lazer level to get the fall and a days work . quoted small load conrete at 2sqm for £396 including delivery etc area to concrete 4.5m by 5m 70mm thick .thought on payment we guested at £250 for the day each man so under the £1000 for the job .we are getting a little old for this job but we would attempt it with help but if any one knows a competant person or two who would do it for us would be excelent .

we had a 2 by 4 korniche fitted very pleased with it .the stratus was taken off as it was rubbbish and leaked along with the roof .stratus made under licence by anyone so quality questionable .

hi joe most of the lantern people do the flat skylights that one can walk on i will look and see for you as they use them to add light to basements as well as roofs some of them look absoluely super

the top point of the lantern is leaking also ,and the conservatory company had glowing reports but i realy think grp seems to be the way to go after the mess up of no fall on the roof is fixed. so we awaite the co. respnse

thanks joe 90 i am getting used to crap work now but finding someone who isnt is a real problem.we are questioning wether we should get grp done and a new lantern from atlas which was on the spec in the first place what we are considering is getting out from under the company altogether if having got compensation out of him and then having it all redone .thanks to pete russell etc insisted that the roof did not need a fall.as for the tiles russell did break one shoveing it up .we had already said we were not happy with russell doing it but they went ahead anyway saying he would not mess up and incidently we were supposed to have a 75cm walkway all round to sort out the leaves as we have a very large beech tree on the boundry and a load more trees across the lane now with the lantern on there isnt much room to move.

we were told categicaly that with a lanter the roof should not have a fall hence so much pooling at the back i will try to find a picture of the front without the infill so it will show the roof.

yes the water runs off the fourth side and when he did the rubber we said that he seemed to be doing it wrong but felt we could not realy interfere the first atempt was when we first complained about the standard the second pic here is his redo of one of the corners not sure whats happened with the picture but you get the idea of the shoddy work.we were