Alan Ambrose

Will be there .

Or a QS?

A new SAP assessor maybe?

I think the reality is that groundworks is a often a rough and ready process - maybe on a fine day with the right team it isn’t, but on a bad day or with a less skilled team it just is. 1/2 an inch is a good tolerance in groundworks, anything better is probably uneconomic. It is upsetting to a certain kind of person and I’m one of those. I have internal drainage out by up to 200mm in horizontal position and the same in invert level. And I suspect I have not discovered all the faults yet. I wish I hadn’t trusted my groundworks guys and looked over their shoulders more. Will it result in impossible-to-fix problems - probably not. Has it cost me much extra time and effort - definitely yes. I’ve resolved to buy a total station and do my own detail layout for the ‘next build’. My surveyor is good but a total station to use to check a position or level any time I want would be better.

Suggest buying a small bit of each material and, say, tapping it lightly with a hammer to simulate a stone hit. Acrylic can be cut by your local laser shop, polycarb by a cnc router shop or both materials by hand with a jigsaw on slow speed (to stop it melting and gumming up rhe blade). Or an online place like cutmy.co.uk. Or a hand saw.

Acrylic is a bit brittle if it’s going to get any wind on it, polycarb is much tougher.

@G and J ah sorry to miss you, was at a memorial lunch today. Try to take Sundays off anyhow . It’s all getting a bit tense as we have some prep still to do and the frame guys are tipping up next week. Sure you were at the right site - I assure you I spend about an hour a day trying to remember where I last left some tool or some fixings or somesuch. Impressed you took some time off.

Well I hate to bring the original article up again, but... The list of biggest carbon emitters seems sort of interesting to me - the usual suspects, and a bit simplified - presumably it's not so much the fossil fuel companies themselves but their industry and customers.

Here’s a new detail: land registry plans are only approximate and cannot be relied on - see the Land Registry website for more info.

Can I ask, who’s planning on coming to @JohnnyB ‘s on the 18th? i.e. next Thursday.

Climate change is a fraud? Who are these people financing the cult and what are their motives?

>>> I doubt the people checking the cil liabilities look at the plans, just the answers you put on the form. Not convinced about that - I had some to-and-fro with my LPA's CIL people before we agreed on the number - there's some detail in the rules e.g. areas under stairs etc.

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Congrats

Anything greater than 100%.