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Quarter of a century of reliable power while altering the grid and infrastructure for the next phase of power. Sounds great 👍

People will actually be sad when it blows up too. They like to see the cooling towers. Its all just insane.

Reliable, secure, plentiful

I still can't believe we are going to blow up ratcliffe on soar power station. I wonder if we will ever start using coal for electric again in the uk

I did a Dunster house for someone that was excavate, membrane, compacted type 1, gravel grids with 10mm pea gravel.

What about the undiscovered quantities i keep seeing being talked about. There could be a lot more than what is known?

I just emailed some local office, god knows where I got their email and they dropped me loads of bits off. It was all very informal as I remember it around 2018. Last place in 2020 I didn't even bother with a fixed line connection. It wasn't in the regs then. Is there any way to opt out if it nowadays? I still use 5 and 4g for Internet now

Whats the craic up there then? What do you have to have and what is extra?

Ouch!

I think this is a regular thing. Even I've had that vibe lately.

? Ive not had any drawings done yet as not decided who im using yet. Hence the thread

@Gus Potter i dont need any project management. I will sort all applications with utilities and highways. All I need is planning and building regs. Plot will be BNG exempt.

How long is a piece of string but generally what are people paying for architects? Ive always used a riba architect previously and also had a PCC off them too. I think excluding the PCC I've usually paid around 2% of build cost. Not that the deal is a set % of build cost its just that's where the quote has come in. For planning and building regs no project management or anything like that.

Volumetric guys do this regularly ive found. I've called them out on it before now. I reckon they get told to because the mixes aren't upto spec. Your footings will be fine.

This is why I said to use connected firms for pump and crete. Better still if same company supplying both. Incentiveised to get it done then