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If you don't want to do barbell training, I would get some kettle bells. You can do so many things with them.

That sounds like a good common sense approach.

I was feeling really optimistic until I read @Post and beam comment.

I'm 53 and up until 18 months ago, I was doing 5-9 hours of exercise a week. So I was very fit, but I now found that if I do manual graft, it completely wrecks me the next day. Yesterday, I did a load of hedge cutting on site, before the big start next week! This morning though, I feel like I have been hit by a truck and am thinking to myself "how the hell are you going to build a house". Any other desk bound individuals out there who are a similar age, able to comment whether they too find manual graft gets you the next day. I'm fine doing it, it's just the recovery that kills me. Really hoping, that the more manual graft I do the easier the next day will be.

My CEMP apparently requires me to educate contractors on ways of working. Do I need to get a hardhat with 'Foreman' written on the front and a welfare unit for after work detention for those contractors who violate the policy. I can't decide whether they should write 100 lines or a 1000 lines?

If I use individuals on a labour only basis, is there anything I need to do myself so I'm not treated as an employer?

I cannot have anything thicker than 100mm due to space constraints. I'll probably just go with RSJ and horizontal sleepers.

Yes, but the moment something is sold as 'Corten' it seems to have an expensive price tag.

6mm thickness is very expensive and I want it to have the corten look. On reflection, 2mm is probably too thin.

I have a 'retaining' wall to build. I say 'retaining' as for years it was literally held up with vertically standing paving slabs. And given it's < 900mm high, I'm not sure how much strength I need to add. I want something different and am thinking of using the below laid vertically. It's 2mm wall thickness, but if I fill each tube with concrete, it should suffice, didn't know if 2mm would be thick enough, if I just wanted to fill with gravel. How long would 2mm steel last before it's eroded through? https://www.ainscoughmetals.co.uk/items/steel-tube/6.100-mtrs-101.6-mm-x--2-mm--steel-tube-!-chs-!-steel-pipe-drainage-!-water-pipe-!-new/17161

The connection is not coming across the boundary. The pole is on our land.

But the twin wall ducting does not look permeable?

Given that others have said how difficult it is to pull the cable through the ducting and around the bend, has anyone found a larger hockey stick duct than the 50mm (split phase / 3 phase) that SSEN specify which would work with 100mm internal diameter ducting? The other stupid question I have is around the ingress of water into the underground ducting. I assume that the ducting remains below ground and is not bent 90 degrees and partially up the side of the pole when they come to connect. The pole is on a bank and the kiosk is lower. I just have visions of water making it's way in one end and coming out inside the kiosk. And one final thing. How do you connect 100mm ducting to a 50mm hockey stick. The internet seems to suggest using tape! Surely, there must be a ducting to hockey stick reducer?

Southern Water connected our water last week, even though I told them I hadn’t backfilled the trench. They told me Friday pm that it has passed the inspection and would be connected Monday. The rain has run down the road and caused the meter box to move and sink. The pipe is also now covered with some very heavy flint pieces. It’s all a bit of a mess and not sure how to tidy it up.

Do you have to use hockey sticks into the cabinet. Can you instead just use the 100mm twin wall ducting straight into the chamber?

Can you elaborate as I don't follow.

One other question. I am going to mount the grp kiosk within 3 ft of the pole where they will bring the feed from. What I'm not sure about is the additional 100mm ducting that they mention. They mention for split phase you need to install a 50mm hockey stick to a depth of 450mm below FFL. It's the section from the hockey stick to the pole that I'm not getting. Does the SWA cable that they will install also have to go into some sort of ducting?

What do people mean by "black hockey sticks"? When I met SSEN onsite, he said use 100mm ducting from the kiosk to the pole. I thought that seamed a lot. We are having a split phase connection. Also. Where are people buying the kiosks from?

Brett Martin drainage seems quite readily available online and I was wondering what thoughts people have on the quality. I have read that Wavin and Floplast are also very good, but I'm struggling to find online sellers who also sell perforated pipe. In a separate topic, I've seen very large price variations on 110mm underground drainage.

In case anybody reads this thread in the future as they too want a raised outlet, here is the drawing that I finally received from one of the Graf reps. A picture speaks a thousand words. One2clean with Raised Outlet_ Specification.pdf

Mortgage offer received from Hanley Economic 1st August - 5.85%.

The problem is now resolved. Graf are pretty useless when it comes to their online documentation and the various configurations of their tanks. It was only when I came across a web site selling them, did I realise that there are actually 4 outlet configurations. Every other site just lists the tanks as 'Gravity' or 'Pumped' outlets. So you can raise the outlet by either 300mm or 515mm with the standard lift system that comes with the tank. I was just about to hit buy on a pumped tank. Having a raised outlet helps as it means it puts my drainage field above the fast draining chalk layer and into the soil layer that gives me a > 12 Vp reading. This not only saves a huge amount of excavation, but also having to put a 700mm sand layer underneath the drainage field to increase the Vp so that it meets the criteria.

You can get a level invert chamber. The below would work.

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Seems strange that they want an IC. The tanks all have internal sampling chambers so unsure why they want one. Did they give a reason?