READERS BEWARE. RANT. Architects and other Building related Pen Pushers.

[ProDave]

I joined ebuild in about 2013 or 2014 as we were starting on our second self build.  

 

I have a history of forums shutting down on me.  Our first self build started in 2004 and then there was a buildstore forum that I used, but that shut down and disappeared overnight part way through our build with no warning that it was going to or no explanation of why.

 

Thankfully the way this forum is managed there is no single point of "control" and being managed by a number of people should ensure it continues.

[Ferdinand]

3 hours ago, JSHarris said:

 

Which one? 

 

We have at least three architects here that I know of, including one who's been around since the early days of Ebuild (before I joined in 2008 for sure).

 

 

 

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[Ferdinand]

3 hours ago, the_r_sole said:

Fiidifmttnfnf

 

I think that Fiidif... is an IPadded claim to be Henry VIII whilst eating Thornton's Special toffee.

 

Fidei Defensor and all that.

Edited September 12, 2019 by Ferdinand

[Ferdinand]

3 hours ago, the_r_sole said:

 

Strange?!

 

I love that that is questioned before semi-housetrained.

 

 

[jack]

17 hours ago, Bitpipe said:

I'm just a whippersnapper - May 22, 2013

 

13 June 2013 for me.

 

16 hours ago, JSHarris said:

@jack, for example, was NotNickClegg, I think.  

 

Correct (my BuildHub signature mentioned that until a few weeks ago). The choice of NotNickClegg as a forum name came about because I'd just been asked a "prove you're a human" question like "who is the leader of the Labour Party" as part of the sign-up process. I assume people thought I was rabidly for or against some political thing or another. 

[Bitpipe]

21 hours ago, jack said:

 

13 June 2013 for me.

 

 

Correct (my BuildHub signature mentioned that until a few weeks ago). The choice of NotNickClegg as a forum name came about because I'd just been asked a "prove you're a human" question like "who is the leader of the Labour Party" as part of the sign-up process. I assume people thought I was rabidly for or against some political thing or another. 

 

Having met you a few times I can confirm that you are not Nick Clegg. 

[Onoff]

Wait until you get to work closely with the upper echelons of the building world, as in the news making ones. Watch the cheapest contractor, with no track record get the job based on price. Sit in awe and watch as specialist consultants are brought in to advise you how to do a job you've done for 35 years. Watch said consultants pander like a puppy to every little architectural design quirk requested and the pair of them have a love in. Further despair as the consultant bends the rules on or even openly flouts respected codes of practice as "they're not law" and end up with said code of practice being dumbed down at its next edition. See these projects years down the line and quietly chuckle thinking "I knew that would never work/not get used/actually be a hinderance to the end user". And the best bit is there's never any come back on the people responsible for writing the spec or their stupid, enforced, unworkable ideas and omissions.

 

Oh, and watch it happen on the next project.

 

And finally wish you'd been born 10 years earlier so as to be close to retirement and that final release.

 

 

[Ferdinand]

2 hours ago, Onoff said:

Wait until you get to work closely with the upper echelons of the building world

 

Head in the clouds...

 

(Gets coat)