Temp Posted October 20, 2019 Share Posted October 20, 2019 Factory built house, all wood option, 16" thick walls.. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SteamyTea Posted October 20, 2019 Share Posted October 20, 2019 Do Swiss trees grow better than ours? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Russell griffiths Posted October 20, 2019 Share Posted October 20, 2019 1 hour ago, SteamyTea said: Do Swiss trees grow better than ours? Er, yes. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
joe90 Posted October 20, 2019 Share Posted October 20, 2019 2 hours ago, SteamyTea said: Do Swiss trees grow better than ours? Slower I believe. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
joe90 Posted October 20, 2019 Share Posted October 20, 2019 My favourite place in the world is the Swiss alps and their houses are just fab. I think planning control must be very tight as everything is just so (but they are a very tidy nation, you never see any litter). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SteamyTea Posted October 20, 2019 Share Posted October 20, 2019 29 minutes ago, joe90 said: 3 hours ago, SteamyTea said: Do Swiss trees grow better than ours? Slower I believe. And on time. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ProDave Posted October 20, 2019 Share Posted October 20, 2019 The local modal house company to here had a try at something similar using CLT panels. I think the sheer weight of completed modules proved challenging. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
joe90 Posted October 20, 2019 Share Posted October 20, 2019 1 minute ago, SteamyTea said: And on time. Oh yes, I remember being in Switzerland catching a train and it left when the second hand on the clock hit the 12, and you could eat your dinner off the floor of the train. On my return I had to go the Birmingham new street station ???????. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ferdinand Posted October 20, 2019 Share Posted October 20, 2019 2 hours ago, joe90 said: My favourite place in the world is the Swiss alps and their houses are just fab. I think planning control must be very tight as everything is just so (but they are a very tidy nation, you never see any litter). That'll take a big cuckoo. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Patrick Posted October 20, 2019 Share Posted October 20, 2019 Oh yes. Swiss houses are different level. Last year I helped a mate In Zurich wiring in 2 new sockets into his fuse box in his basement. Took us all day because there are rules to every mm of the cable, how to lay it, which position in the wall, how it has to enter the switchboard and how it is all layed out in there, with labelling with a labelling machine (cause you CAN NOT handwrite any stuff on there, just cant) At the end, the whole precise job has to be checked and signed off by the Canton Electrics Board representative and God beware you had a mm off the regulations. Sounds and was extremely anal. But as a result you can open any switchboard and also any wall in a random house and know exactly where cables are going and what they are doing. Without checking anything. Another result is that rewiring a detached house cost you approx. 40-50k. ? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ProDave Posted October 20, 2019 Share Posted October 20, 2019 ^^ I could not live or work anywhere with such draconian regulations as that. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Patrick Posted October 20, 2019 Share Posted October 20, 2019 7 minutes ago, ProDave said: ^^ I could not live or work anywhere with such draconian regulations as that. Guess why I'm in the uk? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Onoff Posted October 20, 2019 Share Posted October 20, 2019 12 minutes ago, Patrick said: Guess why I'm in the uk? The Extradition Act 2003? ? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SteamyTea Posted October 20, 2019 Share Posted October 20, 2019 (edited) They say that in Switzerland "if it is not illegal, it is compulsory." In the 70s I was refused entry to Switzerland because my motorbike, a Yamaha YDS3, was too noisy. Odd how the Italians thought it was normal. Edited October 20, 2019 by SteamyTea 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dreadnaught Posted October 20, 2019 Share Posted October 20, 2019 Roger Scruton (misquoted): in Britain everything is permitted unless it is forbidden; in Switzerland everything is forbidden unless it is permitted; in France everything is permitted, even if it is forbidden; and in Russia everything is forbidden, even if it is permitted. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SteamyTea Posted October 20, 2019 Share Posted October 20, 2019 2 hours ago, Onoff said: The Extradition Act 2003 Took me a while to get that, I like it. Shall reuse it soon. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SteamyTea Posted October 20, 2019 Share Posted October 20, 2019 (edited) 1 hour ago, Dreadnaught said: in Britain everything is permitted unless it is forbidden I thought it was a case of for every thing we have to do, we have a law that makes it illegal. Remember when at school and you crossed your fingers behind your back, while agreeing to something. That is government sanctioned, in fact, it is policy, now. Great. Edited October 20, 2019 by SteamyTea Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ferdinand Posted October 20, 2019 Share Posted October 20, 2019 1 hour ago, SteamyTea said: Took me a while to get that, I like it. Shall reuse it soon. He’s Baromess Scotland’s dodgy staffperson?. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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