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Giles

Giles

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TiltyShaun said:
Not sure where you are saying the tie in heights are wrong BY the architect?
I have always done a knock through or height check at the start to confirm levels. Even that has cahught me out on a house that had multiple new openings going in and it turned out the joists and floors in the existing where not level!!
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It’s more existing is 14.6’ ceilings and to keep the wall heights down the architect has gone 2.4 in connecting bit, otherwise it’d be another 1m on roof. And where it’s 9m from house it’s already 4m high with the ground falling away for single story

More not got heights right than hadn’t even thought how the roof ties in, had to get engineer out yesterday to design a c channel to go under existing steel
 
V8Druid

V8Druid

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Giles said:
Connecting new to old and heights are out! Nice one architects! lol well I guess I should have checked but ground falls away and it’s already pretty high in the new bit 3m ceilings. Need to add another c channel in now below old steel to accept roof joists.

Trying to get water tight so I can run off and leave sparky plumber and plasterer to it while I get some of the backlog of jobs done.
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that's a hell of an extension ... dunno as MCC planning'd allow that 'round here - they're utter Bas***ds 🤬 🤬 🤬
 
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DaveDCB

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V8Druid said:
that's a hell of an extension ... dunno as MCC planning'd allow that 'round here - they're utter Bas***ds 🤬 🤬 🤬
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You can go 8m out on some permitted development..
infact our planners recently got passed a ridiculous extension on 3 sides of a house all under bending the PD rules.. my architect was amazed at what we got!
flip side is the council are now being a nightmare on the rest of the site!!
 
Furniss

Furniss

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bit more messing - filter bed and topwater in - tank next - its turned a bit iffy weather wise, thankfully got the topwater away to ditch in time so that's got to help.
 
V8Druid

V8Druid

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Furniss said:
View attachment 72836View attachment 72837View attachment 72838bit more messing - filter bed and topwater in - tank next - its turned a bit iffy weather wise, thankfully got the topwater away to ditch in time so that's got to help.
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lashed it down here from 2 am 'til just after nine this morning - proper pissy wet :mad: - as in to the skin in 20 seconds, on/off - once, just as we delivered Harper to her nursery - had to take shelter for ten minutes, 'fore heading off with Clara :rolleyes:
 
Furniss

Furniss

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Monkeybusiness said:
I don’t suppose you know who manufactures that galvanised guttering by any chance?…
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It's Zink I fink
It's almost exclusively used round here, bought off the shelf and pieces soldered together where needed.

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This has a half round gutter but often it's one like this and is called "nantaise"
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I think comes from the local city Nantes, after apparently there are other styles like lyonaise which I guess is the style around Lyon.
 
Furniss

Furniss

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Giles said:
does your leach field not need to be level or is it a trick of the eye with ground going other way to dig out?
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Optical :)
Scarified,then a membrane before 70cm of filter sand - the top of the sand we put 1% of fall front to back in, then 10cm of washed stone with same fall before laying chambers and pipes, gets locked in with another 10 of washed stone and covered withe geotextile before soil.
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Stroppymonkey

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Picked up last ever load from local RGB branch as they are sadly closing :-(
We are carrying out a oil tank job up near Spekes Mill in North Devon and merchants cant deliver there. I can just get trailer in. Thought tyres looked soft and they were... all at 35psi somehow. Popped them all up to 94psi which seems to be the correct pressure according to IW. Sometimes I wish I had picked a bigger trailer for the crane.. but today I was glad it was only a LM105. Wouldn't have got anything bigger in without a battle/damage.
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V8Druid

V8Druid

do it as well as you can,but learn to do it better
Stroppymonkey said:
Picked up last ever load from local RGB branch as they are sadly closing :-(
We are carrying out a oil tank job up near Spekes Mill in North Devon and merchants cant deliver there. I can just get trailer in. Thought tyres looked soft and they were... all at 35psi somehow. Popped them all up to 94psi which seems to be the correct pressure according to IW. Sometimes I wish I had picked a bigger trailer for the crane.. but today I was glad it was only a LM105. Wouldn't have got anything bigger in without a battle/damage.
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bit OTT on the load there Ben !! :rolleyes::oops: ... looks fine though :giggle:
 
Giles

Giles

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Took a trailer full of demo waste from mine back to the yard and we’ve a new addition it seems, plus don’t look to closely at the genie lift with the digger counter balance lol 😂

Only way of getting it in heavy bit of c section

Druid probably work it out was meant to be 180 x 90 x 26 PFC but local place had a 200x90x 15mm bottom sections and 8mm back it was bloody heavy the proper one should have been 96kg this was easily double that at 3.7m long
 

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