On 16/04/13 20:51, Bill Wright wrote:
Some years ago I bought 100 TV aerial chimney brackets. They were all
malformed and if the side of the chimney was vertical the mast came
out on a slight tilt. I took them back and the man said I was 'a
bleeding perfectionist'. He changed them though.

Likewise my son-in-law had a house in which the downstairs lavatory
pedestal was faulty in that the base was rotated somewhat relative to
the top part. It looked odd. The seat was correct but the base (which
was eight-sided; well rectangular with bevelled corners) was at an angle.


when I went to buy a corner basin for a tight space in a small loo, the
BM said 'go out and pick the nest one, none of them are square, but some
are more square than others'.

Clay shrinks as it dries before firing..
Not the same thing at all, and I don't know why it comes to mind, but
in the 1970s my uncle had a flat roofed kitchen extension built. The
brickwork joined the existing building at each side. Somehow it rose
one course on its way round. The whole structure was skew-whiff. The
back window was on a distinct slope but the ceiling (I don't know how
or why) was perfectly level, so the bit of wall above the window was
visibly trapezoid.


My builders kept telling me 'building is not engineering. Nothing is
ever true or square, we just work around that'.

My whole house is a parallelogram. Its out by a couple of inches one
diagonal to the other.

Bill


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