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tony sayer

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On 18 Apr,
Tony Bryer wrote:

On Tue, 16 Apr 2013 20:30:06 +0000 (UTC) Andrew Gabriel wrote :
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Bill Wright writes:
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.

There's a jargon word that describes this fault in a building, but I
can't remember what it is...

Brickwork had a pig in it

In my BCO days soemone ran into this when extending a house

When the first extension was being built on this house I saw the brickie
outside counting and looking puzzled. One side of the back of the house had
one less course than the other. You can't trust builders with helicopters!

Thats nothing .. there're building a new cinema complex over at St Neots
and thats a whole metre out in where its located.

Just how do they cock that up?..

Surely there must be surveyors come to check these things .. aren't
there?..
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Tony Sayer