"Holiday Hacienda ..." wrote in message
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I slapped an opening in a thick internal stone loadbearing wall.....the
approved plans show RSJs to be installed but I have installed a row of old
railway lines.....the problem is they don't want to accept this as I cannot
provide calcs ..... surely if a railway line has supported the Flying
Scotsman for years it should be OK to support a triangle of stone? ........

I have seen this done several times.
Railway lines are a bit OTT.
Some many decades old, seems to have been a common practice.

Your mistake was in telling them.

They employ ****heads with little practical experience these days.
The "cover-my-arse" types.