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"Mike" writes:

"Andrew Gabriel" wrote in message
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It's not a bad idea to tie them together occasionally too.
A number of Wilson Connolly new home owners have discovered
what happens when this isn't done...

For real ? How on earth wasn't that picked up at BC inspection ? And
what sort of brickie doesn't use ties ?

I don't think the BC inspect every house on a housing estate.
The BC fees for a housing estate are full fee for the first
house, and then only a tiny fee for each identical house.
It wasn't just BC that missed it, so did Wilson Connolly's
own inspector and the NHBC inspector, but then that really
comes as no surprise.

A brickie doesn't use ties if the builder will only employ
him if he actually lays the bricks without arguing and the
builder doesn't supply enough ties. There was a builder on
You and Yours (radio 4) some months back, and he said that
houses being built in the UK at the moment are built to the
lowest quality he's ever seen during his whole career in the
building trade.

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Andrew Gabriel