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They don't build them like they used to...
Despite the problems I'm having with the Bungalow and despite it's pitiful
(lack of) foundations, it's doing better than a few 11 year old houses down our road here in Pembury... Just heard that several houses are having to have the entire ground floor slab rectified due to subsidence. The main foundations are fine, but someone didn't prep the slab base properly. Apparantly these houses were built by a few gangs in parallel and it seems that one gang buggered up their lot, but the rest are fine. Luckily for the owners the cost is being fully covered including redecorating, but it's still messy and inconvenient for them. Wonder where the Building Inspector was that day? Tim |
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In an earlier contribution to this discussion,
Tim S wrote: Despite the problems I'm having with the Bungalow and despite it's pitiful (lack of) foundations, it's doing better than a few 11 year old houses down our road here in Pembury... Just heard that several houses are having to have the entire ground floor slab rectified due to subsidence. The main foundations are fine, but someone didn't prep the slab base properly. Apparantly these houses were built by a few gangs in parallel and it seems that one gang buggered up their lot, but the rest are fine. Luckily for the owners the cost is being fully covered including redecorating, but it's still messy and inconvenient for them. Wonder where the Building Inspector was that day? Tim If it was a multi-house development, there probably wouldn't have been a LA BCO involved - certification would have been done by the NHBRC (God help us all!) -- Cheers, Roger ______ Email address maintained for newsgroup use only, and not regularly monitored.. Messages sent to it may not be read for several weeks. PLEASE REPLY TO NEWSGROUP! |
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"Tim S" wrote in message ... Despite the problems I'm having with the Bungalow and despite it's pitiful (lack of) foundations, it's doing better than a few 11 year old houses down our road here in Pembury... Just heard that several houses are having to have the entire ground floor slab rectified due to subsidence. The main foundations are fine, but someone didn't prep the slab base properly. Apparantly these houses were built by a few gangs in parallel and it seems that one gang buggered up their lot, but the rest are fine. I have seen worse.. a new development on a slope where they started at the top.. after about 60 houses were built the top ones started to slide down the slope. They had big cracks in them and BC (my friend) says there is no way they are going to save them. There were about thirty families living in them and about 30 part finished ones. None were more than two years old. Luckily for the owners the cost is being fully covered including redecorating, but it's still messy and inconvenient for them. Wonder where the Building Inspector was that day? Tim |
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"dennis@home" wrote in message ... "Tim S" wrote in message ... Despite the problems I'm having with the Bungalow and despite it's pitiful (lack of) foundations, it's doing better than a few 11 year old houses down our road here in Pembury... Just heard that several houses are having to have the entire ground floor slab rectified due to subsidence. The main foundations are fine, but someone didn't prep the slab base properly. Apparantly these houses were built by a few gangs in parallel and it seems that one gang buggered up their lot, but the rest are fine. I have seen worse.. a new development on a slope where they started at the top.. after about 60 houses were built the top ones started to slide down the slope. They had big cracks in them and BC (my friend) says there is no way they are going to save them. There were about thirty families living in them and about 30 part finished ones. None were more than two years old. Luckily for the owners the cost is being fully covered including redecorating, but it's still messy and inconvenient for them. Wonder where the Building Inspector was that day? Tim Very little supervision on building sites in my opinion. |
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"John" wrote in message ... "dennis@home" wrote in message ... "Tim S" wrote in message ... Despite the problems I'm having with the Bungalow and despite it's pitiful (lack of) foundations, it's doing better than a few 11 year old houses down our road here in Pembury... Just heard that several houses are having to have the entire ground floor slab rectified due to subsidence. The main foundations are fine, but someone didn't prep the slab base properly. Apparantly these houses were built by a few gangs in parallel and it seems that one gang buggered up their lot, but the rest are fine. I have seen worse.. a new development on a slope where they started at the top.. after about 60 houses were built the top ones started to slide down the slope. They had big cracks in them and BC (my friend) says there is no way they are going to save them. There were about thirty families living in them and about 30 part finished ones. None were more than two years old. Luckily for the owners the cost is being fully covered including redecorating, but it's still messy and inconvenient for them. Wonder where the Building Inspector was that day? Tim Very little supervision on building sites in my opinion. Prolly because the supervision (If any at all) don't speak Latvian or Polish |
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R coughed up some electrons that declared:
"John" wrote in message ... "dennis@home" wrote in message ... "Tim S" wrote in message ... Despite the problems I'm having with the Bungalow and despite it's pitiful (lack of) foundations, it's doing better than a few 11 year old houses down our road here in Pembury... Just heard that several houses are having to have the entire ground floor slab rectified due to subsidence. The main foundations are fine, but someone didn't prep the slab base properly. Apparantly these houses were built by a few gangs in parallel and it seems that one gang buggered up their lot, but the rest are fine. I have seen worse.. a new development on a slope where they started at the top.. after about 60 houses were built the top ones started to slide down the slope. They had big cracks in them and BC (my friend) says there is no way they are going to save them. There were about thirty families living in them and about 30 part finished ones. None were more than two years old. Luckily for the owners the cost is being fully covered including redecorating, but it's still messy and inconvenient for them. Wonder where the Building Inspector was that day? Tim Very little supervision on building sites in my opinion. Prolly because the supervision (If any at all) don't speak Latvian or Polish I wouldn't mind betting if they houses were built by Latvians (whom I've known many) or the Polish, they'd probably be OK. It's the British you have to worry about. dons asbestos trousers |
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Tim S wrote:
R coughed up some electrons that declared: "John" wrote in message ... "dennis@home" wrote in message ... "Tim S" wrote in message ... Despite the problems I'm having with the Bungalow and despite it's pitiful (lack of) foundations, it's doing better than a few 11 year old houses down our road here in Pembury... Just heard that several houses are having to have the entire ground floor slab rectified due to subsidence. The main foundations are fine, but someone didn't prep the slab base properly. Apparantly these houses were built by a few gangs in parallel and it seems that one gang buggered up their lot, but the rest are fine. I have seen worse.. a new development on a slope where they started at the top.. after about 60 houses were built the top ones started to slide down the slope. They had big cracks in them and BC (my friend) says there is no way they are going to save them. There were about thirty families living in them and about 30 part finished ones. None were more than two years old. Luckily for the owners the cost is being fully covered including redecorating, but it's still messy and inconvenient for them. Wonder where the Building Inspector was that day? Tim Very little supervision on building sites in my opinion. Prolly because the supervision (If any at all) don't speak Latvian or Polish I wouldn't mind betting if they houses were built by Latvians (whom I've known many) or the Polish, they'd probably be OK. It's the British you have to worry about. dons asbestos trousers A British (Scottish) uncle of mine built houses and flats in Poland during the 5 years he spent in a German pow camp. They were still looking good when he went back and took a look few years back. |
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"Stuart Noble" wrote in message m... I imagine BCOs are limited to confirming that a particular stage of the job has been completed, but not that it's been done properly. They can't e.g. test the concrete, although I believe they do on major jobs. A mate of mine used to do just that for a living, and said it was a brave man who would raise issues when a fleet of trucks were lined up ready to pour. Easier to go to the pub. He should have got a job more suited to him then (shop assistant?). I would imagine the builder would rather throw away a few truck loads of concrete than have to dig it all out and start again when it fails. That is assuming nobody is killed because it fails in a really bad way. I hope he didn't work on bridges or dams. |
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