Ooh, don’t say that, I’m scared stiff I shall wake up one morning and the kitchen’s dropped down a hole! :shock:
Why are these men like it, Meg? In my experience, they either try to pull the wool over our eyes, tell outright lies, don’t turn up when they say they will, don’t phone when they say they will, and generally let us down over and over.
I can certainly understand why you dread anything else going wrong.
would that be a ‘sink’ hole by any chance??:-D:-D [kitchen sink??]
Yes. Exactly!
First off be gentle with Gummy his cricket team has just been humiliated by a bunch of Poms, sadly i would probably send whats left of the mansion into oblivion, on the bright side you could fill the void with water and let punters have a plodge, though im not sure the smell of wet Beddie willl be that appealing.
How about shearing the dawg and you could knit Beddie sox for sale in your emporium. ?
Aha. I knew you’d come up trumps. I’ll knit the first pair just for you. (I did bath Nellie first - honest).
The mysterious case of the council tip
This is a true story – x heart and hope to die!
I good friend of mine once lived in a delightful Georgian house in the inner suburbs of Bristol. He now lives in a more modern house in the outer suburbs of Bristol.
He had inherited the first house from his parents. He noticed one day cracks appearing in the ceiling and walls and door lentils sloping. He employed an architect who advised foundation problems – see council - which he did – they SAID not our problem – private house owners problem.
Not satisfied he employed an historical surveyor – who discovered that the house had been built on an old council tip – probably illegally. He then employed a lawyer and challenged the current council who lost the case in court. Houses should not be allowed to be built on old council tips.
To cut a long story short the council had to pay all internal and external repair bills and shore the house up and insert cement foundation!
The morale of the tale – make absolutely sure you know what’s underneath you – there are sink holes everywhere!
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Thanks for those reassuring words Gummy, I feel a whole lot better now!
I think it more sensible to get away from here, but trouble is, who would buy it?
I’ve got a senior engineer coming out next week to waste more time doing yet ANOTHER report.
There was a huge landfull site behind where I used to live.
It was not worked anymore, and had all grassed over. ‘Chimneys’ had been sunk down through the soil in various places to let the gasses out, and it couldn’t be built on for 100 years I was told. It is used for grazing sheep in the meantime.
Oh what a sad snobby word, seems the entire cast talk down about building workers and it is beneath them having such low cast in their house. Then I would feel just the same if it was school teachers, only more.
While not a building worker I have renovated all my properties myself, rather sad reading on here that men do not seem to be men anymore and get others in. Women are not included in that, but I did notice a lady in the village building a first class flint wall sporting just a bikini two years back.
Which word are you referring to DOE?
Who has said anything about builders ‘being below them?’
Good for you doing your own renovation, but I’m afraid dealing with subsidence is not something I can remedy myself!
nope quite right Mups - you tell him - ya need a man with a revolving cement lorry:-D
Hi Mups,
I was responding to reading earlier postings. The manner in which some, assumed pen-pushers viewed manual workers.
Of course I was not talking DIY sink holes or under-pinning , nasty, the latter being common when clay dries out.
Good luck with whatever your project is, you have my sympathy. My wife and I should move but it is far to nice here living on the slopes of the South Downs National Park. Becoming totally impractical as we both suffer painful disabilities , but if it all finally gets to much I guess we can both jump down the well. That sounds far better than a care home, ain’t the type.
That’s alright then. http://yoursmiles.org/tsmile/talk/t1109.gif
Thought you was suggesting I should be able to rebuild my house!
The saga continues. The insurance people are sending out a senior engineer on Friday to do yet another report.
Meanwhile, nothing has been done whatsoever, and the cracks are spreading and getting wider.
I do hope someone comes to look for me if I disappear down a big hole!
Oh no will it never end…
I’m so tired of it Meg. I have to keep telling myself it WILL get resolved soon.
Well, so far this morning the new senior surveyor hasn’t turned up. He was supposed to be here at 9.30 and its gone 10 now and no sign of him, no phone call - nothing. Is it any wonder I get so angry with these blokes?
I have got an opticians appointment later, and I shall just have to go, so it’s his own fault if he turns up and I’m not here.
How many minutes out of his day would it take to call me and let me know what’s happening!!
God, what a nightmare !
Have you tried phoning him ?
Just not bloomin fair !
I’ve done better than that Patsy, I phoned his boss, but even he can’t get hold of him. (or so he says).
you don’t think you’ve developed an unsavoury reputation as a tradesman beater do you??:!::!:
Watson the file on unsavoury customers please!!