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jema Downsizer Moderator
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dpack
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jema Downsizer Moderator
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dpack
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Mistress Rose
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jema Downsizer Moderator
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dpack
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jema Downsizer Moderator
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dpack
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jema Downsizer Moderator
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Mistress Rose
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dpack
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Mistress Rose wrote: |
As there is such a steep drop from your house to the marsh, I wonder if they just bulldozed the slope to make a flat area for the house and didn't compact it. |
they might have done it with a wheelbarrow and a pair of boots
the first rule of peakerland is never ask about peakerland
i will share and if he ever reads this he will know his lawyers could never make defamation stick.
a long time ago when i was between access and foundation at art school i had a summer to fill and wanted to get fit/earn money
working for a chum of a chum doing a bit of drystone repairs and foundations for school portacabins was fun but after that i worked on peakerland for a short while
new build, small, T shaped, 10 house site on a slope
wow
as it was to be a tarmac space for 6 cars, extending the lowest drop off slope by a car park length did not seem too wrong even if the thing had no chance of becoming stable
steeper slope than jema's , foundation excavation spoil(mostly clay)with some carp
no compaction until tarmac
the underming a neighbours house to dig a drive, badly and big style, on a steep slope, over a weekend when i was not there was a step too far, i had a hissy fit leading to structural engineering professor, trashing the end wall of his rubbish newbuild house as part of the anchors for two wagons of scaff and acrows to create a brace for a tall gable end that was sitting on the edge of a bit of very wet clay, when i finished clipping it i told him i was off, dont bother paying me what you owe for that
next door had already started to slide and their insurance company was rather fierce
the remedial concrete and rebar etc the prof insisted on to stabilise their house got done, not by me but i did eyeball it out of interest
second rule of peakerland, dont ask
i was only there a couple of weeks and there are more stories
11000v anyone?
calling them cowboys is unfair to cowboys |
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jema Downsizer Moderator
Joined: 28 Oct 2004 Posts: 28098 Location: escaped from Swindon
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