To the builders out there
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What is the stupidest thing a building inspector has asked you to do to get the house how they would like it.
When working on the last house I built, the building inspector came out to inspect the foundations before we filled them with concrete.
The site was on a slope and at the top end the soil was only 8inches deep, straight onto bed-rock. in other places we just dug down until we hit the bedrock 24 inches in some places.
The building inspector asked us to CUT OUT the bedrock untill it reached 14 inches in depth total. This would have been a strech of about 15m, ito Granite. Our response was "why?" he said that foundations on our plans were to go to 14 inches.
We laughed and asked if he was taking the piss, we had to cut out granite that had been sat there for millions of years without moving and fill it back in with concrete - in the end we didnt as he was eventually convinced that maybe the granite could have been slightly harder than the concrete we would be pouring in and we ripped the piss out of him as clearly for someone who should know this, wasn't very clued up on Geology.
Anyone else had any rediculous requests?
When working on the last house I built, the building inspector came out to inspect the foundations before we filled them with concrete.
The site was on a slope and at the top end the soil was only 8inches deep, straight onto bed-rock. in other places we just dug down until we hit the bedrock 24 inches in some places.
The building inspector asked us to CUT OUT the bedrock untill it reached 14 inches in depth total. This would have been a strech of about 15m, ito Granite. Our response was "why?" he said that foundations on our plans were to go to 14 inches.
We laughed and asked if he was taking the piss, we had to cut out granite that had been sat there for millions of years without moving and fill it back in with concrete - in the end we didnt as he was eventually convinced that maybe the granite could have been slightly harder than the concrete we would be pouring in and we ripped the piss out of him as clearly for someone who should know this, wasn't very clued up on Geology.
Anyone else had any rediculous requests?
I had to put a bay of concrete 1 metre down, 1 metre wide, under the wall to support a bay 1 metre deep and two metres wide. Except the total structure was twelve courses of two-inch cavity wall, with a timber bay window with a sloping lead roof on it. It took six cube of concrete to make a base for a construction weighing maybe half a tonne, that was also tied in to the ten inch thick reinforced floor.
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