Tuesday, 28 April 2015

A Moving Experience

Well, we got back from our holiday late on Saturday evening. And we had to move house on Sunday. I was too tired to press the keys and type by the time we'd finished yesterday! Well, not finished, but we'd moved up the road everything we needed to be living and eating and washing and able to dress for work. Got the other half to do next wet weekend day and with a bank holiday coming up that's probably guaranteed... But we are now ready for Gary to disconnect the electricity at no notice in the next week or so. Mind you, while we were away: Plusnet failed to move our broadband as requested ---- Alan's new mobile phone provider failed to switch his new service to his existing phone number ---- Southern Water failed to trace the stopcock. We're going to start invoicing them for our time in resolving all these basic services they're failing to provide. On a separate note, there are new H&S regulations which came into play on 6 April and we are currently having a fairly active discussion with our architect about what's actually required - his H&S consultant is advising that we need to do lots of expensive stuff - surprise!!! (not). We've read the regs and the HSE guidance and that doesn't appear to support this. I wonder who is correct....

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  1. The new CDM regs I assume. Tell the builder to finish the job in less than 30 days.

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  2. Yeah, thanks John, that would be nice! The job is actually hovering around the 500 man-days that is the alternative break point but our contractor is far from sure it will be under and not unreasonably doesn't want to push his luck with the new regs. Alan's hoping to wrestle the answer into the ground with the architect today...

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