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A 50 year warranty is largely meaningless unless it is backed by a bond with an insurance company. Will the company still be trading. In 50 years time I will have received a couple of letters from the King if I am not dead. I doubt I will be living in the same house. Such a long guarantee...

A normal "under hand" contract is for six years. If it "under seal" it is for twelve. The wording of the contract will decide which.

It is largely a matter of luck which sections of the slope decide to move at one time. The crack could have happened to form under the house and unless it had flexible timber foundation so the ground could move below it or a shallow concrete raft then the house could have split. I would guess...

Who decides if a defect is covered by a guarantee. A one man band is unlikely to be a member of an insurance scheme so they will decide if it is covered. But it is fairly easy to take someone to the small claims court. If you do not take the time to defend yourself, and not work that day, you...

Maybe @petermillard would have more pros and cons of an isometric layout

I have had a MFT for a couple of months. I am not an experienced wood worker. I think that an isometric layout may give you different clamping options. If the the stock covers a column of holes then a clamp may not reach easily from the next column. With alternate rows at half the distance you...

Just a guess but maybe it is the connections. The connections in wood may allow more movement than a metal frame especially if it is welded. Because the joint may move a little bit, less vibration will be transferred through the joint. If less vibration is transferred then there is more of it to...

The telephone line that was 20m out of line is likely to have been laid in that position or the whole hillside has slid down towards the valley bottom. Telephone cables are not very stretchy neither are the ducts they are normally laid in. If the ground moves then the cable has to get longer or...

11kV is not particularly big but I take your point that they can not turn at right angles. This cable was installed when the area was just a 100m diameter area of gravel, the cable will have no problem with bending around that. It was being left for six months to settle into the marsh below...

All you need to do is pay the airfare and the job will be done in 30 minutes.

Could do. But then you have to have a place to store the foot rest and laptop. You would also be relying on having an office chair that you could jack up. With a conventional desk height you can use any chair that is comfortable for the time you spend in it. The laptop is stored where you...

As builts are often produced after a project is completed when the contractors and junior RE staff have gone. The people who are left just want to wrap up the job and leave. The drawings are not up dated as the works progress because there are always something to do now. When the job slows...

You should treat all cables as live. As other people have noted the cable could be connected to something that only comes on now and then, with controls that draw little current or are non electrical. You could also have a cable that is connected to the mains at one end but goes nowhere, when...

The ones we used were metric. The only place I have used imperial was in one new building in a nuclear power station in about 1989. Why oh why. It was a big f*** because we were not used to that weird system.

I have not seen a chain since technical collage.

I have used them a few times but they came in after I stopped setting out. The first site I worked on we used a Hilger and Watts 20" theodolite plus steel tapes. We got in an EDM so set out the base for a gantry where we could not easily tape to the bases. The jobs after that I used a total...

Was it a robot or who did you get to chain for you.

If you are sitting at a desk it will be lower than a bench that you would stand at. The standard desk height appears to be about 710 (but should suit you if you are building it). If you were to choose a bench height of 825 you could cover the desk with ply supported at this level so it could...

That's the way I got rid of my old shed plus a small tree. The stump took a few burns to disappear. You can get a hot fire going in one of those bins because of the air flow. Which means you can get rid of a lot of timber in a smaller space. But if you get it too ho;, which I did, it was...

If he chops off the leaves etc now and stack to dry until the beginning of November then have a bonfire! Plus all the rotten wood. 5th is on a Saturday this year so a good opportunity to burn stuff when people expect smoke.