Rant Alert: Contractor Prima Donna’s

[FatLazyContractor]

Erm..no - nobody could afford my rates

For the sake of clarification, what rates are we talking about?

[EternalOptimist]

Hi I'm Halo, I'm seducting a curvey

[Halo Jones]

So you survey quantities? Does that mean you count bricks or measure how long things are?

Both.

As well as deal with all the contractual & commercial aspects of the project.

[eek]

For the sake of clarification, what rates are we talking about?

At a guess

[GlenW]

For the sake of clarification, what rates are we talking about?

It's £350/night if I remember correctly.

[Halo Jones]

For the sake of clarification, what rates are we talking about?

Ones you can't afford

Hi I'm Halo, I'm seducting a curvey

[woohoo]

I am a Quantity Surveyor not a Building Surveyor, but assuming you are talking about an internal wall the council won't care, Building Control might if they found out but this is unlikely, your mate is safe unless structural damage occurs due to the works, in which case if it's not all properly calculated, designed & installed you have just violated your buildings insurance.

Thanks for that. Though I'm not sure how the insurance would know that my friend knocked his wall down - could just say its always been like that.

[Halo Jones]

Thanks for that. Though I'm not sure how the insurance would know that my friend knocked his wall down - could just say its always been like that.

If the works caused structural damage a decent building surveyor could tell, also the deeds / plans would show there was a wall there, the other houses in the area may be of the same layout & have the wall, estate agent records from the sale (depending on age)