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luutzu said:
The engineer told us that yea, 100mm would be alright, just that builders and concretors, when they read 120 they'll cut it thin to 110 or 100 anyway so he spec 120 else they go to 80. Maybe he has a point, who knows.
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He does not have a point. The engineers job is to specify, not to guess what the concretor will do. This is why the world is going to crap, the concretor charges for 120mm and only supplies 100mm,
with the aid of the engineer facilitating the fraud of a 20% rip off of the customer. One thing for sure, that same engineer would only specify 100mm for his own slab, because he does not like being ripped off himself, but it is alright for you to be ripped off.
 
Macquack said:
He does not have a point. The engineers job is to specify, not to guess what the concretor will do. This is why the world is going to crap, the concretor charges for 120mm and only supplies 100mm,
with the aid of the engineer facilitating the fraud of a 20% rip off of the customer. One thing for sure, that same engineer would only specify 100mm for his own slab, because he does not like being ripped off himself, but it is alright for you to be ripped off.
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yea, very true. Somehow I didn't see it that way before. Could be because we subbied every part of the job and always paid for the concrete so they always add to spec. BUt yea for those who don't owner-built, they'll get ripped off.

I have some experience, not much, but some, in the building trade and it's surprising how every trade just subbied their work out to more trades.

A concretor don't do the setting out, or the formwork. Just pour and level.

My brother recently called a couple of bricklayers and they want him to get a surveyor in, again, to set out the exact building. He said there's already four points marking the boundary, we've further staked out the building with those H markers and nail. Just re-string the lines.

Nope. We have to put a nail on the dot where he is to lay the brick. All four nails. If he is to do it he'll charge an extra 30 cents a brick.

Good way to not be responsible. Not sure about getting a job though.
 
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basilio said:
A subtle joke ?
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There is room at the top they are telling you stilllll
But first you must learn how to smile as you killlll
If you want to live like the folks on the hilllll.

A working class hero is something to be.
 
basilio said:
Nice touch.

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I surprised Bas. I thought you would be above such made up tripe. This is the sort of nonsense that, unfortunately, some of my more gullible facebook friends forward to everyone in their Facebook contact list, several times per week. On a par with the pretty little girl dying of cancer and wants to get 1m hits before she dies. That particular story has been going around in various formats on the net for at least the last 10 years and has been associated with various named airlines or like this one an unnamed airline.

Do you really think that happened?
 
No... Bellenuit. :rolleyes:
Yes it was certainly just a story. I'm quite sure it was made up to entertain lots of people with the theme of the Rich Xitch getting her brilliant comeuppance when she tried to pull rank.

But this is a thread for (subtle) humour and I thought it definitely fitted the bill.:2twocents
 
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"With an election pending it is important that the rest of the world know if Australians would recognise a policy if they saw it. We wish them luck in their search as we have had none."
 
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