A recent thread re: damp reminded me of some tanking to the single skin "lean to kitchen" (now demolished) that a previous owner of my house had installed.They had used cloth potato sacks all around the bottom of the kitchen wall behind the dry lining ... neat, I wish I'd taken a picture.Other choice work was the woodwork treatment ... pasted newspaper to old oak beams ... or maybe they just liked the effect ... it seemed to keep the buggers in though.And also a small section of medium density blockwork (say 1 m2) repair (above a window) to a 18" rubble filled wall supported on a small timber lintel nailed to another small one nailed to the nearest rotten floor joist. The lintels had no support at either end. Unsurprisingly it all fell down with a a little "coaxing".Any one else care to share some bodges found?TIA,Alex.

I saw a house where all the lintels were completely rotten, they wereall wood, and all were shorter (!) than the width they were pretendingto span. So lots of not particularly well supported brickwork there.Then there was the pubilc restaurant with bell wire dangling over thetable supplying the lights on the wall.NT

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bigcat 21 years ago

People who make no effort at all to adhere to either basic safety standards or the law wont suddenly change their tune because of part p. It really has no effect on the worst offenders.

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The Natural Philosopher 21 years ago

Yup. Its like speed cameras. Gets all the basically law abiding motorissts with licences, taxed and insured and traceable vehicles, and fails to get the odd hooligan in a stolen car wih no licence, insurance or MOT....who represent a far far greater risk.

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Andrew McKay 21 years ago

Good analysis. It's the same with the congestion charge in London I imagine. Honest people get penalised, those who habitually break the law.....

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