A lying customer. I gave him loads of chances to tell me what he actually wanted when I started the job. He has done nothing but lie.
It was quite obvious from the start that he was going to be running a garage repair service from the new domestic garage he had planning permission for.
He called me this afternoon to see if I can alter the installation cert that uses the words "car ramp" on circuit 1 as it will not pass the BCO's inspection as it's a domestic garage.
Tell him to go f*ck himself. It's not worth it.
I'm aware of hobbyists having car ramps, normally old and decrepit though!
I take it he wanted the wiring installed but not the ramps quite yet?
That sounds like further bollocks. I've known people with a domestic garage with a hydraulic lift. Being damn near silent the neighbours don't have cause for complaint so I can't see why the planners would object.
No but it is a flag that I might look out for if I were a BCO.
Doesn't really matter BCO are not planning.
They may inform the planning office but they have no say in what premisses are actually used for if they meet the building regs.
Having a ramp probably isn't covered in building regs in the first place.
There nothing to stop me putting a ramp in my garage other than floor loading and height, the first can be fixed with some more concrete the later would be a problem.
when I built my garage in the mid 1960, I pu in an inspection pit. Far cheaper than an electric ramp - and the roof didn't need to be so high.
We are in the middle of converting a room (bathroom to wetroom) if we do not tell the housing officer (not the planning department) about each and every change (and get a warrant for same) the fine is £5000 [yes five thousand pounds]a day { I take it that's per day until you have ripped it all out again} . Lying or even fudging things on these types of documents is NOT worth it.
True, and if it's constructed properly you can deal with heavier vehicles that would exceed the GVW of the common Bradbury type lifts. Did you not find the one drawback being that they often end up with several inches of smelly water at the bottom that needs to be pumped out each time?
There used to be at least one other drawback: people falling into inspection pits.
Has he not made his bed and now has to lie on it. He can apply for retrospective permission. I guess he is trying to avoid business rate, which I can have some sympathy with. When I ran my business I had to use rooms part time only to avoid this or the business would not have been viable, Thus a bed was always in the store room grin. Brian
A lot of people have hobbies which include doing up old vehicles and then showing them around the various shows, so I guess it depends on how good a lyre he is. If there are more than one ramp then he might be in trouble. I blame all these TV shows on make overs of properties and doing up old cars myself. Nobody ever seems to look at the practicalities and costs. One thing is for sure, if he starts using noisy tools on a Sunday the neighbours will be onto the council in no time flat. Brian
Morgan owners ??
BCO's and planners generally don't talk to each other, especially if they occupy separate buildings.
And suffocating from welding gas and other heavier-than-air fumes / gasses.
Oh, and being less use for working on three wheelers. ;-)
Cheers, T i m
Messerschmitt KR200 owners (if we are talking the number of wheels, rather than the owner profiles)? (Tiger 500's would be ok). ;-)
TBF, there isn't a whole load of stuff to do from the underside of a Schmitt and you can generally easily get to stuff from the side (or lift it up one side etc). ;-)
You can access the engine bay from 3 sides and easier if you take the 'boot' off.
Cheers, T i m
yes, I did line the pit with a polythene sheet, but it must have gor a hole in it. Still, a cheap pump from Proops dealt witn it easily enough.
Only if they didn't but the boards back on top. Mind you - we didn't have "Working at Height Regulations in those days. They'd robably insist on a guard rail round the pit.
"Bed among the Lentils" was an Alan Bennett play; you can't have been the only one.
Mate of mine had this problem too, tried fancy heavy duty rubber 2 pack liner but of course it just bubbled off.
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