cavity wall insulation

[Mark]

Hi Just had a bloke up to inspect the house for cavity wall insulation and he says that they can only do the front and back wall and not the gable wall as I have a garage at the side of the house. Why can they not do it? Health and bloody Safety. Not allowed to stand on the garage roof.

So next time the wife wants the outside off the window painted I can tell her that health and safety won't let me do it. :-)

So is it worth while just doing the front and back of a semi for £125? Company is employed by electricity supplier.

Mark

[Kevin]

Can they not do the gable wall from inside the garage ?

[Mark]

no because they would only be able to do the bottom of the wall and the upstairs part would be un insulated and cause problems Mark

[Andy Cap]

I had the front of my house done from the inside because I didn't want the very narrow mortar joints messed up.

Of course it depends on your decorations and as mine was just emulsioned, I simply went over it again.

Andy

[Dave Liquorice]

Or even, shock horror, use some approved access method, like scaffolding or a cherry picker.

Typical of things these days, particulary installation offers. Anything slightly out of the ordinary and they "can't do it".

[Phil Anthropist]

What's the roof made of, corrugated asbestos? If it is felt on boards they should be able to work off that. Try another firm.

[Phil L]

Utter garbage. The company I worked for did jobs like this every day of the week, we even walked across conservatory rooves, put ladders on sloping rooves to reach higher parts of the walls and /occasionally/ got scaffold erected. The bloke is talking through his arse, get another firm out, almost all of them have these grants to give away.

[Tricia]

I phoned up EDF Energy about what the contracter said and the person from EDF Energy said she had never heard such rubbish. Even she suggested a cherry picker. She is going to report to the project manager and they will get back in touch with me.

Mark

[Mark]

I phoned up EDF Energy about what the contracter said and the person from EDF Energy said she had never heard such rubbish. Even she suggested a cherry picker. She is going to report to the project manager and they will get back in touch with me.

Mark

[Dave Liquorice]

It may be but H&S regulations now state that if working above about 6' you must have safety rails and a harness! Haven't you noticed how $ky woks are all now installed at ground floor ceiling level not up at the eves like they used to be.

[Guy King]

The message from "Dave Liquorice" contains these words:

By blokes wearing climbing hats while up a ladder about 5' high.

[Weatherlawyer]

Any chance of a translation to English?

[Paul Herber]

Pot, kettle, black see your posts to uk.sci.weather

[Weatherlawyer]

If you want a translation you only have to ask.

[Dave Liquorice]

Look at houses

that have recently installed satellite television dishes for the service from Sky

that are at the boundary between the ground floor ceiling and first floor floor.

Older installations would have the dish installed up at eves level or even on chimneys.

Clear enough?

[Mark]

Hi the roof they are afraid to climb upon