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For those who cannot work out social distancing. This is two meters apart!


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    mapj1:

    Slightly surprised to see no tail of Green and yellow in the gas box.


    . . .

    It is the same in the gas box at my house - no earthing connector visible, which occasionally causes comment from meter inspectors and installers. Actually the earth bonding is just on the other side of the wall, which I understand meets regulations. Even so it would be more reassuring to poke the wire through the wall with the pipe and make the bonding there.
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    davezawadi (David Stone):

    In my experience, most adults cannot estimate 2 metres with any accuracy at all! Most technical people can!


    It does not help when the Imperial brigade short-change us, as they usually do. The describe the social distance as six feet, which is distinctly short measure. Occasionally one sees 6 ft 6 in, which is closer, near as makes no difference. In fact 2 metres to the nearest inch is 6 ft 7 in.


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    Denis McMahon:
    mapj1:

    Slightly surprised to see no tail of Green and yellow in the gas box.


    . . .

    It is the same in the gas box at my house - no earthing connector visible, which occasionally causes comment from meter inspectors and installers. Actually the earth bonding is just on the other side of the wall, which I understand meets regulations. Even so it would be more reassuring to poke the wire through the wall with the pipe and make the bonding there.


    I've compromised on mine - the bond is inside (at the point of entry - where it ideally should be), but I've put a label in the gas meter box saying there is a bond and where it is.


      - Andy.


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    Gas tight cable entry to the meter box?


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    AJJewsbury:

    . . .

    I've compromised on mine - the bond is inside (at the point of entry - where it ideally should be), but I've put a label in the gas meter box saying there is a bond and where it is.


      - Andy.




    That's a good idea! I think I'll do that myself.


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    davezawadi (David Stone):

    In my experience, most adults cannot estimate 2 metres with any accuracy at all! Most technical people can!


    One solution I`ve found helps a little bit when folk state "I don`t know hor long 2m is!"

    I reply "It`s about the length of a coffin"


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    ebee:
    davezawadi (David Stone):

    In my experience, most adults cannot estimate 2 metres with any accuracy at all! Most technical people can!


    One solution I`ve found helps a little bit when folk state "I don`t know hor long 2m is!"

    I reply "It`s about the length of a coffin"




    Reminds me of when with my County Councillor Hat on, I was objecting to a planning proposal for 50 houses which were going to have their foul sewer connected to the local combined foul and surface water sewer system. The existing pipe was 9 inches in diameter and already had over 2,500 properties connected to it. We used to have the occasional fountains coming out of the manhole lifting eyes.


    During my allowed time at the Planning Committee meeting I had gone prepared... My intention had been to purchase a 9-inch clay pipe coupling, but too expensive, so cut the top off a pvc flower pot which was 9-inch diameter. As I was describing  the drainage system, I said, "And for those of you who do not know what 9-inches looks like" and waved the plastic rim up in the air.  It got my point across and the Application was refused.  

    Clive


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    I'd always understood that drain capacity, like building techniques and indeed anything to do with building regs in general,  could not be blockers for the purpose of planning permission. It may be demanded that the the developer widens roads,  or installs new drains, as a condition, and that may be prohibitively expensive of course, but not a blocker. It may be that not all councils know this, or rules have very recently changed.


    In a similar way you cannot use the fact that a radio antenna may be used to cause interference, or attract lightning,ectoplasm and  ghosts or spread swine fever,  in a planning proposal, only how it looks, and if it matches the building around it.
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    You could well be right there.  Due to the topography of the site, there were two obvious ways for the sewers to run. The favoured one was to pump the sewer to a convenient point to connect into the existing sewer which was overloaded. The planned location of the pumping station had an "exclusion zone " around it which intruded into the rear gardens of existing property and would exclude even existing constructions within those properties. This would make sale of those difficult. The other option was gravity; which is very reliable (well gravity is, perhaps not the way it is used) but this required laying pipes through existing property. What didn't help was that Welsh Water had drawn up a plan with a strong recommendation that the gravity option be used - they simply stated the connection point. Then their engineer went on maternity leave and somehow another plan was submitted by Welsh Water which lacked the connection detail. The refused application went to Appeal and this was granted Anyway, the required property which had been rented out for some time became vacant and then up for sale. It was bought by a mystery buyer which turned out to be the developer. Once the pipes were laid, they sold the bungalow. Welsh Water also determined that there were some pinch-points further away from the site and these were conditioned for the developer to pay the upgrade costs. Had they used the pumped rote, there would have been a few hundred metres of under sized pipework.


    As an aside to all this, the 2,500 properties quoted came from my request to Welsh Water as to how many properties were connected to that sewer in 2004. They did NOT know, but told me to do what they do and count the properties on a plan. They then gave me a pile of A2 sized plans to dot and count. This because having requested as a member of the public to see the planning file, I discovered that a fax from Welsh Water stating that "Existing public sewerage cannot accommodate further flows" 2002.10.01 Babtie Welsh Water Fax A4.pdf  Had been filed in an Application file for the same site (a belt and braces type of thing) and thus not presented  to the Planning Committee. This meant that whilst I at the Public Inquiry could ask about such issues of sewer capacity, Flintshire's barrister could not, since it had not been part of the original refusal.


    So after counting 2,500 properties and doing some other homework, I attended the first Public Inquiry on this developers previous application. This got me some local publicity and got me elected to the local Community Council a month or so later. Fast forward to just before the 2011 Planning Committee Meeting, and I asked Flintshire County Council (I must have been doing the right things, because I was elected as a County Councillor in 2008.

    (Apologies if this a little disjointed, I'm trying to do about three things at once here!)

    Clive
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    I drove to work over the Batheaston Toll Bridge this morning and dropped my pound into the plastic bowl on the end of the piece of wood the gate keeper was holding, I’m not sure how long the piece of wood is, but it seemed appropriate.

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