Grrr!, bloody council

polystyrene is that strong, not sure I understand exactly why it doesnt break into pieces. I guess one layer would have broken down and floated away laterally.
I understand hydraulic pressure is greatly underestimated though
The Range Rover? will make a great convertible, its somebodies win and they arent flood damaged
 
robfosters said:
It's one of those places where a percentage of the flats have had to be sold to housing associations, so someone who has payed £250k for a 2 bed flat is living next to someone who has got the same flat for life for £130 a week, usually payed for by housing benefit.
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Err lovely, welcome to your skanky crackhead neighbour for life! Why would anybody want to actually buy a place in a development like that?? :confused:
 
Maccapacca said:
Whoever hit the main or broke it or didn't install it properly will pay for it through insurance. If it's been sub contracted out once or twice then more than likely the client will pick up the shortfall in insurance. That's why you have to make sure if you sub contract out your sub contractor has the same insurance cover and wording as yours.

The sub contractors for water have to be approved by WRAS which will have minium insurance requirements and potentially bonds that need to be entered into before the work commences.

Basically the insurance industry will pay and then premiums will be adjusted to suit
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I think the water main is quite old and in need of a complete overhaul, they are constant getting leaks and there is a main pumping station there as well.

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I thought the water got under the polystyrene and acted like a life raft :eek:
 
Orionaut said:
Err lovely, welcome to your skanky crackhead neighbour for life! Why would anybody want to actually buy a place in a development like that?? :confused:
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All new build developments have that rule. They can only get planning permission if they sell a percentage to housing associations. However, not all are rented out. Nowadays, many that are released to housing associations are sold under shared ownership and other programs. This is important or it would just be too expensive for people in and around London to ever own their own home.
 
Mynight said:
Why would you use polystyrene in a car park? :confused:

Wonder why they couldn't turn off the water even a mains pipe cant chuck out that much in a short space of time surely. Unless it went off when they weren't around.
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I'm not sure. A pipe 12 inches in diameter containing water under quite high pressure could throw out water at an enormous rate. I wouldn't be surprised if a 12 inch water mains could throw out 10,000 gallons per minute.
 
silversurfer said:
polystyrene is that strong, not sure I understand exactly why it doesnt break into pieces. I guess one layer would have broken down and floated away laterally.
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Going by the photo, I think the blocks of polystyrene are surrounded on 3 sides by concrete. If so, the main point would be the compressive strength of polystyrene, which is quite a bit. I wouldn't have bet on it being enough to resist being crushed between the water and the cars, but it looks like I would have lost that bet.
 
Angilion said:
Going by the photo, I think the blocks of polystyrene are surrounded on 3 sides by concrete. If so, the main point would be the compressive strength of polystyrene, which is quite a bit. I wouldn't have bet on it being enough to resist being crushed between the water and the cars, but it looks like I would have lost that bet.
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Im thinking the concrete/tarmac topping spreads rhe force our over such a large area of thebpolystrene it can resist
 
Some polystyrene sheets are pretty dense and strong ,more so when stacked up like they have been
 
Maccapacca said:
It's a cheap void filler. Once the concrete has cured it serves no purpose at all except as a nice home for rats
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Pffft, builidng control made me put 6 inches of stupid stuff under our concrete floors to comply with building regs

Meant I had to dig the flors our an extra 6 inches to get the polystryene between the concrete and the hardcore,

Not nice when you are doing 170 square metres by hand and wheelbarrow :(
 
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