On this job i was on...

[acechadwick]

Wirral Borough Council had a new swimming pool built. It was to be used for training Olympic hopefuls and other swimming clubs.
The tender went to a firm that had never done a swimming pool before (but hey we will have a crack at it)
Anyhow the centre closed in June 2007 to reopen in January 2008.
When they came to inspect the swimming pool they found it only had 5 lanes.
Someone had counted wrong. Well they all began blaming each other and this dragged on for another year while they worked out the cost of widening it to put another lane in and eventually...in January 2009 it reopened only to reshut straight away because....and I cannot believe I am writing this....someone....forgot....to put plugholes in the showers in the changing rooms.
Yessum....millions of our councils money went into this....oh and the Icelandic banks....another roaring success :laugh:

[flowjoe]

The tender went to a firm that had never done a swimming pool before (but hey we will have a crack at it)
Anyhow the centre closed in June 2007 to reopen in January 2008.
When they came to inspect the swimming pool they found it only had 5 lanes.

Hey, people could drown in there !

It is common place for swimming pools to close one or two lanes during the dryer months in the interest of saving water consumption.



Edited By flowjoe on 1241217621

[Tony McC]

I'm project managing a job at the moment in one of Cheshire's most desirable locations. The client is a bit concerned about an area of garden that was permanently boggy and holding water on the surface, so while the lads are busy laying setts to his driveway, he asked if we'd have a look at this boggy spot. He told us that it'd only been like that since he'd had a team of landscapers in 18 months ago to bollocks-up his rear patio with dirt-cheap Injun Sandstone and re-turf that side of the house.

I thought it was a bit suspect as the ground is pure sand, overlying red sandstone. The ground we excavated for the sett paving hits the sand at only 300mm down, and there's a delph (a sort of small disused overgrown quarry) in his back garden that's a dry as a bone: so how come this one patch is boggy?

The lads tracked over the 10T digger and 150mm down, they hit decking sheets. These useless, clueless, shit-fer-brains landscapers had put down decking sheets while they barrowed-in sand and flags and whathaveyou needed to build the eyesore patio, and then, on completion, simply buried them with a bit of topsoil before turfing over the lot!

[GB_Groundworks]

wilmslow? i wondered where my boards where haha no only joking but those ground conditions sound the same as the job we are on in wilmslow.

gi