Posted: Sat Sep 12, 2015 10:35 am
I am currently trying to get the drainage passed and remedial work on manholes done for adoption of same. Problems are the main runs and manholes were done by other guys and the standard of workmanship is not up to standard in my opinion. Managed to get the get the air testing passed ( don't ask ??? )
Loads of work to do on channels, some missing, where there are channels some out of alignment, slippers were put in upside down and had to smash them to get a bung up, after chiselling concrete and grano out of pipe ends,( imagine what they left down/up the pipes? . Benching inadequate, or washed away, lifting eyes not filled, regulating brickwork not pointed and oversized joints. As you'd expect with such shoddy work a blockage occured resulting in 2 x 4metre deep manholes filling up and one overspilling onto the main highway resulting in raw sewerage going down surface water gullies. Got a soup sucker and jetter and we spent all day clearing the blockage. Looking down the manholes i can see 9heavyweight debris in the channels. A disinfecting unit was booked but my boss cancelled saying: will be to costly. Want's me to go down and clear rest out, which i will because my job. The back drop is blocked so the sewerage coming out the main run and free falling right where i would be standing. His solution fill the upstream with water and let the bung go. But with the amount of debris...bricks, the shite benching washed down there, terran pieces from manhole lid covering, half bats and snots from the 10 course of regulating brickwork ( yes 10 ) cleaning rags, not to mention the raw sewage, i reckon that to be a bad idea. I told him it needs a proper cleaning team with catchers at the channels for debris and jetted manhole by manhole or a blockage will occur somewhere downstream resulting in a costly road closure ( main fast by pass ) and dig down. Nope " get it done and cut out the step irons." He's obsessed with the steps being cut out before remedial works are completed. Anyway i had a argument with him about it all. I know steps have to be removed but i remember it being on manholes less than i metre deep ??? Our building control guy wants any regulating brickwork done with just bricks, no tiles etc: i'm watching guys cutting loads of slants by using one foot on the brick, surely that's not on? Anyway it is the worst workmanship i have ever seen in my 40 odd years as a drainlayer. Comments welcome :;):
Loads of work to do on channels, some missing, where there are channels some out of alignment, slippers were put in upside down and had to smash them to get a bung up, after chiselling concrete and grano out of pipe ends,( imagine what they left down/up the pipes? . Benching inadequate, or washed away, lifting eyes not filled, regulating brickwork not pointed and oversized joints. As you'd expect with such shoddy work a blockage occured resulting in 2 x 4metre deep manholes filling up and one overspilling onto the main highway resulting in raw sewerage going down surface water gullies. Got a soup sucker and jetter and we spent all day clearing the blockage. Looking down the manholes i can see 9heavyweight debris in the channels. A disinfecting unit was booked but my boss cancelled saying: will be to costly. Want's me to go down and clear rest out, which i will because my job. The back drop is blocked so the sewerage coming out the main run and free falling right where i would be standing. His solution fill the upstream with water and let the bung go. But with the amount of debris...bricks, the shite benching washed down there, terran pieces from manhole lid covering, half bats and snots from the 10 course of regulating brickwork ( yes 10 ) cleaning rags, not to mention the raw sewage, i reckon that to be a bad idea. I told him it needs a proper cleaning team with catchers at the channels for debris and jetted manhole by manhole or a blockage will occur somewhere downstream resulting in a costly road closure ( main fast by pass ) and dig down. Nope " get it done and cut out the step irons." He's obsessed with the steps being cut out before remedial works are completed. Anyway i had a argument with him about it all. I know steps have to be removed but i remember it being on manholes less than i metre deep ??? Our building control guy wants any regulating brickwork done with just bricks, no tiles etc: i'm watching guys cutting loads of slants by using one foot on the brick, surely that's not on? Anyway it is the worst workmanship i have ever seen in my 40 odd years as a drainlayer. Comments welcome :;):
