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get involved: access, environment, BMC / Re: MOVED: 180k cragx Mill Bridge

« Last post by Bonjoy on Today at 01:32:23 pm »

By all means start another thread about the bridge, or about forum behaviour, but please keep it civil.
https://ukbouldering.com/board/index.php/topic,3145.0.html

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get involved: access, environment, BMC / MOVED: 180k cragx Mill Bridge

« Last post by Bonjoy on Today at 01:28:55 pm »

This topic has been moved to the log pile.

https://ukbouldering.com/board/index.php?topic=33901.0

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music, art and culture / Re: Books...

« Last post by Wellsy on Today at 01:13:03 pm »

Yeah it's good isn't it, and very readable. I think it's also an interesting counterpart to the sci-fi themes of the time that were often about unique geniuses who could master anything they encountered through reason and moral fortitude. This is about very ordinary, if at times impressively competent, people encountering things that are very unknowable and I thought that was cool.

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shootin' the shit / Re: House Buying Beta

« Last post by Tom de Gay on Today at 12:37:49 pm »

Could be that he thought underpinning on one side was indicative of a smaller localised issue.

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shootin' the shit / Re: House Buying Beta

« Last post by mr chaz on Today at 12:07:49 pm »

yeah - I'm equally perplexed!

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shootin' the shit / Re: House Buying Beta

« Last post by Paul B on Today at 11:37:04 am »

I can totally see that mechanism, I just don't see why having underpinned one wall and not fixed the issue being different to having underpinned two walls and being in that same situation, hence my question (genuinely interested).

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shootin' the shit / Re: House Buying Beta

« Last post by mr chaz on Today at 11:28:20 am »

When I spoke to builders a few years ago about a potentially attractively priced underpinned property, they advised not to get involved with a house that has been underpinned on more than one side.

I'm interested in the logic behind this if you know it? 

You’re the engineer, so I’m sure you have a good understanding, but thought I’d read previously that part underpinning to correct differential settlement can lead to a reverse of the situation, where the non underpinned bit starts to settle faster.

Depends on a few things including geology, what's driving the movement, its extent, age of building. Consolidation settlement can take a long time (years to decades) so I can see a situation where partial underpinning of a relatively new build that had one side on a good stiff clay and the other on soft alluvial clay could lead to that scenario and an apparent reversal. [totally hypothetical example - not saying this is applicable here in any way!]

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music, art and culture / Re: Books...

« Last post by Duma on Today at 11:25:25 am »

Roadside Picnic

Dead good, worth a read!

Thanks for the reminder Wellsy, really enjoyed this.

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shootin' the shit / Re: House Buying Beta

« Last post by SA Chris on Today at 10:37:45 am »

I wouldn't just walk away, I would be getting a fresh pair of running shoes.

I'm changing that. Go for some shoes with built in mechanical doping. The above sounds dodgy as hell.

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music, art and culture / Re: Anyone seen any good films lately - Part the second

« Last post by TobyD on Today at 10:22:15 am »

Jurassic World: Dominion

This is seriously silly. Ridiculous mash up of self reference and bits of self parody.
However, despite the fact that it's absolute trash, I quite enjoyed it. Many of the action scenes are well constructed and often funny; worth watching if you really like silly dinosaur films.