Superb Construction

[Ebeam]

My son sent me this picture from his hotel room. Spot the deliberate mistake!

 

[Notch7]

Is it the carpet?

 

[Ebeam]

Is it the carpet?

Give that man a cigar!

 

[ktuludays]

Double whammy, sockets where door is going and the trim. Poor planning there.

 

[JohnW2]

Double whammy, sockets where door is going and the trim. Poor planning there.

As with the cases one hears of (one of which I personally witnessed) of the only entrances into a room being totally bricked up during a new build (and then plastered - totally concealing the existence of the room!) one has to ask some very serious questions about the sanity, intelligence and mentality of the person who actually did it - no matter what the plans might indicate!

Kind Regards, John

 

[bernardgreen]

the only entrances into a room being totally bricked up during a new build

Maybe the site manager was asleep in the room at the time.

 

[JohnW2]

Maybe the site manager was asleep in the room at the time.

Maybe!

I'm sure I will have previously told the story of the case I witnessed, 50+ years ago, but (for newcomers!) ..... It was a brand new hospital, and it was a couple of years after it had (partially) opened that the Theatre Superintendent realised that she was 'missing' an operating theatre (they were numbered something like 1,2,3,4,6). It took a lot of scratching heads over plans, and ultimately a man with a sledgehammer, to resolve the issue - and not only was the missing theatre there, but it was totally finished and 'fitted out' (tiled walls and floor, electrics/plumbing/gases all in etc.)!!

Kind Regards, John

 

[securespark]

Sounds like Aberystwyth.

 

[JohnW2]

Sounds like Aberystwyth.

It might sound like it, but it wasn't

However, I really do have to 'wonder about' the guy who put in the last few of those bricks!!

There was, of course, 'an enquiry' into the issue but, as you can imagine, it seemingly went on for ever and I don't think it reached any real conclusions, even though fingers were being pointed at everyone under the sun (if I recall correctly, ironically one of the people who got the most flak was the Theatre Superintendent, for not have noticed, and 'reported', the problem much earlier!).

Kind Regards, John

 

[john4703]

My father talked about a few houses that he worked on as a joiner. When the new owners moved in the coal fires would not burn properly, it turned out that the brickies had been sacked and were working their weeks notice so they built the chimneys without the required hole for the smoke to go up. It must have cost a lot to sort that one out.

 

[JohnW2]

My father talked about a few houses that he worked on as a joiner. When the new owners moved in the coal fires would not burn properly, it turned out that the brickies had been sacked and were working their weeks notice so they built the chimneys without the required hole for the smoke to go up. It must have cost a lot to sort that one out.

Interestingly (and perhaps surprisingly), in the hospital case, I don't recall any significant suspicion being voiced (at least, not 'in public') that it had been done deliberately.

Kind Regards, John