A close friend of the family has taken on a job to build a "conservatory". He has asked me to build the shell (bricks/blocks cavity wall), which I have agreed to. Following my advise the customer had contacted the local building control office. Plans were submitted and an inspector was due to turn up the day after the foundations were dug. Unfortunately, due to rain, the digging was delayed and so the inspection was cancelled.
The digging has now been carried out, and concrete poured, but I gather, that no inspector has been near nor by. It now turns out that the existing door, windows and brickwork beneath, will be removed. I don't think this was on the plans submitted. This, in my mind, makes this an extention (not a conservatory). I have also overheard my friend telling the customer that "building control have decided that, this is such a small job they don't need to be involved".
I am starting to suspect that he has cut the local building control office out of the loop (by telling them that the job isn't going ahead or something). I am also a little suspect that one part of the foundations were not dug to an appropriate depth. (I can't tell as all I can see now is the top of the concrete that has already been poured).
I find myself in a very embarassing position. I don't want to start rocking the boat by calling anyone a lier, but I don't want to be part of a construction that may become a huge embarassment, to us all, in due course. After all, if the customer decides to sell, at sometime in the future, a decent surveyor may well ask to see a completion certificate for the work. Even worse, if my suspicions about the foundations are correct there could be some subsidance in due course and then the whole sorry state will come to light.
Should I blythly turn a blind eye? (after all, I'm only a brickie on this job), or should I stir things up by bringing my suspicions out into the open? (This would probably cause a major family rift).
The digging has now been carried out, and concrete poured, but I gather, that no inspector has been near nor by. It now turns out that the existing door, windows and brickwork beneath, will be removed. I don't think this was on the plans submitted. This, in my mind, makes this an extention (not a conservatory). I have also overheard my friend telling the customer that "building control have decided that, this is such a small job they don't need to be involved".
I am starting to suspect that he has cut the local building control office out of the loop (by telling them that the job isn't going ahead or something). I am also a little suspect that one part of the foundations were not dug to an appropriate depth. (I can't tell as all I can see now is the top of the concrete that has already been poured).
I find myself in a very embarassing position. I don't want to start rocking the boat by calling anyone a lier, but I don't want to be part of a construction that may become a huge embarassment, to us all, in due course. After all, if the customer decides to sell, at sometime in the future, a decent surveyor may well ask to see a completion certificate for the work. Even worse, if my suspicions about the foundations are correct there could be some subsidance in due course and then the whole sorry state will come to light.
Should I blythly turn a blind eye? (after all, I'm only a brickie on this job), or should I stir things up by bringing my suspicions out into the open? (This would probably cause a major family rift).