Horses for courses

[andyBeaker]

Managing the environment is a way of saying I’m pulling this tree down as it’s blocking the view from my new build house but I’ll take it down in a responsible manner which actually means responsible for removing wildlife’s habitat/ food etc.

Derek, surely even a townie like you knows that trees need to be managed?

 

[andyBeaker]

Facts are always good, you are replying to Cougar’s post, not mine.

Cougar has answered your ramblings......

 

[Cougar377]

Derek, surely even a townie like you knows that trees need to be managed?

Tree management is a very subjective process. There are many arborists who are highly professional, environmentally positive and have a highly commendable work ethic....and there are others who can't wait to wield the chainsaws.
The vast majority that I have supported over the last 10+ years come under the first description, but there are some who's default response is to fell.
One particular customer took on a job for a certain northern local authority who decided that the best form of tree management was to fell virtually every tree within their council boundaries....in other words thousands of trees. This would be like a dentist taking out all of your teeth because of one rotten one. They've now made themselves a bit of a pariah in the Arb industry.

I've come across quite a few farmers with similar morally dubious attitudes towards environmental stewardship.

 

[Squag1]

And in Ireland
https://www.google.com/search?safe=..........5..35i39j0i131j0i67j46i131.p0lzH-nz4z8

 

[andyBeaker]

This gets better - whatever prick installed the first floor floorboards (the big chipboard sheet jobs) they used short inadequate stupid clout style nails when replacing them. That might explain why they squeak like crazy.

The surveyor said all the boards needed to come up and extra noggins put in and also that the boards needed replacing as they did not lock together (they do). And that with no carpet laid in two of the rooms in question.

Probably the same surveyor that said my son's new house had rising damp at the front, but didn't notice that the downpipe in the same location stopped about four inches short of the guttering at roof level. Strangely we sorted the guttering when he moved in and hey, guess what, the 'rising damp' has gone.

 

[derek kelly]

the boards needed replacing as they did not lock together (they do).

If they don’t lock together that could explain the squeaking.
Must admit though I don’t take much stock in what surveyors say, they can’t find fault so they invent something.

 

[andyBeaker]

If they don’t lock together that could explain the squeaking.
Must admit though I don’t take much stock in what surveyors say, they can’t find fault so they invent something.

They do lock together. As they aren't fixed down properly the joints are rubbing and squeaking like a squeaky thing.