APR/19/66 2 Peppermint Way Selby North Yorkshire YO8 4QY #12543 · APR/19/66

Completion certificate 19.09.19

builder rang office agreed to provide calaculations for the ridge purlin and catnic as requested at klast inspection

Stuart
If you were to take the trees out and allow the ground to recover for a season, that would solve your problem and minimize the dig required

Regards

Paul

Hi Paul

I know Andy has discussed with you, so I'm not wanting to step on anyone's toes, but thought it worth mentioning that the trees in question are Leylandii which have been planted as hedging and have grown 4.0-5.0 metres high. The roots are small and relatively shallow.

Any number of these Leylandii can be removed if it helps the situation.

Can you advise?

Best Regards

Stuart Reasbeck

Anndy
The ground may be good but that’s not the issue, it’s the proximity of the trees which means you have to dig to a greater depth to minimize the potential for future movement due to the trees

Regards

Paul

Andy
There are other options as we discussed deep foundations 2.5-3.0m strip footings with a compressible material on the inside or a piles with a reinforced ground beam are your other options both of which require a suspended floor with a void below.
As you know, James Bourke and myself have discussed that the raft is the best structurally & most probably the best cost effective solution in this case, as in the case of deep foundations there is a large concrete volume and the piled solution will need a specialist piling company to design & install the piles then there is the reinforced beams to install and you would still have to construct a suspended floor in both cases

Andy
There are other options as we discussed deep foundations 2.5-3.0m strip footings with a compressible material on the inside or a piles with a reinforced ground beam are your other options both of which require a suspended floor with a void below.
As you know, James Bourke and myself have discussed that the raft is the best structurally & most probably the best cost effective solution in this case, as in the case of deep foundations there is a large concrete volume and the piled solution will need a specialist piling company to design & install the piles then there is the reinforced beams to install and you would still have to construct a suspended floor in both cases

see emails scanned in between struc eng owner and builder

Builder rang has engaged anothercengineeer with lower gradecdesign says will forward details and intends to concrete on Monday am to call on site Friday am to inspect steelwork and hard-core

Phone call to contractor who has sought opinion of anothercengineeer pressuring me to ignorevadvise of Paul Freeman and design forvghem myself said no must get informed opinion from other engineer

Spoke to builder and Client on phone they have contacted the structural engineer Paul and they are not happy with the raft solution he has proposed

Informed them that Paul in a very competent engineer in my opinion however if they wish to seek a second opinion they are able to do do but we will require a report showingnorposed foundation from a qualifies engineer

Owner bordering on the rude on the phone about the engineer

To await response from client and contra tor

Rang Paul Freeman engineer made him aware of situation in site builder to ring him later today to appoint as designer for the foundations

Cheque received £582.00 - 28/05/19

Drainage Acceptance - 07/05/19

Acceptance 17.04.19

The project was marked as 'Won'

The project was created