yea with the sun setting so late is quite a mind F$%# but the place im at has some chilled people and yea time ticks fast when you start talking 
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I was confused because it’s not plural but is possessive.
Edit. Grammerly says both are correct. Louis’ and Louis’s. Ah well.
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Good morning everyone
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In that form I tend to read it as Louises, which I think is wrong. #whatevs 
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Yeah me too. Louisesesessss’'sss’sss. Whatever 
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Golum is that you?
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Good morning! 
Live long and prosper! 
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Good morning everyone
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Morning
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morning all
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Salut!
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Hi people. Will update the Brute Force thread later today. Have a very busy morning.
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Mornings!
I just had the weirdest conversation with a building contractor. We have a boundary wall that is cracking and leaning because of a mulberry tree on the next door neighbour’s side. Our wall is 2m high but when it was built the original contractor only build a single layer wall. So basically this wall is not SANS compliant.
Every other contractor that has come to quote has quoted on demolishing the cracking wall and then checking the foundation to see if it needs to be made wider to accommodate a double layer wall, and then building the new wall.
This particular contractor (sent by the next door neighbour)wants to just dig new foundation next to the existing wall that is cracking and leaning(on our side of the property) and then build another single layer wall on top of the new foundation. Then he will join the two wall by inserting rebar through the wall. This solution he says will also make sure we do not have to remove our electric fence because he will build the new additional wall to just below to where they are on the old cracking wall.
Am i crazy for thinking this sounds like a hackjob?
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@czc might know better about the legals, but I would imagine that having a SANS compliant wall would only really be an issue if the wall were to collapse and cause damage and/or injury. However, it not being SANS compliant might increase your insurance rate due to the above.
The hackjob sounds plausible, but not SANS compliant. Personally I would vote for paying a little extra to ensure SANS compliance - maybe a double wall would not have leaned over and cracked?
I’d also look into who build the wall originally, if it was part of your development, and then if it was part of the original design. Depending on the answer, I’d be making a couple of phone calls to look at fixing up the entire wall, not just the damaged section, at someone else’s expense.
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Look we always want to do things that are compliant. All the other contractors are quoting on building that section of wall to SANS standard. We can however not do the whole section of wall because that section of wall is about 300m long…
Our complex was built in 2000 and the developer went into business rescue before they even finished building our complex. They even went as far as squeezing in 3 more blocks of units in an area that was earmarked to be road inside the complex. Nothing in this complex was really built great. We have 39 sets of stairs as an example in the complex underneath which all the geysers for the units have been squeezed in. Not 1 of these staircases are the same size depth or width…
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Our complex is actually doing this currently. Well what the other contractors said. Here they are breaking down a section and then building a new wall. Every day they are doing a new section it looks like.
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Didn’t you move? When’s moving day?
Sjoe had a covid scare at the shop, luckily not covid just bronchitis, and not me. So I’m covering shifts
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Signed papers at the attorneys on Monday. They reckon we’ll get keys to the house around the end of the month.
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Good morning!
Hope you all have a beary nice day! 
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