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Fitting signs with velcro!!!!
Busy quoting today for a local chippy, who`s taken over a rather posh local building.
We`ve been asked by the customer to provide a mock up to give to the council for their approval.
We had to pop out and take a few photos for the mock up as the customers were not at the correct angle.
While my stepson was there taking a photo, a planning officer came out of the building.
Seeing the lad taking a photo he asked what he was doing, and soon they were talking about the new signs.
Then the planning officer said due to the building having far too many holes drilled in it already the Moulded lettering should be fitted with industrial velcro…
Is this a silly idea or are we the only ones thinking this isn`t going to work?
Your thoughts would be most welcome.
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oh ffs!
we use velcro for internal stuff at time but really?
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Personally I would refuse to use such a method.
I doubt your public liability insurance would cover you if you use an inadequate installation method that’s not fit for purpose.
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Planning officers are full of it…
Our industrial unit was built a mere 5 years ago – one of the planning restrictions was that the building should make provision for nesting birds….
…And the area is already surrounded by trees 🙄
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Thank good its not just us that think its silly.
I have suggested the customer ask the planning officer if the council will except liablity if any thing falls off.
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well u need some holes in ur building Phill… perhaps we need to put the word "industrial" before everything to make it safer.
So using the industrial selotape, with the industrial knife, not forgetting all the industrial sign materials.
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quote Denise Goodfellow:Then the planning officer said due to the building having far too many holes drilled in it already the Moulded lettering should be fitted with industrial velcro.Denise,…
are you sure this was a health and safety officer and not the JANITOR? 😕
Seriously though, i feel you pain…
please someone tell me the H&S fail in this instance other than if about 200 signs have been fitted in same situation/place? -
quote Robert Lambie:are you sure this was a health and safety officer and not the JANITOR? 😕
Nope it was a planning official – But easy to confuse the two. as both are obsessed with regulations.
But which one is better? A safety officer or a Planning officer….
there’s only one way to find out…
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I would imagine that the same HSE officer would also suggest using wallpaper paste to hang a person upside down from a Stunt Plane. Would suggest that you use pre existing holes, they will have to go with idea as no more holes are being drilled.
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You could go with a belt and braces approach and use a bit of blue tac (industrial of course) 😉 :lol1:
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quote Gary Birch:You could go with a belt and braces approach and use a bit of blue tac (industrial of course) 😉 :lol1::lol1: :lol1:
and just to make sure you could staple the blue tac in place….
Let’s see….Industrial… Velcro…Blue Tac… Staples…
you’ll sleep like a baby once fitted Denise, even when there’s a hurricane brewing
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I’m just glad I’m not the only one who thinks this is silly
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I had to hang wallpaper at a sports club belonging to BP, I had hard hat, hi viz and steel toe caps on but got told off for not wearing goggles and gloves, when I told them that I need to’feel’ some of my work after I’ve spliced the joins etc, I was told I could take the gloves off for that but if I wasn’t’feeling’ my work that I had to put them back on !
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The council officer has now agreed that we can drill the wall for the locators, but would like to see the size drill and raw plugs we will be using.
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quote Denise Goodfellow:The council officer has now agreed that we can drill the wall for the locators, but would like to see the size drill and raw plugs we will be using.😀 😀 Unbelievable, if I didn’t know what these twerps were like.
A H&S safety guy here threatened to close a pharmacy in the town because….wait for it….they didn’t have a first aid cabinet! 😀 😀 -
quote Harry Cleary:A H&S safety guy here threatened to close a pharmacy in the town because….wait for it….they didn’t have a first aid cabinet! 😀 😀
I’ll see your H&S guy and raise you with my planning officer guy who insisted we provide a nesting area for birds when our unit was built even though we’re surrounded by goddam trees 😕
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oh please this is one of the best threads on UKSB for years.
Denise please name and shame the council in question.
What qualifications do you need to become a planning officer or health and safety advisor and are they taken in daylight hours away from a computer?
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quote Phill Fenton:quote Harry Cleary:A H&S safety guy here threatened to close a pharmacy in the town because….wait for it….they didn’t have a first aid cabinet! 😀 😀
I’ll see your H&S guy and raise you with my planning officer guy who insisted we provide a nesting area for birds when our unit was built even though we’re surrounded by goddam trees 😕
Phill! Don’t you know that they where the wrong kind of tree! 😀
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quote Dave Rowland:oh please this is one of the best threads on UKSB for years.
Denise please name and shame the council in question.
What qualifications do you need to become a planning officer or health and safety advisor and are they taken in daylight hours away from a computer?
Hi Dave
Its the Stoke on Trent council…… its the same council that gave a shop keeper an asbo for chaining his A Board to a lamp post so it didn`t get pinched. And in tonight’s local paper it looks like they`ll be charging shop keepers to put A Boards out side on the pavement.
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quote Denise Goodfellow:quote Dave Rowland:oh please this is one of the best threads on UKSB for years.
Denise please name and shame the council in question.
What qualifications do you need to become a planning officer or health and safety advisor and are they taken in daylight hours away from a computer?
Hi Dave
Its the Stoke on Trent council…… its the same council that gave a shop keeper an asbo for chaining his A Board to a lamp post so it didn`t get pinched. And in tonight’s local paper it looks like they`ll be charging shop keepers to put A Boards out side on the pavement.
😮 😮
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I thought A-boards were a danger to the public 😉 how can they charge for something councils dont like lol
is there not much happening at Stoke on Trent so they have to invent silliness?
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