The 'look at what I did today' thread

Shiny · Post by **Shiny** » Wed May 21, 2014 4:53 pm

Bit of a bummer on the insurance, it is unlikely you will covered on his MT policy and, as you say, it will affect his NCB and premiums if you were.

You'll only have TPO cover on your DOC extension. The good news though is that there is no excess on third party claims.

89 UKDM BA4 4WS (resto job!) · Post by **wurlycorner** » Wed May 21, 2014 5:02 pm

Shiny wrote:The good news though is that there is no excess on third party claims.

Is that right? I hadn't thought about it tbh, but now I do, yes that sounds familiar! I'll check...

I do have another concern about it though, will pm you rather than bore everyone else with more insurance stuff

ps TPO / DOC abbreviations taking me right back to the 'fun' evenings running countless quotations through the quote engine via an AS/400 mainframe front end and seeing the summary screens coming up showing applicable extensions/exclusions against each providers quote

Post by **Donald** » Wed May 21, 2014 5:28 pm

Keep going baby, this is hot.

Post by **Vtecmec** » Wed May 21, 2014 5:34 pm

Just spoke to a cost manager regarding armco,

was the expression. Looking through some recent costs for this on a scheme, £250/m inc TM for a 40mph road during working hours not including prelims, mob/demob and fees.

Post by **Donald** » Wed May 21, 2014 5:41 pm

If it's so expensive why the drokk do roadworks go on for bloody weeks

89 UKDM BA4 4WS (resto job!) · Post by **wurlycorner** » Wed May 21, 2014 6:07 pm

Vtecmec wrote:Just spoke to a cost manager regarding armco, was the expression. Looking through some recent costs for this on a scheme, £250/m inc TM for a 40mph road during working hours not including prelims, mob/demob and fees.

Yeah, my blokey reckoned £150/m for this, that's where I got to my £1.5k estimate (I think I put £1k earlier? That was a typo

)

The whole installation is a very short section of arnco at the outside of the dual carriage way on a very wide grass verge, so no need to block lanes both sides and they can work off the verge not the roadway.
Mob/demob should be pretty much non-existent. They didn't use one of those lane closure lorries to set the cones out when they did the initial install (they just put the cones out manually and used a couple of simple roadworks signs) so no reason to do any different now. All the gear (cones/signs etc) are still there because they haven't cleared the site.
No plant required for 2 post holes beyond a cement mixer, which can come on the back of their flat bed transit!

They may well come up with all sorts of bollocks but it wouldn't be being fair and reasonable.

We'll see.

Either way, I'm not gonna roll over and be butt-drokked without a fight, that's for sure...

hoping that the highways agency will come out for handback inspection and declare the damage is a snag that the contractor needs to correct is probably hoping too much though

EDIT:
Just looked up and it's not even a highways agency road like the coppers said, it's a County Council Rd! Looking at past FOI requests, they recover approx 50% of value of annual accident damage costs. No idea how that breaks down though!

andypont · Post by **andypont** » Wed May 21, 2014 6:35 pm

Hope this doesn't turn out too much of a nightmare for you. Fair play for doing the right thing and trying to sort it all.

mercutio · Post by **mercutio** » Wed May 21, 2014 7:02 pm

just how did you manage to spin the landi? was there something on the road?

89 UKDM BA4 4WS (resto job!) · Post by **wurlycorner** » Wed May 21, 2014 7:12 pm

You asked that already and I answered it already?

mercutio · Post by **mercutio** » Wed May 21, 2014 7:13 pm

not got back to that thread yet