Is your water pressure starting to drop?

Ubbquittious · 2018-06-25 20:10:39

The hot snap is in full swing now so soon we'll see some Fianna Gael slutherpus mumbling on the tellybox about how everything would have been so much better had they introduced water charges and privatised everything to Denis O'Brien I notice there's a slight drop in pressure from the tap already. Way back in the 90's…

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#62 26-06-2018 05:03PM

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TheBoyConor wrote: »

What's more, a lot of contractors make very slim margins on public works jobs.
you'd often see contractors, even big ones, go bust because they underpriced a job and lost their shirt on it.

And you must also remember that a lot of contractors employ subcontractors who are often local to the area of the project - local plant hire companies, trades, local suppliers for materials etc etc.

A job I was on recently had a major civil contractor as the main contractor but only a small portion of their staff, the management & supervision staff, were brought in from outside and the bulk of the employees, laborours, trades etc, were hired locally. And as for the equipment, the main contractor only had very large or highly specialized pieces of gear on site. All the usual stuff, diggers, dumpers and so on was all belonging to a number fairly local plant hire firms.
And I know it is widely suspected that the main contractor is going to make little or no profit out of the project.

Sounds like too many middlemen to me. Which is what I've seen happening all my life

Cork county council will happily rent temporary traffic lights for months unend from Dermot Casey even though they're always using at least one set of them somewhere at any given time. Maybe the council have given themselves some stipulation that if they were to buy their own temporary traffic lights they'd have to be stored in an insured, air conditioned room and given daily dusting off. So therefore it almost seems cheaper to rent them.

Yet it's plain to see they're not doing things very efficiently. There are loads of daily maintainence jobs they could do themselves if they hadn't shot themselves in the foot so they'd have the excuse to give the job to the local Fianna Failing contractor.

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