I don’t believe anyone here is disagreeing with this fact - but this topic is about painting which is not a task which requires professional accreditation
I also sit in this camp of belief - the trouble being they don’t agree to the work to get it done badly.
Yes, but it still isn’t yours to paint.
Your house isn’tyours to paint, it belongs to the building society until your mortgage is paid off and you have the title deeds…
For your house, there is probably an agreement or acknowledgement that you have certain freedoms to do minor works as general upkeep - that is not the case for a RFCA cadet building as made clear by the instruction to the effect of “no self-help work is permitted”
Somebody really needs to challenge this edict, the budget cannot sustain all the units requiring work or is this another way to close/amalgamate Squadrons?
Not correct. It belongs to you. The mortgagee owns a charge over your property, not the property itself. They will no longer hold the deeds either unless you bought it a long time ago, that would have been with unregistered land to ensure you paid them back when selling the house.
out of interest, does anyone know what the budget is??
i am curious to know what value is placed on the value of the properties we use, be that a wood Spooner hut, or 2 story, converted brick building or purpose built prefabricated custom built property.
it would be interesting to know what that budget is and then determine the budget per unit and then understand the “pressures” RFCA are under.
If it were £100/unit I can understand that being tight, although there is no way we see (or any other unit I have been at) has seen an annual £100 spent on it, for those that do need it that money can’t go far when the £100 from each neighbouring unit which doesn’t need work is allocated to the one which does.
(other than annual PATs, how else do RFCA invest in the buildings we operate in? and would completing the PATS on two dozen items come to £100?*)
if however it is £1000/unit this becomes a different story as there is no chance any unit i have been on sees that kind of annual investment, be that in a year or that as an average figure of a 5 or 10 year period.
*based on the £1.50/plug that is charged at work, that is £36/year lets say on PATs, leaving £64/year left - now we know Squadron’s don’t need painting every year so even if that is every 5 years that is £300 towards the work…
A squadron posted on Facebook last night about thugs damaging their squadron safety rail. The unit is now on stand down until it’s fixed due to the lack of a rail (apparently) breaching H&S regulations.
Ignoring the ridiculousness of that situation how long before RFCA fix it? Or are we essentially seeing the end of a squadron as it will take so long the cadets will find something else to do?
H&S saddens me sometimes with how strict it can be in certain situations. Surely there is a temporary fix that can be put in place for the time being?
A couple of bits of building site fencing would do the job, but the risk is that it becomes the long-term solution 
No one heard of cones… just put a few along the edge.
Cones won’t stop people falling off the tall step, they’ll just make their impending doom a little more obvious.
Or just accept that given it’s roughly the same height as a step, that a guard rail is not strictly necessary and crack on?
It is protecting a wheelchair ramp…
What about insisting cadets only use the inside half of the ramp, therefore preventing anyone falling? Ridiculous, but not as crazy as closing the whole sqn…
And the chances of their actually having anyone who uses it?
As much as we curse them, surely a simple risk assessment and straightforward control measures would have this sorted in all of about 20 minutes?
…are not relevant.
Dum… dum… dummmmmmmm
Stop it with all of these insane notions of walking up a ramp without a guardrail! It’s dangerous I tell you!
WON’T SOMEONE PLEASE THINK OF THE CHILDREN!
