Advice required!

[Mark CH]

Hello,
I have just set my posts in the ground for a deck off my kitchen. There are 3 posts but I have discovered that the first and third posts are about 10mm out from each other. Will this cause a problem or will I just have to house out the centre post to accomodate for the 'bend'?
Cheerio,

Mark CH

[glock40sw]

10mm....Mark, that's why they make builders bog. I wouldn't sweat it.

10mm is 3/5ths of bugger-all.
Now 100mm. That would be a different story.

[oohsam]

Yeah..just pack it out..bog it out..whatever gets you over the line with minimal dodgyness. Remember, you want it strong, dont compensate the strength.

[pawnhead]

10mm is 3/5ths of bugger-all.

I've got to agree there. It's amazing how crooked/bent/out of square/out of level/out of plumb, some things can be and yet still be unnoticeable to the average Joe. I've worked on some old terrace houses that are incredibly bent up and out of whack. If you humour things in, and pay particular attention to quality finishing, i.e. gap filling, sanding, painting, then no one is going to pull out a tape measure, square, or spirit level to check up on you.
My next door neighbour has just built a new house and there's a twist in the roof of at least six inches. You can only see it from my yard if you put your eye at the same level as the roof plane. I don't want to make waves between him and his builder, and it doesn't worry me at all. I just have a habit of checking out every building I see for imperfections, but if you're not in the game then you don't look for these things.

There are exceptions of course. Bathroom floor tiles can show up walls that are out of square, and wall tiles can show up if they're out of plumb, as can a table or a freestanding wardrobe in a corner. Wall lights, or ceiling lights can show up a wavy wall, or joints that are hollow or proud, as can the Sun if its rays hit a wall almost parallel. And if there's a handrail that's at eye level when you're sitting down, then it's obvious if it's bent.

Apart from some conditions though, you can generally get away with blue murder if you've made a cock up of some kind, so long as you know how to bodge it up so it looks good.

A builder once said to me, that he'd rather have a foreman who knows how to fix stuff ups, so long as he gets stuck into it and gets the job done, than a pedantic perfectionist foreman who farts around and has bugger all to show for his efforts at the end of the day, and starts scratching his head when he hits a problem of any kind.
I know which one's more likely to send him broke anyway.

Of course none of this refers to my own work, since I never make mistakes.

[oohsam]

hehehe..funny stuff..LoL

When I put up my plasma on the wall, It was slightly off...To the average joe it looked dead straight but when you closed one eye and looked at on an angle, you could tell...
I painted the wall red and made it a feature wall..now you could only tell if you had a water level! hehe...

Personally, I like to have things spot on, becuase once I know its out, thats all I'll look at and I'll just have to fix it up. In the plasma screens case, I couldnt do anything as I didnt have enough studs to bolt into the wall, and when I put one bolt on the angle it cuased the bracked to tilt a little...

I dont think you'll notice anything when the posts are out, the deckboards will still be straight if you get your calculations right and no one will ever know ur dirty little secret!