Construction industry gossip: Toilet roll troubles and home schooling

By Hansom2020-04-03T05:00:00

Gossip on how to calculate toilet roll usage, Lapsley’s connection to Wates and makeshift hospitals

Money down the drain

Ingenious marketing or tasteless garbage? As the world reels from the ongoing impact of the coronavirus outbreak, it’s inevitable that some firms choose to find a link, however tenuous, between their normal activities and the situation we now find ourselves in. Take the press release which landed on my desk the other day, touting a survey by an online estate agency which assessed how much you would have to spend in toilet rolls – the currency du jour in these worrying times, apparently – to put a 10% deposit down on a house. It’s quite a bit.

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