Screed disaster
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mikees said:
Depends on your OCD.its much less mess and better to have it up. Plus 2k of materials, oh do fo. Chancer.
Unless your a bodger, have it up. Trust me it will make sense.
Mike
What mess? Unless your a bodger, have it up. Trust me it will make sense.
Mike
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MyldS4Z-YPg
You'd be hard pushed not to make a mess by ripping it up!
Very disappointed with the original contractor, given him a good 2-3 months work before this job, once he messed the screed up and realised he was going to probably end up out of pocket on that part of the job he stopped turning up, breaking promises etc and then when I wasn't at the house my fiancée let him in and he went and got his tools and left. That was Thursday not heard from him since, no reply to messages or calls, he hadn't done any work the whole week. Either way don't want him doing any more as he clearly is out of his depth.
Will see how I feel once the job is finished as to what I do about him.
Will see how I feel once the job is finished as to what I do about him.
Edited by sealtt on Saturday 8th October 17:10
sealtt said:
Very disappointed with the original contractor, given him a good 2-3 months work before this job, once he messed the screed up and realised he was going to probably end up out of pocket on that part of the job he stopped turning up, breaking promises etc and then when I wasn't at the house my fiancée let him in and he went and got his tools and left. That was Thursday not heard from him since, no reply to messages or calls, he hadn't done any work the whole week. Either way don't want him doing any more as he clearly is out of his depth.
Will see how I feel once the job is finished as to what I do about him.
Unfortunately it's the norm.Will see how I feel once the job is finished as to what I do about him.
Edited by sealtt on Saturday 8th October 17:10
My electrician cancelled last Sat, confirmed he'd be here this Sat - didn't turn up, won't return calls etc - very frustrating as it's the second fix so lots of wire's hidden behind plasterboard (downlights etc) I know he'll turn up eventually and he'll be annoyed when I dock his pay - then he'll know how I feel !
anonymous said:
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+1 from me. On my recent extension, over the course of 6 months we prob had around 15 people on site. Out of all those, 3 were what I call professional. The first was the plaster who did a great job, second was the electrician who is my neighbour and third was the receptionist at the building firm!!! She had the job of sorting out all f
k ups the steady stream of morons made.Four Litre said:
+1 from me.
On my recent extension, over the course of 6 months we prob had around 15 people on site. Out of all those, 3 were what I call professional. The first was the plaster who did a great job, second was the electrician who is my neighbour and third was the receptionist at the building firm!!! She had the job of sorting out all fk ups the steady stream of morons made.
That about mirrors my experience, the only people more pissed off than me were the two blokes who own the firm, they had to pay one set of morons to do the job and another set to come out and put it right. The really frustrating thing was that most of the morons could do a decent job when they wanted to, they just seemed to lose the plot occasionally. On my recent extension, over the course of 6 months we prob had around 15 people on site. Out of all those, 3 were what I call professional. The first was the plaster who did a great job, second was the electrician who is my neighbour and third was the receptionist at the building firm!!! She had the job of sorting out all f
k ups the steady stream of morons made.New guys really a different story, they've done a lot of work this week and we now have a tiled floor awaiting grout. It took a lot of work and a lot of material. Guy was half speechless when he saw the levels the previous contractor 'achieved' but just got on with it and fixed it without having to redo the whole screed.
They did a nice job of the plaster too, will be great to get it painted. Should be a nice little room.
They did a nice job of the plaster too, will be great to get it painted. Should be a nice little room.
V8RX7 said:
Who didn't align the tiles to the centre of the room (small cut on the left)
I was worried about mentioning that after being too perfectionist earlier. That's tiling 101, but apart from that looks good. Can lose that with furniture. But again would grate with me as it's so easy to avoid.
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