Bodges you’ve seen.
Discussion
MikeStroud said:
I'm not sure why the wood is required at all, why not fit the pole direct to the wall?
Could be like my house, old plaster with patched holes from previous fittings means its often best to fit a large piece of wood to spread the load and attach curtain poles etc. to that.
r44flyer said:
The coping stones are coming off our low wall between drive and pavement... again!
So this time I stuck them on with Sticks Like Sh*t!
Tradesman in a van drove past and actually shouted "bodge job!" out the window at me.
Yes mate, instead I should've paid you hundreds to knock everything off and lay them in mortar. Or it looks perfect now, cost £7.99 and twenty minutes and will be fine for years. Some bodges work for me!
Just did this to replace some coping stones on our front wall, knew i had seen it somewhere and thought, that sounds good to me So this time I stuck them on with Sticks Like Sh*t!
Tradesman in a van drove past and actually shouted "bodge job!" out the window at me.
Yes mate, instead I should've paid you hundreds to knock everything off and lay them in mortar. Or it looks perfect now, cost £7.99 and twenty minutes and will be fine for years. Some bodges work for me!
Venom said:
Chipstick said:
So they've converted half of the double garage, but couldn't face the idea of boxing in some steels. Wait a minute lads, I've got an idea... 
Zoon said:
Also note the socket which has nearly set the house on fire, connections probably not tight enough or running a cannabis grow 24 hours a day through it.
A fondness for portable plug in heaters and a builder who like to play electrics using Poundland accessories to be accurate.This is a strange one for us this week. We have turned up to wire an extension for a local building firm, the structure at the back is exposed, walls and ceilings down etc and within two minutes its obvious the whole house needs a re-wire, rubber cables everywhere.
The strange thing is most of the rest of the house is newly decorated and it has chrome switches and a newish (non RCD) consumer unit fitted. The owner of the house asked an electrician to fit the new consumer unit and switches and specifically said to him that he thought the house needed re-wiring and could the electrician give him an honest opinion, the spark said everything was fine and fitted all the stuff as asked and left.
The thing is I know the other spark quite well and he isn't a cowboy, he is good at what he does yet he has left several metal switches fed via rubber cables that will perish eventually, some with (grounded) radiators directly below them in kids rooms with no RCD protection.
Its left us in a very awkward position, especially as he has passed work over to us in the past.
The strange thing is most of the rest of the house is newly decorated and it has chrome switches and a newish (non RCD) consumer unit fitted. The owner of the house asked an electrician to fit the new consumer unit and switches and specifically said to him that he thought the house needed re-wiring and could the electrician give him an honest opinion, the spark said everything was fine and fitted all the stuff as asked and left.
The thing is I know the other spark quite well and he isn't a cowboy, he is good at what he does yet he has left several metal switches fed via rubber cables that will perish eventually, some with (grounded) radiators directly below them in kids rooms with no RCD protection.
Its left us in a very awkward position, especially as he has passed work over to us in the past.
scottyp123 said:
This is a strange one for us this week. We have turned up to wire an extension for a local building firm, the structure at the back is exposed, walls and ceilings down etc and within two minutes its obvious the whole house needs a re-wire, rubber cables everywhere.
The strange thing is most of the rest of the house is newly decorated and it has chrome switches and a newish (non RCD) consumer unit fitted. The owner of the house asked an electrician to fit the new consumer unit and switches and specifically said to him that he thought the house needed re-wiring and could the electrician give him an honest opinion, the spark said everything was fine and fitted all the stuff as asked and left.
The thing is I know the other spark quite well and he isn't a cowboy, he is good at what he does yet he has left several metal switches fed via rubber cables that will perish eventually, some with (grounded) radiators directly below them in kids rooms with no RCD protection.
Its left us in a very awkward position, especially as he has passed work over to us in the past.
Tricky. Is it possible the customer isn't telling the whole story?The strange thing is most of the rest of the house is newly decorated and it has chrome switches and a newish (non RCD) consumer unit fitted. The owner of the house asked an electrician to fit the new consumer unit and switches and specifically said to him that he thought the house needed re-wiring and could the electrician give him an honest opinion, the spark said everything was fine and fitted all the stuff as asked and left.
The thing is I know the other spark quite well and he isn't a cowboy, he is good at what he does yet he has left several metal switches fed via rubber cables that will perish eventually, some with (grounded) radiators directly below them in kids rooms with no RCD protection.
Its left us in a very awkward position, especially as he has passed work over to us in the past.
Andy 308GTB said:
scottyp123 said:
This is a strange one for us this week. We have turned up to wire an extension for a local building firm, the structure at the back is exposed, walls and ceilings down etc and within two minutes its obvious the whole house needs a re-wire, rubber cables everywhere.
The strange thing is most of the rest of the house is newly decorated and it has chrome switches and a newish (non RCD) consumer unit fitted. The owner of the house asked an electrician to fit the new consumer unit and switches and specifically said to him that he thought the house needed re-wiring and could the electrician give him an honest opinion, the spark said everything was fine and fitted all the stuff as asked and left.
The thing is I know the other spark quite well and he isn't a cowboy, he is good at what he does yet he has left several metal switches fed via rubber cables that will perish eventually, some with (grounded) radiators directly below them in kids rooms with no RCD protection.
Its left us in a very awkward position, especially as he has passed work over to us in the past.
Tricky. Is it possible the customer isn't telling the whole story?The strange thing is most of the rest of the house is newly decorated and it has chrome switches and a newish (non RCD) consumer unit fitted. The owner of the house asked an electrician to fit the new consumer unit and switches and specifically said to him that he thought the house needed re-wiring and could the electrician give him an honest opinion, the spark said everything was fine and fitted all the stuff as asked and left.
The thing is I know the other spark quite well and he isn't a cowboy, he is good at what he does yet he has left several metal switches fed via rubber cables that will perish eventually, some with (grounded) radiators directly below them in kids rooms with no RCD protection.
Its left us in a very awkward position, especially as he has passed work over to us in the past.
andy43 said:
tight fart said:
bristolracer said:
That is a mains powered aerial distribution amplifier, in a broken bucket on a rooftop of a London hotel.
You can buy a new bucket for less than a £1
Don't have photos of the bodges when we moved in, highltings were:
Stop Tap- located in the middle of the dining room floor UNDER the carpet....
1980s Consumer unit walled in behind the kitchen cabinets
1/2 the windows and doors in the extension with precisely no lintels of any sort
Vulcanised rubber wiring connecting to the modern circuits- one set alight when using the hoover- on enquiry from previous owner "oh we made sure we didn't use those"
Open 6m deep well in the garden, which we had no idea about and had been covered over with honeysuckle.....
Stop Tap- located in the middle of the dining room floor UNDER the carpet....
1980s Consumer unit walled in behind the kitchen cabinets
1/2 the windows and doors in the extension with precisely no lintels of any sort
Vulcanised rubber wiring connecting to the modern circuits- one set alight when using the hoover- on enquiry from previous owner "oh we made sure we didn't use those"
Open 6m deep well in the garden, which we had no idea about and had been covered over with honeysuckle.....
Here’s a confession to a bodge I did myself that went wrong.
Lived in an old flat where the render had come away down one side of one of the sash and case windows leaving quite a big gap.
Clever me thought I’d just put some expanding foam into it and trim it off flush.
‘This is using a lot of foam?’
Fine till I went to open the window and found the weight box was full of expanded foam.
On some other website that bodge may appear.
House built in 1875 that I currently live in.
List of bodge.
1. Continually painting over damp in the lounge rather than have it seen to.
Result - damp course injected and plaster to a height of 6ft taken off the walls and redone.
2. Plumbing !! Lots of plumbing jobs bodged and now rectified by my son - a plumber !
3. By far the worst !! A awful brick built fireplace in the house. Removed for a decent log burner install to find that when they built the awful brick fireplace they had removed the support for the chimney so it was now just dangling. Further inspection of the chimney saw that it was coming away from the house and another support in the loft for the chimney was missing too.
About 5k later inc log burnerinstall a safe usable chimney ! ( surveyor missed this one)
Think that’s it for bodges for now !!
Planning to have the kitchen knocked through into the conservatory have an open kitchen - the downstairs toilet turned into a utility and spare bedroom turned into an upstairs bathroom so I’m sure more bodge will appear
Oh another one ! Copious use of silicone sealer and not even neatly done in my en-suite. Looked awful !!
Taken out and redone by myself - neatly !
List of bodge.
1. Continually painting over damp in the lounge rather than have it seen to.
Result - damp course injected and plaster to a height of 6ft taken off the walls and redone.
2. Plumbing !! Lots of plumbing jobs bodged and now rectified by my son - a plumber !
3. By far the worst !! A awful brick built fireplace in the house. Removed for a decent log burner install to find that when they built the awful brick fireplace they had removed the support for the chimney so it was now just dangling. Further inspection of the chimney saw that it was coming away from the house and another support in the loft for the chimney was missing too.
About 5k later inc log burnerinstall a safe usable chimney ! ( surveyor missed this one)
Think that’s it for bodges for now !!
Planning to have the kitchen knocked through into the conservatory have an open kitchen - the downstairs toilet turned into a utility and spare bedroom turned into an upstairs bathroom so I’m sure more bodge will appear
Oh another one ! Copious use of silicone sealer and not even neatly done in my en-suite. Looked awful !!
Taken out and redone by myself - neatly !
Edited by PDP76 on Saturday 12th June 08:50
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