Electric knockout boxes - fixing...Is this right?

[Gary C]

valiant said:

Looks like he swiped the front flip down cover of your boiler as well

Interesting, pictures of similar units don't show a lower cover, should it have one ? or do you mean a bit to cover the display, I don't think this unit has one of those.

[Black_S3]

scottyp123 said:

I don't see how the electrician ended up getting money knocked off for a socket that needed plastering when he said no plastering is included in the price, sounds like he got bullied into lowering his price. Good luck getting him back when the RCD trips off in the middle of winter and the boiler won't work.

We are always very clear about the making good, we did a job the other month, a few sockets in a kitchen. When the old kitchen units were removed it was obvious that the plaster was decrepit behind them, half the wall ended up falling off when we started. It went from him thinking he could just tile over our chases for the cables to getting the entire room and ceiling hacked back to the brickwork and being completely re-plastered, its just the way it turns out sometimes.

Yup, one of those where it’s cheaper to give in than waste the time arguing it... I’d guess he won’t be rushing to take on jobs again where the customer is arranging the make good afterwards without putting it in writing what he’d have priced the job at including making good. That way it would be easy to deal with if a customers got a different idea of what can happen when you start disturbing unknown old walls or the customer’s decorator can’t sort that socket out in 10 mins with pennies worth of materials.