Bodgers, bloody bodgers everywhere!!!

[anonymous-user]

How do you identify a bodger before they demonstrate their bodging skills?

Had a lock fitted to a gate, the bodger removes the existing catch to fit the lock, gets the position wrong so the throw bar hits the wall before being fully extended so the key can be removed.

Rather than shorten the bar he basically gouges a clearance for the bar in the brick wall of my house!



If I had been around when this was going on I would have had a touch of the mentals, words fail me.

Edited by anonymous-user on Tuesday 18th July 19:25

Edited by anonymous-user on Tuesday 18th July 19:29

[anonymous-user]

Another statement that is or will become famous, being an engineer is a life long curse because you know it could be done better.

[anonymous-user]

It gets worse..



Apologies for the rotational alignment error..

[anonymous-user]

Not yet, haven't seen an invoice.

[anonymous-user]

FreeLitres said:

You got a man in for that?

It was a case of timing, I didn't have the time so this was through someone else.

[anonymous-user]

This country was built on bodging sonny

[anonymous-user]

Looks like the ph photo upload beta has been bodged and can't work out portrait or landscape, not my bodge!

[anonymous-user]

hucumber said:

This country was built on bodging sonny

Explains a lot, obviously the germans do better quality bodges than we do.

[anonymous-user]

I know it is a case of if you want it done properly then do it yourself.

I will somehow have to find the time to sort it out but I am most annoyed about the damage to the wall of the house.

Totally unforgiveable that one.

[anonymous-user]

The old that owned my house before me was a bodger. I know it was him because he owned the house from new, in 1970.

In the 18 months that I've lived here I have found/had to fix:

1. Loft lights powered by doorbell wire badly spurred off the immersion heater.
2. 4 kitchen sockets powered from a set of scotch-locks on the wire coming out the back of the oven.
3. A wall mounted oven tiled in to the floor.
4. All taps on backwards.
5. Holes in the walls (from presumably an old boiler) just wallpapered over.
6. Drain covers concreted over in the garden/round the side.
7. Wasps nests in the walls because of aforementioned holes in the walls.
8. Central heating system fused with a brass screw.
9. 4 plug sockets spurred off the central heating master switch.
10. Un-isolated power shower
11. 1 wall socket that is permanently live - I can't switch it off from the fusebox. (Still haven't sorted)
12. 2 wall lights that are permanently live - not on the lighting ring and no switch to turn them off. Want them off? Take out the bulb. (again, still not fixed)
13. Block paved driveway with, again, a buried cover.
14. Radiator in the spare room mounted upside down(!)

That's all I can remember off the top of my head.

If murder was legal I'd have killed him about 20 times.

[anonymous-user]

bobtail4x4 said:

11. 1 wall socket that is permanently live - I can't switch it off from the fusebox. (Still haven't sorted)
12. 2 wall lights that are permanently live - not on the lighting ring and no switch to turn them off.

meter bypass? it means a percentage of electric and light are free. I see it often on council types houses.

The guy who lived here before was a retired architect and a sailor (judging by the boat the lived out the front and the 4 masts I've found in the garage rafters) - I've heard about meter bypasses before but I cannot for the life of my fathom why he needed it. There is no evidence of bodging around the meter either - if they've taken a feed from something it must come up from under the house. 2 wall lights and a stupid socket in the hallway, there is no logic to it. I'm too scared to start messing with live wires so going to call someone out for it. Not a council house, as far as I know has never been.