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Ok its a full house rewire, thing is the boss didn't listen to me when I did the home buyers report (just short of a PIR btw). I told him that it would be a barsteward of a job due to the lay out of the house but he still said "£XXXX amount and it will take two and a half weeks". The customer went off for a two week British holiday but have told us this afternoon that they are moving in this Wednesday coming! Don't get me wrong, we are no sluches when it comes to hard graft and we are well on target for the original timescale but this is taking the mick.
Paint a picture:- 5 bedrooms, 3 bathrooms, 2 reception rooms, large stainless steel kitchen, large dining room, a conservatory bigger than my living room, a cellar to kit out and an old house stables to run swa to and feed enough to power a one bedroom flat! Meter tails alone are 18 meters long and we are replacing them with 25mm 3 core swa.
House was built in 1895 and the front was a shop so the floors (cellar) are different levels and in concrete so no easy access to one half of the house, it has caused us to do some very imaginative 4ft 25mm drilling without doing damage to the original cornicing the skirting or the solid oak wide panel floorboards! (that was an effort of love taking them up and putting back down like they have never been moved, very proud of myself on that one ).
It's like rewiring the inside of an egg shell!
On top of all this I've had to look after a young lad working 3 days a week from the job center on work experience. Don't get me wrong, he's a good lad and works hard but he didn't even know what a scutch was before I put one in his hand! He can't even strip t+e without cutting through the copper and he's pasted his level 2? After work I sent him home with ten meters of cable and my spare side cutters to practice over the weekend.
Anyway I had planned on not working Saturday (leeds in rugby cup final) or bank holiday Monday (day off with the wife) but guess what? Because the new home owners want to move in on Wednesday (1 week early) I've not got a life over the next 5 days. Happy for the money but not happy for the plans I made but hay ho take it whilst you can. I just know how bloody hard its going to be these next 5 days and I know the boss won't pay that much of a bonus. Ok rant over.
Paint a picture:- 5 bedrooms, 3 bathrooms, 2 reception rooms, large stainless steel kitchen, large dining room, a conservatory bigger than my living room, a cellar to kit out and an old house stables to run swa to and feed enough to power a one bedroom flat! Meter tails alone are 18 meters long and we are replacing them with 25mm 3 core swa.
House was built in 1895 and the front was a shop so the floors (cellar) are different levels and in concrete so no easy access to one half of the house, it has caused us to do some very imaginative 4ft 25mm drilling without doing damage to the original cornicing the skirting or the solid oak wide panel floorboards! (that was an effort of love taking them up and putting back down like they have never been moved, very proud of myself on that one ).
It's like rewiring the inside of an egg shell!
On top of all this I've had to look after a young lad working 3 days a week from the job center on work experience. Don't get me wrong, he's a good lad and works hard but he didn't even know what a scutch was before I put one in his hand! He can't even strip t+e without cutting through the copper and he's pasted his level 2? After work I sent him home with ten meters of cable and my spare side cutters to practice over the weekend.
Anyway I had planned on not working Saturday (leeds in rugby cup final) or bank holiday Monday (day off with the wife) but guess what? Because the new home owners want to move in on Wednesday (1 week early) I've not got a life over the next 5 days. Happy for the money but not happy for the plans I made but hay ho take it whilst you can. I just know how bloody hard its going to be these next 5 days and I know the boss won't pay that much of a bonus. Ok rant over.