When Wet-Pants does the Muc-Spreading

[stevethesparks]

Just been doing a kitchen refit myself. Similar thing, not only boxes full of plaster, but cupboards fitted over the top without cutting out for the accessory, or even marking out where they were.

Oven/microwave cupboard similar with back in place.

Pelmets falling of when installing led strip.

Dot and dabbing a wall where originally it was to just be plastered, leaving my back boxes seemingly in the next room.

Plastering up to and around a temporary socket I left for the customer/builder.

Builders tools spread everywhere, along with boxes of kitchen cupboards, all in the work area

The kitchen in question would now be finished, had the builder not cleared off, leaving tiling to be done so I cant fit the new accessories.

The idea of a visit for first fix and another for second fix went out the window ages ago.

 

[stevethesparks]

A previous job, I'd used the "blank-it" cardboard covers, and the chippy again put a cupboard over the top with no cut out.
When I approached him about it, he said I thought it wasn't needed as I had a cover over it???

 

[Deleted account]

I find this normal for plasterers. It doesn't take much to knock the edges off or quickly go round edges with a multi tool.

 

[telectrix]

a decent plasterer will go round with a knife and trim when still slightly soft. (well, we can dream).

 

[Taylortwocities]

Did a nice job a while ago. House ground floor opened up and I first fixed with lighting cables through the plasterboard ceiling for about 10 surface light to be fixed.

Returned after plastering and there was a lovely smooth plastered ceiling, with no cables - they had pushed all the cables up into the ceiling void.
No access from above as the underfloor (wet) heating pipes were now in the floor.
I took great delight in chomping great holes in the new plaster to discover the cables.

 

[FatAlan]

Plasterers working on my house have been pretty good and I do feel for the lads that have worked mixing up lime plaster. Even wearing masks they still get exposed to some s**t. Cut my last set of downlights holes yesterday and 100% hit rate for cables being where they should have been.. glad I made detailed diagrams and measurements.
I have one intermediate switch where the cable was sheered leaving me with about 2.5inches to play with
Now waiting for comments on 2.5inches

 

[pirate]

Just do it all yourself! Then all will be ok.
Used these recently...

http://yoozybox.co.uk/

came back the next day...all gone!
Still, the back boxes were clean...

You cannot trust others to do the job...fact!

Oh, if this is seen as a rant, I'm off!

 

[telectrix]

watch out pirate, there's a splicer eyeing up your main halliard

 

[Blissof89]

Whenever you meet a new plasterer coil the cables up in the box nice and tidy and point out to him you have done so to make his life easier.

If he fills the boxes up then next time he gets 500mm of cable hanging out of every box and flat capping

 

[-Matt]

I think if MR Plumber/Spreader turned up yesterday I would have punched him.

Doing my testing, and had no ring continuity, so clearly there was another socket somewhere.

Being that it was last year that i 1st fitted, I couldn't remember where else there was any sockets, neither could the customer.

So had to crawl through the very tight loft to follow my cables, found another drop, then smashed his ----ing plaster off.

I had to repeat this twice more, and I finally had continuity...
(each time I found one, the customer would go, "ohh thats for the....)

To say I was royally ----ed off was an understatement.......