When Wet-Pants does the Muc-Spreading

[telectrix]

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.......

once had exactly same. used a Bosch metal/cable detector to find the boxes. cut out carefully with multitool and old blade. no mess, no drama.

 

[brianmoooore]

Don't you lot have 'phones with cameras in your pocket? Always take a pic. of every wall after first fix.
Not only helps locate plastered over boxes, but also studs and joists that you may want to find for fixings.

 

[Toneyz]

Don't you lot have 'phones with cameras in your pocket? Always take a pic. of every wall after first fix.
Not only helps locate plastered over boxes, but also studs and joists that you may want to find for fixings.

I'll have thousands of pictures of walls if I did that!

 

[brianmoooore]

You don't have to keep them forever!

 

[Electric Magic]

Finished a rewire a couple of weeks ago. Use the same plasterer regularly for rewires I do but after this one am not using the moron again. The job he did on filling the chases was fine, however the general state of the existing plaster on some walls was poor so he convinced the customer to knock it off (after I'd completed second fix) and he's been back to board and re-skim. He put a screw through one of my cables when fixing the boards (even though he knew exactly where the cables were -he filled the chase the first time!) but rather than calling me he just carried on regardless. Didn't mention it to me or the customer just left the lights off (not that they'd go on as the screw created a short between neutral and earth). I'd have come out to fix it FOC if he'd have called me (would have taken the p*ss a bit, but everyone makes mistakes). He probably gets about a grand a month's worth of work through me. Not anymore.

 

[StephenRowley]

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

find some m3.5 torx head/security bit machine screws