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I personally don't think cutting into a noggin for a backbox is such a big problem in the grand scheme, if it gets the accessory to where the customer wants it. A lot of newer builds don't have noggins in their stud walls anyway.


He cut one more hole than was absolutely necessary, but you saw the state of the wall anyway, hardly a big deal when it all needs patching up.

The cable route in the vid possibly raises an eyebrow, but perhaps it will be >50mm from the surface.
No not a problem as such but look at all the extra work he had to do that the customer is going to end up paying for.
He's supposed to be a well experienced electrician, I dread to think of the amount of shoddy below standard and even dangerous jobs he may have left over the years.
 
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Looking at the state of the plasterboard and the black damp mould on the timber studs in that bathroom all the plasterboard needs stripping back anyway to let everything dry out
1000% THIS

I wonder if they ripped all the bathroom out due to a historic damp issues caused by leaky old pipes...

If that were my house or flat I would be stripping out every inch of plaster board and even pull up the entire floor to make sure all the plumbing is sound before covering anything back up
 
Where on earth does Del keep finding these disaster jobs

Flipping heck. Poor sod. He's too nice.
Wisest words my old gaffer ever said to me - "Never forget you cannot polish a turd". Once those two kitchen sockets were opened up then I'd have cut losses and walked. EICR and Rewire - exactly what he said, but he should have worked harder to explain the futility of it to the customer.
He's now the last one that touched a house with no RCD protection and no ADS for sockets.
At least he stopped in the end.
It's a good reminder of why the regs say that the checks are supposed to happen before extending/altering.
 
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No its not a problem as such but look at all the extra work he had to do that the customer is going to end up paying for.
What extra work? If you were talking about hours of additional work created, then I would agree with you, but the hole he cut to aid with rodding past the timber would have taken barely a minute or 2. This sort of thing is just part of the job.

It would have taken more time to fetch the endoscope from the van to see what was blocking the way.
 
What extra work? If you were talking about hours of additional work created, then I would agree with you, but the hole he cut to aid with rodding past the timber would have taken barely a minute or 2. This sort of thing is just part of the job.

It would have taken more time to fetch the endoscope from the van to see what was blocking the way
He took a long while to just mark out the back box and then a while in having to hack into the noggin.
Nothing was blocking the way, and don't forget the extra time that someone else has to spend patching it up.
Bad planning and shoddy
 
He took a long while to just mark out the back box and then a while in having to hack into the noggin.
Nothing was blocking the way, and don't forget the extra time that someone else has to spend patching it up.
Bad planning and shoddy
You're not being serious. You'd have to be charging by the second for these things to matter, and that wall is already wrecked. And it sure looks like there's a 8" timber blocking the way to me:
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He took a long while to just mark out the back box and then a while in having to hack into the noggin.
Nothing was blocking the way, and don't forget the extra time that someone else has to spend patching it up.
Bad planning and shoddy
Patching it up, the whole wall needs taking down. That plasterboard is soaking wet, Del was just helping the builder doing his job for him. 👍
 
You're not being serious. You'd have to be charging by the second for these things to matter, and that wall is already wrecked. And it sure looks like there's a 8" timber blocking the way to me:
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I must have missed the part where he had to drill through the noggin ?
 

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