How do you tackle laminated flooring?

Hi,

When it comes to trouble shooting, fault finding/fixing or re-wiring; how do you tackle laminated flooring. Customer wouldn't be happy if his/her floor gets ruined.

Cheers!
 
Normally a good explanation of your requirement to access the area, followed by an full understanding of the fact the you are an electrician, not a magician or a laminate floor temporary removal and reinstatement without it looking affected person.


Normally it can be tried to avoid the area as much as possible. I had to install 2 new 40 Amp mains to a kitchen, and due to the position of the run I had to cut some strategic slots in the plaster downstairs in order to install the cabling.
 
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So far I have had no problems but I have been in a situation where I might have to get access to the joint box but I always take the approuch that if it does come to it I advise the customer that they need to lift it as you do not want to pay me by the hour to lift it then put it back down. I have one job where I have had to instruct the customer to lift a carpet in a loft extention and trace the joint box and he is happy to do so as he said I will do the donkey work and pay you to sort it. The only thing that pees me off is the stupid and I mean stupid spark put the box under the floor for the lights downstairs when he put the box for the attic lights in the eves and for the sake of putting 8 foot of cable more on some circuits and 8 foot less on some others he could have put it in the eves and why do I need access because he looped the earths into 3 or 4 connectors but forgot to put the 50mm link in hence why the floor is to be lifted as there is no earth in 3 rooms downstairs
 
if i have ever had an issue with either laminate or even tiles in say the upstairs bathroom i tell them the different options for either the fault finding or the installs then the ball is in their court and as said ask them to lift it as you don`t want them knocking the price of it off your invoice
 
rip it up and sell'em a real wood floor at £60 per square yard, fitted. ( my mate's a joiner )
 
if i have ever had an issue with either laminate or even tiles in say the upstairs bathroom i tell them the different options for either the fault finding or the installs then the ball is in their court and as said ask them to lift it as you don`t want them knocking the price of it off your invoice

Good advice! Is it advisable to include in your terms & conditions that lifting fitted carpets or lamination is the reponsibility of the client? If they still insist that we have to do it, then we need to charge them extra for such additional work and warn them that it wouldn't be made good to look as it did to start with.

Cheers!
 
once went to do a job where they required extra sockets in the bedroom and would not hear of the carpet coming up. long story short he didn`t like the idea of conduit around the house and in the end realised i had not taken paul daniels with me so up came the carpet :D
 
Had this a few weeks ago. Their was a deadshort between N-E on a old rubber power circuit and there was proper wooden floor upstairs.

We just took down the downstair's ceiling and it was a doddle from there
 
What you need to do is get a disclaimer signed first off that either they get a joiner / floor layer in , or well on there head be it , if you get the go ahead , you need a large shovel, to gently easy it under the edge of the laminate ..................................
then rip the whole lot up and sell them a carpet
 

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