Lathe + plaster + cream carpet.... oh dear !!

[sythai]

What a nightmare..... covered carpet up with my dust sheet (should have used my roll of carpet protector!)

Only had to take out 3 x old R60 eyeball lamps.

I've ended up somehow getting a nice little grey smudge right in the middle of the customers cream carpet - great !!

Rang up local carpet cleaner chap, he reckons that it might not even come out. Lucky I've got some liability insurance.

:stupid:

 

[trev]

You can hire them mate, it's got to be worth a go before getting the insurers involved and it'll probably make you look good in the clients eyes

 

[DurhamSparky]

oh dear dear!!!

not the worst

 

[telectrix]

are you sure the mark wasn't there before. have had that scam pulled on me before now.

 

[trev]

One job I was on the plasterer broke the toilet cistern, said to the client I'll try fixing it with silicone and if that doesn't work I'll get on to my insurers. Needless to say the silicone fix was a fail of biblical proportions

 

[Edd]

Doing a PIR in docklands, cream carpet.. sat on floor and started wrighting the cert out, only to see a chunk of chewing gum on the imaculate carpet!!!!
My heart sank as I was only there because the tennant had complained about the other sparks that had never sorted anything out.... lucky she was on the phone talking to a friend,, I sat there pulled, choped, wiped as best I could.. that was about a month ago, not heard anything so can breath a sigh of relife..but crap does happen, and it really does stress me out.. hopefully sythal they can clean it... at least you had dustsheets, so at least you tryed.

 

[sythai]

oh dear dear!!!

not the worst

Yeah I know, more embarrassment factor than anything !

 

[DurhamSparky]

personally i would start a fire to hide the carpet mess....!!

 

[sythai]

are you sure the mark wasn't there before. have had that scam pulled on me before now.

Gonna ask them in the morning.... doubt it, house is absolutely spotless... not a thing out of place etc

 

[ipf]

At least you can't point the eyeballs at it.

 

[Dave 85]

I find, when trying to pull a stubborn downlighter out of a newly painted ceiling, no matter how well I wash my hands beforehand, I always leave finger prints, and when i try and clean them off, it just makes them worse. Also my bloody spirit level leaves marks on the wall every time I use it. Aaaarrgh

 

[Guest111]

Had a bloke try it with me once rang the boss and said I had burned a hole in landing carpet with drill bit and wanted £400 for replacement,boss was going to pay up and stop it out of my wages,until I showed him my dust sheet with no burn hole in it customer had also put dust sheets down before I arrived.Turns out previous spark had burned carpet and paid out so he thought he would have a small job done by a different firm and get more cash for his carpet,thank god I had just used a new sheet that day.

 

[TaffyDuck]

I was working in a block of converted flats. Covered everything I could and started drilling. A small bit of red brick dust got onto the sofa and woman went nuts and said I had to buy her a new sofa. I pointed out that I would be le to get the stain out but I couldnt do anything about the 20 odd smoke burns on it or the coffee stains. She said and I quote " but they are my damage, this is yours" Needless to say shes still sitting on the old one as far as i know.

 

[Edd]

Had a bloke try it with me once rang the boss and said I had burned a hole in landing carpet with drill bit and wanted £400 for replacement,boss was going to pay up and stop it out of my wages,until I showed him my dust sheet with no burn hole in it customer had also put dust sheets down before I arrived.Turns out previous spark had burned carpet and paid out so he thought he would have a small job done by a different firm and get more cash for his carpet,thank god I had just used a new sheet that day.

Its scum like that who can cost people their jobs,,, and why is it the bosses always just wana pay up and take it from our wages???? surly it should be,, oh im really sorry about what happened ile talk to the electrician involved and see what he has to say...

 

[trev]

Had a council tenant once accuse me of destroying her brand spanking new (yeah right) microwave because the "New electricity" I'd installed caused a surge. Funny how her TV, sky box, computers etc were not damaged.
She got a solicitor involved and even funnier was the fact that he used the term "New electricity"