Spray Paint

electricden · Dec 23, 2013

Part way through 2nd fix and client has had a guy in tospray EVERY room wall & ceiling with white emulsion. Went in on Saturday tocontinue my work and found the ceiling rose's I had fitted had had the coversremoved and now all cables inside are white !! they had masked the few switchesI had fitted but now IR down to 1.2Meg . The cables ready for making off inback boxes are still wet with paint. You can feel the damp in the house nowwhen you walk in.

Taylortwocities · Dec 23, 2013

Walk away until after New Year and let it dry out. I'll bet your IR is much better by then!

Merry Christmas!!

electricden · Dec 23, 2013

Taylortwocities said:
Walk away until after New Year and let it dry out. I'll bet your IR is much better by then!

Merry Christmas!!

Thats exactly what I've done .......... He wanted his tennant in over the Christmas period but I,ve told him there is no way I can let the power go on.

driverman · Dec 23, 2013

Well there you go.........You had a WHITE Christmas after all! Ho Ho Ho

electricden · Dec 23, 2013

Yeah and if had powered up it might have been a blue (to bits) one :smug2:

gnuuser · Dec 23, 2013

i would have had a fit over that
obviously the painter is not a pro or they would have known that the boxes would need masked off
I would clean the paint off and charge the painter for the time.

Silly Sausage · Dec 23, 2013

electricden said:
Part way through 2nd fix and client has had a guy in to spray EVERY room wall & ceiling with white emulsion. ................. You can feel the damp in the house now when you walk in.

What a muppet!
Tell him he'll have to get a dehumidifier in over Christmas/New Year! :smilielol5:

driverman · Dec 23, 2013

slightly off subject..I can remember yrs ago at Christmas time a brand new 4 bed detached house had to be dried out quickly after being plastered (no dot dab in those days) over the Xmas holiday period. Builders used an electric heater come dehumidifier and left it unattended. Opps, it dried it out OK, burnt the whole lot down! Builders had used an extension lead, but had not uncoiled the extension lead fully! Expensive exercise!

guest119 · Dec 23, 2013

I would have been overcome with emulsion if it happened to me.

Boydy

Geordie Spark · Dec 23, 2013

gnuuser said:
i would have had a fit over that
obviously the painter is not a pro or they would have known that the boxes would need masked off
I would clean the paint off and charge the painter for the time.

I would shove his spray gun up his arris and then pull the trigger.

telectrix · Dec 23, 2013

thought that trick was reserved for plumbers and blowlamps.

GLENNSPARK · Dec 24, 2013

electricden said:
Part way through 2nd fix and client has had a guy in tospray EVERY room wall & ceiling with white emulsion. Went in on Saturday tocontinue my work and found the ceiling rose's I had fitted had had the coversremoved and now all cables inside are white !! they had masked the few switchesI had fitted but now IR down to 1.2Meg . The cables ready for making off inback boxes are still wet with paint. You can feel the damp in the house nowwhen you walk in.

explain to him about identification of conductors....then add costs....

its your time...