The Best Floorboards Ever???

[Paul.M]

Went to a job last week and found this



Oh dear the plumber has had a go at the chipwood and then did this




Yes that is compacted cadboard covering a hole in the floor....... And there's more....

 

[Octopus]

What did the customer say when you showed them?????????

 

[telectrix]

time to show off your wood butchery skills.

 

[Paul.M]

Yes that is a bit of carboad over a hole in the floor stuck down with tape!!!!

Do you think that the chipwood is scewed down? Not a chance, all loose and one peice is just held up with a 6" nail!!!

 

[Silly Sausage]

Years ago, many years ago, I had just re-floored my kitchen floor with chipboard, then we had a new cooker delivered and while they were putting it in, I was proudly jumping up and down on my new floor in some vain attempt to impress them.
Crack! I'm through the floor up to my shoulders. Took two of them to drag me out. It hurts!

 

[SPARTYKUS]

I can't believe someone has bodged that like that. How do they sleep?

They must have been about to leave the country that afternoon, surely.

 

[Strima]

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Yes that is a bit of carboad over a hole in the floor stuck down with tape!!!!

Do you think that the chipwood is scewed down? Not a chance, all loose and one peice is just held up with a 6" nail!!!

Simple enough fix but is the customer getting the plumber to sort it or getting him to pay?

 

[Merl]

Ahhh! The phantom wet head strikes again!!

Dont suppose you also found a chopped cable down there made "safe" with that same gaffa tape Paul?

 

[Paul.M]

And this i what I discovered once I pulled the masking tape from the floor...





I was doing quite a bit of works in this houes and part of it was this....




Yes that is a single socket fed from a 0.5 flex in a walk in wardrobe spurred from the rfc! (bless the weekend diy'er)

 

[telectrix]

that skirting board is pants as well. or is the gap to allow for cooling?

 

[Paul.M]

Oh it gets better but at this moment in time my phone (picture taking storage facility) is having an argument with my laptop so I cant post any more pics, sorry. I'll sort it out and come back to it.

 

[Adam W]

That house has more than a hint of DIY about it. Are you sure the mess made of the floorboards was the plumber? If it were just messy floorboards (the cardboard is pushing it a bit IMO) then maybe, but factor in the socket and the skirting boards...

 

[trev]

Do we have a thread for bodges found on jobs we go to?

 

[Paul.M]

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see if that works

 

[SPARTYKUS]

Paul

Sort yer phone out, please!! Its cracking me up