When Wet-Pants does the Muc-Spreading

[-Matt]

Got to a job of a second fitting this morning, and went from a rather good mood to ----ing ----ed off when i noticed all my sockets were completely full of plaster and most of the light switches where completely filled and plastered over.

There was a data socket to the right, completely hidden!


I immediately went to drag the main builder so he could explain to me what the ---- he had done, to be told “the plumber was short on work, so did the plastering”

I stole 2 of his lads to dig my boxes back out for me, after re-locating where i had put all my sockets and switches etc.
Who managed to break the lugs on 2 sockets after smashing them with a chisel.

I had even gone to the effort of making sure all my cables were nicely coiled up inside the boxes, i should have left them all stucking out!


Just what do these people think they are doing???

 

[FatAlan]

Plasterers working on my house have been pretty good and I do feel for the lads that have worked mixing up lime plaster. Even wearing masks they still get exposed to some s**t. Cut my last set of downlights holes yesterday and 100% hit rate for cables being where they should have been.. glad I made detailed diagrams and measurements.
I have one intermediate switch where the cable was sheered leaving me with about 2.5inches to play with
Now waiting for comments on 2.5inches

 

[pirate]

Just do it all yourself! Then all will be ok.
Used these recently...

http://yoozybox.co.uk/

came back the next day...all gone!
Still, the back boxes were clean...

You cannot trust others to do the job...fact!

Oh, if this is seen as a rant, I'm off!

 

[telectrix]

watch out pirate, there's a splicer eyeing up your main halliard

 

[Blissof89]

Whenever you meet a new plasterer coil the cables up in the box nice and tidy and point out to him you have done so to make his life easier.

If he fills the boxes up then next time he gets 500mm of cable hanging out of every box and flat capping

 

[-Matt]

I think if MR Plumber/Spreader turned up yesterday I would have punched him.

Doing my testing, and had no ring continuity, so clearly there was another socket somewhere.

Being that it was last year that i 1st fitted, I couldn't remember where else there was any sockets, neither could the customer.

So had to crawl through the very tight loft to follow my cables, found another drop, then smashed his ----ing plaster off.

I had to repeat this twice more, and I finally had continuity...
(each time I found one, the customer would go, "ohh thats for the....)

To say I was royally ----ed off was an understatement.......

 

[telectrix]

I think if MR Plumber/Spreader turned up yesterday I would have punched him.

Doing my testing, and had no ring continuity, so clearly there was another socket somewhere.

Being that it was last year that i 1st fitted, I couldn't remember where else there was any sockets, neither could the customer.

So had to crawl through the very tight loft to follow my cables, found another drop, then smashed his ****ing plaster off.

I had to repeat this twice more, and I finally had continuity...
(each time I found one, the customer would go, "ohh thats for the....)

To say I was royally ****ed off was an understatement.......

once had exactly same. used a Bosch metal/cable detector to find the boxes. cut out carefully with multitool and old blade. no mess, no drama.

 

[brianmoooore]

Don't you lot have 'phones with cameras in your pocket? Always take a pic. of every wall after first fix.
Not only helps locate plastered over boxes, but also studs and joists that you may want to find for fixings.

 

[Toneyz]

Don't you lot have 'phones with cameras in your pocket? Always take a pic. of every wall after first fix.
Not only helps locate plastered over boxes, but also studs and joists that you may want to find for fixings.

I'll have thousands of pictures of walls if I did that!

 

[brianmoooore]

You don't have to keep them forever!

 

[Electric Magic]

Finished a rewire a couple of weeks ago. Use the same plasterer regularly for rewires I do but after this one am not using the moron again. The job he did on filling the chases was fine, however the general state of the existing plaster on some walls was poor so he convinced the customer to knock it off (after I'd completed second fix) and he's been back to board and re-skim. He put a screw through one of my cables when fixing the boards (even though he knew exactly where the cables were -he filled the chase the first time!) but rather than calling me he just carried on regardless. Didn't mention it to me or the customer just left the lights off (not that they'd go on as the screw created a short between neutral and earth). I'd have come out to fix it FOC if he'd have called me (would have taken the p*ss a bit, but everyone makes mistakes). He probably gets about a grand a month's worth of work through me. Not anymore.

 

[StephenRowley]

came back the next day...all gone!
Still, the back boxes were clean...

find some m3.5 torx head/security bit machine screws