Plasterer has scratched the sink..

[eLuSiVeMiTe]

I always clear up and make sure what i do looks right,

My old man instilled that in me years back. Can make a bad job look good by leaving it tidy. Generally I leave a house tidier than when I arrived.

 

[pedrobedro]

A friend of ours, Kev, is a plasterer and he is fastidious in his tidiness even down to his van. He has a Vivaro and you could eat your dinner off the floor in the back. He has so many drop sheets when he goes to do a job it is unreal.

 

[Bryan Williams]

So I hung back from work an hour this morning to talk to him but he didn't show, supposed to be skimming today
Don't really know what outcome is best on this..

 

[Kent]

Hey, it happens that's why you need insurance and enough brains to avoid this sort of thing!
Have a civil. Polite word and go from there.

I had three broken bathroom sinks when the lads dropped hammers fitting bathroom windows, one gouged toilet seat from a unit falling out and one ruined bed set when my filter (shortly after sacked) put a sooty crow bar down on someone's bed. When I had the conservatory business.

Every single one I sorted without quibble

Resin sinks do this but the important bit is you didn't do it

Never yet met a plaster who gave much thought to this stuff unfortunately you need to watch them like a terrorist

BTW I dropped the unit it hit me on the head first we all do dumb stuff!

 

[wookie]

I think it comes down to how they are in life, Lots of trades people are very neat and clean and feel pride in work they do, Some are just bodgers and it shows in they way they clean up and work, I always clear up and make sure what i do looks right

The best comment I got from a customer recently was he couldn't tell I'd been on board his boat apart from he could see the new instruments I'd fitted. I'd had half the boat apart fitting stuff and running cables but it was cleaner when I left than when I started.

I'm lucky that my father in law is a retired builder so he does the plastering for me but by heck does he make a mess, my missus and me spend more time cleaning up after him than he spends plastering but when he does it for a few beers I can't really complain can I.

 

[winchman]

So I hung back from work an hour this morning to talk to him but he didn't show, supposed to be skimming today
Don't really know what outcome is best on this..

New sink supplied and fitted at his expense, in law you need to be put back as though it never happened.

 

[brightspark]

there's 2 ways to learn the easy way or the expensive way .some people just need it spelling out

 

[Bryan Williams]

Sorted amicably.
He was genuinely very apologetic , offered to buy a new one,always wants to leave the customer happy.
Crap happens..
Just knocking it off the price.

 

[dobbslc]

Glad that's sorted out OK.
We had a plasterer do our floor screeding in the extension a few years ago it all looked fine then a few days later I put my foot through it in a corner of one room! I checked other places and it was all crap, no strength in it at all. Took a bit of threatening down the phone to get him back to sort it all out and even then I had to supply the materials and rip out the old stuff. It was so bad it only took two of us an hour to get it in the skip! Could crush it in my hand!
His plastering wasn't much better and after I through him and the builder off the job I found a really good plasterer that did an excellent job of sorting out all the rubbish beads and reveals he'd done . I still use him now.

 

[fixerupper]

I had something like this happen to me years ago when I was building fire places and fitting wood stoves ...I had a young lad working with me and he dropped some bricks and smashed a secondary double glazing unit on a french window at a house I was working at , the customer was away for the weekend and I had keys and alarm codes ..I took of the frame and got the very embarrassed lad to tidy up the glass, and shot into town ...I got a friend in the trade to make up the new unit and I rehung it on the Sunday ....Later when it came to settle up for the work I had done, I'm standing in the lounge with the cheque in my hand ...and I can see the new glass on one door against the old glass on the other door side by side ...I just had to tell her ...she laughed and insisted that she paid for the glass..

 

[brightspark]

in 46 years ive only ever knacked one table ruined a worktop and a few minor incidents that I paid for just go canny and think things through unless u are plain clumsy or brain dead

 

[Bryan Williams]

I'm more than happy with the work ,top fella, just unfortunate what happened.
I think it was more that ripping the old stuff out and fitting new worktops sink , cabinet and plumbing was a bit of an epic task for me, I had to fit a corner cabinet where the old back door has been bricked up. the two cabinets either side were not level with each other , the corner cabinet didn't fit (I think the wife bought a right handed corner instead of a left. I had to cut nearly every panel on it, even one door, (which , with a Draper venom fine saw came out great, best £6.50 ever spent) then try to get the three tops to meet level after cutting out the hob and sink holes with a cheap jigsaw.
I was determined that the new sink wasn't going to leak water under the lip so I applied SBR to the cut edge of the sink and Sikaflexed the sink down!
Then attack the plumbing.
So was a bit chuffed when I it all looked OK.
So when I saw the scratched sink I probably had a bit of a girly tant

 

[penfold]

I was determined that the new sink wasn't going to leak water under the lip so I applied SBR to the cut edge of the sink and Sikaflexed the sink down!

So it will need a small atomic device to remove it then?

 

[Bryan Williams]

Yes, but there won't be any radiation leaks..