Rough council jobs and Bodgers and scaprper merchants
The guys who do them are on time limits they expect rewires in 1 day which leads to shoddy/ incorrect work and not to the standards it should be
They should have removed the wooden window sill and tiled it and sealed as the water will penetrate and cause damp
Because the plumber has put the shower to one side this has now left the cable exposed and incorrectly routed as technically its now not run vertically to the shower as its now run to the side
needed to be a inch or so to the right so that it enters from the rear of the shower not the side
The shower should be to left or right hand side so that the outlet and shower rail can be installed in the centre so majority of the water would then cascade into centre of the bath and not all down the wall
I live in a council house and have tiled plumbed and wired my own shower lol
they are due to come and carry out proposed works on the bathrooms in my area which I will be refusing as its a better job than they would do as well as being tiled from floor to ceiling on all 4 walls
Ask them would they be satisfied with shoddy work like this in there house
It was same when they refurbed the kitchens
instead of lifting floorboards above kitchen they just smashed holes either side of joist notched it next to wall and ran the cables underneath
the cooker point and socket outlets was relocated and partially rewired they used JBs and jsut shived them up through the holes dog rough
the cooker cable came vertically down the wall and the switch would have been directly above the Hob which in case of emergency would have meant leaning over the hob to sitch off
I pointed this out to them and instead of moving the cable over a metre or so they instead elected to joint the cable out in the metal back box using connector blocks then ran horizontal to bew position then back into the original point and then down to the cooker outlet
they jsut installed a
tile over the old position so the joint is not accessible
the sockets gradually get lower as you move round the kitchen
when questioning the works supervisor he didnt see a problem
I told him it looks as if the guy was drunk and as he gradually worked round the kitchen he sunk lower
the back boxes they basically bashed the brick into the cavity so the back boxes are only jsut reachable with long machine screws
Tiling is very poor basically its a complete botch
It was better before because at least the cables had no hidden joints and was possibly safer
and dont get me started on damp ads i have lived with it for 13 years of them trying all sorts of bodges to sort it out
lowered flags outside
removed a row of bricks outside were damp course is and installed some new damp proof memebrane but incorrectly
drilled and injected the same row of bricks
knocked plaster of 3 ft high
then plastered about 10 times each time telling me either incorrect plaster was used
plaster was touching floor
but no matter waht they do my wallpaper peels off on side of chimney breast
and external gable wall
after the first few years had eneough employed a solicitor spent a load of money waiting for letters from solicitors and council for about 5 years
lived upstairs twice for 18 months first time as they was supposed to be removing concrete fllor and installinga water proof memebrane they didnt jsut a small section near chimney as the concrete kept blowing up and same on the plaster on the front of chimney breast wall they just ashphalted it all, they told us it was done we had ordered new carpets for downstairs , hall, stairs and landing they were in storage in the shop from date of purchase we moved back down had carpets fitted then within 3 months paper was pealing carpet shrank away from wall grippers lost there glue bonding to the floor all of which had to come back up for them to have another play and 6 months second time
we had our own surveyor who proved it was in fact 100% damp on gable wall
chimney wall and the party wall between us and the neighbours
few more years of back and forth
while all the time we was questioning what was taking so long with soicitor
for them to come back after 5 years of being employed by us, to tell us the barrister has told him to end the case as its been going on to long
and here years later still trying to get them to sort it out
new paper on chimney breast wall is already pealing off and was done before xmas the back of the paper is black and the paper has shrunk
same on the gable wall
they have sent a inspector and then a damp specialist who upon using his probe says he doesnt understand it as its damp in one point but not another
My response if its damp in one bit and not another like within a inch or two of measurements gradually its coming back the gable wall in the corners will not paint
Anyway now you can see when dealing with councils you dont really get anywhere
at the time of having solicitors this was mostly paid for by my partner and I as they means tested us so we only got a small amount of legal aid towards the costs
so
the solicitor and barrister got paid for doing abosolutley nothing apart from sending a few letters to us and the counci a few thousand pounds of our money and same legal aid
pointed the apex at the top of the gable end , removed two
tiles on roof all way round new felt here
there last attempt at the chimney breast was to send a wet nosed kid to knock the corner of the chimney re drill and inject then botch the plaster looked like some modern art depicting the waves of the sea
Yeah and he was qualified damp specialist or plasterer
he then used the existing attached corner bead, with existing attached plaster and all, to stick down and plaster over meaning the wall in now not square and in fact is over the grippers and carpet by a inch or so
anwyay good luck with complaining mate I hope better than I
they never reduced the cost of the rent why we lived upstairs but now our eldest daughter moved out decoded to charge us bedroom tax as its unoccupied thanks to the tory ???????
Good Luck in getting it sorted