Cowboy builders

[simon]

I am now 2.5 years into a 6 month housebuild!
The goddam stinking fu**ing builder is a wan*er, this is just the sort of stupid moronic thing he's done.
If there's anyone living in Cambridgeshire in between Ely and Chatteris, FOR GODS SAKE DON'T employ Mike Deighton.
Libellous? you bet your arse it's libellous, lets see the dickhead sue me!

Simon

[robcob]

Originally Posted by simon

I am now 2.5 years into a 6 month housebuild!
The goddam stinking fu**ing builder is a wan*er, this is just the sort of stupid moronic thing he's done.
If there's anyone living in Cambridgeshire in between Ely and Chatteris, FOR GODS SAKE DON'T employ Mike Deighton.
Libellous? you bet your arse it's libellous, lets see the dickhead sue me!

Simon

Just drill a big hole in the worktop and plug them in, no one will notice.
Rob

[simon]

There's also an external "security" light. You turn it off by....removing the bulb!

[cobracol]

I Take it you think much of him then! He He Best thing to do with that is run a wire(Sunk into the wall) (Better to remove the tile) from the socket into the back of the cupboard and fit a double plug inside the cupboard, that way you will still have your sockets above and can still get to isolate the appliances, oh and while your at it you can straighten the plug up! he he

[V8 BJC]

Unbelievable

Just about to select a builder for an extension build at our place. Not looking forward to the process though.

[cobracol]

Only my opinion but each to their trade, get a builder to lay bricks and get a kitchen fitter to fit kitchen, and by the looks of Simons job get a sparky to fit plugs

[simon]

Yes, we had a bricklayer lay the bricks, a kitchen fitter fit the kitchen and a spark to do the electrics, what are you suggesting?

[Vidge]

Originally Posted by simon

Yes, we had a bricklayer lay the bricks, a kitchen fitter fit the kitchen and a spark to do the electrics, what are you suggesting?

I think the suggestion was don't let a general builder do the wiring in the house. Your original rant read as if a one man band did all the works.

That's not a big job to fix, I'll pop round and do it for you if your somewhere near ely / chatteris. The bit's and pieces are in the back of the van already.

You'll have to do the making good though, and the making of the tea and biscuits, possibly cake

Andy

[andicole0]

Originally Posted by V8 BJC

Unbelievable

Just about to select a builder for an extension build at our place. Not looking forward to the process though.

Brian we have used Sussex Construction in the past

Sussex Construction Ltd - Builders of Distinction

They still work with the architects we used too.

Also, but a bit further away Wilkins Roberts

Andi.

[nuf_said]

Originally Posted by simon

I am now 2.5 years into a 6 month housebuild!
The goddam stinking fu**ing builder is a wan*er, this is just the sort of stupid moronic thing he's done.
If there's anyone living in Cambridgeshire in between Ely and Chatteris, FOR GODS SAKE DON'T employ Mike Deighton.
Libellous? you bet your arse it's libellous, lets see the dickhead sue me!

Simon

Its not just the incorrect bits that you are seeing, its the incorrect bits you aren't seeing!

And then there is the fact that it has gone on for 2 years longer than you contracted for. Assuming that you haven't been changing things etc too much then that is unforgivable.

A probable example (although we don't know all the facts) of lack of interest, lack of co-ordination and lack of forethought - assuming that the builder was in fact in charge of co-ordinating all these different trades.

As already said, get him, at no cost to you, to form a spur to a twin socket in the cupboard and you get an extra set of sockets as well as the correct detail.

Try and stay cool and calm - very very difficult, and put everything in written notes / records.

Nuf Said