OK, First of all I do not claim to be any sort of a tradesman, never have and never will but I always used to believe that British Tradesmen had pride in their work. However my opinion on that is now rapidly changing!
We've just had our bathroom converted into a full wet room, which was finished a week ago.
We started getting problems even before the job was finished!
The second fix electrician came and that very same night we lost all of the electrics in the bathroom. They came and rectified the problem the following day but did not tell me what the problem had been!
The second fix plumbers came and they had to be called back because the toilet bowl had not been fixed in square to the cistern, and then the cistern flushing unit locked up and refused to flush the same night!
A couple of days after the job was finished I noticed that the floor was starting to lift around the shower drain hole. On top of that the wife noticed that there were a couple of floor tiles starting to lift in the kitchen (The kitchen is separated from the bathroom via one thin wall, I'm not sure what it is made of but could be just breeze blocks) and that the carpet near the living room/ kitchen door was starting to show a constant very wet patch.
We called the Site manager yesterday and he came and had a look. He decided that the wet room floor needed to be taken up and a new one refitted. However he could not work out how or why the kitchen floor tiles were starting to lift and the carpet was starting to get wet - Something that has only started to happen since the wet room was fitted!
I have to admit that I could not work it out either until this evening when I decided to opened the inspection hatch behind the shower to see if anything was leaking in there. What I found really shocked me! There is a mains water supply pipe that runs to the shower that has not been fitted straight into one of the copper 15mm elbow and also that the soldering was so badly done that it was leaking and the water running along the floor and somehow under the kitchen floor tiles and into the living room carpet!
Just to add "insult to injury" the mess that is in there behind the inspection hatch is nothing short of disgraceful! - They appear to have stuffed screwed up balls of the polythene that the sink and fittings etc had arrived in into the area behind the inspection hatch, they had used the inspection hatch to throw empty coke cans in, there is a load of lumps of concrete from the old floor that they had to take up to fit the shower thrown in there as well as loads of old pieces of wood from the old bath fittings - some of the lumps of concrete are tangled around a load of tangled electric cables with bare ends (Thankfully the cables are just earth wires).
I will be phoning their head office with a complain and offering them a copy of the photos of the entire mess and will have to see what they say.
As for me if this is "typical british workmanship" then it is no wonder this country is going to rack and ruin!
Have any of you guys had modernisation work done that you feel was not up to standard?
p.s. I will not name the company concerned or show any of the photos of the complete mess until I have spoken to them tomorrow!
. There’s good trades men and cheap tradesmen but not good and cheap tradesmen
booked up until next summer and plans in pipeline for the autumn/winter 2031!!
