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One of the jobs at a rented house today was to try and fish a cable through for a new storage heater.
Laminate flooring in living room, kitchen and hall.
The best I could think of was drill down (blind) through the floor and send my fish wire down and hope I could find it in the access trap in the meter cupboard 10 feet away.
Just as the drill broke through bad day explode downstairs ring final now off.
Yes, because I was drilling blind, I drilled right through one leg of the downstairs ring that must have been clipped to the side of the joist.
So now I'm rather committed to pulling two cables through, one for the storage heater, and one to replace that leg of the ring that I've just drilled through.
It took 2 hours to get the fish tape through, with the tenant helping. Had I not needed to get a cable through I would have given up and told them it was impossible without lifting the laminate flooring.
So all worked out in the end. Cable for heater in, and ring repaired.
Because it was me that broke the ring, I knocked an hour off the labour charge so they were not paying for my time to connect the new leg and test it, as it wasn't their fault.
I just wonder what the rest of you do when you mess up. Do you put it right at your own cost, or just keep quiet that you messed up and charge for putting it right again? (I couldn't do that as the tenant witnessed the bad day explode )
It's made me re think laminate flooring. Perhaps next time I won't put myself in that position, and simply say they need to send a floorer round to lift the laminate flooring for me and put it back after I have finished.
Laminate flooring in living room, kitchen and hall.
The best I could think of was drill down (blind) through the floor and send my fish wire down and hope I could find it in the access trap in the meter cupboard 10 feet away.
Just as the drill broke through bad day explode downstairs ring final now off.
Yes, because I was drilling blind, I drilled right through one leg of the downstairs ring that must have been clipped to the side of the joist.
So now I'm rather committed to pulling two cables through, one for the storage heater, and one to replace that leg of the ring that I've just drilled through.
It took 2 hours to get the fish tape through, with the tenant helping. Had I not needed to get a cable through I would have given up and told them it was impossible without lifting the laminate flooring.
So all worked out in the end. Cable for heater in, and ring repaired.
Because it was me that broke the ring, I knocked an hour off the labour charge so they were not paying for my time to connect the new leg and test it, as it wasn't their fault.
I just wonder what the rest of you do when you mess up. Do you put it right at your own cost, or just keep quiet that you messed up and charge for putting it right again? (I couldn't do that as the tenant witnessed the bad day explode )
It's made me re think laminate flooring. Perhaps next time I won't put myself in that position, and simply say they need to send a floorer round to lift the laminate flooring for me and put it back after I have finished.
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