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<blockquote data-quote="McRae" data-source="post: 433916" data-attributes="member: 28317"><p>Thanks again everyone. I am definitely not trying to imply that this team are cowboys or utterly useless, that would be unfair. They just seemed not to take any care, drilled though pretty much every wall they found, and made some very poor decisions. I have told them that I do not have enough confidence in their work to allow them to fix some remaining issues. I want to be sure than I am not being totally unreasonable.</p><p></p><p>The plasterers have unscrewed switch faceplates and found loose wires in two of them, which had to be re-tightened. Surely that can't be acceptable either? I am not trying to do a hatchet job, we just need to understand what is and isn't reasonable. Thanks to the helpful replies, I am already prepared to accept that the old plaster may be easily damaged, so I will stop complaining about the chasing. However, I am totally untrained and a DIY nightmare, and if I drilled through a wall when fitting a back box, I wouldn't then do the same thing on the next 3 back boxes ...</p><p></p><p>BTW the radiator was existing, it wasn't fitted over the socket. They just tucked the socket partly behind it. Not catastrophic, just unnecessary and I wouldn't have done it.</p><p></p><p>Last image below - I just don't feel that is good enough</p><p></p><p>[ATTACH]7661[/ATTACH]</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="McRae, post: 433916, member: 28317"] Thanks again everyone. I am definitely not trying to imply that this team are cowboys or utterly useless, that would be unfair. They just seemed not to take any care, drilled though pretty much every wall they found, and made some very poor decisions. I have told them that I do not have enough confidence in their work to allow them to fix some remaining issues. I want to be sure than I am not being totally unreasonable. The plasterers have unscrewed switch faceplates and found loose wires in two of them, which had to be re-tightened. Surely that can't be acceptable either? I am not trying to do a hatchet job, we just need to understand what is and isn't reasonable. Thanks to the helpful replies, I am already prepared to accept that the old plaster may be easily damaged, so I will stop complaining about the chasing. However, I am totally untrained and a DIY nightmare, and if I drilled through a wall when fitting a back box, I wouldn't then do the same thing on the next 3 back boxes ... BTW the radiator was existing, it wasn't fitted over the socket. They just tucked the socket partly behind it. Not catastrophic, just unnecessary and I wouldn't have done it. Last image below - I just don't feel that is good enough [ATTACH]7661._xfImport[/ATTACH] [/QUOTE]
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