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cotswold builders wrote:
Never the less, by law you should give him the chance to put it right,
only if he refuses, then use others, but you cant claim compo of him.

wine~o wrote:Just remember if you are thinking of taking the original plasterer to the small claims court, then you must give him the chance to put his work right...If not then the court will likely not find in your favour...

Roughly what I said....

In my opinion taping boards is a damn site easier than skimming a ceiling and have never skimmed a wall in my life

I can just about manage to butter bread

so thats why I wasn't going to give this a bash.

anyhow, I've cut my losses with this one.

the leccy can get new faceplates and his plasterer is going in tomorrow as an emergency before work as he had a look earlier.

had to be an emergency thing as plumbers are supposed to make a start tomorrow.

costs by the way were £225 - 7ftx4ft ceiling


just rather draw a line now than have the original plasterer mess about any further.

again, point taken about the lights being out for plasterer
but I still stand by the fact he should have asked.

I didn't hold a gun to his head to not remove them.
as for expecting a trade to do anything he is not qualified to:

call me/tell me.. add it to your bill for what it costs to get the correct person in.

when a carpenter had to remove a rad, he brought in a plumber and added it on after asking me if I was ok with it, no problem.

If he goes ahead despite knowing its not ideal and can be easily made ideal
then its still squarely his fault for the rubbish quality

simples

Agree he should have ask, crazy not too unless he's a newbee that was trying to please.

when i do a ceiling that has spots in it ill board it. measure out for the lights then cut them out with either the appropriate hole saw or a smaller than usual hole saw, say a 1 1\2 inch or whatever. this way if ya make a mistake say too close to a joist for example its easy enough to adjust slightly. then skim it. then if ive used the slightly smaller hole saw ill double my hole saws up together with obviously the smaller one first. this guides the saws through the original holes and the larger cuts the new correct size hole.

then fit the lights once its done. never ever fit lights then plaster it.

cables if they go too far back can easily be drawn back through

new plasterer re did it yesterday.

as he was skimming it, the old plaster just fell off the ceiling, literally.

look a million times better now though.

We were always told that legally we couldn't even unscrew a light fitting as we are plasterers, not sparkys.
Had to inform the customer and it was up to them to do it or to get it done.
The job still should be easy, just take a little longer to be tidy around the lights. The rest of the ceiling should be fine anyway.