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Ok so:
- When a wall was taken down to make the kitchen the current size it is there was a difference in ceiling height of ~ 5mm. The normal solution to this would be to get a plasterer to feather out the height difference and make it not noticeable. This guy constructed a false box in the middle of the kitchen ceiling that runs the width of the room and put low voltage downlighters in it. Not a bad solution I hear you say, but hold on a second how does one turn these lights on? By climbing into the fucking loft to flick the switch that's how.
- He put home made built in wardrobes in every bedroom. To be fair he did an ok job of this apart from one little thing the doors are so tight to the floor that if you put a match stick on the floor in front of them it will get caught under the door and rub. Want to put a nice rug on the floor in front of the doors? Forget it.
- The usual way to tile a bathroom is to put yourbshower tray and bath in then tile to them. Not this fella, he tiled the entire room floor to ceiling and floor as well obvs this means that I have to choose between a MASSIVE line of silicone around the shower tray and bathtub or none. Obviously I need this round said shower tray but there has to be so much there that as it dries it settles back and therefore becomes a mould magnet.
- He put a shower in without a fucking extractor fan. This is now resolved.
- Installing toilets without fixing them to the floor. Also resolved.
- Installing a kitchen without fixing base units to the wall. Fixed.
- The aforementioned number of random vents.
- Re roofing the garage flat roof but not putting a drip above the gutter so that when it rains it also rains inside the garage. This is now resolved
There are some more problems but these are my biggest bugbears. If we weren't planning on doing the work then these would have all been fixed by now but if we're going to be doing major work there's no point fixing some of this stuff now.
- When a wall was taken down to make the kitchen the current size it is there was a difference in ceiling height of ~ 5mm. The normal solution to this would be to get a plasterer to feather out the height difference and make it not noticeable. This guy constructed a false box in the middle of the kitchen ceiling that runs the width of the room and put low voltage downlighters in it. Not a bad solution I hear you say, but hold on a second how does one turn these lights on? By climbing into the fucking loft to flick the switch that's how.
Bobbo
Oh, list please.