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Most houses up here are timber framed. It's what we do. Most builders are easy to work with and understand the other trades and what they need to do.
Not so the one I am doing at the moment.
We got off to a bad start, when I looked at the job and we discussed how to do things, which resulted in the builder telling me this is the order I do things, and I am not changing (even though his way makes it more awkward.)
So I told him what I need to do, which meant leaving some sheets of plasterboard off (or portable) to allow some wiring to be fitted.
Last week I went to do some more and check how it was going and he virtually told me to bu99er off as I can't be on site while he was working, I would be in his way.
I go back today and where I need to fit some cables is boarded and fully screwed, so that had to come off.
Next thing, he has screwed some steel furrings to the underside of the joists. Now where the CU is going, I have drilled a row of holes where all the cables will drop. But only one of the holes is currently full of cables, the rest were empty. the Furrings were fitted over while I was gone and he has cut a clearance hole for where the cables are but never thought the vacant holes might be there for a reason. I have take this strip off and fixed my cables. Perhaps when he puts it back and finds he needs to make more clearance holes the penny might drop.
Other silly things he has done, bedroom light and smoke alarm cables though the same hole (they are labelled, he obviously can't read) He hasn't even put them in line with the mvhr vents so it looks awful. No point telling him the socket and light switch heights, he drills the holes at the height he thinks (waste of time)
I have never met such an awkward builder, and one so out of touch with the needs of the other trades. I won't be there next week when he comes back, I just don't think I can work with him.
Not so the one I am doing at the moment.
We got off to a bad start, when I looked at the job and we discussed how to do things, which resulted in the builder telling me this is the order I do things, and I am not changing (even though his way makes it more awkward.)
So I told him what I need to do, which meant leaving some sheets of plasterboard off (or portable) to allow some wiring to be fitted.
Last week I went to do some more and check how it was going and he virtually told me to bu99er off as I can't be on site while he was working, I would be in his way.
I go back today and where I need to fit some cables is boarded and fully screwed, so that had to come off.
Next thing, he has screwed some steel furrings to the underside of the joists. Now where the CU is going, I have drilled a row of holes where all the cables will drop. But only one of the holes is currently full of cables, the rest were empty. the Furrings were fitted over while I was gone and he has cut a clearance hole for where the cables are but never thought the vacant holes might be there for a reason. I have take this strip off and fixed my cables. Perhaps when he puts it back and finds he needs to make more clearance holes the penny might drop.
Other silly things he has done, bedroom light and smoke alarm cables though the same hole (they are labelled, he obviously can't read) He hasn't even put them in line with the mvhr vents so it looks awful. No point telling him the socket and light switch heights, he drills the holes at the height he thinks (waste of time)
I have never met such an awkward builder, and one so out of touch with the needs of the other trades. I won't be there next week when he comes back, I just don't think I can work with him.