Went to 2nd fix a fan today ..............

[Murdoch]

And found this:



The position of the fan was agreed with the builder AND its all plastered and painted inside ..............

Wasn't my fault!

 

[Andy™]

looks like the builder is coming back to plaster & paint the inside...

 

[Sharpend]

core out to the right as we look at it and use flexi? might be a tad close to window though? of course its a chargeable extra, or the builder does it?

 

[phil d]

Ignore the duct, fit fan inside and stick outside cover on with silicone sealant, job done. just tell them the bloke who fitted it was from Eastern Europe. lol

 

[ProDave]

What exactly is that on the wall half covering the fan hole?

 

[Andy™]

concrete pad for the steel

 

[ProDave]

concrete pad for the steel

That's what I thought.  The bit I don't understand is how that pad, and the steel beam was not there when the fan hole was drilled?  Obviously the building was not finished structurally?

 

[Murdoch]

That's what I thought.  The bit I don't understand is how that pad, and the steel beam was not there when the fan hole was drilled?  Obviously the building was not finished structurally?

Its the frame for a car port .................... which hadn't been mentioned before and was only fitted this week!

 

[phil d]

Its the frame for a car port .................... which hadn't been mentioned before and was only fitted this week!

Coming next week, "can we have some lights in the carport please"

 

[Murdoch]

Coming next week, "can we have some lights in the carport please"

Hum ..... there is a light just out of shot ..... but who knows. 

The customer and and I have a very good working relationship so ...

 

[Doc Hudson]

Irrespective of your fan problem they have made a ruddy mess of the brickwork with that steel support. Why such large steelwork? How big is this car-port. I remember the days when car-ports were a few 4"x2" timbers with some Perspex sheet over the top.

Doc H.

 

[sprocketflup]

Coming next week, "can we have some lights in the carport please"

Well, theres a decent sized hole there to feed cables through...….

 

[Evans Electric]

That is certainly some steel work there ...looks like the ground floor of the Empire State Building   :C     And of course the building trade  continues in it's headlong plunge  down the bloody mindedness road ......   they could see they were blocking that hole up so why not put the core drill through while they were there doing the steel  ??

Because they don't give a shirt thats why ...get our bit done & move on , Sparkie's problem   . 

 

[Murdoch]

Its a twin car width car port .........

 

[kerching]

How about core drilling on an angle from new position, through outer skin . Then connect with a bit of flexi to original inner hole?

just saying

 

[Doc Hudson]

core out to the right as we look at it and use flexi? might be a tad close to window though? of course its a chargeable extra, or the builder does it?

How about core drilling on an angle from new position, through outer skin . Then connect with a bit of flexi to original inner hole?

just saying

Plagiarism anyone?   If it is a standard axial wall fan being fitted, (i.e. where the fan body and motor basically blocks nearly half the duct area anyway), your probably not far off enough volume even with half the hole covered by the car-port support. It may not need much more cut out to still allow 100% extract rate.

Doc H.

 

[phil d]

20 years ago I know exactly what I'd have done, and it would have involved a Kango! I used to be a right swine when I was younger, a plasterer boarded and plastered several walls, completely hiding my boxes, I located them with a sledgehammer! Spent all morning cutting holes through walls in a building to run a 4x4 trunking through, then went for lunch. Returned to find a plumber had found a load of convenient holes to run his 28mm pipes in, sorted, and I ended up with a load of scrap copper pipe too.

It just annoys me when people can't be arsed talking to each other, then muck your bit up, but it doesn't matter, because they got their bit done . I'm not unreasonable (honest) If I'm knocking half a brick out to get something through, I don't mind knocking a full one out if it helps you, but NEVER, NEVER, watch me make a hole and then nick it when my back is turned because believe me, you WILL regret it!

 

[Sharpend]

that sounds like your still a swine @phil d   :slap

 

[Tony S]

He's just like me, GRUMPY  :Salute

 

[Evans Electric]

We're all grumpy when it comes to things like that . 

A right argument on one job some years ago ,  wiring a new build doctor's surgery  under the control of  B,ham City Council  .  

Part of the spec was the alarms ,installed by one of the big well known companies whose name escapes me now , were our sub-contractor .             Near to finishing my 1st fix we get them in for their 1st fix. 

I go to another job for two days , on return  the City Clerk of Works is there , doing his nut .        Alarm wires are through the same ceiling joist holes as my wiring ..but .. the annoying part....  the Clerk says you better get your wiring  moved , you can't have it enclosed with low voltage    ( At the time Low Voltage meant below 110 v ) . Like I didn't know that !

I phone my boss , who phones the alarm firm , who say we only make one call to fix , you'll have to move  your wiring   :C    We are specialists  and we work to BS  whatever !   Not your Regs .  

So bloody annoying that once again  we get it in the  neck ...I just dug my heels in and  refused ...it was tantamount to rewiring the whole job again for us .  In the end they had to come back & do it .