Dirty tricks to look out for???

[dude_diy]

Does anyone have advice or pointers on what cheeky tricks to look out for that builders might pull during the course of a build???...iv heard of peeing inside cavity walls....any others anyone cares top add???

cheers

(mean no disrespect to all builders out there )

 

[^woody^]

...iv heard of peeing inside cavity walls....

I've heard that too - just now .... first time in about 25 years

One thing is that the builders don't sweep up every bit of brick and sand and either brush it onto the flower bed or into a corner and then leave it.

We probably need to balance this with the dirty tricks pulled by clients too.

 

[noseall]

does it come as any surprise that even builders need to pee?

you either let them trudge into your home, provide a portaloo or let them pee in an obscure place on the 'site'.

our pee place often smells of jeyes fluid on a monday morning.

our current one happens to be in a bucket, in the garage with the door pulled down. the slops are poured under a very nasty, prickly bush.

 

[Deluks]

the slops are poured under a very nasty, prickly bush.

The slops?

One of your guys has sloppy pee?

 

[noseall]

slopping out

 

[Deluks]

slopping out

aha! Sorry for my misunderstanding, for some reason your wording made me think of something else.

 

[Softus]

Does anyone have advice or pointers on what cheeky tricks to look out for that builders might pull during the course of a build???...iv heard of peeing inside cavity walls....any others anyone cares top add???

What are the symptoms of the DIY building problem that you need help in solving?

 

[Deluks]

We may have found the true cause of so called rising damp!

 

[Joe Malone]

Here's my personal favourite... a major building contractor was carrying out hundreds of new bathroom installations for me. This included installing ceiling mounted extractor fans which needed ducting to a newly installed roof terminal. I found they hadn't installed the ducting and had simply siliconed the roof vent on top of the existing roof tiles to make me think they were properly installed. The fans were actually discharging moisture into the roof void!

 

[Deluks]

Here's my personal favourite... a major building contractor was carrying out hundreds of new bathroom installations for me. This included installing ceiling mounted extractor fans which needed ducting to a newly installed roof terminal. I found they hadn't installed the ducting and had simply siliconed the roof vent on top of the existing roof tiles to make me think they were properly installed. The fans were actually discharging moisture into the roof void!

Was there any compensation/comeback? fcin cowboys!

 

[Joe Malone]

Needless to say, I made them go back and put them all right. Also made them aware of the fact that if we encountered any timber rot in the roof voids that they may well be held liable for this too. They soon went back once being made aware of the implications.

 

[anobium]

Here's my personal favourite... a major building contractor was carrying out hundreds of new bathroom installations for me. This included installing ceiling mounted extractor fans which needed ducting to a newly installed roof terminal. I found they hadn't installed the ducting and had simply siliconed the roof vent on top of the existing roof tiles to make me think they were properly installed. The fans were actually discharging moisture into the roof void!

Joe you are starting to worry me.
In one post you say you are responsible for the maintenance of thousands of properties, then you ask us to read your 10000 word thesis on rising damp.
Now you tell us that a major contractor installing hundreds of new bathrooms tried to con you out of a bit of ducting.
Surely the major contractors had site agents, and you the client would have had contract managers/clerk of works, this is what normally happens on large projects or it used to do when I was involved.
I am puzzled as to how you the main man, as I am lead to believe, managed to identify the problem of the missing ducting.?
Wouldn't one of the above menials have brought it to your attention?
thats what you pay them for, on the other hand if there were no COW,s then it does not sound like a very professional outfit.
Can you see what I am getting at?, if I have misread the picture, then please accept my apologies, on the other hand

 

[Joe Malone]

Anobium, you're starting to worry me, what exactly is your problem? Have I somehow wounded your professional pride or do you just come on here to be offensive?

Not that I should have to but let me explain, I'm currently area maintenance manager for a large social housing provider. The incident I referred to happened in a previous job role where I was project managing Decent Homes works, again for an RSL. The contractor was employed under a partnering contract, PPC2000. I often got involved with 'snagging' works and generally ensuring that quality was maintained on site.

It amazes me how you manage to be so short sighted that you assume the incident I referred to must have happened in my current job role, In this case you put two and two together and managed to get three as the answer.

And actually it was a 12,000 word dissertation on rising damp not a 10,000 word thesis. I have a buildng surveying degree too, who'd a thought it, 2 different jobs and a building surveying degree, surely couldn't be possible!

 

[Softus]

The fans were actually discharging moisture into the roof void!

Now you tell us that a major contractor installing hundreds of new bathrooms tried to con you out of a bit of ducting.

I didn't think you were that naive, anobium. Developers cut corners like this all the time.

 

[anobium]

The fans were actually discharging moisture into the roof void!

Now you tell us that a major contractor installing hundreds of new bathrooms tried to con you out of a bit of ducting.

I didn't think you were that naive, anobium. Developers cut corners like this all the time.

On the contrary Softus, it would be a naive contractor who would be prepared to jepordise his relationship with a client on a major contract for the sake of a relatively small amount.
If anything it would be the other way round to influence his reputation re future contracts.
In my experience it is the small one man bands who try and pull flankers.