FRONT DOOR STEPS

[geek84]

Hi Folks

I've had my front door steps put in recently.

However, the guy who did the wok left a hole in the middle of the steps. He said it was for ventilation.

Is he correct? Do I need to put some sort of 'net' in front of the hole to prevent flies etc from going into that hole?

Thanks in advance for your responses.

 

[HERTS P&D]

Good tradesmen are hard to find.................keep looking!



Andy

 

[Harry Bloomfield]

He said it was for ventilation.

It's there, because it's a mistake, or damaged. Ventilation, indeed

 

[Scally-Ho]

To ventilate or not to ventilate, that is the question. I'd have ventilated his payment cheque until he put his "spot the obvious mistake" right.

IF the new steps had been constructed over an existing air brick, then he knows to put a relevant air grille in a side or even one of the risers and not leave a rough chunk out or reuse an old piece of scrap left on his van. This conn-artist should be named and shamed

 

[simplesteve]

At the very least named and shamed !
That’s got to be bordering on fraud, calling that a professional job and getting paid for it. Did you really pay him ?

 

[pcaouolte]

Someone appears to have gone to some effort to create that hole mess. There must surely have been a reason to do that.

 

[aveatry]

What am I looking at inside the hole - it looks like a copper elbow

 

[foxhole]

Appears you builder had SFB.

 

[endecotp]

What am I looking at inside the hole - it looks like a copper elbow

Looks like a potato to me.

Please tell us how you found this chancer.

 

[aveatry]

Looks like a potato to me.

yes now you say it I am seeing a potato as well

 

[Harry Bloomfield]

yes now you say it I am seeing a potato as well

Yep potato, which I didn't notice originally. I agree, someone has gone to an awful lot of trouble, to cut that hole, but it looks as if it has been done for a while, judging by the cobwebs and dirt on the alloy strip.