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Re: Kitchenfitters tricks!
That is a beauty.. What is in some peoples heads..very little obviously. 😯
I am fed up with covering for these so called professional fitters, be they kitchen fitters or builders. I now ask the customer to call these trades persons ❓ back to remove there bodges. One recently acualy said “the engineer is trained to remove these built in dishwashers” and said to my ear (on the phone) when I said about reading the installation instructions “the manufactures dont know what their on about” also, “we do it the same as every one else” they must be sheep, BAAA.
These fitters??? or whatever they call themselves nowaday’s (fitter bodgit and co 😈 ) do not like having to return at all to remove any appliance even a hood. I explained to one FB&C it needed two persons to remove a very large hood, he said MFI would have to pay him to return to remove said hood. The customer could wait no more, so they went into MFI and complained, MFI contacted the chap and he sent one person to remove the hood and it promptly fell on him ouch. This customer had to wait over six weeks for that, now I expect another six to refit. I could go on like many of you out there. I recon we all should stop covering up there mistakes and they should remove the appliance (especialy under the gt period).
Rant over.
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Had the usual DW and WM where the floors been laid AFTER the installation – one recently turned into a godsend for the customer as when they lifted their wooden flooring to allow removal of WM , they discovered the floor underneath sodden from a hidden water leak…..in the nick of time.
Also went to a customer who had to have all her recently painted , expensive coving removed from around the chimney top of her cooker hood – She’d got pretty narky at my advice and didn’t react any better when i returned and charged her for replacing a plug fuse !!!Re: Kitchenfitters tricks!
why oh why do they
1.stand the feet of an appliance on stilts ,making it a pig to refit .
2.put the taps behind the pee trap
3.put the mains spur for the cooker hood behind the chimney shroud and then tile/grout it in or put it above the cupboards right at the back where you can’t get to them,or even wire it staright in with no ability to isolate the hood ( happened last week )
4.put a bridge across the chimney and screw it in in such a way you can’t shift itone of the few moorcroft jobs I did was a dishwasher blowing the trip when I took the
plinth off I was confronted with a six gang extension lead in a bag with the dishwasher ,washing machine and f/frzr plug in it ,I assume the bag was there to stop the water that was leaking from the extended fill hoses getting in ,sadly it failed the bag was full , 😯 then she tells me the fridge man was coming in the following morning as that was blowing the trip as well .
at that point I gave up and walked out .
LawrenceI’ve been to several calls in the Epsom/Tolworth/Kingston area to be told about the kitchen fitters who caused a fatality! Apparently they nailed one of those magnetic knife / utensil strips through a live cable. Lady was emptying dishwasher and placed utensil on strip. RIP. 🙁
Think I’ll learn how to tile and do my own kitchen!
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Wasnt it that case which prompted the most recent shake up in wiring regs? Sure it was an MPs daughter or something.. Or maybe its an urban myth.. i believe anything me.. :con:
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philfish wrote:it was an mp’s daughter thats why part p got dragged trough so quick!
Been to a new kitchen this week which my dog could have fitted better 😥 Socket outlet over sink!!! should be at least 300mm away, cooker switch over cooker should be at the side so you don’t get burnt when the chip pan goes on fire 😥 Socket outlet for washing machine fixed to cupboard under water fittings, should be fixed to the structure of the building with at least a isolation switch above the work top. etc, etc
I asked who had done the electrics, she replied the guy who fitted the kitchen so I enquired if she had a certificate for the electrics. Do I need a certificate? so I pointed out the Part P requirements. So she says, should the fitter have supplied me with one? YES I said. 🙂
GOT HIM she said, it cost me over £3000 to have my lovely kitchen turned into this heap of crap, and he won’t come back to put everything right that we have spotted. Who do I contact about this Part P?. Buildings inspector at the Council would be a good start I said.
I would expect I will be getting a nasty phone call off this guy, I can’t wait 😈
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I went to a built in W/M some time ago, when I tried to pull it out I could feel the resistance of the hoses stopping it coming right out. ‘I’ll do it ‘ says the customer, and he gives the machine a good yank, and the cold hose snaped off. It took him 15 mins to find, and turn off, the main stop cock, while the water was gushing out.
After I got the machine all the way out I found the hot and cold taps behind the back of one of the cupboards.Re: Kitchenfitters tricks!
I’ve lost count of the times I’ve tried to get a dishwasher out of a bodged, tiled up installation whilst groaning at every new twist (tiled to the kickstrip and grouted, taps behind cupboards, 4″ of mains cable throgh a hole in the base of the cupboard stretched across the units, feet cemented in ….all in one particular installation), all pointed out to the customer who replies “My husband fitted it and he knows what he’s doing” 😆
T
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and yet another, full sized d/w under stainless steel draining board. sink unit with normal bowl and small rinse bowl alongside. d/w had to come out. pulled, twisted, grunted, swore (under breath) reverends wife nearby. brute force won!!! obviously the fine fitters had mis measured space for d/w and had not allowed for width of rinse bowl. d/w BER. offered slimline d/w….no she said i want a full size one!!! ok, you’re the customer…she calls me back…i’ve bought a bosch..the only way it would fit was remove both side panels and as much sound deadening stuff and push it in, making sure it would come out fot maintainance..she was happy about all this… 😳 :rolls:
richardRe: Kitchenfitters tricks!
Nice one Richard, I would have insisted the installer to refit, this like your avatar (flying pink pigs).
Installers do not like having to remove thier professionaly fitted! appliances, likewise refitting them either. Now I wonder why!!!!!!!!!
Oldtog (dave)
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The only problem with that is that 50{e5d1b7155a01ef1f3b9c9968eaba33524ee81600d00d4be2b4d93ac2e58cec2d} of them have gone out of business, moved or are trading under another name. 😥
Jim.
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