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Appliance gliders to protect kitchen floor

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  • Ah, OK ...

    It just sounded as though all the units were coming out anyway :confused:
    Warning ..... I'm a peri-menopausal axe-wielding maniac ;)
  • Ah, OK ...

    It just sounded as though all the units were coming out anyway :confused:


    That would be the sensible thing to do. With the original builder footing the bill, but we all know that isn't going to happen. He has had his money in full and moved onto the next victim whilst looking over his shoulder for Matt Allwright.:rotfl:
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  • notisis
    notisis Posts: 306 Forumite
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    Chippy Minton, sometimes what is sensible as opposed to cost effective (this is a money saving forum) and saves sanity, is not always the best sensible route. I'm sure the OP sees your suggestion as right if all other factors are in place but sometimes (in legalese) you have to mitigate your losses to save a long legal wrangle which can cost your sanity and time in getting things put right. If the OP can live with what is now proposed and simply wants information on the best way to move her appliances, then that is the advice she should be given having explained the circumstances, not a number of postings disagreeing with her decision.
  • I think I spoke to you on the phone. The best solution for you now is to refit the run with the applaince which you are doing and while the washing machine is out level the floor where it sits ( sound like the floor got levelled with the washing machine in situ) then lay the amtico under free standing appliance and use a piece of hardboard or carpet when you need to pull the appliances out
  • I do not see any comments or suggestions other than useful ones. I take it you did not keep a retention? Did you actually bother to check what the builder was doing in any way? Perhaps you were happy with the original price quoted because it was cheap and this clouded the judgement and made you forget to get references. If you are prepared to live with a bodged job for 10 years or so then what you propose is what you should do, just do not take offence to people trying to show you the correct way.
  • capita_guy wrote: »
    If you are prepared to live with a bodged job for 10 years or so then what you propose is what you should do

    This is a point worth thinking about. Whatever you decide to do, you're going to have to "live with it" - or pay to have it changed somewhere down the line ....
    Warning ..... I'm a peri-menopausal axe-wielding maniac ;)
  • andrew-b
    andrew-b Posts: 2,413 Forumite
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    Then there's the other side of the coin ...OP has become a "victim" (perhaps of their own naiveity), feels vulnerable and stressed out by the whole sorry affair and wants an end to it before they completely lose their sanity! I know first hand what it's like from our own kitchen experiences and one doesn't necessarily think straight especially if you can't sleep properly because of it - though this case is a bigger mess-up and enough to give the most sane person a nervous breakdown! In our case it took months of the installer coming back fixing a leak with many a sleepless night worrying over it..in the end it got to the point i got my own spanners out and fixed it myself! I was naive at the time and had only ever employed one tradesmen before in my entire life. I also didn't use the help offered by the MSE forum which could have saved me a whole lot of aggro! I didn't get references and so on and just went with the first quote i got. In hindsight i would have kicked them out on day one of the job at the first disagreement! Believe me you learn!!

    I think some of the posts could be easily construed by the OP as kicking them whilst they down on the floor and a bit more diplomacy wouldn't go amiss. OP knows they messed up and sure they don't need to be reminded Hindsight is a wonderful thing... but what's done is done and now they just have to find the best way to deal with it to THEIR satisfaction (not the perfection of some of the rest of us!) to make the best of a bad job.

    Seems i was one of the few who actually offered a simple suggestion for the question they wanted answering without laying into them for picking a dodgy builder in the first place!
  • Andrew-B has more or less hit the nail on the head...if that is an appropriate turn of phrase. I am not naive, or stupid ! This man had done competent building work for me earlier in the year and 'touted' for the kitchen job. I allowed my self to be convinced which was wrong, and it became obvious early on that the project was not running smoothly. With all utilities ripped out and no cooking facilities it would have been a brave person to sack the builder and face a wait of maybe several weeks to get someone else to take over. Yes I kept an eye on him, and averted several other errors but I AM NOT A BUILDER, and yes I paid in full in good faith at the end of the job...mainly as I wanted him GONE so I could begin to sort things out ( I have retained funds on previous projects so understand the concept )
    Some of the comments above HAVE felt like kicking me when I was already down..after all this is not a theoretical project but my life and home.
    I am compromising with the solution I am using...but I am sure that NO project is completely perfect, the most skilled tradesmen must look back and see where even they could have used a better solution.
    So thanks to you all for giving advice, lets hope we have ALL learned something!
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