Plasterer has plastered over plug sockets?

Nynaeve

When I asked him about it, he said they cut them out later... but how does he know where they are?? He's coming back tomorrow to fit a skirting board and hopefully reveal them again.

Does this sound right?

Jack_Regan

Do you mean plastered or boarded over?

southcoastrgi

I can't wait to find out the answer to above

macman

I can't wait to see a picture...
Did he plaster over the doors and windows too?

ValHaller

If the sockets were taken off the wall and the wiring made safe, most plasterers would plaster right over and cut back out the next day. When I have had plasterers do this, I have cut them out myself the same evening when the plaster has gone firm but still remains cuttable with the right kind of knife, But there is a knack, mailnly consisting of only using the knife to cut into the socket box - never cutting on an up stroke out of the box, because you can pull a big lump of plaster.

wallbash

AS ValHaller posted standard practice.

keystone

My "tame" spread does this too. I was honestly aghast when I first saw him do it but yes it is standard practice.

Cheers

Nilrem

It sounds like a sensible way to do things, as it'll be much faster to cut the holes out later than to try and cut them out as you go (and you need to take the face plates off either way).

Nynaeve

Phew! Yes, faceplates have come off. And it's plasterboard going up. It's mostly dry now.

LOL, no, it's a conservatory so happily he didn't plaster over doors and windows

Rockingit

It's been a long while since I've found a spreads that will cut the boxes back out for us when still wet - the new breed of chuck it on and !!!! off quick merchants we get on construction sites don't give a monkeys. The other week I spent so much time chopping boxes back out from plaster AND screed that we might just as well have not bothered to chase in before them! And then you get the danger of the whole lot flaring and a mass of filling needs to happen. And who should pay for THAT?

worried_jim

macman wrote: »

I can't wait to see a picture...
Did he plaster over the doors and windows too?

On holiday in Greece I saw some workmen re surfacing the road with tarmac and they went all over the drains and manholes. We were told they come back the next day and cut them out.
Next day I went for a stroll and of course they were all covered up and no sign of any workmen.