Plasterer damaged carpet

dave030445

Can i put my pennies worth in
If you are having the room ceiling plastered i would of thought it would of been the OP responsibility to clear the room. in my opion it is the OP fault. Also the OP is spending all this money having the house redone and they want to replace a old piece of carpet. I would of thought the OP was planing to replace the carpet in the near future and is looking at the poor plasterer to help pay.

cyclonebri1

And I see it the otherway.

Any trades-person has a responsibility to respect the home that he/she is working in.
"I thought" has brought about bigger tragedies than this, but still isn't acceptable.

!!!!!! did he do with the bit he cut off?

dave030445

cyclonebri1 wrote: »

And I see it the otherway.

Any trades-person has a responsibility to respect the home that he/she is working in.
"I thought" has brought about bigger tragedies than this, but still isn't acceptable.

!!!!!! did he do with the bit he cut off?

lol :rotfl:

heretohelp

Must be a really thick plasterer who walks up stairs across a landing with no carpet down go into a room that just happens to have a piece of spare carpet in it and not connect the dots.
Get him to replace the carpet if it was outside next to a bin I could understand but not when it was in the house.
Ive worked in lots of houses and rule number one is DONT TOUCH ANYTHING.

DirectDebacle

^^^^^^^^^
Precisely. If you do cause damage then you admit it and put it right. Trying to shift the blame onto others is deplorable.

andyhop

We would never use anything that belonged to a customer unless we had verbal conformation. Even if it looks like it was fit for the skip it is not the property of the trades but of the homeowner

Andy_89

Doozergirl wrote: »

It doesn't sound like anyone has been supervised on site. This is exactly the sort of stuff that happens when people aren't.

I'm sure the plasterer would have had his own stuff, too, but it is absolutely not outside the realms of unreasonableness that a used carpet that didn't fit might have been left for him. Indeed why would someone put a nice carpet in a room for safekeeping where the ceiling was being plastered? I'm trying to see it from the perspective of what is reasonable. Destroying a laid carpet or cutting off a piece of something that looked like the actual room carpet would be unforgivable, but a landing carpet would easily have looked like scrap in the wrong room in a house undergoing work.

Before the customer looks for a brand new carpet on the plasterer, I think they need to consider what is reasonable.

I have to say I disagree, if you were a trade and you did a small domestic job would you want the house owner 'project managing' you?

The plasterer should have asked and not assumed - as the old saying goes, to assume makes an !!! of you and me.

Next you will be saying the OP should have done site inductions and toolbox talks.

phill99

cyclonebri1 wrote: »

Any trades-person has a responsibility to respect the home that he/she is working in.
"I thought" has brought about bigger tragedies than this, but still isn't acceptable.

!!!!!! did he do with the bit he cut off?

What is this obsession woth calling tradesmen 'tradespersons'. This PC stuff has gone too far.

Building sites sre the most un-PC places in the world. Thank heavens.
They are tradesmen. Even the ones with lumpy jumpers expect to be called tradesmen.

And what of the other bit of carpet? He can hardly stick it back on.

ilikewatch

warmhands.coldheart wrote: »

True BUT.... you get what you pay for... if you'd be expected to do all you suggest, which yes would be the most professional and bets way of doing it, you'll pay for that service... if you want something done at a reasonable affordable budget cost you'll not get that service....

Very true - I had a lot of plastering done a couple of years ago by a "bargain basement" tradesman. When a friend of mine who is a plasterer came round after I'd had the work done he said the standard of plastering was good, but was surprised at the amount of splashes left on the windows, skirting and floor... Until I told him that I had paid £100 per room, whilst he would have charged more than that per wall. I know that I'd rather pay £600 to have the whole house plastered and spend 3 hours cleaning up properly myself than spend £3000 and not have to clean up!

Doozergirl

Andy_89 wrote: »

I have to say I disagree, if you were a trade and you did a small domestic job would you want the house owner 'project managing' you?

The plasterer should have asked and not assumed - as the old saying goes, to assume makes an !!! of you and me.

Next you will be saying the OP should have done site inductions and toolbox talks.

Someone else putting words in my mouth.

Common sense has to be applied. The level of management required is directly linked to the job. Employ one trade for one job and the management runs down to discussing what you want done and agreeing the boundaries.

Employ two and someone needs to communicate !!!!!! is going on in the house. Sounds like both have been left to their own devices when the OP knows nothing about the carpet even being moved in the first place, let alone that it subsequently spent a day being used as a dust sheet or that the electrician came back to replace it.