gas boiler fitter put foot through bedroom ceiling

electric_comperella

He said he's left it proud for me to sand back flush...painter and decorator I am not...mnot to mention all the treatments fresh plaster needs....

booty40uk

Looking at the standard of work there, that's never going to look right. Looks like he used a filling knife rather than a trowel. That will now need cutting out and re doing properly by a plasterer.


Either let him arrange it if he knows a plasterer and decorator or get prices yourself and deduct the cost from his bill.


Either way, withhold a percentage of payment until the job is complete to your satisfaction.


His public liability insurance should cover it if he doesn't want to pay cash. I would imagine he will be looking at around £200 to patch correctly and re decorate (ball park).

macman

electric_comperella wrote: »

He said he's left it proud for me to sand back flush...painter and decorator I am not...mnot to mention all the treatments fresh plaster needs....

You said that he offered to fix it himself, so that includes the prep and painting. Why is he now expecting you to prep and paint it? If he wants to sub that work out, fine, but it's for him to arrange and pay for.
New plaster doesn't need any 'special treatments'. Once dry, it needs priming and painting.

robotrobo

electric_comperella wrote: »

That is a shxt job he has made .

pinkteapot

Agree with everyone above. His responsibility to put it back to how it was before - this includes painting!

As above, his public liability insurance will cover the cost to him. Not your problem if he doesn't have insurance. Don't pay the final bill for the original job until you're happy.

New plaster doesn't need treatment. I've painted bare plaster before and just did a first coat with watered down paint, then normal coats after that. In any event, should not be your job to paint it!

TheCyclingProgrammer

Can't believe he left it like that for you to sand and paint.

Firstly what has he used? If it's one coat or skim plaster, good luck getting that sanded flush!

A good plasterer would have been able to blend the repair in without needing sanding but if you're going to do the fill and sand approach you need to use something that sands well like easifill, which could have been used as a final skim layer over some one coat plaster if the hole was deep.

What a bodger

phil24_7

What TCP said.

Plaster should be feathered/blended in to the existing finish, lightly sanded once dry, then painted to match. A patch of that size should have been patched with plasterboard and filled with easy sanding filler, sanded flat, then painted.

Tell him it is nowhere near the standard expected of a repair (that has proved necessary due to his negligence). You will get the hole repaired professionally and pay for it out of the money you owe him. You will then provide him with a copy of this invoice along with the remaining monies owed.

Regards
Phil

phil24_7

I would also get someone out pronto. If left to dry that will prove to be difficult to remove where as if done whilst it is still fresh it should come off quite easily.

Regards
Phil

EmmyLou30

Awful job. I had an old fireplace bricked up and re-plastered and I barely had to sand it back at all where the walls and the new plaster met, he blended it beautifully....unlike what this cowboy has done to your ceiling! Definitely say he needs to fix it properly or he won't be getting paid.

TheCyclingProgrammer

Is the ceiling plasterboard or lathe and plaster?

Either way I would consider cutting out as neat a rectangle as possible around the repair. Then get a small sheet of plasterboard, cut to size with a tight fit and then use to patch the hole. If there's laths underneath you might be able to use a bit of gripfill to help secure it. Make it 1-2mm deeper below the ceiling surface, then skin over with easifill and sand after 24 hours.

But of course you shouldn't have to do this yourself. Any half decent handyman could do a better job of fixing this up and would be cheaper than a plasterer.