Unhappy with Plastering after Electrics

pixiepeep

Posted this in the wrong forum, ooops! Let's try here...

Basically, we bought a property, got the keys on the 1st of November. We knew there would be a full electrical rewire required. We've had the rewire, they finished Friday, but the problem is that while the electrics are bang on, the plastering to repair chases etc (part of the price) is attrocious.

Literally in places you can see just the trunking, there's no smooth edges, they've completely forgotten one socket, and the rest of them are really tatty.

The stupid thing is we agreed to pay the plasterer more to skim the kitchen ceiling and that bit is fine!

We want to write to the electrician basically saying we're not happy to pay for the cost of the chases etc because we're going to have to get it redone - we can't get them to fix is as our belongings come out of storage tomorrow, our new kitchen is being fitted on Thursday...

They have also left our house in a total state - not just plaster dust everywhere, but plaster in the carpets, the kitchen sink is trashed, wet plaster dribbles down wallpaper, huge dollops of plaster on skirting boards etc. They've left rubbish and swept mess under a piece of loose lamiate underlay

How do I word it?

We'll pay for the electrics and the extra work, but the standard plastering wont be being paid for as it's sub par, or we at least want some money off. I wouldn't be happy with that company coming back again to fix it.

Help!?!?

pixiepeep

Pics to show some of the bad bits. This is a fraction of it. The first photo shows the trunking coming through the plaster.

Franz_Ferdinand

Some may say you're being unreasonable by not given them a chance to put it right.

ess0two

Looks like the conduit is too proud, the plasterer will have struggled to get a decent finish / level with remaining wall.

pixiepeep

Franz_Ferdinand wrote: »

Some may say you're being unreasonable by not given them a chance to put it right.

The issue here is that they were aware we are on a deadline, they put the work back two weeks on the day they were due to start due to a bereavement (fair enough) but even so the work still over-ran by 3 days.

We're not in a possition to be able to put back the delivery of our belongings - it would cost us a fortune now to rearrange it (we're moving quite some distance).

In this scenario, where they knew the time restriction, would a reduction in the charge rather than sending someone out to fix it, make more sense for both parties? I'm not suggesting we don't pay for any of the plastering, just a reduction due to the poor finish.

pixiepeep

ess0two wrote: »

Looks like the conduit is too proud, the plasterer will have struggled to get a decent finish / level with remaining wall.

We thought this on first glance too, but it's shy of the wall level, at around the same depth as the others. There's no reason why this wouldn't have been covered when the others were.

FreeBear

The conduit should be embedded far enough in to the wall that the plasterer can put at least 3mm over the top - The deeper the better.

I must say, the chasing for the wall box (2nd picture) is one of the worst I've seen, and the plastering around the next socket is pretty grim - All round, a pretty slapdash job.

The sockets are going to have to be removed, and ideally the conduit chased in deeper before the plaster can be redone - You won't get a (decent) plasterer in who will be able (or want) to plaster around the sockets.

southcoastrgi

If that's channeling then it's the wrong thing the cables should be covered with capping, channeling is too thick which is why it's showing through

TheCyclingProgrammer

southcoastrgi wrote: »

If that's channeling then it's the wrong thing the cables should be covered with capping, channeling is too thick which is why it's showing through

Oval conduit should be fine if it's deep enough (it's only 16mm thick). It's what our electricians used and also what I used for speaker cables.

glasgowdan

That plastering is really bad, no care taken at all, and I wouldn't be paying for it until they came back and sorted it. The mess on the skirting isn't acceptable either.

anto164

Did you not keep some money back? We did that until the snags were completed - It gave them some driving force to get the works finished.