Poor finishing from tradesmen

FreeBear

fer .... sake. It is not difficult to find a decent bit of timber to match the worktop surface. Absolutely no need to use a bit of cheap ply wood. Nor is it that hard to cut the worktop and get a virtually invisible glue joint.

Grenage

It's posts like these that make me feel a lot better about my DIY over the years.

stuart45

The problem with some of these handymen is that they don't realise how poor their work is. So even when you get them back for another go it's usually not much better.

fenwick458

diystarter7 said:

 The finish was 90% and the joker put a nail through a central heating pipe emmbed into a wall as floors are concrete we only noted this at midnight just before going to bed. We told him he was said he was not a plumber, I put the phone down.
We  paid for the fix etc ourselves.

Was it obvious where the heating pipe was? of was it just randomly buried in in the floor? I've hit hidden pipes before that are not in prescribed safe zones or obvious and it's perfectly fair to charge the customer extra for repairing these, or leave them to sort it out. 

and, back on topic, thats shocking work but you do say it was very cheap, maybe thats why?

travis-powers

Shocking!
worktop in that situation should have been scribed to the wall, the radius should have been routed, if he fits kitchens he should have a worktop jig which has radius profiles if not it’s simple to make one, edging strip in your case he should of removed all of the edge and replaced with one continuous strip, any small imperfections can be taking care of with colourfill.

itssmallstuff

Grenage said:

It's posts like these that make me feel a lot better about my DIY over the years.

True. I could have done better measures and cut than him...would take me weeks extra but end result would have been better..