Another bodged bathroom

[tamz]

rember back in the 70's a lad named ringy fingy showed me the quick way to get floorboards up,,with a pickaxe,,dont get craftmanship like that these days

When chipboard floors started being laid i found an Estwing multidrill was dead handy.
Only had to put it to that use occasionally when some new joiner decided it was quicker to lay floors without hatches. They soon learned it was quicker to leave them than it was to fix them.

For those who don't know here's a picture of one

http://www.estwingtools.co.uk/images/E312C.JPG

 

[Bernie2]

Naughty! Naughty! Tamz.

A mate of mine, told us about a mate of his working on a site where the brikkies where slow cutting the balanced flue holes out. So he did it himself with a lump hammer, resulted in a new external brickwork panel required. But he did not have trouble getting the holes cut after that.

To me its all daft, its common sense, these things need doing and people usually know when they should be done.

But how often do we get co-ordination on jobs?

Watched the road gang recently, taking up the paving stones to replace them with asphalt, to find one contractor taking them up and laying the asphalt, while another contractor was coming virtually right behind them digging it out to lay their services. Its madness that a little bit of co-ordination should be able to sort out.

 

[tamz]

Only ever had one joiner complain my "drill" was blunt but i had a short fuse and a family to feed then. His mates soon learned.

As you know Bernie, on sites it is usually all down to the money. Everyone is on pricework and price waits for no man, joiner or brickie. We and the agents would tell them what was needed but they would just carry on regardless until you pulled them up.

Btw i still have a great hate of joiners Not individually but as a trade. They have absolutely no respect for other trades.

For roadworks there is supposed to be some scheme where they check with each other to see what future works are planned in each area. Obviously they have lost each others numbers as i have seen that happening a lot too.

 

[easyt]

When I was working I found that coordination between statutory undertakers and highway authorities for programmed work was pretty good. The regulatory agreements only cover highway works over a certain area. (Might have been 100 sq m ?) Statutory undertakers can be denied access to areas of new work except for emergency work.