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Right so to cut a long story short, am renovating a house and employed a plumber to totally replumb and to fit a boiler.
Got several quotes, chose one in the middle from what seemed like a genuine chap, who had someone else working for him to do boilers. Chap sent to do boiler, then the plan changed and he was apparently to do the rest of the plumbing too. Fine, ok. Until we saw the standard of his work and the mess he left behind. I won't go into the boring details but the problems included;
Got several quotes, chose one in the middle from what seemed like a genuine chap, who had someone else working for him to do boilers. Chap sent to do boiler, then the plan changed and he was apparently to do the rest of the plumbing too. Fine, ok. Until we saw the standard of his work and the mess he left behind. I won't go into the boring details but the problems included;
- messing up the painted wall (fine, maybe to be expected) then repainting without asking, but using a light blue paint on a lilac wall and not noticing! Stripy walls!
- spraying oily crap up the newly plastered walls
- failing to put pipes where asked (for no good reason) and consequently leaving the job looking a mess, pipes through new skirting needing to be moved and cracking a tile he shouldn't even have been drilling through in the first place
- attaching upstairs rads at heights varying by over 20cm- just looked daft, some far too high!
- leaving a general mess behind him including piles of brick rubble and pipe offcuts
- leaving us without a warranty on the installed boiler, despite the fact we opted for the more expensive boiler to get a longer warranty
- fitting push fit where his insurance insisted on compression fittings
- not finishing the bloody job!