I’m learning what this means as I flip our house for rental.
Bought off a builder and everything under the surface is mix and match, odd sizes and dimensions etc.
I’m learning what this means as I flip our house for rental.
Welcome to my world.Nefarious wrote: ↑Mon Feb 25, 2019 5:13 pmOur phrase for that is "built by builders". Specifically any time you give what you think would be an absolutely obvious common sense task, but don't specifically walk them through absolutely every last step of the process.
I know from bitter experience not to, for example, give site guys a new toilet and basin, point them at a cloakroom and say something apparently reasonable like "could you fit that in there". Guaranteed the pan will end up mounted on the ceiling, the seat on the door, the basin not fitted at all, and a 15 minute tirade about how the previous plumber was a cowboy.
It is literally the story of the flats in my block. It was a warehouse conversion in the 80s - started by a fairly competent developer who went bust at the 80% stage, and apparently finished by some random labourers using whatever crap they happened to have in the back of their vans.
and badly done using the wrong materials.
Holy reheated turds, batman!
How about plaster board attached (and I use the term loosely) to the outer wall with expansion foam? Or cheap laminate (not waterproof and with no drain) in a bathroom? Or a bath fitted after the wall had been tiled top to bottom?dinny_g wrote: ↑Tue Feb 26, 2019 8:52 am Oh yeah - it was about 6 months after we had bought the place that I noted 3 different types of Double Glazing units. Front, Side and Back are all different .
then there are the modifications / bodges...
and the Bay Window he fitted without sealing the top properly...
All sound like normal DIY bodging.DeskJockey wrote: ↑Tue Feb 26, 2019 1:13 pmHow about plaster board attached (and I use the term loosely) to the outer wall with expansion foam? Or cheap laminate (not waterproof and with no drain) in a bathroom? Or a bath fitted after the wall had been tiled top to bottom?dinny_g wrote: ↑Tue Feb 26, 2019 8:52 am Oh yeah - it was about 6 months after we had bought the place that I noted 3 different types of Double Glazing units. Front, Side and Back are all different .
then there are the modifications / bodges...
and the Bay Window he fitted without sealing the top properly...
Yep. Only noticed while fixing another problem that the cistern was warm!
Assume away, Mr Raith.
Luxury!Nefarious wrote: ↑Tue Feb 26, 2019 2:23 pmYep. Only noticed while fixing another problem that the cistern was warm!
The shower tray in our en suite is, as far as we can tell, a unique size. It fits perfectly into the space where the shower is, in a sort of alcove. It feels like Redrow got hold of a job lot of odd-sized trays and designed the house round them. I hope I never have to replace it.Nefarious wrote: ↑Tue Feb 26, 2019 2:35 pm Oh, and while I'm moaning, a different but related problem - proprietary solutions to simple problems. More specifically, now-obsolete proprietary solutions to simple problems.
I'm renovating a flat at the moment. One of today's "simple" jobs was to change the door handles from the current 80s gold horror show to something standard and modern. Easy, you'd think, but then you get one off and there's a massive 54mm hole hiding behind. WTF? It's some crazy, massively over-engineered reinvention of the wheel by a company in the 80s called Weiser. And you can't just buy a standard replacement, because nowdays rose sizes max out at c.50mm (would need 70mm+ to allow for screw holes).
OK, so some enterprising spark at an outfit called Renova has come up with a special solution. But naturally it's at a price. 35 notes per handle instead of sub £10. And I need 6 sets. It hurts, but I took my shafting and paid the money. But once back at site, they still don't bloody fit. No, they need a 70mm tubular latch. Tubular latches come in 60mm or 75mm.
So I've just been screwed for another £40, have to wait for Friday for delivery, and have wasted most of my day on what should have been a 15 minute job.
Seriously. Who the hell looked at a conventional internal door handle and thought "nope, that'll never do, back to the drawing board".
NotoriousREV wrote: ↑Wed Feb 27, 2019 7:00 am
The shower tray in our en suite is, as far as we can tell, a unique size. It fits perfectly into the space where the shower is, in a sort of alcove. It feels like Redrow got hold of a job lot of odd-sized trays and designed the house round them. I hope I never have to replace it.
Yeah. No.jamcg wrote: ↑Wed Feb 27, 2019 11:14 pmNotoriousREV wrote: ↑Wed Feb 27, 2019 7:00 am
The shower tray in our en suite is, as far as we can tell, a unique size. It fits perfectly into the space where the shower is, in a sort of alcove. It feels like Redrow got hold of a job lot of odd-sized trays and designed the house round them. I hope I never have to replace it.
The ones house builders usually use are cheap ones with upstands that go behind the plasterboard and tile so do measure up strange. Best thing to look at is what size cubicle glass you can fit in- look at adjustments as for example a 1000 wide sliding door would fit something like an alcove 920-980 wide, due to how the wall finish overlaps the tray. It should be a standard size as tray and cubicle sizes should conform to British standards