lurpak
Artex Boy
Was just reading the other thread about an over-boarded ceiling cracking and it reminded me of a job a few months back.
Job was to make these 2 rooms into 1, it was a biggish room about 10 meter long. Remove coving and ceiling roses. Bring smaller room ceiling to the same level as big room and skim so it's all the same level blahblah, and skim all walls.
Everything goes to plan, job done, happy customer, paid. Onto the next one.
Couple of weeks later I get a message about a crack appearing. I said I'll pop over and have a look.
I walk in, you all know the first place I'm going to look don't you. Where I joined the 2 rooms. But theres nothing there, dried out not a mark on it no crack.. then he shows me further up the room, a crack from one side to the other.
I was bewildered, wasn't there when I skimmed or I'd have taped it up first. I asked if he had had any work done since I left? he says no.
My heads spinning at this point. So I look through my pictures on my phone and realise the patio doors are completely different. And guess where the crack is? right where the doors are. So I said, you've had new doors in (brick wall) he said oh yeah... didn't think that would do it. lol.
I explained that ripping out a door and all that disturbance and the new doors being pushed up tight to the ceiling is the likely culprit. I did fix the crack for him but charged accordingly.
Moral of the story.. be mindful. Some customers are sneaky.
Job was to make these 2 rooms into 1, it was a biggish room about 10 meter long. Remove coving and ceiling roses. Bring smaller room ceiling to the same level as big room and skim so it's all the same level blahblah, and skim all walls.
Everything goes to plan, job done, happy customer, paid. Onto the next one.
Couple of weeks later I get a message about a crack appearing. I said I'll pop over and have a look.
I walk in, you all know the first place I'm going to look don't you. Where I joined the 2 rooms. But theres nothing there, dried out not a mark on it no crack.. then he shows me further up the room, a crack from one side to the other.
I was bewildered, wasn't there when I skimmed or I'd have taped it up first. I asked if he had had any work done since I left? he says no.
My heads spinning at this point. So I look through my pictures on my phone and realise the patio doors are completely different. And guess where the crack is? right where the doors are. So I said, you've had new doors in (brick wall) he said oh yeah... didn't think that would do it. lol.
I explained that ripping out a door and all that disturbance and the new doors being pushed up tight to the ceiling is the likely culprit. I did fix the crack for him but charged accordingly.
Moral of the story.. be mindful. Some customers are sneaky.
