Hall I started today in woodblock karndean had wires all round the edge. Must of been a pain to ply it. Paul my buisiness partner had cut about 10mm from skirting for the wires to sit in. What do you do? If its screed do you screed over an Tape them down. I did it with a alarm wire few months ago with no problems.
exactly the prob i had end of last week mate. customer had 6mm ply waiting for me, cables were to big, had to go and get 9mm lol just kept the ply snug to the cables when fitting it, sorted..
if they wont fit around the edge and under beading i wont do the job unless they are moved. END OF THE DAY THEY SHOULD NOT BE THERE I used to groove the floorboards and ply over or screed over them until the day it all went wrong. Basically it was a concrete floor. Not enough cable to go around edge so i glued the cables to the subfloor. I then screeded over the top. Next day i returned and there was 6 BT vans outside digging the road up. I go into property and the customer tells me the phone started ringing at 3am and would not stop. So she rang BT and they have been here for last few hours. They say there is a fault on the line and they think its outside so digging road up ! Well i point out that i screeded over the phone cable. Next thing i know they are now digging up my screed? After around 6 hours they decide that moister has got into the cable from the screed. Simple change cable? Well no. The cable goes from BT box to a the ADT alarm. As there is no dedicated cut of point between the BT socket and the ADT socket neither company is allowed to touch the cable. They have to get permission form one another through writting etc. To cut a long story short i was given a bill for- 6 people from BT Digging up the road and re-tarmac 2 people from ADT A lot of hassle for 2 days! I will never again do a customer a favour and bury wires for them when they have simply been installed wrong in the first place.
Thats probably the worst thing Ive ever heard. Thanks for giving me another example of why I shouldnt sort out other peoples mess.
Same as Matt the wires should not be there, they either remove them or call back the person who put them there to remove them or the floor don't get installed end of. Take this as an example during a strip out of sisal I noticed the lazy alarm guys had put the cable all the way down the side under the sisal. Previous fitter had put a nail right through the panic alarm cable (big house on posh private estate) this was unkown to me until it came out an the alarm goes off. Lady of the house comes running through whats happened well I say this nail through the old sisal must've been in the wire keeping it live until I pulled it out. Next the phone rings and its plod she says no everything is ok no need to come round its just a nail through the wire I'm having new carpet installed an puts the phone down. Next her personal trainer turns up an she disappears to the basement gym. 5 minutes later theres a banging on the door open up its the police. So I go an open the door an in they storm like the gestapo treating us like criminals an make us drop our tools and stand against the wall until they find the lady of the house (officers were armed with pistols) I shat myself. Hand where we can see them lads face the wall. After it was all sorted I asked the officers why we were treated like that an they said well we don't know who you are you could be posing as carpet fitters an tied her up in the basement. I was like are you serious posing we have new carpet all the tools van full of fitting tools dressed for the occasion I hardly think we are posing.
Had one last week alarm cables came up out the floor in the corner and ran round the outside of room so just cut the ply short and tucked them the side down easiest way until after stoping for lunch I forgot all about them and when cutting the mitre in karndean border cut it once fine but went back for a second cut and cut the f@!king cable right where it came up from under floorboards resulting in cable droping down under the floor result was sheet of ply took up along with 1.5 sq m of karndean the alarm bloke cuts floorboards out replaces cable and glass fuses £230.00 the customer won't let me repair floorboards as I'm not a carpenter so calls a friend 50cm of 2x4 nailed to joints so boards can fit properly £50 end result a very peed off floorlayer, from now on there left on top of the floor
