Recent content by jaffajeo

Thanks for your advice guys. At the moment, I've let them know that we're not prepared to pay that amount, and they're of course arguing that we should. They're suggesting an alternative figure, and I'm suggesting my own. I just noticed that there wasn't beading (I believe) in the corners...

Thanks Malc, and for everyone else that has provided advice. What a screw up eh folks, and the thing is - I really want to preserve this building for posterity. It's a place that will eventually become a home, but in a manner that preserves it so that it may become a church again. But... so far...

Some extra info * Their price is based on 293 hours of work priced at £25 an hour (mostly done by 2 folks) * The hall is a former church so its about 9m x 18. Most of the walls were just crack repairs in the plaster, but the bottom section was replaced by plasterboard (about 1 meter high) all...

So, in your experience chaps, what is the best way to tackle discussing this?

It's a bit of a nightmare, as you'd expect there is no excuse why new plasterboard walls aren't flush... but I don't want to get into a huge fight with them. They've rated their work as £25 / hour. I feel, that the quality of the work is half of what I expected, how would you approach this...

Could I ask you to elaborate please? It's just I'm really hoping to get some advice here :)

Hi there, So, I've had plasterers working on a hall (about 18 x 7 meters) to plaster over damaged walls (primarily cracks) and ceiling cracks. To fill in any holes / and to polish up. This included skimming a long border of waist height plasterboard, that goes around the hall. Of the original...