Please could someone check my photos?!

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Hi everyone,

I'm having a basement reno done (not DIY but just wanting to check with people in the trade). The guy has put up standard plasterboard on the walls first (floor to ceiling), and then put on fireboard ceilings after. This is opposite to what his colleague did in the other room of the basement. Does it matter?

Other than that, are such gaps as shown in one of the pictures ok (you're looking at floorboard to the ground level in the gap) or should he be fitting it more closely? And where there is damage (pic 2) is that ok or does such damage need fixing?

Please could someone check my photos?!
Please could someone check my photos?!
Thanks for any advice x
 
Jane what they've done is cut and damaged the board thinking 'the plasterer will get over that'
Most people do this.
It's poor practice and makes our job harder than it needs to be!
You wouldn't leave a 10-15mm gap in skirting board joins and say 'the decorator will get over that' so I don't know what it's done with us!
You say he used fireboard on the ceilings only but then say about the floor to wall gap which has fire line board on?
That gap is fine as skirting will cover it.
The board ideally sits on top of the floor not below it.
What have they done behind the board is more important?
It's a basement so I hope it's been properly waterproofed or you'll be taking that all off and re doing very soon!
 
Jane we'd need to see a selfie in front of the boards to judge it properly. Its hard to scale the gaps in the workmanship without something to reference it against. Your face/body will help this.

As a community we all dislike shoddy workers because its very easy for the few to distroy the reputation of the many.
 
Theres alot of folk on here lately posting work of peoples plastering.

Take it up with who done it.
I dont take pics of my mechanics work put it on a mechanics forum and ask whats this !!

Or take pictures of my flat beer post it on a pub forum asking whats happened.

Im happy im on new build.
I do some domestics but at a decent price take my time and do it right.
they complain before ive started because of the price.
not after cause it was cheap.
 
Theres alot of folk on here lately posting work of peoples plastering.

Take it up with who done it.
I dont take pics of my mechanics work put it on a mechanics forum and ask whats this !!

Or take pictures of my flat beer post it on a pub forum asking whats happened.

Im happy im on new build.
I do some domestics but at a decent price take my time and do it right.
they complain before ive started because of the price.
not after cause it was cheap.
 
algeeman said:
Theres alot of folk on here lately posting work of peoples plastering.

Take it up with who done it.
I dont take pics of my mechanics work put it on a mechanics forum and ask whats this !!

Or take pictures of my flat beer post it on a pub forum asking whats happened.

Im happy im on new build.
I do some domestics but at a decent price take my time and do it right.
they complain before ive started because of the price.
not after cause it was cheap.
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I think they must google dodgy plasterers work and TPF comes up first
 
algeeman said:
Take a picture of my kids nursery bills and think "whats happenened here then".
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We got our invoice today and i actually rang them to see if they'd made a mistake...they hadn't!

Best part of a weeks wages wiped out and they wonder why people jack work in
 
My brother (plasterer) pays £1200 on the 1st of every month.....2 nippers in nursery.
He says were in the wrong game.
 
algeeman said:
I dont take pics of my mechanics work put it on a mechanics forum and ask whats this !!
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Mechanics tend to either fix it or not... electrics tend to be safe or not... plastering either looks s**t or it doesn't...

I think its good that the public come on here asking as it might intime show them what standard is accepted... most people dont know what a good plastered wall should look like....
 
Pictures wont always do plastering justice.
Ive had cars serviced.. fell to bits 2 weeks after....dumped it back on garage yard and told em to sort it
Theve admitted it was thier wrong doing.

This isnt a perfect world doctors make plenty of mistakes.

Why not pull up who ever done it ??
 
Haha its only just started......school trips.party after party etc......same cost just split into smaller lumps !!
 
£150 ..5 days each child.

This is so they can both work.
Years ago family and friends seemed to help each other.

Seems everyman for himself nowadays.
 
Our young lad is ten,the woman gave up work when he was born and hopes to go back in two years time when he's in secondary school.It's a struggle.
 
Thanks for the replies. My apologies if I misled anyone into thinking I would be posting photos of myself but we're not quite at Halloween yet so let's leave the scary side of things for then!

It's a full-on basement job running into month 3 creating habitable rooms to building regs so the cost isn't cheap. I just know nothing about such work except I could see the rooms were done differently and one has such gaps between ceiling and wall. So, before finding this forum, I had talked to the person who put up the boards. However, as is the case in general I find, the person who did something tends to think what they've done is fine. Therefore I hoped to ask someone independent with knowledge of such work for an opinion regardless of whether it was critical or not. So thanks for taking the time to respond.

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