Hi all hope someone can help
My mate and me have each been plastering about thirty years, about 5 years ago we done a new build in the country, complete plastering job inside and out. About 3-4 mths after we finished the contractor contacted me to say that the skim had started going boast here and there in a few rooms. We couldnt understand what the problem was as i say plastering a life time and never had this happen before. The only explanation we could come up with was that there was no running water on the site just a newly sunk well, the houseowner and contractor both said to use this, as it would be fine and would be the only source of water on site. We were'nt happy about this as the water was murky and smelled a bit. We went and repaired the work anyway, reputation and so on being important free of charge i might add. Now 5 years later the contractor has come back saying the client still refuses to pay him the £25,000 he owes him as this prob persists, he says the client claims to have got experts out who have said the skim coat is only 1mm thick which is crap, because there is 2 coats on as usual, and that also the nail marks made by the float might not be deep enough which again is crap, as i would be using a float and so would my mate, so there is a very slim chance both of us would have scored the floating coat to lightly. But as i said never happened us the 25 yrs previous or 5 years since that house. Again the only difference is that this house was the only one we have ever done before or since that we had to use well water. What does everyone think.
I am worried we are being used as the scapegoats here , as of course now the well water is fine having been treated and so on.
My mate and me have each been plastering about thirty years, about 5 years ago we done a new build in the country, complete plastering job inside and out. About 3-4 mths after we finished the contractor contacted me to say that the skim had started going boast here and there in a few rooms. We couldnt understand what the problem was as i say plastering a life time and never had this happen before. The only explanation we could come up with was that there was no running water on the site just a newly sunk well, the houseowner and contractor both said to use this, as it would be fine and would be the only source of water on site. We were'nt happy about this as the water was murky and smelled a bit. We went and repaired the work anyway, reputation and so on being important free of charge i might add. Now 5 years later the contractor has come back saying the client still refuses to pay him the £25,000 he owes him as this prob persists, he says the client claims to have got experts out who have said the skim coat is only 1mm thick which is crap, because there is 2 coats on as usual, and that also the nail marks made by the float might not be deep enough which again is crap, as i would be using a float and so would my mate, so there is a very slim chance both of us would have scored the floating coat to lightly. But as i said never happened us the 25 yrs previous or 5 years since that house. Again the only difference is that this house was the only one we have ever done before or since that we had to use well water. What does everyone think.
I am worried we are being used as the scapegoats here , as of course now the well water is fine having been treated and so on.