Hello all,
I was hoping that you experienced plasters would be able to offer an opinion on the following:
I’m currently involved in a small claim against a customer regarding money I’m owed for plumbing work carried out at his home. He in turn has made a counter claim in regards to a leak he is saying is my fault. Plumbing aside the customer reports damage to his kitchen ceiling, kitchen wall and dining room wall (which is the other side of the kitchen wall, a single skin of brick).
He has provided me with photographic evidence of the leak as well as damage this has caused. Below are some of the images he has sent (I have three others that show little else, I can always provide links to these, unfortunately I've met my file upload limit on here). I also have included a copy of the invoice that the customer has in relation to remedial work with regards to the plastering and decorating. Details of the tradesmen involved have been blacked out for obvious reasons.
I’d really appreciate any comments you have with regards to the plastering. Obviously I understand that you may not be able to comment on decorating but would ask you whether it is common for a decorator to have to use lining paper on a freshly skimmed wall – the customer was having anaglypta papered on the dining room side of the wall.
I don’t have exact details of the size of the kitchen but would say that 20m[SUP]2[/SUP] would be generous. The house was probably built between 1920 and 1940, original lathe and plaster ceiling has been boarded and skimmed in the last month or so.
I’m not sure why the plasterer needed to take down the original ceiling, is there any way of checking whether this remains above the current ceiling (all I can think of is removing the light fitting and checking whether there are signs of the original lathe above)?
Yours,
Mark
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I was hoping that you experienced plasters would be able to offer an opinion on the following:
I’m currently involved in a small claim against a customer regarding money I’m owed for plumbing work carried out at his home. He in turn has made a counter claim in regards to a leak he is saying is my fault. Plumbing aside the customer reports damage to his kitchen ceiling, kitchen wall and dining room wall (which is the other side of the kitchen wall, a single skin of brick).
He has provided me with photographic evidence of the leak as well as damage this has caused. Below are some of the images he has sent (I have three others that show little else, I can always provide links to these, unfortunately I've met my file upload limit on here). I also have included a copy of the invoice that the customer has in relation to remedial work with regards to the plastering and decorating. Details of the tradesmen involved have been blacked out for obvious reasons.
I’d really appreciate any comments you have with regards to the plastering. Obviously I understand that you may not be able to comment on decorating but would ask you whether it is common for a decorator to have to use lining paper on a freshly skimmed wall – the customer was having anaglypta papered on the dining room side of the wall.
I don’t have exact details of the size of the kitchen but would say that 20m[SUP]2[/SUP] would be generous. The house was probably built between 1920 and 1940, original lathe and plaster ceiling has been boarded and skimmed in the last month or so.
I’m not sure why the plasterer needed to take down the original ceiling, is there any way of checking whether this remains above the current ceiling (all I can think of is removing the light fitting and checking whether there are signs of the original lathe above)?
Yours,
Mark
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