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AMtek
My joiner has well and truely dropped the ball on a kitchen he has just finished fitting!
I went in and tiled the floor before he started and everything was good, checked the kitchen was not damaged, all the boxes were there that should have been. All the bits were there and nothing was damaged, which is a first!
This is where things start to go wrong. Most of the units had been fitted so it was time for worktops. This is the story i got from the labourer: the joiner put the jig on the top and started his first cut and then knocks the router off, takes it away and looks at the jig then the router. He hadn't put the guide bush in and wrecked the jig and a length of worktop. But the joiner phones me and tells me that the router had jumped out of the jig and had damaged the jig and the worktop. So i go out and have to buy a new jig and another length of worktop. Not a huge thing and the best of us make mistakes so i let it go and just made a joke about being more carefull.
Joiner phones me last night and tells me the kitchen is all fitted and ready for the back splash on Thursday and for me to check it over. All sounded like it was going well and he had got it finished a day ahead of time.
BUT!
Customer phones me this evening and explains that they had their new washing machine delivered but it won't fit in the gap left for it and after they have looked at the plans all of the base units have been fitted wrong and 500 doors have been used instead of 600 s on a corner either side of the cooker and the worktop should have been 140mm longer with spaces for dishwasher and washing machine to suit new ones not the old ones that they had (this was stated on the plan).
So now i have to buy 2 new lengths of worktop, 2 new doors, 2 lengths of plinth and i'm going to offer to tile their new conservatory for free as an appology. I'm Just glad they listened to me and had the floor tiled before the kitchen went in and not cut round the units!!
I went in and tiled the floor before he started and everything was good, checked the kitchen was not damaged, all the boxes were there that should have been. All the bits were there and nothing was damaged, which is a first!
This is where things start to go wrong. Most of the units had been fitted so it was time for worktops. This is the story i got from the labourer: the joiner put the jig on the top and started his first cut and then knocks the router off, takes it away and looks at the jig then the router. He hadn't put the guide bush in and wrecked the jig and a length of worktop. But the joiner phones me and tells me that the router had jumped out of the jig and had damaged the jig and the worktop. So i go out and have to buy a new jig and another length of worktop. Not a huge thing and the best of us make mistakes so i let it go and just made a joke about being more carefull.
Joiner phones me last night and tells me the kitchen is all fitted and ready for the back splash on Thursday and for me to check it over. All sounded like it was going well and he had got it finished a day ahead of time.
BUT!
Customer phones me this evening and explains that they had their new washing machine delivered but it won't fit in the gap left for it and after they have looked at the plans all of the base units have been fitted wrong and 500 doors have been used instead of 600 s on a corner either side of the cooker and the worktop should have been 140mm longer with spaces for dishwasher and washing machine to suit new ones not the old ones that they had (this was stated on the plan).
So now i have to buy 2 new lengths of worktop, 2 new doors, 2 lengths of plinth and i'm going to offer to tile their new conservatory for free as an appology. I'm Just glad they listened to me and had the floor tiled before the kitchen went in and not cut round the units!!
