Not quite DIY, but great example of shoddy workmanship.
Couple of years ago we moved house and one of the first things we did was have SKY installed. I took the afternoon off work and the SKY man arrived (late obviously) to put up the dish and connect it all. I left him to it and went outside to cut the grass. Half an hour later he was done. In hindsight he seemed in a bit of hurry to leave after showing me how to use my SKY box. He went outside and packed his van in a hurry and was gone, without even bothering to put my telly back in the corner of the room.....or tidy the cables up, or pick up the little off-cuts from the phone connection, or bother to actually secure that cable to the skirting board where it passed behind furniture, or clear up the brick dust from the hole he'd drilled....he also omitted to mention that when drilling said hole he'd penetrated the gas pipe which runs around the outside of the house!
It turns out, in his haste to leave, he'd also broken a chair in our dinning room, put the satellite dish up wonky (so the signal was poor), run the cable round the outside of the house at a strange angle and used so much silicon sealant that I could have done a tidier job with a catapult from halfway down the street.
Luckily, and unknown to him, the gas pipe had been disconnected years before when the meter was changed, so nothing leaked, but that might not have been the case.
Needless to say, we did complain to SKY in quite strong terms, and eventually they sorted most of the problems out.
Couple of years ago we moved house and one of the first things we did was have SKY installed. I took the afternoon off work and the SKY man arrived (late obviously) to put up the dish and connect it all. I left him to it and went outside to cut the grass. Half an hour later he was done. In hindsight he seemed in a bit of hurry to leave after showing me how to use my SKY box. He went outside and packed his van in a hurry and was gone, without even bothering to put my telly back in the corner of the room.....or tidy the cables up, or pick up the little off-cuts from the phone connection, or bother to actually secure that cable to the skirting board where it passed behind furniture, or clear up the brick dust from the hole he'd drilled....he also omitted to mention that when drilling said hole he'd penetrated the gas pipe which runs around the outside of the house!
It turns out, in his haste to leave, he'd also broken a chair in our dinning room, put the satellite dish up wonky (so the signal was poor), run the cable round the outside of the house at a strange angle and used so much silicon sealant that I could have done a tidier job with a catapult from halfway down the street.
Luckily, and unknown to him, the gas pipe had been disconnected years before when the meter was changed, so nothing leaked, but that might not have been the case.
Needless to say, we did complain to SKY in quite strong terms, and eventually they sorted most of the problems out.
