Hi guys,
I had some renovation work done in my lounge a few months back - as I am a complete novice at this sort of thing I payed the professionals to come in. Had solid oak floorboards put in which raised height of skirtings which meant sockets had to be raised too. The sparky dug out what seemed to me to be an excessively oversized hole for the metal back box and filled the gap between it and the plaster with some sort of reddish bonding agent. This bonding has never dried properly - for a while it had some sort of fungus spores growing from it, which have since gone but as you can hopefully see from the included photo the plaster/bonding around the sockets is spoilt. Now the sockets have shorted out and trip the fuse at the main switchboard for the flat.
Sparky turned out to be a bit of a cowboy and won't come back. Not sure I want him back anyway. Any advice on how this should be treated would be greatly appreciated so I don't sound like a formless gimp ready to be fleeced by another sparky. Thanks heaps,
Dave
I had some renovation work done in my lounge a few months back - as I am a complete novice at this sort of thing I payed the professionals to come in. Had solid oak floorboards put in which raised height of skirtings which meant sockets had to be raised too. The sparky dug out what seemed to me to be an excessively oversized hole for the metal back box and filled the gap between it and the plaster with some sort of reddish bonding agent. This bonding has never dried properly - for a while it had some sort of fungus spores growing from it, which have since gone but as you can hopefully see from the included photo the plaster/bonding around the sockets is spoilt. Now the sockets have shorted out and trip the fuse at the main switchboard for the flat.
Sparky turned out to be a bit of a cowboy and won't come back. Not sure I want him back anyway. Any advice on how this should be treated would be greatly appreciated so I don't sound like a formless gimp ready to be fleeced by another sparky. Thanks heaps,
Dave