Hole in wall after Electrician

mkdon05

We got some work done in the house and got a new kitchen installed. The electrician made 2 holes in the wall around the new extractor about 3 inched in diameter (Cant just fill them). He was paid and is gone, should he have fixed up those holes before leaving. The walls had all been newly plastered.

BrokenArrows

mkdon05 wrote: »

We got some work done in the house and got a new kitchen installed. The electrician made 2 holes in the wall around the new extractor about 3 inched in diameter (Cant just fill them). He was paid and is gone, should he have fixed up those holes before leaving. The walls had all been newly plastered.

Your first step should be to ask him to come back and fix the holes.

the_pen_turner

what depth hole. , whats wall made of.

colm_mcm

What are the holes for?

Autochange

Half story. More detail please

e.r

Slide a piece of wood in the hole, screw through the plaster board either side of the hole, till the wood is braced tight.

This will give you a backing to infill with polyfiller or such like.

PANDDDKP

Typical sparky. He should fill these holes, but be careful, because if he is asked to do it and agrees to it, he will more than likely use pure crap filler and over-fill the holes, this filler will then be a nightmare to sand down in order for it to be painted.

Sleeper12

You should have asked this in the electrical forum. You'll get answers from electricians then.
I'm a plumber. If I need to make holes in plasterboard or tiles I tell homeowner first. The also tell them I'm not a plasterer or tiler so they will need to tend to these things afterwards.
On the other hand I replaced a shower recently and one of the pipes inside the wall came out of itself push in fitting. It was the original plumbers fault but I was the last person to touch it. Rather than break tiles I cut a hole on the other side of wall. I cut out about 1 foot square. Sorted the leak. I paid a plasterer out of my money to mend the wall.
That's the only time I would get involved with repairing walls
I don't know what the norm is for electricians. All I can say is that if I were to leave any holes in would inform the homeowner before I started the job

mkdon05

I'm not sure what the holes were for, feeding wires possibly. The tiler said he would sort it. In fairness to the electrician he said he would come back and sort it of the tiler didn't.

mkdon05

Autochange wrote: »

Half story. More detail please

What detail do you want??