sky fitters shoddy workmanship

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This pic is what the sky digital fitter did today at home. While I was at work! The missus was there so he took the oportunity to do a s**t  job. She said she offerd him a tenner to do a good job as well, but he replied 'We're not allowed to take tips and I always do a good job' [Edited] :(bigangry):  There is more but i'm gonna have an anurism of I don't calm down a bit.

[burgerman]

Whats up with that then  :shock:



    But yes, all to often these days it seems that a atrocious quality of work is somehow achieved, hope your getting them back? or what i usaully do is finish the job proerlly me self :roll:

[Yoshi]

Must admit that the local fitter/s here arent too bad, they are pretty good and generous at it, if you want more cable to make a tv extension they are more than happy to give you some extra off the roll of cable for you to do this.

[Boggert]

Got to say, that is a crap job! get them back and make them fix the mistake.

[laser_jock99]

That's pretty horrendous I'd say.

Myself and others I know have got them just fit the dish outside and then leave enough cable behind so I could do the cableing run myself (knowing that if I left to them they'd f*** it up).

It all started to go wrong when I asked the installation engineer to run the cable in through the loft...

"no sir- we're not allowed in lofts. It's against Health & Safety Policy"

"How are you going to get the cable in the house then?"

"Ahh- we normally drill a hole through a window frame."

"No you're bl**dy not! Line up the dish. Leave me the cable and go away....."

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I've been fitting a 2way radio in the works hilux today, and did a better job of it than that. I just wish i'd taken the day off, he'd of been out the door so quick he'd of landed 3 streets away :arrow: .

I'm gonna get them in to rip it out an put everything right. it's been in less than day an i'm not happy, not alot of point continuing. We would have had cable in preferance but there isn't any  :(

[dreadnought110]

Isn't that an internal wall?? how come he did that??? i have just received a questionare after they did some work at our house look out you should get one and then..... well i wouldn't like to read it with out an 18 certificate :shock:  :lol:  :lol:

[marjan]

That's typical of the standard of workmanship in this country nowadays, no one gives a sh**e. In my position as a Gas Fitter you would be amazed at some of the things I come across in some houses, even stuff that is illegal and dangerous :shock:  :shock: .

[Evilgoat]

When I do an intruder alarm install or telecoms job I'm damm careful to do the best job I can, Bunnie will back me up on this. I cannot understand how they do these jobs. EG NTLy left a 30cn but 10cm crater in the pub wall, took all the rendering off the lot, on a listed building, then hid it behind a bush! All the comms and alarm cabling I put in on the outside, well, you cant actually see it.

Have them back, point out WHY thats not on and get the fitter back to explain WHY he did that. that makes no sense and whats worse is there could perceivably be cable in the wall there. That cable should have been as close to the frame or skirting board as possible if not behind the skirting board if removing it was feasable. Alternatively if the floor above/below isnt obstructed it should have been in the floor.

[DarrenG]

That cable should have been as close to the frame or skirting board as possible if not behind the skirting board if removing it was feasable. Alternatively if the floor above/below isnt obstructed it should have been in the floor.

In a perfect world where the SKY fitters didn't have 10+ jobs a day yes but realistically that is never going to happen on a free install offer.  Ours wasn't  too bad given they were in and out in less than 30mins but if you want a proper installation with cable hidden under floorboards/behind skirting etc then you'll have to pay someone to do it.  As it is they will take the easiest route although the one in the picture above is taking the p**s!

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If I had done it I would have come through on the top corner of the door frame, what the fitter has done that for is anyones guess.

Better still is where the cable comes through the other side, it just hangs down to the skirting board, not pinned in the corner or anything, and he's not left enough free length for me to tack it into the corner. so i'll have to either pin it down in the middle of the wall or rip it out and start all over again.

I'm still not a happy bunny :x  but I was really throwing my toys out of the pram earlier  :)

[wills]

Reminds me of the time the LNB on the end of my dish dropped off because the engineer who installed it had used a rawl plug to hold it on.  another engineer came round to fix it only to tape the blasted thing on and it then fell off 2-3 hours later.  Sky wanted to charge me £65 or £75 quid both times to fix it.  Needless to say after getting to a supervisor on the phone they decided not to charge and I eventually had someone out who fixed it properly.

-Wills :)

[Jimbo]

Bring back the traditional 'apprenticeship' schemes of old. I spent hours learning the colour codes of telephony cable - and can still remember it now !. We also spent hours cleating cables (phone & pyro) onto wooden boards - you could not use a straight edge, had to do it all by 'eye', and if the 'shop uncle' didn't like it - he ripped it all out and you started again.

Even now, after 20 years in the business I still won't leave a job until I'm satisfied that its the neatest, best looking install possible.

Jim

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These fitters must have some sort of front! I couldn't go into someones house and do a poor job, i just wouldn't dare. An english mans home is his castle afterall.  

Apparentlly the fitter lives fairly local to me, the wife phoned him today so i'm waiting on him to contact me now :roll:  we'll see if he does or not.

I'll post back what happens, if anything.

[Bunnie]

one of my regular customers is a Sky man and he certainly doesnt have 10+ jobs to do a day! in fact hes normally in the bar by half 3/4!

but i do know hes a nice enough bloke and is probably one of Skys 'better' fitters.


But NTL really did a crap job when they came round... apart from them leaving the big hole in the wall.. they had me dampen down the grass so they could dig it up and hide the cable under there. then we have this big brown plastic cover that is siliconed to the wall to hide the cable that comes up through the bush (Quite litterly through the bush too).  Once inside they wanted to leave with the very heavy filing cabnet out in the middle of the floor! and i dont think they appreciated me telling them to move it back!