We've just had a big extension built on our house which included having the bathroom refitted and tiled. In all the chaos in the couple of days before we moved back in, the plumbers never got around to putting the bath panel on the bath. We weren't bothered as we assumed it was a simple 5 minute job. Wrong! My husband went to put it on at the weekend and the damn thing doesn't fit - neither length or heightwise!!!! We think the problem is probably the tiles, although the plumbers did phone and ask for the thickness of the floor tiles we think they didn't take account of the thickness of the grout. Also, we've discovered the bath is higher one end than the other, though not obvious to the naked eye. We are going to phone to builder and ask him to sort it out. After all he employed plumber and we used the tiler recommended by the plumber for the very reason that they were used to working together. God knows how the problem can be rectified, the only solution I can see is removing some or all of the tiles. Trouble is, we've paid in full now. What are our chances of getting them to sort this mess out???
If you got on with them well, the chances are very good. The builders on my loft extension came back willingly several times order to fix snagging problems.
This sounds like a more major c*ck up. But they should still be prepared to show up promptly and put it right.
If the bath is a little cockeyed doesn't that just help with water running out? Can you not tile a bath panel instead like some people do to match?
Of course the problem can be rectified, just make sure it's to their cost. Don't fit a badly fitting bath panel whatever you end up doing - we have one from previous people (we intending completely re-doing the whole room so left it) and it is the most appalling thing you have ever seen.
Best of luck with it - you paid them for a job and it needs finishing.
Did you consider that it wasn't a case of they didn't have time for the bath panel but that they encountered the same problem and thought they'd just finish up and leave you to it?
*It is not necessary to understand things in order to argue about them. -- Pierre De Beaumarchais
update - husband has spoken to plumber who says it actually the carpenters job and the bath panels always have to be cut to fit (what - plastic ones?!?!). Carpenter still needs to come back to hang doors, skirtings etc and hasn't been paid yet so we'll see.........
I work with a builder fitting bathrooms, and don't get involved with bath panels. It can get rather involved getting the bath the correct height, especially if there's no room for adjustment. You need to take into account the tile thickness, thickness of bed they are put down on, as well as the heated floor mat, which are all the fashion now. Then you find the floor isn't level.
Baths usually fit into a corner, you level the back and one end. If the front is a touch out of level, there isn't always anything you can do about it, unless you can twist the bath
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Doo, it is the responsibility of whoever you employed and paid to do the job. Who they then subcontract out to is nothing to do with you and you have no legal rights with those subcontractors. However, i too was lead to belive that bath panels need trimming (even plastic ones, yes). Even if you dont get any satisfaction off your builder, i dont imagine it will be an expensive job to get someone else to do it (even though there is a principle at stake). Hopefully your builder will see sense.
Yes , we had to have about half an inch cut off the bottom and side of our bath panel, and the bathroom fitter did it. Id get them on to it if you can.
