Browse Forums Building A New House 1 May 03, 2010 2:57 pm Hi, We went to have a look inside our new home the other day,as they are currently painting our home. When we went inside to have a look we saw our walls have been all painted and it looks really good but then we look down at our floors and the painters have been putting their cigarettes out on the floor. Now we have blackbutt timber (real wood) flooring down waiting to be sanded and polished. I understand that the sanding should take to black marks off but i still find this very rude. I did not pay thousands of dollars to someone to smoke inside me nice new house! The cigarette butts are everywhere! Is there are certain stage where no-one is allowed to smoke inside the house? Re: Tradies smoking inside the house!! 2May 03, 2010 3:00 pm We had the same issue. Our builder gave our painter 3 big warnings, apparently not big enough though as they continued to smoke!!! Once the house hits lock up stage, it's against OH&S policy... Re: Tradies smoking inside the house!! 3May 03, 2010 3:11 pm I'd be requesting that said tradies pay for repair of damage caused-even if the flooring is waiting to be sanded! B A S T A R D S ! Deemaree Kyndylan Capers: viewtopic.php?f=36&t=46852 My blog: http://www.sufficientlysufficient.blogspot.com/ Re: Tradies smoking inside the house!! 4May 03, 2010 3:37 pm Hi JJ, I can understand why you're grumpy. As you say you didn't pay all that money to have people smoking inside your nice new house. I actually visited my housing estate on the weekend; was looking around the houses being constructed and noticed a tradie walk out of one house whilst smoking, cross the street and go into another home, still smoking! I paid attention because both homes are being built by the same volume builder I am using. I know it's an issue you could raise with your SS but unfortunately they are not on site all of the time to supervise the subcontractors. Not sure what else could be done to stop it. Maybe you could make the ultimatum that if you discover that anyone else has been smoking in your house you want it to be completely repainted? That might get some action! Let us know how you go. Re: Tradies smoking inside the house!! 5May 03, 2010 5:04 pm There have been so many cigarette butts stamped into the floors at our house by the painters, that we now refer to our building site as ‘The Ashtray’. Re: Tradies smoking inside the house!! 6May 04, 2010 11:06 am We went to the house last night and the painters have cleaned up their mess including the butts. But we still mentioned this to the SS as they are due to come back to finish some things off. Elvis has left the building... The site supervisor quit after 2 month on the project. I guess he was just instructed to bark at people, but didn't like when he was… 26 20826 You’re on the right track, wire brush in a grinder then a zinc rich epoxy primer then a top coat of some sort, like a waterproofing membrane. Raising the concrete would… 1 6980 How good is Simeon?! Always taking time to help others out! Wish we were building in NSW and could work together. Thanks for all that you do! 7 6515 |