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UK Window Cleaning Forum => Window Cleaning Forum => Topic started by: prestige cleaners on September 11, 2010, 01:37:24 am

Title: plasterboard sofits?
Post by: prestige cleaners on September 11, 2010, 01:37:24 am

Worked today in awful weather, gutter and window clean, and discovered his soffits were made out of plaster board! Started collapsing when I touched them. Talk about a cowboy roofer!

Title: Re: plasterboard sofits?
Post by: Gav Camm lammy 283 on September 11, 2010, 01:39:01 am

oh dear do u need a plasterer m8y lol
they r dear

Title: Re: plasterboard sofits?
Post by: Gav Camm lammy 283 on September 11, 2010, 02:03:06 am

 u cud be on 4 a costly repair there
my friend  ;D ;D ;D

Title: Re: plasterboard sofits?
Post by: andyM on September 11, 2010, 08:00:38 am

Some houses do have soffits made from exterior gypsum plasterboard.
They should last for years, perhaps they were old or the wrong grade. 
What did the customer say?

Title: Re: plasterboard sofits?
Post by: prestige cleaners on September 13, 2010, 03:59:37 pm

im not paying for it gav! i just told him your sofits are made out of plasterboard, he knows there in a state anyway, theyre all bowing and hanging by a thread in places.

Title: Re: plasterboard sofits?
Post by: DaveG on September 13, 2010, 04:47:49 pm

some soffits were made of asbestos too  :o

Title: Re: plasterboard sofits?
Post by: joewright on September 14, 2010, 04:05:32 pm

Quote from: H2ose on September 13, 2010, 04:47:49 pm

some soffits were made of asbestos too  :o

Yes

They would not have been plasterboard as these wouldnt have lasted 3 months with the damp weather

At a guess they would have been asbestos based board, read up about them