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UK Window Cleaning Forum => Window Cleaning Forum => Topic started by: sunshine windows on March 18, 2015, 09:20:03 pm

Title: Ooops
Post by: sunshine windows on March 18, 2015, 09:20:03 pm

Lesson learned!!! Do not try and move heavy garden furniture.

The result, a broken £3,000 granite stone table, from lifting it, the table top just broke in two because of the weight in the middle. I didn't realise it wasn't attached to the base and the top lifted off.

Customer was fine, going through the Insurance, so hopefully just a £250 excess to pay

Title: Re: Ooops
Post by: jimmy boots on March 18, 2015, 09:30:02 pm

ouch ! Thank goodness for insurance.
   Bit unusual for granite to break under its own weight. I used to be a monumental stone Mason years ago and we even cut and polished the granite slabs ready to cut into headstones. the slabs were approx  6 foot by 10foot by 3inches  and slabs would never break under their own weight.

Title: Re: Ooops
Post by: colin bird on March 18, 2015, 10:16:57 pm

Quote from: sunshine windows on March 18, 2015, 09:20:03 pm

Lesson learned!!! Do not try and move heavy garden furniture.

The result, a broken £3,000 granite stone table, from lifting it, the table top just broke in two because of the weight in the middle. I didn't realise it wasn't attached to the base and the top lifted off.

Customer was fine, going through the Insurance, so hopefully just a £250 excess to pay

Feel for you mate,that's why I don't move anything

Title: Re: Ooops
Post by: Jonny 87 on March 19, 2015, 08:21:03 am

I bet it was already cracked and the customer is now clapping their hands.

 :(

Title: Re: Ooops
Post by: dazmond on March 19, 2015, 08:36:07 am

i thought granite was very hard stone?my brothers been moaning about a chip in his 4k granite  worktops.

isnt new york built on granite?