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And they can make hard work, During my plumbing life I often did skool refurbishments and this is mostly done in the 6 week Summer break, Every time we did a skool all went well until the teechers come in to view the reburb work and then,,,,BOOM, They ( and its always a woman) find faults,
This tale is typical and cost £zillions to the taxpayer,

Week 4 of the Summer break and the Head teecher comes in and says to me, " you;ve put the wrong toilets in Laddie", Well of course I'm only putting in what the plans say and as its an infants skool, I'm putting in infants toilets,
So she goes on to explain that, At a meeting she had made it clear that she wanted normal full sized toilets because, When the child gets home, he/she uses full sized toilets So why are we putting infant one in ?, So the job is stopped now, the skool is in north of Carnforth and I can't get a signal to get the company I am subbing to find out why, So tools away and homeward bound to the site office, Then after a long banter between the main contractor and architect , Its agreed to change all the infants toilets to standard size and there is only 2 weeks to get it done, This got done only just in time and at a high cost because it meant, the floor and drains needed altering, cubicles replaced and all my other jobs scheduled for that period, postponed,
We did it and a little past the finish line and she was happy, PHEW,
BUT, Thats not the end of the story because , 4 weeks later I'm summond to the main contractors office to Get back to the skool in the midterm break to change the toilets back to infants toilets,,The standard toilet experiment did not work out good because, The children use a stardard toilet at home but, there is mummy or daddy there to assist, in a classroom situation, the skool had to take on extra staff to assist the kids because the teechers refused to keep taking kids to the toilet,So I gained another full week with extra hours to change them back and I noticed the head teecher had been replaced,,,