Dont you just hate bad workmanship

We have had some major work carried out at our place, and as i am busy with the wasp season upon us we thought that we would get some tradesmen in to carry out the work, first was a recommended plumber, he wasted more time than was imaginable, lucky he was on a price. then after he had finished we had to alter some of his work because he had not done it right in the first place, so he has been told in no uncertain terms to stay away from both of our properties and we will find someone else.
Then we had a general builder guy put onto us to fit some french doors, he again was on a fixed price, but during the day he spent most of his time on the phone then taking his dog for a walk then he came back to the job, he was here three days doing a one day job. Then he decided to carry out some work for us and we had to undo that because he built the door reveals, but did not fix any damp proof membrane in between the inner and outer skin, and he also bridged the cavity gap with plaster.
Needless to say he too gets no more work from us or through us.
this is just when i have the busiest period of our year workwise, and to top it all the tenant in our rented property decided to hand in his notice and so we had to get that property ready to rent or sell.
Fun times are had by all at the moment.

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Yup, hear your pain.

Recently had an extension done, plumber was a comedian, couldn't get the sink to fit, so tried to chisel a bit off!! No surprises to what happened! Then didn't fit the bath taps properly so had water running through the (new!) kitchen ceiling

Then a sparky who couldn't line up sockets at the same level, didn't insulate recessed lights properly and failed to give us a certificate so it had to be inspected by someone else..

But we got there in the end...

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I hate having to contract others to do work on my place! I would love to do it all but its impossible thanks to government regs and general inability! Redecorating is stressful anyway and you'd think that by asking someone else to do the work for you...and be paid, it would make it less stressful...but its not!!!

After doing one house up, and surprise surprise the plumber was a nightmare...I am now onto project number 2....I have had to hand the project to my father in law due to work commitments, I hope he doesn't dissapoint! Crossed fingers!

i am glad that those that i train are told in the first instance that if they dont want to do the work in the order and manner i teach them, then dont do the work at all.
i do my work right so that i dont get any come backs, i even found out that the so called plumber that was busy telling us what he can do was a shelf filler in Wickes until a couple of years ago.
And as for the builder that fitted our french doors, we have had the company out that gave him the job in the first place, to get the doors to close properly, only for them to find out that he had fitted them incorrectly

all i hope is that the valuations that we are having over the next few days on our rented property are upto our expectations, then i hope we can sell that and our 4x4 and go back to some sort of normality.

only another 10 weeks or so and we wont have many wasps to treat

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It does generate work for better companies, we are always following up other pool companies in London.

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Yes I agree but it is not really the way that we like to get business, but then as we say, pay cheap pay twice

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