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Thanks, I think I needed to hear this.
I have a sort of mantra "I can be disappointed for free" and it's this sort of situation from which it is derived. However I also have a personality that focuses disproportionately on specific negative things and I can struggle to see the big picture. Added onto that I'm used to being good at things, and like to spend a long time pondering a project before I take action, but that means I often don't get started at all and if I do I'm disappointed in what I can achieve. I'm detail focused to the point where ultimately I can't afford to pay for the right workmanship and I'm not capable of doing it myself. At the moment I'm feeling quite helpless and pathetic if I'm honest.
I'm also aware I've had a good few days of spamming this thread and for that I apologise. By way of moving forward on that, on my current mood and on my current project, tomorrow I plan to sketch out some finishing details that I can see being applicable to the bits of my flooring that need some finesse. Hopefully it will be of interest and might spark debate as to which detail works and when and why.
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Tbh, finding tradespeople who do good finishing work can be tough. Finishing things well takes a lot more skill or time, and for a lot of trades the optimum balance of price/speed/quality means that things get done to an OK standard and often not much more. The last 10% of finishing always takes disproportionately longer than the first 90%, so it makes better sense to do more jobs quicker rather than doing a better job for a bit more cash.
I hate to think how much it would have cost to get someone to do the floor I laid, considering all the little problems that needed sorted to get a good result. My neighbour spent months looking for people to lay his new floor properly as most of the joiners he approached just wanted to lay the new floor straight on top of the old - as this would be the easiest and quickest way, and thus most profitable.
Makes me a bit sad tbh, my mum and dad used to use an amazing decorator (one that I'm really starting to notice the quality of the work every time I visit), but they recently had the 2 bathrooms done by a different lot and the finishing is just nowhere near as good. Shame really.