Home DIY

Very agricultural but it’ll do perfectly.

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Thanks, that's really helpful.

Need to work out if I give them the benefit of the doubt and it was an innocent mistake, or whether they're trying to extract 3/4 tubs of adhesive off me @ £20 a go

Starting them early.

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Not a disc brake in sight. Good stuff.

Or if you do let it slide, just see how much they bring in and use and at the end of the job question it. I usually wouldnt give a price for a job with an itemised bill personally as you can then run into this problem.

If anyone wants to replicate I have an off-cut length of the slotted channel measuring 2,230mm - good for 4 road bikes, 5 at a squeeze. Collect in SE27 or I could do a Souf Laandan drop-off.

Gone.

I would question it no doubt but it might turn into a fair bit of back and forth followed by a falling out. In 30 years I've never got it that wrong on an invoice and I'd be keen to hear the excuse.

In case they've already done the job as your post doesn't make it clear. Is it possible they chose to level the walls with tile adhesive and ended up using a huge amount because the walls were really pissed?

What's the recommended primer for outside woodwork? Cills, doors etc?

So, I used 5 bags of adhesive for tiling my bathroom and kitchen. 1 bag of rapid set for the floor tiles (5.5sqm) and 4 bags of slow set for all of the walls (27sqm). Barely anything left in the end, tiler was economical with it.

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They're probably not trying to rip you off but for them it makes no diff if you spend £50 or £500 on materials. They just want to make sure there is enough to do the job on one visit.

It's f**king annoying. I ended up wasting £250+ on skirting for the exact same reason and then was left with a load of 4m lengths I had to pay to have removed. This happened numerous times during my £100k shopping spree.

Yeah thats as good point, the walls could be a shambles and he'll need a ton more than what you work out going by the sizes. Anytime we've done tiling we've always resheeted the walls to sort this is issue out.

Fair enough but the margins are still well off. They're not gonna be whacking 50mm of adhesive on the walls?

Entire structure is brand new, freshly boarded and skimmed, so shouldn't be that (or at least, if it is, I'm annoyed at the wrong trade).

And I take the point about wanting enough to be sure that the job is done. Ultimately I'm probably quibbling over £60, but I think I KNOW that they've been a bit too liberal with materials

Buy less and then if they need more whip over to tile giant and get more. Easy to do with that stuff, unlike skirting or plasterboard etc

Disc Brakes Are Dread

I think were all playing devils advocate here, I recon with the size of the room he needs like 2/3 tubs so seems like they are way off and as the OP said its a new room so they shouldn't have any of the issues with the wall being miles off.

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how do you get rid of old paint? out sellers have left 5, trade size tubs of paint that have seperated and dont look useable, probably over 30 litres there

https://www.nlwa.gov.uk/article/donate-or-pick-free-paint

Probably just needs a mix

most of the whites look like this.. ?

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Sure that’s not a scobie?

/shrug

Leave the lid off until the solvent evaporates and you have a lump of something that can go in general waste?

Bit of worktop, some kitchen off cuts and I made a coffee area. Needs shelves for cups and other coffee paraphernalia.

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Nice coffee machine.