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Ha, unreal. I do hate it when someone watches you on a job your doing but cant say well if you know what your doing why aint you doing it.
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When I wired his new cabin in his garden there was so much faffing over little things. He wanted to make every tiny decision, despite the fact that his decision making process isn't really based logic or reason in any way, lol. He wanted to try and plan out every socket and switch position, every cable run - but because he doesn't have any understanding of the wiring, his decisions would make no sense in practice. Then I'd install stuff, and he'd want it moved 15cm up or down or whatever. And then I'd begrudgingly agree and do it, after explaining that it was pointless extra work. Then after I'd done it, he'd concede that it probably didn't need to be moved!
I only agree to do any work for him now if I can he agree to let me do it without input.
Another classic was removing the old raised bed (3x6m) in his garden to convert into 3 small individual ones. There was several tons of soil and rubble that he wanted bagged into small sacks until he decided what he wanted to do with it. I told him flat out that I'd load it into a skip or I wasn't doing it! If we hadn't got a skip, he'd have put himself into an early grave taking 100 trips to the tip with all the bagged up rubble. Months later his driveway still has 2 pallets of the old bricks he wanted to salvage that he's convinced he'll get £100 for on marketplace.
Never work for family!
Nef
On the flip side of the tradesperson chat, just been over to see the in-laws. FIL is an ex-cabinetmaker so has some affinity with the trades. He was describing how he basically turned up the office of the firm he wanted to quote for the job doing their bathroom. It’s funded by the council as part of an accessibility grant and they specialise in doing these alterations. So far so good.
It becomes less good when it turns out he rocked up with loads of random bits of paper with product names and codes for things that the firm don’t supply. He wants to fiddle with every aspect of the job, and is now a bit stumped as to why they’ve told him they’re not interested in even quoting, lol.
I feel for the guy, but I just can’t seem to get through to him that people won’t want to do work for you if you constantly tell them how to do their job.