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Same thing has struck me. Always feels like each area of older housing should have a 'resident' expert in how things were done/best way of repairing or modernizing. Instead every time you get a trade/contractor it feels like its their first day on the job when dealing with your particular older building issue.
Have a mate who's a multi-trade fix all the things, literally lives in his van or on customers site and has become the 'cheaper, fix and make it right, but using the correct materials and knowledge' kind of a guy, but in a sort of a scruffy way. If he was 20 years younger he would have defo have a fleet of others working for him making use of his knowledge and name and really making some progress round here, but think he's now at the point where hes really just doing the easier jobs so that he actually has a functioning body for his retirement!
Always think each local council /planning dept should have some kind of authorised/reccommended contractor list with some kind of accreditation, as the number of absolute chancers who just mince everything they touch seem to outnumber thes one's who actually know what they are doing, defo around Glasgow anyway**
**Been watching over the roads roofers totally fuck a set of chimney's, roof tiles, flashing, and anything else they possibly can in order to extend their job/£££
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Something I find curious -
Where I live there is a thumping great garden estate conservation area full of victorian / Edwardian places. And then there are the regular streets like mine, all Edwardian.
Yet - if I hit up the garden estate society and ask who the 'go-to' people are for period work (like not fucking up your gaff with concrete), there just doesn't seem to be anyone they can put forward.
You would have thought it would be quite easy to become the 'go-to' person / company for repairs and maintenance for areas like ours, where it's important (and borderline mandated in the estate) to use the right stuff in the right places.