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You get three kinds of roofers....
Those guys, scruffy, messy, do around 2-4 hours work in a 8.5 hour stand around and shout and swear about every single thing thats NOT to do with roofing or the job at hand. Avoid, however quite tricky as likely explains 3/4 of all roofers.
The tidy guys, turn up, graft, and I mean absolutely graft rain or shine, they just get on with it. Still gonna shout and swear, but usually about things that are needed on the job. Sort of tidy up afterwards but don't really need to, as they haven't stuffed your neighbours chimney pots, valleys and gutters with bottles of piss, greggs wrappers and empty tobacco bags.
The guys that never answer the phone or even turn up, at all.
You seem to have the first variety, I have the third variety, wish I had the tidy guys. Whats mental is the scruffy buggers and the tidy guys will charge the same price.
Roof over the way from us got the scruff buggers. Worst scaff I've ever seen, the stuff at the back apparently fell over but didn't see it, just heard about it. Spent 8 days in total on the roof to repoint some chimneys, recap (they just slapped over the top of the old crumble) with 5 to 6 guys, and some lead work. In that time they might have done 2 or 3 days work. The rest of the time were just sat on their phones watching the football, and I'm not exaggerating.
When they left they broke a gutter, and forgot to put up all the sky dish and antenna. So folks living in the building are now trying to figure out how to get someone up there to put it all back up again. They also have a bill for over £20k, when in my book its about £4k + scaff, so maybe £7k.
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Interesting, ta. Yeah scaffold is up - to be fair they've said "usually 1.2k a stack but we could do a deal", but not sure what that means.
Doubt they're the finest out there, it smells of weed when they're up there most of the time and they have dropped stuff all over our garden