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In my (annoyingly now vast/broad experience) the trades on here are not representative of 99% of the trades out there.
This is totally fair tbh. I always come out to defend the trades/myself but the majority really earn a fair degree of derision.
And they finish each Friday with a bottle of Guinness Foreign extra and a bit of a dance while they're tidying up.
Deffo legends!
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Deffo legends!
The main dude bought us all (me, ms_com, our lodger and another guest who was staying last week) a bar of Grenadian chocolate as he was excited to see chocolate from his home country in Lidl. And they do things like call each other to let the other one in instead of ringing the door bell in case mini_com is napping. And they'll suggest non-extravagant things (so I know they're not just after a bit of extra cash) like when they were taking down the ceiling in the bedroom (totally fucked), they took out the old cold water tank from the eaves/loft through that and then put some boards down above the new ceiling joists so we could store shit like christmas decorations. And they suggested acoustic board on the wall between my office and the bedroom, and on the ceiling as ms_com's office is directly above. None of that was on the original job spec.
Annoyingly though, they did fuck the PVC trim of the 18 month old windows when hacking the plaster off the bay, but Everest are just going to come out and fix that under warranty. But I've given them a 70kg radiator to hang as penance.
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In my (annoyingly now vast/broad experience) the trades on here are not representative of 99% of the trades out there.
Watching trades on Youtube or Tiktok etc (don't judge me), most of it is seemingly in jokes and banter which show their utter disdain for clients and lack of respect for working on people homes. One trade playing pranks on another, deliberately fucking with something. Or just down right slagging off clients who have made what appear to be totally reasonable requests.
And I get it's a first world problem to even have somewhere to get people to work on in the first place and a rant that keeps getting played out here and in the Owning your own home thread. But come on, I'm constantly trying to do things right, engaging with people who are well reviewed, rated or referred. But there's just no end to the let downs. I don't even have high expectations anymore, don't chip anyone on costs and pay every invoice immediately (if work has been done or materials need to be bought). But still constantly left feeling like a mug.
All that being said, the two guys who are completely rebuilding our bedroom are gold. Their finish is not exactly something I'm going to share on some other threads here due to certain self important folks getting a kick out slating of anything they don't deem to be perfect or straight from a Modern House listing. But they are hard working, produce solid results and are genuinely lovely and respectful people. They just don't have the best judge of other people they get in. And I'm secretly enjoying the big one singing along in sweet falsetto to Magic Radio most of the day. And they finish each Friday with a bottle of Guinness Foreign extra and a bit of a dance while they're tidying up.