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UTH said:
The Mrs did a top job of making the place pretty homely, even if only for a short time before we had to pack things away for work to start:
On this one, with the Teddy on the bed! How did you manage to book all those trades. I'm struggling to get some at the moment. Edited by UTH on Monday 18th January 10:00
Edited by Hugo Stiglitz on Thursday 22 April 18:14
Hugo Stiglitz said:
On this one, with the Teddy on the bed! How did you manage to book all those trades. I'm struggling to get some at the moment.
It's my friend from hockey who is the carpenter/project manager and he's got a whole crew of various people who have been doing the work. Edited by Hugo Stiglitz on Thursday 22 April 18:14
Looking good, I'm not at all jealous that your entire house seems to be progressing quicker than my kitchen/diner on it's own 
My latest headache is finding a tiler who doesn't seem hell bent on retiring early at my expense, one quoted over £4500 (excluding tiles) to tile just under 50sqm of bare room that will be level and ready to lay on which I can't image would take more than 3-4 days to do.
My latest headache is finding a tiler who doesn't seem hell bent on retiring early at my expense, one quoted over £4500 (excluding tiles) to tile just under 50sqm of bare room that will be level and ready to lay on which I can't image would take more than 3-4 days to do.
LocoBlade said:
Looking good, I'm not at all jealous that your entire house seems to be progressing quicker than my kitchen/diner on it's own
My latest headache is finding a tiler who doesn't seem hell bent on retiring early at my expense, one quoted over £4500 (excluding tiles) to tile just under 50sqm of bare room that will be level and ready to lay on which I can't image would take more than 3-4 days to do.
I must say I do feel very lucky that my mate and his team are so efficient. Apart from the expected days when they are at other jobs, which is always going to be understandable but frustrating, they have got things done at good pace and at a very high standard. My latest headache is finding a tiler who doesn't seem hell bent on retiring early at my expense, one quoted over £4500 (excluding tiles) to tile just under 50sqm of bare room that will be level and ready to lay on which I can't image would take more than 3-4 days to do.
I do fear I'll be in for some shocks when we move onto phase 4 and want bathrooms done etc, and we start experiencing tile related issues like you are.
Good progress.
I had a painter and decorator that was recommended by a friend come and quote to do some work. After a couple of weeks of chasing him after he'd been to look at the job I finally got hold of him while he was playing golf in Richmond. Said it was too much work for just one person, he couldn't find anyone to help him so he didn't want the job.
I had a painter and decorator that was recommended by a friend come and quote to do some work. After a couple of weeks of chasing him after he'd been to look at the job I finally got hold of him while he was playing golf in Richmond. Said it was too much work for just one person, he couldn't find anyone to help him so he didn't want the job.
paralla said:
Good progress.
I had a painter and decorator that was recommended by a friend come and quote to do some work. After a couple of weeks of chasing him after he'd been to look at the job I finally got hold of him while he was playing golf in Richmond. Said it was too much work for just one person, he couldn't find anyone to help him so he didn't want the job.
Yep IME recommendations generally either end up being non responsive or flippin expensive. Perhaps the latter is because they think it's a done deal so load the quote up, maybe next time I won't mention they were recommended I had a painter and decorator that was recommended by a friend come and quote to do some work. After a couple of weeks of chasing him after he'd been to look at the job I finally got hold of him while he was playing golf in Richmond. Said it was too much work for just one person, he couldn't find anyone to help him so he didn't want the job.
The aforementioned tiler was a recommendation and we also had a plasterer recommended to us quote for our kitchen walls/ceiling and some other patching up which came it at over £4k and 22 man days apparently! Luckily on this occasion my cousin's a plasterer who'd originally been unable to quote due to having a large job lined up when we needed him but that job was delayed and he's doing it for about 60% of the other quote in about 60% of the time.
anonymous said:
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What sort of conversion / work are you having done.?I looked into these for a house we were looking to buy but we didnt get it unfortunately. Probably a blessing in disguise as the conversion we would have needed would have been a complete roof off job and far larger trusses as there wasn't enough headroom in the existing loft to convert.
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