Originally posted by hyperD
I think the person must have been mental anyway though - who would want a houseful of screaming snotty nosed spoilt brats anyway? Are the tax benefits that good?
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Some people get quite tetchy about having a creche or such similar near their homes. Up the road from me (family orientated estate near a 6th form college) someone bought a house, got planning permission to set up a creche but had to abandon the idea and sell up because the local NIMBYs kicked up a fuss about the noise of children playing in the back garden.
I think the person must have been mental anyway though - who would want a houseful of screaming snotty nosed spoilt brats anyway? Are the tax benefits that good?Last edited by ladymuck; 16 May 2006, 15:50. -
Similar experiences here. I am refurbing an old house. Plumbing quoted at 13K eventualy got it done for 4K. Plasterer quoted 14 quid per meter as the going rate and wasnt interested in single rooms, wnated the whole house at once to make it worth his while. I have found a much nicer bloke to do that job too.Originally posted by hyperD
Apparently a lot of tradesmen are struggling as they have all been working on our local Uni extension (hence the stupid quote) but now that has dried up they have no work on, the ones who kept it sensible are still plodding away.I am not qualified to give the above advice!
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If you are prepared for work to be done out of the normal working day then the best way to get a decent tradesman is to approach the site manager who would most likely pass a message on to the site trades. This way you will know the tradesmen is likely to be genuine otherwise he would not be on site. This was the way it worked when I was a chippie.Originally posted by The Lone Gunman
I can understand a plasterer not wanting to do small jobs as to do one 3 metre length of wall would take only 30 mins to plaster but the mixing/cleaning up/waiting to dry before next coat will add another 2 hours and nobody wants to pay for that. It also means another job cannot be done on the same day. Plasterring is easy - you should learn it.Comment
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How can being a plasterer be more fun and more rewarding than doing .NET?
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Really good and easy money in the building trade. 99.9% working in it are complete and utter *******, so even with just a smidgen of a clue one can make an absolute packet. One of my hobbies is to do up really really old houses. The current project was built in 1599. Now since it was built the Danes took on this metric system madness, which basically means that even if a workman has the tools, they don't have the right sizes (absolutely fatal to use the nearest metric), and very few have any education in what is needed. I've even taken over a project where someone thought they knew what they were doing ... until the roof collapsed.
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Why didn't 'wankers' come through?Insanity: repeating the same actions, but expecting different results.
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doing .NET is the first step into wanting to be plasteredOriginally posted by DimPrawnComment
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