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[speling bee]

ElectricChair was permabanned, and you're still allowed here.

Don't worry about Brillo. He just gets mardy if I'm rude about his boyfriend.

[BrilloPad]

Bollux. There's always been a shortage of good tradesmen - just recently its gone ballistic. Which is why that UKIP poster of a builder with a begging bowl is absolute and total crap - like most of what they say.

I met a builder on the Woolwich Ferry the other day. He does stonework for places like Harrods. He told me that the economy is still tight and plenty of competition from abroad.

Who do I trust - someone I have met and seemed honest or someone who posts cretinous nonsense, insults everyone else and has never shown up at a meeting (as they are scared they will have the poo beaten out of them)?

[BrilloPad]

Don't worry about Brillo. He just gets mardy if I'm rude about his boyfriend.

Which one?

Plenty of posters have had sockies permabanned - my favourite was "Alan Brannigan" on the BN66 threads.......

[sasguru]

Why not? They have buildings in Poland and they don't seem to be any more prone to falling over than English ones are.

Because you'd want a properly insured and legitimate company to do any serious work and many (most?) Poles don't work that way.

[sasguru]

Who do I trust?

Certainly not your judgement since you're mad as a box of frogs.

HTH.

[BrilloPad]

Because you'd want a properly insured and legitimate company to do any serious work and many (most?) Poles don't work that way.

Thats what building inspectors are for. You really are a first class

[vetran]

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[Mich the Tester]

I suspect that guy was intended to portray an unskilled low-wage manual worker rather than a skilled builder, and the former are at risk of being made unemployed by machines.

ftfy

[sasguru]

Thats what building inspectors are for. You really are a first class

So if a builder cocks up your works, the building inspectors have insurance to pay for it?
You may want to revisit who exactly is a moron.

[doodab]

Because you'd want a properly insured and legitimate company to do any serious work and many (most?) Poles don't work that way.

Fair enough. Around my way there seem to be a few proper firms that have been started by Poles. The loft conversion in the place I'm currently living was done by one, it seems pretty sound although we had some damage during the storms they seemed to do a good job of fixing it as well.