Reply to: Loss of specialist skills and workers after Brexit

[OwlHoot]

Is the fact that they're Polish relevant? There are plenty of British cowboy builders out there too. It says the couple 'looked around online' to find a builder. So my guess is that these guys weren't personally recommended. I would also guess that the job they wanted done should have cost £50k, but they thought they were getting a bargain. If I was spending £34k on a renovation project, I would at the very least be doing some background checks and wanting examples of their previous work. I certainly wouldn't be going on holiday and leaving them to it. Not saying they deserved it but they should probably take some responsibility..

For something like that I'd definitely hire an architect, to use reputable builders and keep them in line, although I suppose that would also add to the cost.

[northernladyuk]

I've always found fat, ugly, heavily tattooed builders that look thick as pigtulip are best avoided.

But you just can't help yourself.

[scooterscot]

Couple find cowboy builders had botched the GBP34,000 renovations and held alcohol-fuelled parties | Daily Mail Online



Sometimes trade barriers are a good thing.

£34k renovations? Did you see the house?! It's worth £3.4k! Sink estate £34k renovations, pull the other one.

[BR14]

racist moron

you STILL don't get it.
these people are Not racist.
it's YOU individually they don't like.

hth

[Eirikur]

You still here? I'd have thought you'd be frantically booking your passage to your safe place before Oct 31st. We will need a few idiots after then, just to balance the books, but you'd be dragging the team down so low we'd be needing scuba gear...

racist moron

[vetran]

Good to see you continuing the Mail’s campaign of highlighting that immigrants are the cause of everyone’s problems.

Funny how they/you don’t mention the nationality of the second outfit that botched it up though.

MAREK KBI LIMITED. Free business summary taken from official companies house information. Free alerts. Registered as 11751073

yeah because your choice were so much better.

YOUR CHOICE HOME IMPROVEMENT LTD. Free business summary taken from official companies house information. Free alerts. Registered as 10063748

[Mordac]

OK just to complete the picture for you. When we hired him we was working at our neighbours (OK so they are 400m away but they are our closest neighbours) doing some insurance building work, which the insurance co. was happy with as was our neighbours. Although the work performed at the neighbours wasn't at large a construction as ours, perhaps our job was just too big for him and he found himself our of his depth. He made some basic errors, like using 3.7Nm blocks on the external walls, and he subcontracted the block work to another building co AJ Barnham (you can find them on facebook too) who clearly didn't have a scooby how to build block work walls.

Insurance work? If that didn't ring any very loud alarm bells it should have done. Insurance companies like cheap (I had that happen once - their "preferred contractor" dug up half the floor to trace a leak, which actually originated in a different room).

[Mordac]

Idiot

You still here? I'd have thought you'd be frantically booking your passage to your safe place before Oct 31st. We will need a few idiots after then, just to balance the books, but you'd be dragging the team down so low we'd be needing scuba gear...

[BR14]

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did he delete your personal data?

[The Dogs Bollocks]

You never thought to read the testimonials on those sites? I've had to read through hundreds in the last couple of years, but guess what? Everyone I've hired for a job has been excellent.
You should be aware that some cowboys claim to be "recommended" on those sites when they aren't, and if it takes you more than 10 mins to find out whether they are genuine, you might want to think about changing your username...

OK just to complete the picture for you. When we hired him we was working at our neighbours (OK so they are 400m away but they are our closest neighbours) doing some insurance building work, which the insurance co. was happy with as was our neighbours. Although the work performed at the neighbours wasn't at large a construction as ours, perhaps our job was just too big for him and he found himself our of his depth. He made some basic errors, like using 3.7Nm blocks on the external walls, and he subcontracted the block work to another building co AJ Barnham (you can find them on facebook too) who clearly didn't have a scooby how to build block work walls.

[Eirikur]

Quite. You can't miss all the adverts for trusted traders and check-a-trades etc. Anyone looking to get that sort of work done on the cheap should take all the responsibility...

Idiot

[Whorty]

Guess you won't be making the same mistake again. . . .

What a coincidence .... 2 people doing the same kind of building project at the same time. Shame Yorkie isn't still a member of CUK, he could have compared notes with The DB's

[greenlake]

Absolute rubbish. Just because a builder is registered with trust a trader, checka trades, mybuilder.com means absolutely nothing, other than the builder has paid a small fee to register on that particular site.
I employed builder to build an 'L' shaped double car port/double garage, 15 months later (approx. 10 months after kicking 1st builder offsite) we are suing him for £30K (we paid him (26K) to repair/make structurally good the abortion he tried to build. He didn't reach wall plate level before he was sacked. Then he tried to sue us for loss of earnings under a staged payment contract. That first builder was on all of the trades site I mentioned. They all claim that each builder has been checked and has appropriate insurance. What a load of b*ll*cks those claims are. Just because someone is registered on a web site does not mean they have a scooby doo what they are doing.

Guess you won't be making the same mistake again. . . .

Any builder worth your hard earned cash will know what he has to do to comply with building regs.

PS I am currently/have gone through this process now building a double car port and double garage construction. I did all my own planning drawings on Visio

[AtW]

Good news - after Brexit former VB6 contractors will be retrained to work as plumbers.

[Mordac]

Absolute rubbish. Just because a builder is registered with trust a trader, checka trades, mybuilder.com means absolutely nothing, other than the builder has paid a small fee to register on that particular site.
I employed builder to build an 'L' shaped double car port/double garage, 15 months later (approx. 10 months after kicking 1st builder offsite) we are suing him for £30K (we paid him (26K) to repair/make structurally good the abortion he tried to build. He didn't reach wall plate level before he was sacked. Then he tried to sue us for loss of earnings under a staged payment contract. That first builder was on all of the trades site I mentioned. They all claim that each builder has been checked and has appropriate insurance. What a load of b*ll*cks those claims are. Just because someone is registered on a web site does not mean they have a scooby doo what they are doing.

After we sacked him we found his facebook page - I wish I looked him up earlier

James Ferris | Facebook

PS on his building co facebook page you can see pictures of my building which is exactly how not to build double skin block walls

You never thought to read the testimonials on those sites? I've had to read through hundreds in the last couple of years, but guess what? Everyone I've hired for a job has been excellent.
You should be aware that some cowboys claim to be "recommended" on those sites when they aren't, and if it takes you more than 10 mins to find out whether they are genuine, you might want to think about changing your username...