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[woody1]

TBH, I'd take someone crap at the moment. Contacted a guy, who said he was working nearby last week, and would pop round to have a look. Did he turn up, did he feck. I suppose I could chase him up but seriously...

 

[courtg9000]

TBH, I'd take someone crap at the moment. Contacted a guy, who said he was working nearby last week, and would pop round to have a look. Did he turn up, did he feck. I suppose I could chase him up but seriously...

A longer term strategy I have used more than once in more than one location in which I have lived and I appreciate that you might not feel able to copy the strategy for various reasons.

1) find the local pub where the trades drink,
2) go in there regularly
3) get your face known
4) get to know the trades
5) after a good while once you are trusted, have a "quiet word about a little problem you are having with the house".

Replace the pub with the golf club and you can repeat the same strategy for white collar professionals such as accountants and solicitors.

If its iffy cops and magistrates you are after then replace the golf club with the masonic lodge!

 

[Protagoras]

Bless, just can't seem to control your temper, can you?

Talking of temper ...

When I was quite young (pre-teen), the decorator would come around to "do the distemper" and I couldn't understand why we'd get someone in to spread disease. It wasn't as if we even had a dog.

Every time he came around, my gran would talk about the distemper and I'd be perplexed, but since asking even a simple question was 'cheek', frowned upon and likely to lead to physical punishment, I said nothing.

It was only rather later that I learned that distemper is both a traditional breathable interior paint as well as a canine viral infection. It's curious to use the same word for both, and I found it most confusing. We never had a dog in the house, but I don't think the paint was a repellent.

 

[jamesbrown]

Talking of temper ...

When I was quite young (pre-teen), the decorator would come around to "do the distemper" and I couldn't understand why we'd get someone in to spread disease. It wasn't as if we even had a dog.

Every time he came around, my gran would talk about the distemper and I'd be perplexed, but since asking even a simple question was 'cheek', frowned upon and likely to lead to physical punishment, I said nothing.

It was only rather later that I learned that distemper is both a traditional breathable interior paint as well as a canine viral infection. It's curious to use the same word for both, and I found it most confusing. We never had a dog in the house, but I don't think the paint was a repellent.

In a way, distemper paint is kind of like a disease. At least, if you want to skim or get anything to adhere to it