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Here's me wanting to fly some skirting on brand new walls, but no, plaster lipping at the bottom of the walls, beads not on square. Just makes it hard bloody work!
I'm sure there's still some lads out there who still give a toss!
Such as me sat moaning on the interweb 😯


 
Posted : 27/03/2014 11:34 am
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They use the wrong entrance??


 
Posted : 27/03/2014 11:35 am
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I blame Thatcher. She was rubbish as plastering.


 
Posted : 27/03/2014 11:37 am
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WTF, are you using a mitre box or something? Other angles are available. 😀


 
Posted : 27/03/2014 11:42 am
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There is very little pride in work these days. As long as they get paid many don't give a toss.
I tend to find the best quality comes from them bloody foreigners, especially eastern European. You'll find they're cheaper too, they turn up when they promise and work with no complaining.


 
Posted : 27/03/2014 11:48 am
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As good as I am dd I should not have to adjust this saw (shiny new) beyond 45 or 90 degrees. Its just making life hard 👿
However I was flummoxed this morning when cutting 2 mitres one was longer than the other across the angle.
Obviously the (shit) new saw was to blame, err nope, rouge piece of skirting that was 3/4 mm thicker than the rest.
I too blame thatcher!


 
Posted : 27/03/2014 12:41 pm
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new build? put your hammer through the wall.... that is what one guy i had the pleasure of working alongside used to do. he was a nutter though and didn't last long on that site.

agree, it's annoying. adds lots of time when cocking about trying to find the angle rather than flipping the choppy to 45°.

used to annoy me when you had dollops of dried plaster on the floor and you would spend best part of an hour clearing the floor before you could start pinning.


 
Posted : 27/03/2014 12:44 pm
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Obviously the (shit) new saw was to blame, err nope, rouge piece of skirting that was 3/4 mm thicker than the rest.
I too blame thatcher!

Thatcher knew you could never trust a red...


 
Posted : 27/03/2014 12:46 pm
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Plastering is a a very skilled job, with minimal tools, yet some plasteres make a really great job, flat surfaces neat edges and no blobs of plaster everywhere, but a few seem to think theyre plastering a birthday cake with cheap icing and just wanyt it finished to eat the contents.


 
Posted : 27/03/2014 12:49 pm
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...and they don't return your calls.....

Rang a plasterer last week. "I'll call you back and let you know when i can get back to you, either tomorrow or the day after...".
Hasn't called back.

called an electrician and left a voicemail......his message specifically said leave your name and number and I'll get back to you. He hasn't got back to me. I wouldn't mind if he called back just to say he's busy for the next X weeks, as then I'll know to start looking for alternatives.

Had some doors and windows fitted just after Christmas. Bloke couldn't get round quick enough to get measured up and book the fitting in during his January 'quiet spot'.
But they cocked up one of the door measurements and it needs a new skin. Getting just this ordered has taken 2 months now with me chasing him once a week for progress.
I assume he isn't in a rush, now he's got our money. I don't think he has realised we paid him £500 short until he sorts this door!


 
Posted : 27/03/2014 12:57 pm
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The plastering alone is worth near on 20k so you think they'd be making the effort, boss man out tomorrow so I'm sure the lads will have upped their game by then.
Tea time now and all a call to polycell for a bulk delivery of decorators caulk 🙄


 
Posted : 27/03/2014 1:03 pm
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bulk delivery of decorators caulk

pass the invoice onto their guvna' and bill him an extra hour or two of your time.... do so with a smile, not with the intention of him paying it, just so that he realises his lads are, to use a german term, pfuschers.


 
Posted : 27/03/2014 1:12 pm
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[quote=wrightyson said] rouge piece of skirting that was 3/4 mm thicker than the rest.

Perhaps it was painted red to warn you it was the odd one out ? 😉


 
Posted : 27/03/2014 1:19 pm
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Don't start me off!


 
Posted : 27/03/2014 2:43 pm
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Don't start me off!

In relation to...?

*stands well back*


 
Posted : 27/03/2014 2:48 pm
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The construction industry....


 
Posted : 27/03/2014 4:07 pm
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The construction industry....

No, please, do go on...


 
Posted : 27/03/2014 4:08 pm
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If customers need a curtain fitter I give them the No. of a freelance chap. He's been fitting curtains for many years and like me we've somehow pootled through the recession.
Just recently he's been rude, over priced and doesn't seem to appreciate the work that I pass on. Arrggghhh.


 
Posted : 27/03/2014 4:12 pm
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I used to labour for a plasterer some years back. If the sparky's left their cables hanging all over the place when first fixing, he'd fill all their socket and light boxes with plaster to make their life difficult, as they had his.

If they took the time to fold all their wires up and out of the way he'd go to great efforts to keep things as tidy and as easy as possible for them when they got back on site.

I miss site politics.


 
Posted : 27/03/2014 4:28 pm
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http://www.starrett.co.uk/shop/handtools/Prositeprotractor/
Having only worked in old buildings with many an odd angle these are great. No excuse for rough workmanship though, when I worked with my dad he always said, "Do your job so it's easy for the man following to do his job"


 
Posted : 27/03/2014 4:35 pm
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We needed a new boiler so I emailed 4 independent fitters/plumbers. All replied quickly and agreed on a time/date to come and quote me, the first two didn't bother to turn up or call to let me know. Why bother making the appointment?!

The ones I used in the end though did a great job and were very pleasant, conscientious, and tidy. I'm happy to say they'll be getting more work from us when we can afford it.


 
Posted : 27/03/2014 4:37 pm
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The construction industry....

...because?


 
Posted : 27/03/2014 4:43 pm
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You should have seen the hissyfit and swearing when i told them to bin the skirting, well it said scribed joints in the spec.
😆


 
Posted : 27/03/2014 5:24 pm
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Yupp, plaster belling out at the bottom of walls (I presume it's because plasterers apply more pressure in the middle of the stroke...and also that they don't bother with straight edges any more).
I usually welly into the worst of the plaster with a blunt chisel and/or plane the back of the skirting; both options a total PITA.


 
Posted : 27/03/2014 7:18 pm
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The last few months at at our place have been terrible, we're having an office extension built and the only working bog in the building is the executive one outside our office so all the tradesmen chappies have been using it; mucky footprints on the carpet, bog roll holder snapped off, skidmarks, messy basin... and you can't get five minutes to sit quietly reading STW on the G4 in the mornings.... tsk.....


 
Posted : 27/03/2014 7:26 pm
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As a painter I must say non of you are very tidy 😉
Been told by countless divs its O.K. the men in white will make it all right. That's before I put my whites on of course.


 
Posted : 27/03/2014 9:08 pm
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^ or it's the decorators problem.


 
Posted : 31/03/2014 11:03 am
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If you can't get a pound coin in, it's a decorator's job. 😀


 
Posted : 31/03/2014 11:06 am

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