Recent content by Spreadingpink

I thought I'd start a new thread about good customers, I always hear of bad ones never hear of the good ones! Just finished a job for an elderly couple, float n set dwarf walls in a conservatory. I turn up at 8 and they've got a bacon sarnie waiting for me lol, she put a fan incase it got to hot...

I pay 58 pence for 2.4 m thin coats, £4.60 inc vat for multi.... Stick to small merchants, there more competitive and need your custom more than travis! I had a cash account at travis n used it once, still bombarded with e mails telling me to come back lol.

Would rather skim in the dark than use halogens.... Chasing shadows!!

My grandfather retired aged 71.... He started in his mid twenties, Die hard spread riddled with arthritis lol. Customers used to always call him my "dad", so either he looked good for his age or plastering has aged me 20 odd years?? Sorry for that 'Hector' moment :RpS_mellow:

It's like going into tescos and saying ill give you £50 CASH for £100 worth of food...... Hate customers like that! Just got to go with your gut instinct!

Well at least they let you know that you haven't got the job malc... The past two months I've had nothing but timewasterers.... But you have to speculate to accumulate.

You reminded me of a time when I lost my phone... Couldn't find it anywhere, found it about a year later in bushes in garden all chewed up and well hidden thanks to our dog who was a puppy at the time!

I wonder jcr has started his evening course in electrics yet.....

I just charged a fella £80 to skim a dot n dabbed fire breast and returns, two thin coat beads bag a multi! So I would say that a fair price, but could have pushed a bit more.... My opinion before jcr bites my head off....

Stop chasing shadows....painter will get over it!

The only time I finish a job without a cheque in my wallet is when I do jobs for local builders whom I trust will pay..... Oh and insurance jobs when they keep you on phone for about a month....

You know that, lol

I was skimming under stairs little curved ceiling 1st coat really thick to get the curve 2nd coat bit of movement were scrim tape looked up just as scrim tape was falling..... Scrim tape wrapped around my face! Then had to walk half mile to taps, then drive home about 30 miles..... Oh yeah then...

Misses said you weren't to great.....

you can have her lol...