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Have you seen that nursing home at lower furlong in Shipston James? Some guy was advertising it on here for a start in January but it looks to me like the roof will not be going on until at least Feb/March.

no i'm good for the near future too beddy

Yeah, he has to collect it but he has a severe handicap when it comes to getting a receipt for it.

I use this stuff everyday..beddy introduced me to it....great stuff but I mix it with pva and water so it goes absolutely miles. Only use it neat when the surface is really shiny, like the gloss painted old door I had to plaster over recently. Don't ask.

Yeah but a welded repair would mean a bit of a re-ray and I wasn't that bothered about it seeing as I didn't actually lose any tools. Ther are probably 20 rivets in the wee plate I put on so a fair bit of drilling. I was planning to just use a sharpie to colour the metal plate in black, same...

Just make sure you read the small print on your hp agreement. I did this sort of arrangement, deposit, monthly payments then balloon thinking that once the balloon was paid the van was mine. Wrong!!! I still have to pay one months rental of what I was paying, once a year. Also, when I do...

yeah I had my van done in a similar way but just a tiny hole they prised back in the back door. They got fook all out of it as all tools were left on the job and I did an easy repair with pop rivets and wee steel plate. My neighbour has a Vito which they went in through the side door similar...

I'm looking at chopping my van in. Got a LWB Vivaro on an '08 which I bought when it was 9 months old. Never had any major problems but quite a few niggles and the local main dealership were absolutely useless at solving these problems. I'm looking at a new Transit Custom LWB but by the time...

You sound like an absolute nightmare Emily. Have you got one of these wanky jobs where you bully people all day that are slightly less thick than you are but you get a massive power trip off it? You and your husband tried doing it on the cheap and now you must pay the price, not the person who...

That's a nice bit of cutting around the soil pipe in the floor Kyle. Nice to see you could actually be bothered to cut to the shape you were actually going round rather than just butt up to it with a square cut. On, no, hang on....

what areas in Warwickshire north/south? what sort of work and what sort of rates? PM me if need be

Beddy is that you in the first pic trying to steal the spring mechanism out of the bar stool?

If it was done on a saturday and sunday then I'm guessing it was done by someone who doesn't know what theyre doing as surely a good outfit wouldn't be working the weekends. Unless they're absolutely stacked out obviously. Having said that I've got to work all this weekend so I must be really...

Beddy, you are such a fooking nobhead, Cov solja my arse!! can't believe I helped you on that job a month ago now and you still haven't paid up you tight arse. Avoid this bloke at all costs paul1000r, he'll eat all your lunch and talk about s**t all day long then not pay you until you send...

I haven't been there in a wee while but always used to be 7.30am opening. Funnily enough I am working in Alcester tomorrow but got all my gear already so won't need to visit them

They're not the electric radiators I recommended!! You've bought some cheap imitations Danny

Can i come and work for you? Rumour has it you're a good boss and provide sausage rolls on top of the £80 a day wages

Why would you let your customers do that? You know it will be wrong. I don't let them do anything except empty the room and fill the kettle

This was my first paying job with Wallcrete. I just haven't had chance to return yet and tint it but it will get done. Those cables are nothing to worry about either, they're only live at one end.:-0

Looks good but had you noticed that your radiator has fallen off the wall?

Didn't you learn what to do in this situation on your short course?

Whats wrong with coursers? It's not as though they're good enough to take work off those with many years of experience is it? I know some coursers who actually work out of a van as well

Timeserved you really are a misery guts. Theres so much work about just now and all at great prices but you just keep moaning about the chancers that turn out a crap job for low money. Surely in all of your years of becoming "time served" you've built up a good reputation to keep you busy...

Some bloke phoned me last week (he knows someone I know so thinks we're best mates) and said he had stripped all the paper off his lounge and he was left with a few holes where he could see the bricks and numerous cracks. When I told him I couldn't do anything til October he tried telling me it...

Just got back. Been there all weekend staying in York but got the train over to Ilkley yesterday to see it. Great atmosphere everywhere. Rode down the route this morning straight after it all went through, just the first 3 or 4 miles but got cheered all the way by the huge crowds that were...

I've just done a job in one of the biggest houses on the poshest street in town. £150k worth of cars on the driveway. It was only a small ceiling repair in a utility, I told him £150 and he asked me if I could do any better for cash. I told him I would do a £20 discount if he let me have a...

I don't like dealing in cash, it's a bit dodgy. Would you be able to pay me with a cheque?

Beddy is my nominated supplier of micro. I usually get 3 or 4 at a time off him but it goes miles and miles. I dilute mine down with water but its still ready to skim on after less than an hour. If the surface looks thirsty I just stick some pva in it as well so its sealing the surface...

if you did some more reading on here and learnt some more basic stuff you could probably convince your poor customers that you have "been around" for ages and not fresh off a short course

I went to Swindon once but I think I was about the only bloke in the pub who did not have a story to tell about shagging his own sister. I kid you not, Swindon is the Coventry of the South

Did someone mention Jebus?

by the time you typed those posts your room would have gone anyway. I am assuming you had a whole room on from your post and because you sound like the sort of blagger who would put a whole room on and then leave a really poor finish cos it got away from you. Just my opinion, given your...

Really dodgy set up. Someone's gonna get shafted

haven't you done several of these types of posts now timeservedspread? You sound really bitter. Perhaps it's time you retired if you hate it all that much or perhaps go and do something you do enjoy. Or maybe you just need to adapt to the times. My rates are only going one way and well above...

Had my van bust into last night. It was on my driveway under a street light and they just went to the back doors and cut it open like a sardine tin then popped the latch and got in. Found it this morning but thankfully nothing taken as all my tools were left in customers house as been on same...

I always charge by the room. Round this way the rate is around £800 per room as long as its no bigger than a small football pitch but anywhere else you would struggle to get more than £40 per room. Sorry for such a vague answer but it is a cock question

Danny, the heaters you need are electric radiators by a company called Rointe. Spanish made but I did lots of research on this to replace all my night storage heaters. Had them in for 6 weeks now and I cannot recommend them enough. Fully digital programmable electric radiators that just plug...

I don't think he's ever done any plastering with these tools. They look like they're stolen

High point was building my own extension (with a bit of help from my friends) and being able to keep the promise to the wife of moving into our new kitchen/diner in time for Christmas Low point was when I started digging the foundation and was told by building control I had to go down...

Just the 6 please. Not that hungry, don't think I could manage 8.

just done my next door neighbours conservatory same as Ashley says. Batten, tri-iso, cross batten, insulated plasterboard and then skim. lovely job and now a very warm room that can actually be used

It's just up a bit from South Crawley

So the average square box room you have to do four cuts and stick four pieces up. How is it quicker to smear some goo you've mixed up yourself on the back of four lengths you've had to cut than it is to squirt some goo on them from a caulk gun? I think youre just looking for a fight cos you've...

How is that rough? It sticks the cove up and you use it for filling afterwards. How the **** is that rough? I've done hundreds of metres in loads of houses using this stuff and never had any comebacks. When someone asks you to do coving they want their room coved out with nice tight angles...

Got my reply back today regarding this and guess what.......................they let me off!! Hooraaaayyy! They said that due to my reasons I gave in my letter that they would let me off the fine this time so a big thanks again to the guys at BetterTax for sound advice and saving me writing out...

Got some sound advice off one of the blokes at BetterTax and have now put pen to paper so I will keep you informed of the outcome. I am pretty sure they will tell me to do one and pay up but worth a shot.

Is it really thin like gold leaf and stuck really well? If so then I don't know what it is but I've come across this a few times on old places and just pinked it and skimmed. No problems, no comebacks.

Just had a letter from HMRC fining me £100 for not filing last months CIS return. Now I know I definitely sent it as I do every month so it must have got lost in the post. It was a nil return anyway but I am going to appeal against the fine obviously as don't want to be just chucking my money...

You stupid, stupid, stupid, thick bunch of arse munching cock gobbling office nob jockeys. We all told you months ago what the problem was and how to fix it and now you are running some research! Research my arse you re***ds. We are your customers and we have spelt out our feedback many times...

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