Jurek
Private Member
I went to look at a job this morning. It was a couple I've worked for previously. They've bought a new house. Moved up in the world. They showed me a box room they wanted skimming and then mentioned they wanted another two or three rooms plastering after the DAMP COMPANY had done their work. They showed me the rooms. Two were bedrooms with bays. Mildew on the outer walls in the corners. Downstairs there was another bay with mildew and then a rear room with mildew and penetrating damp where the hopper on a downspout had come away from the wall. It was costing them nine hundred quid to have the plaster hacked off and the walls injected with dryzone or equivalent. About twenty linear metres. Bedrooms included ffs. You couldn't make it up. What a racket. I felt like I had them on the stand when speaking to them. Did they mention a cream? Did they give you an expensive quote for the replastering? Did the say they'd leave a spec sheet for the plasterer? Did the survey say get specialist reports on damp and electrics? But they weren't having it. The bloke could see I was right with what I was telling him but his missus had been brainwashed. In fact she was quite rude. Jesus, you try and help people. When I got there they were having the corrugated asbestos roofing taken off the a shed in the garden