How You Can Help Your Plasterer

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Jurek

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Hi there. I've been asked by Danny to put together a quick article on what customers can do to ensure a pleasant relationship with their plasterer. We all know having tradesmen in can be a stressful time. In a recent poll it was up their with moving home and losing your job. So anything that can alleviate that stress has got to be a good thing, right?

Your plasterer turns up and there's no parking space outside your property. This means he has park half way down the street and then carry his tools and plaster back and forth repeatedly throughout the day. Not a good start. Make sure you've reserved some space for him directly outside your property with a couple of cones or a wheelie bin. Or even better, move your own car down the street or off the drive for the day. Don't allow the plasterer to set up on your driveway and then ten minutes later tell him you need to get your car out to go and get some milk. Like that woman last week.

Make sure there's a water supply. Perhaps offer to run a hose to where the plasterer has set up his gear.

Offer him some coffee or tea. But not cheap chicory based coffee.
 
Preparation. If you've created extra work for the plasterer since he quoted on the job, tell him before hand. If he's asked you to strip the wallpaper, don't just tear off the paper and leave the pieces that are more difficult to remove, or the little scraggy bits around plugs and radiator brackets. It could put him in a bad mood.

Don't hover over him all day watching his every move like that dr kumars wife did to me. That might really annoy him.
 
Don't say "help yourself to anything in the fridge", then bitch and moan when the stella and rib eye steak get consumed.
Also clarify how 'at home' the plasterer can make himself so theres no confusion over him having a quick bath.
 
Get up early get the kids up early and take them all to macd's for breakfast as a plasterday treat... no I can't come at 930 after the school run.
If you have a house cat it will get out ... guaranteed oh and clean the litter tray.
Move your stuff the night before.
 
Make the plasterer feel very comfortable. Comfortable enough that they can have a huge shi t and then come down and make a joke about the stench and how they shouldn't go in there for a couple of hours.

Under no circumstances say that the plasterer would be great at icing a cake. This would give the plasterer permission to leave at that very moment with full pay regardless of the job being finished or not.

Prior to the job being started provide the plasterer with the opportunity to place a food and drink order so he wouldn't have to bring anything and have exactly what he wants when he wants free of charge.

Not much to ask really.
 
Hire a professional spread not the cheaper version , a good plasterer will make things easier for you and themselves ,a good plasterer will query stuff before he arrives and won't expect you to read his mind ,
 
Don't try to negotiate the price down unless you can offer more regular work. Pay when job is finished
 
Hi there. I've been asked by Danny to put together a quick article on what customers can do to ensure a pleasant relationship with their plasterer. We all know having tradesmen in can be a stressful time. In a recent poll it was up their with moving home and losing your job. So anything that can alleviate that stress has got to be a good thing, right?

Your plasterer turns up and there's no parking space outside your property. This means he has park half way down the street and then carry his tools and plaster back and forth repeatedly throughout the day. Not a good start. Make sure you've reserved some space for him directly outside your property with a couple of cones or a wheelie bin. Or even better, move your own car down the street or off the drive for the day. Don't allow the plasterer to set up on your driveway and then ten minutes later tell him you need to get your car out to go and get some milk. Like that woman last week.

Make sure there's a water supply. Perhaps offer to run a hose to where the plasterer has set up his gear.

Offer him some coffee or tea. But not cheap chicory based coffee.
Quick my arse
 
Dont expect a trowel to be a wand.

Any pipes will be skimmed up to not behind

Electrics will trip out at least 4 times a day.

Dont moan about dirty water being tipped in your flower bed.

White finger marks and handprints on woman's (and sometimes men's) underwear is not ours

All mess made can be cleaned up eventually by a competent company at your cost
 
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