Nightmare job

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ironmonkey

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Just finished a kitchen.Job was to overboard heavy artex ceiling,plaster.Then to plaster over deep artex walls.
Customer didnt want to remove wall units(about 4 inches from top of cupboard to ceiling)and also i was going to dub out walls with bonding first then skim but he was against this as well(cost too much he reckoned).
Put in a heavy price as i didnt want to put my name to the job.
Price was accepted.!??!!?
Did the job as best i could but not how i wanted,i think it looked fairly awful and wasnt happy with it.I expected to be called back.
Phone message just now to say what a fantastic job,delighted with it and cheques is on its way.
Anyone else had this.
 
if you put in a high price why didnt you just do it the way you wanted ? rather than leaving a job your not happy with.
 
gps said:
if you put in a high price why didnt you just do it the way you wanted ? rather than leaving a job your not happy with.
Tried to,he didnt want to spend any time doing it,i explained there was time in the job
"can you just do it like i have asked"was the reply,awkward situation
 
Sometimes I find that what you might think is a shite job is a top notch job to the customer. I once quoted to reskim a front room, walls and ceiling, it also needed a few square metres of boarding out on one side of the chimney breast after ripping out the original hardboard. I quoted £450 inclusive of materials. The guy turned me down saying it was too expensive.

I was back at the same house a few weeks later to do another job I'd quoted him for - job was to rip up and relay new floorboards in a 3m x 4m kitchen, I quoted £350 and he was more than happy to pay that (took me about 4 hours, only £60 materials ::) )

Anyhow, while I was there I had a look at the front room that he'd had someone do for £250, and it was shockingly bad. I've seen some bad plastering, but this was the worse you could imagine, there was bits of scrim tape showing everywhere, slacks and hollows, and trowel marks every few inches.

When he was paying me for the new floor, the guy asked me what I thought of the plastering. Before I had time to answer he started telling me how pleased he was with it, and how it had transformed the room, etc, etc.

Just goes to show mate, you might not have been happy with it, but your customer obviously was!
 
ive done some crap work in my time .......joe bloggs public hasnt got a clue ;D..........probably why most so called plasterers stick to domestic work ;D
 
spunkybum said:
ive done some crap work in my time .......joe bloggs public hasnt got a clue ;D..........probably why most so called plasterers stick to domestic work ;D
because site spreads are so much better lol you dont half talk some pony spunky
 
You get both spectrums on site and domestic ive seen blokes slashing it on site and never getting pulled on anything then you get the other end when the foremans shining lights down the wall and asking the impossible and the same goes for domestic some customers dont know and others know exactly what they are asking for thats when BSBB comes into its own ;)
 
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