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While we're waiting for the next one to arrive...
Posted: 02 Dec 2005, 14:24
by Mrs. Snowey
Or failing that, those builders wot are meant to be surveying our bathroom for the grand restoration project that is Snowey Towers
Meant to be coming this pm. Supposedly. Hmph.
Posted: 02 Dec 2005, 18:27
by Brideoffrankenstein
I had that problem with someone who was meant to be mending my electric meter - three bloody times it took before they came....
Posted: 02 Dec 2005, 18:37
by Planet Dave
Gas board are no better - worse in fact. The answer is...sort it yourself (says the bloke who flooded his garage in an inch of water whilst 'sorting it himself' with the sink
)
DIY. Love it. Dontcha baby.
Posted: 02 Dec 2005, 18:44
by Brideoffrankenstein
Yeah but I bet they didn't try and get the bailiffs on you!
Posted: 02 Dec 2005, 20:14
by Mrs. Snowey
Brideoffrankenstein wrote:Yeah but I bet they didn't try and get the bailiffs on you!
Knock, knock
"We know yer in, we can hear yer"
"Can you turn the water off please"
Posted: 03 Dec 2005, 23:19
by James Blast
I subscribe to the school of DDIY, I'm a designer I don't fix plumbing so why do plumbers/admin types/accountants/personel officers/IT managers etc. think they can design?
DDIY-Don't Dae It Yirsel
get a professional in
Posted: 03 Dec 2005, 23:25
by scotty
Mrs. Snowey wrote:Brideoffrankenstein wrote:Yeah but I bet they didn't try and get the bailiffs on you!
Knock, knock
"We know yer in, we can hear yer"
"Can you turn the water off please"
"don't pay the rent man a single thing,
don't let the man from the Gas Board in"
I'm with
Blast on this, every man/women to his/her trade.
Posted: 04 Dec 2005, 13:39
by Mrs. Snowey
Completely agree with you. It may well give you a warm glow of satisfaction to say you've done it yerself, but for me it's more satisfying to see the job done right.
Which is why we're letting someone else install the new walls, electrics, plumbing, furniture etc.
I can manage flatpack furniture and simple decorating. Beyond that, I know my limits
Posted: 04 Dec 2005, 14:12
by Brideoffrankenstein
I had alot of damp coming through in the bathroom of my old flat so I phoned up my landlord and said he needed to do something about it as I thought some tiles had come off the roof, he turns up and looks at it and says "You sort it out and I'll re-imburse you". I was so stunned I went "Yeah, okay" then realised what I had just said. The next day I was walking through town and saw an advertising borad where his building company was doing some work and on it said "damp-proofing specialist"
Posted: 04 Dec 2005, 14:16
by aims
James Blast wrote:I subscribe to the school of DDIY, I'm a designer I don't fix plumbing so why do plumbers/admin types/accountants/personel officers/IT managers etc. think they can design?
DDIY-Don't Dae It Yirsel
get a professional in
Having spent the last couple of years subsisting off amateur software, I feel that the sentiment should be extended to programmers who pick their own colour schemes
That said, I do my website and record art myself...oh well, pots and kettles
