Random Irritations

The seal at the bottom of one of the French doors is shot and leaks like a sieve. Only started leaking this week. It faces due south and has probably been destroyed by the sun/UV. The wind and rain comes from the south west and beats against the door. The carpet by the door is soaked. I really don’t fancy paying out for new doors.
 
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ColchesterFC said:
Mrs Colch!!!!!

She appears to believe that I have started defecating money. We moved in to the new house two weeks ago after getting a new lounge carpet fitted. Since we have moved in she has now got quotes for all the remaining carpets to be replaced, all the windows and doors to be replaced, remodelling of the bathroom and replacing the hot water tank as "it's not big enough", a downstairs toilet to be put in the existing porch with a new porch built and the front door to be moved, knocking out the chimney to increase the room sizes and knocking out a wall between the kitchen and dining room and replacing the kitchen. And she's got someone coming next week to see about knocking down the summer house and replacing it with a garden room for her to work in. And that's just the quotes so far, she still has plans for the garden that we haven't so quotes for - YET!!!!
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Just received the first quote for replacing the windows and doors. 9 x windows and 2 X doors, all UPVC, for £5500 inclusive of VAT. That's to supply and fit them. Anyone know if that's a decent price? I've got no idea and still waiting for the other two quotes to be sent through.
 
ColchesterFC said:
Just received the first quote for replacing the windows and doors. 9 x windows and 2 X doors, all UPVC, for £5500 inclusive of VAT. That's to supply and fit them. Anyone know if that's a decent price? I've got no idea and still waiting for the other two quotes to be sent through.
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without knowing window sizes doesnt look too bad not super cheap but not overly expensive
 
Neilds said:
I have a similar problem being born in December - luckily at beginning so no shared Christmas/Brithday presents! My problem when I was younger whas when I wanted a new bike or toy, I was told I could have it for my birthday, which meant I had to go all summer without and then when I got my present in Decemebr, the weather was rubbish and I couldn't use it.
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You should have wanted skis or a nice raincoat.
 
pauljames87 said:
Your right 99% of the problems have been caused by outside influences... Prob why teachers, firefighters, postie's, nurses , uni staff, civil servants are all voting for strike action .. notice a common denominator? I'll give you a small clue . It's not the unions and it rhymes with Rory
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So, nothing to do with Covid or Putin's war. :rolleyes:
 
Slime said:
So, nothing to do with Covid or Putin's war. :rolleyes:
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Both situations have not helped the cost of living however all those listed are being poorly handled by the same people

Look around the world and see the other economic approaches, the other performances (we are worst performing g6 nation)

But hey those evil nurses voting for a national strike for the first time in history .. must just be an unhappy coincidence
 
It's irritating, but mainly very sad, that the first thing people do when it appears that money will be tight, is to go on strike for more of it. Maybe lets reign back on our spending, yes I'm looking at you that have massive 4x4 monsters on tick, excessive mobile phone contracts (just who the hell is buying a phone that costs over £100 anyway! and bonkers TV contracts etc etc etc for ever and ever amen.
 
Orikoru said:
This constant paranoia we have around tradespeople and whether we're being ripped off or not. We found a painter & decorator to do our small-to-medium sized second bedroom, he happens to live on our road. When he gave us the quote he says he'd normally charge £700 but would do it for £450 as we are neighbours. No idea if that's true but the price seemed ok so we went for it anyway. Initially he says it's a 3 day job, now he reckons he might be done today (day 2) even though they finished at 2:30pm yesterday even after having an hour and half out earlier on while waiting for a coat to dry. So should we be pleased it's done quicker or has he billed us an extra day to pull a fast one?

And on top of all that I have my wife whinging to me things like "he's only doing one coat on the skirtings, I've Googled it and it says you'd normally do two coats with that paint and blah blah blah". So you're the expert now because you've Googled it? Do you want to go up there and tell him how it's done because I'm not going to?

This was supposed to less stress than doing it ourselves.
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With my Tradesmans hat on, the unwritten rule is get 3 quotes and work out what price you want to pay.

If it took him 4 days would you be happy to pay him the extra day or would you stick to the quote? IMHO £450 for 2 days work from a professional time served tradesman is cheap. If he's done good job and your happy whats the problem?

If you're not happy with the skirting boards ask him to pop back and sort out.

People like your missus really grind my gears.

"I've looked on google and its only a 5 minute job" Or " my dad said it's xxxx problem" etc.

Thats part and parcel of the job unfortunately. He can only paint on top of dry paint. What do you expect him to do, not charge?
 
theoneandonly said:
You got the quote for the work, if youre happy with the outcome then alls good sand pay the man as agreed whether it took longer or shorter. There was a thread a while back where I think it was philthefragger refused to pay as quoted because they finished the work earlier than expected. Don't be that person.
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Who was you logged in as that day?

???
 
Crazyface said:
It's irritating, but mainly very sad, that the first thing people do when it appears that money will be tight, is to go on strike for more of it. Maybe lets reign back on our spending, yes I'm looking at you that have massive 4x4 monsters on tick, excessive mobile phone contracts (just who the hell is buying a phone that costs over £100 anyway! and bonkers TV contracts etc etc etc for ever and ever amen.
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Yeah all those nurses with 4x4s

I do wonder what world you live in sometimes
 
pauljames87 said:
Both situations have not helped the cost of living however all those listed are being poorly handled by the same people

Look around the world and see the other economic approaches, the other performances (we are worst performing g6 nation)

But hey those evil nurses voting for a national strike for the first time in history .. must just be an unhappy coincidence
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Don‘t tell me you never knew that a key qualification for any vocational profession such as nursing was that you had to be militant…apparently.?
 
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