So basically I just want to vent, or have a whinge, whichever way you want to look at it.
After 20 years as a trade running my own renovation business' I hung up my tools and got a government job.
As it goes the wife and I bought a house and started a few basic renovations that I could easily of done myself but decided to pay tradesmen.
It started with the roof cleaning from Jims roofing (not recommended) all was good until I removed the plasterboard from the kitchen and discovered that they had put all the old concrete from the ridge caps down inside the wall cavity, charging us for removal as well. It was great to be standing ankle deep in rubble pouring out from the wall! Thankyou Jims.
The painters failed to sand back the substrate on the skirting boards and architraves, the mantelpiece and window ledges so now after being paid to impossible to get them the fix the peeling paint Just as impossible to get the floor sander to take responsibility for his edging machine being rubbed along the skirting boards leaving a standard height line All over the house down to bare timber, and stain up the skirting boards???
The biggest insult is that they talk to their clients I this case me and my wife like we are stupid, even when I showed them my diploma in construction and my old portfolios, they still didn't stop the bull dust flying around, hand balling the problem to each other, their suppliers, their machines etc.
Then came the "PROPERTY DOCTORS" who also didn't understand who they were talking too and left their unfinished work in their own cloud of charming bull dust. Who quotes a roof on a verandah and then says flashing isn't in the quote???? That's like installing power points and telling the client that running electricity cable to them is extra and not in the price? Like buying a car without an engine! Like a fence with no nails! So sadly I wouldn't recommend any tradesmen, if I had the time I would easily of done it all myself.
I am severely disappointed In the laziness of everyone that's worked at our house, the integrity of people is rock bottom.
Thanks for listening.
Sincerely
Concretely.