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Signs the Celtic Tiger is on the way back......#453

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  • 20-10-2014 12:34pm
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    Closed Accounts Posts: 20,297 ✭✭✭✭


    Small building job.....

    The story so far.....first builder quoted, accepted, agreed a starting date then didn't show. No answer on mobile despite repeated calls.

    Second builder......visited, measured......never submitted an estimate

    Third builder......visited, measured, quoted, is starting next week.....and has been starting the job next week for the last five weeks!

    Fourth builder......quoted then phoned to apologise.......no brickies available.

    Fifth builder......'too small a job' for him apparently.

    Big change from last year when we were getting flyers in the door every other day of the week.


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  • Registered Users Posts: 5,022 ✭✭✭jamesbere


    Maybe they don't like you


  • Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 1,797 ✭✭✭Kevin McCloud


    4x4s outside the pub with no towing hitch.


  • Registered Users Posts: 3,747 ✭✭✭fleet_admiral


    Do you live at 25 Cromwell Street?


  • Registered Users Posts: 43,028 ✭✭✭✭SEPT 23 1989


    How small is the job?


  • Registered Users Posts: 7,182 ✭✭✭Genghiz Cohen


    How small is the job?

    Too small.


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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 18,299 ✭✭✭✭The Backwards Man


    Not a builder, but I know that usually when someone claims to have a 'small' or a 'handy' job it will be something that awkward or potentially full of hassle that you'd be better off paying the customer not to ask you for a quote.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 4,969 ✭✭✭buck65


    Are you Wayne Dundon?


  • Registered Users Posts: 371 ✭✭mikehunts


    buck65 wrote: »
    Are you Wayne Dundon?


    What is he looking for? an en suite in his cell.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 20,297 ✭✭✭✭Jawgap


    Do you live at 25 Cromwell Street?

    No, but I get my topsoil from there.
    How small is the job?

    Take down and rebuild a wall (about 15m in length)


  • Registered Users Posts: 371 ✭✭mikehunts


    buck65 wrote: »
    Are you Wayne Dundon?
    Jawgap wrote: »

    Take down and rebuild a wall (about 15m in length)



    I think you might be right.


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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 18,299 ✭✭✭✭The Backwards Man


    Jawgap wrote: »
    No, but I get my topsoil from there.



    Take down and rebuild a wall (about 15m in length)

    What's the catch?


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 20,297 ✭✭✭✭Jawgap


    What's the catch?

    I don't know that there is one.

    A few weeks ago one of our trees got a bit tired and tried to lie down!!

    It took out a good portion of part of a wall at the end of the garden.

    The tree has been chopped up and is being seasoned for firewood......a good chunk of the wall has gone away in the skip........all that's needed is for the rest of the wall to be removed and a new one built.

    The only 'catch' I can think of is that I'd like it done in brick instead of blocks.


  • Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 31,117 ✭✭✭✭snubbleste


    Just put up a white picket fence.


  • Registered Users Posts: 3,747 ✭✭✭fleet_admiral


    Jawgap wrote: »
    No, but I get my topsoil from there.
    I wouldnt, its very boney soil


  • Registered Users Posts: 573 ✭✭✭chprt


    where are you based, my mates a brickie and mad for work.

    www.onlinemathsgrinds.ie



  • Registered Users Posts: 3,610 ✭✭✭stoneill


    Do you live at 25 Cromwell Street?

    I got some rubbish bags from there - they were useless, the arse kept falling out of them.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 18,299 ✭✭✭✭The Backwards Man


    Jawgap wrote: »
    I don't know that there is one.

    A few weeks ago one of our trees got a bit tired and tried to lie down!!

    It took out a good portion of part of a wall at the end of the garden.

    The tree has been chopped up and is being seasoned for firewood......a good chunk of the wall has gone away in the skip........all that's needed is for the rest of the wall to be removed and a new one built.

    The only 'catch' I can think of is that I'd like it done in brick instead of blocks.
    There was a time when it was hard to get actual bricklayers here, as opposed to block layers, not sure it's the same now though.

    There's always a catch though.

    Do you want two dozen porches on it?
    Is it on a steep gradient?
    Is it backing onto the lion enclosure in Dublin zoo?


  • Registered Users Posts: 3,747 ✭✭✭fleet_admiral


    stoneill wrote: »
    I got some rubbish bags from there - they were useless, the arse kept falling out of them.
    Yeah I knew a builder who tried to fix a wall there but there was a belly in it


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 20,297 ✭✭✭✭Jawgap


    chprt wrote: »
    where are you based, my mates a brickie and mad for work.

    Just outside Drogheda.....

    PM me if you think your mate might be interested. We've another guy coming to look today.
    There was a time when it was hard to get actual bricklayers here, as opposed to block layers, not sure it's the same now though.

    There's always a catch though.

    Do you want two dozen porches on it?
    Is it on a steep gradient?
    Is it backing onto the lion enclosure in Dublin zoo?

    I'm not sure there is - someone managed to build a wall there before and I'm just looking to get it reinstated.

    There is a slight fall in the ground but nothing severe.


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