Travelers offering driveway cleaning

AmberGold · 25-09-2017 09:53PM #1

In our small estate in County Dublin we’ve been inundated over the last few weeks with travelers offering driveway cleaning services. They generally call during the day mid week. Has anyone any experience of using lads like these ?

tomwaterford · 25-09-2017 09:55PM

Them boys are at nothing....sure get in the back to clean the windows aswel

Collie D · 25-09-2017 09:56PM

Perhaps I'm a slob with very low standards but I have never looked at a driveway and thought "Jesus, that's filthy. Could do with a scrub"

Aint Eazy Being Cheezy · 25-09-2017 09:56PM

Hire them. There's nothing that can possibly go wrong.

Gerrup Outta Dat! · 25-09-2017 09:57PM

They called up to me one evening before and did a fantastic job. I also had an old cylinder and a few radiators (soiled with paint) and they were happy to relieve me of what I considered rubbish. Gave them tea and sangiches when they were working. Lovely gents. They're not all bad before the venom starts spouting here.

whoopsadoodles · 25-09-2017 09:57PM

Power wash my front driveway every year. Do a great job for a decent price. Very pleasant too.

That's not what most people in AH want to hear though!

punisher5112 · 25-09-2017 09:57PM

I wouldn't let them clean a sewer never mind me drive.

Barry Badrinath · 25-09-2017 09:57PM

Ginger lad with man tits in a black Toyota Avensis and pulling a trailor?

punisher5112 · 25-09-2017 09:57PM

Dodgy as fook.

NIMAN · 25-09-2017 09:58PM

I had this service offered to me about 10 years ago, my driveway was maybe 30 ft x 10ft.

Guy said he could do a good price of €700.

Needless to say I chased him.

I got to thinking that maybe they were just knocking to see if anyone in the house? Or am I prejudging them?

punisher5112 · 25-09-2017 09:59PM

Are they insured, is the company registered and have they got a safe pass, do they have set up to pay tax.....

All the above is eh...... Nope

Jim Bob Scratcher · 25-09-2017 10:00PM

NIMAN wrote: »

I had this service offered to me about 10 years ago, my driveway was maybe 30 ft x 10ft.

Guy said he could do a good price of €700.

Needless to say I chased him.

I got to thinking that maybe they were just knocking to see if anyone in the house? Or am I prejudging them?

This most likely

EPAndlee · 25-09-2017 10:03PM

Got this along offering to paint sheds,tarmac etc but I'd rather do the power washing myself because I find it so satisfying

buried · 25-09-2017 10:13PM

The rain handles all my driveway cleaning needs.
Some day a real rain will come and wash all the scum off me driveway.
Hopefully anyways. My driveway is in a bad f**king state

Nodster · 25-09-2017 10:45PM

Mother-in-law had a bad experience with our nomadic friends, they cleaned the tarmac alright and 'refreshed' it with old engine oil.....was expecting them to return a few days later with a special offer on carpets as it took a day or so to notice the existing carpets were ruined

Aint Eazy Being Cheezy · 25-09-2017 10:46PM

Nodster wrote: »

Mother-in-law had a bad experience with our nomadic friends, they cleaned the tarmac alright and 'refreshed' it with old engine oil.....was expecting them to return a few days later with a special offer on carpets as it took a day or so to notice the existing carpets were ruined

Sorry pal.. but that's fcuking hilarious!!!

degsie · 25-09-2017 10:56PM

Don't bother.

retro:electro · 25-09-2017 11:03PM

I don't know anything about the driveway cleaning but there's a young traveller lad who calls around to my mam every so often and cuts the lawn for her. He does a fine job and she does be damn glad of it so she does.

Gerrup Outta Dat! · 25-09-2017 11:05PM

anna080 wrote: »

I don't know anything about the driveway cleaning but there's a young traveller lad who calls around to my mam every so often and cuts the lawn for her. He does a fine job and she does be damn glad of it so she does.

They're honestly hard honest workers.

Tigger · 25-09-2017 11:06PM

Gerrup Outta Dat! wrote: »

They're honestly hard honest workers.

you cant define a group by the behaviour of one lad

Stonedpilot · 25-09-2017 11:07PM

AmberGold wrote: »

In our small estate in County Dublin we’ve been inundated over the last few weeks with travelers offering driveway cleaning services. They generally call during the day mid week. Has anyone any experience of using lads like these ?

Invite them in and ask them to mind the house when you are away. Making friends is easy!.

bazz26 · 25-09-2017 11:08PM

The tarmac technicians are a great bunch of lads, salt of the earth.

25-09-2017 11:08PM

anna080 wrote: »

I don't know anything about the driveway cleaning but there's a young traveller lad who calls around to my mam every so often and cuts the lawn for her. He does a fine job and she does be damn glad of it so she does.

Is this what is called euphemism?

boardsuser1 · 25-09-2017 11:11PM

After their relatives in Cork were hammered in a raid recently and had loads of 'toys' taken from them they need money to buy more bless them.

punisher5112 · 25-09-2017 11:16PM

anna080 wrote: »

I don't know anything about the driveway cleaning but there's a young traveller lad who calls around to my mam every so often and cuts the lawn for her. He does a fine job and she does be damn glad of it so she does.

Is he insured?
Does he pay tax on his earnings?
Does he tell the welfare about his earnings?

I would be wary of letting anyone into do any work as they could take you to the cleaners.

Your Face · 25-09-2017 11:17PM

I wouldn't let just anyone work on my property.

KungPao · 25-09-2017 11:19PM

scoping out your house and its occupants. Seeing if you have a few bob and if you'd put up much resistance during a burglary. Most likely.

Or just the ol dodgy job at way over the odds and no tax paid.

Or maybe a combination, boss.

Canis Lupus · 25-09-2017 11:56PM

KungPao wrote: »

scoping out your house and its occupants. Seeing if you have a few bob and if you'd put up much resistance during a burglary. Most likely.

Or just the ol dodgy job at way over the odds and no tax paid.

Or maybe a combination, boss.

Just about to say, I'm sure they don't make note of who is and isn't answering the door....

freshpopcorn · 26-09-2017 12:03AM

I always feel sorry for the travellers who are doing these services and doing there best. We get the odd few around here offering tarmac, gutter cleaning, painting barn roofs,etc. Lots of people are afraid to trust them because of past experience. We get the odd community alert text saying to be careful when they are in the area.

Tigger · 26-09-2017 12:16AM

freshpopcorn wrote: »

I always feel sorry for the travellers who are doing these services and doing there best. We get the odd few around here offering tarmac, gutter cleaning, painting barn roofs,etc. Lots of people are afraid to trust them because of past experience. We get the odd community alert text saying to be careful when they are in the area.

some travellers robbed my sick father pretending to becleaning his gutters
i had to do a combination f calling the gaurds and talking to them myself to make sure they went away
they gaurds were very not surprised which says a lot

Minderbinder · 26-09-2017 02:37AM

IME if you say 'yes' to them once you may as well adopt them.

That's not to say they do a bad job, but I don't want a fixed arrangement for something I can do myself. If you say 'yes' once and say 'no' the next time that's worse than consistently saying 'no'. They'll likely be miffed.

There was a fairly nice traveller man who used to put his horse in the field out the back of our house. We agreed as it was good for cutting the grass. I'd give it fruit and carrots. He was responsible and there were no problems.

I don't think I'd want anyone under the age of 18 on my property to do odd jobs, whether they're travellers or otherwise, unless I knew their parents personally.

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