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Irish roof-washing gang intimidate Finnish householders

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  • #32
    Solair
    Closed Accounts Posts: 7,226 ✭✭✭Solair


    You can crack slates or tiles or puncture other surfaces, wash out sealants, damage flashing, over-clean spots with a power washer and do serious damage.

    It requires the correct equipment (especially roof ladders) and a bit of knowledge of what you're doing or you can actually do serious damage to the roof.


  • #33
    Pottler
    Closed Accounts Posts: 5,073 ✭✭✭Pottler


    looksee wrote: »
    Sheesh, I wouldn't let anyone onto my roof to clean it. I have enough problems with tv repair guys going up and walking on the tiles disturbing them. Why would you need to wash a roof anyway?
    That's the lads in Finland probably. We use cherry pickers and never set foot on the roof. You'd wash it, funnily enough, because it was dirty.:) We do industrial ones anyway, usually before we repair it and re-line the gutters etc. If we're cleaning it, it was leaking and damaged anyway.


  • #34
    dirtyden
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,745 ✭✭✭dirtyden


    Pottler wrote: »
    did it include food and lodgings?:D Or wages?

    Not sure about that. I did not consider it too seriously. They seemed legit though!


  • #35
    Solair
    Closed Accounts Posts: 7,226 ✭✭✭Solair


    Well, you don't have to wash the roof very often unless it's full of moss. Although some of those light-coloured roof materials they use in Nordic countries probably need it more often if they start to look ugly and stained.

    In general, you're better off with a maintenence-free natural slate roof in northern climates.

    I know a few people who have Spanish-style tiles in Ireland and they are a complete disaster.

    In warmer climates, moss burns off all by itself.


  • #36
    Holocene
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 18 ✭Holocene


    looksee wrote: »
    Sheesh, I wouldn't let anyone onto my roof to clean it. I have enough problems with tv repair guys going up and walking on the tiles disturbing them. Why would you need to wash a roof anyway?


    Maybe the intimidation involved goads people into hiring these roof-washers.


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  • #37
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 6,581 ✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    They're not Irish and shouldn't be referred to it.
    They have no problems calling themselves an ethnic minority when it suits and refer to others as buffers.
    Time they were separated from their country of origin like the Roma Gypsies.


  • #38
    IrishAm
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,576 ✭✭✭IrishAm


    gilberto_eire wrote: »
    They're not Irish and shouldn't be referred to it.
    They have no problems calling themselves an ethnic minority when it suits and refer to others as buffers.
    Time they were separated from their country of origin like the Roma Gypsies.

    They are as Irish as you or me.


  • #39
    seamus
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 68,173 ✭✭✭✭seamus


    looksee wrote: »
    Why would you need to wash a roof anyway?
    Moss and soot and ****.

    There was a rogue traders episode a few years back covering it. Same deal, guy telling people that their roof was shot if they didn't clean it, then going up and taking a powerhose to it and completely wrecking the roof.


  • #40
    ejmaztec
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 24,369 ✭✭✭✭ejmaztec


    Holocene wrote: »
    Maybe the intimidation involved goads people into hiring these roof-washers.

    Potential Finnish customer "How did all that horse-sh1t get on my roof?":confused:


  • #41
    rubadubduba
    Closed Accounts Posts: 152 ✭✭rubadubduba


    them creamcrackers just dont learn. if they keep coning people like this, this will happen them.
    http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showthread.php?p=72126139
    they will pick the wrong con someday.


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  • #42
    ejmaztec
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 24,369 ✭✭✭✭ejmaztec


    rubadubduba wrote: »
    them creamcrackers just dont learn. if they keep coning people like this, this will happen them.
    http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showthread.php?p=72126139
    they will pick the wrong con someday.

    What, they'll get banned from AH?:confused:


  • #43
    Greenmachine
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,063 ✭✭✭Greenmachine


    Finnish honesty is over-rated. Any Finns I know would state as much. Plenty of underhand stuff there. Pretty much no foreigner I know personally fits well into there nations stereotype profile.


  • #44
    rubadubduba
    Closed Accounts Posts: 152 ✭✭rubadubduba


    ejmaztec wrote: »
    What, they'll get banned from AH?:confused:

    did ya open the link and read the thread title.?


  • #45
    Blondini
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,480 ✭✭✭Blondini


    Weirdest thread-title ever ...


  • #46
    ejmaztec
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 24,369 ✭✭✭✭ejmaztec


    rubadubduba wrote: »
    did ya open the link and read the thread title.?

    Too lazy to scroll up after using all that energy to click on the link.


  • #47
    Father Damo
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,643 ✭✭✭Father Damo


    Greenmachine wrote: »
    . Any Finns I know would state as much. . Pretty much no foreigner I know personally fits well into there nations stereotype profile.


    Every Finn I ever met was slightly odd and was into god awful death metal. Unlike the rest of the world death metal is not some marginal interest genre, they are all into it.


  • #48
    Pottler
    Closed Accounts Posts: 5,073 ✭✭✭Pottler


    I've gotten banned for saying nicer things about Travvelers, mods appear to be having a moment on this thread. Anyway, what's the big deal, the customers asked John Joe are we finnished and he said yes, you're finnish, feckin pay me. Or I'll burst you.
    This is like complaining that a puppy pissed on your floor. A Nomadic traders got to do what a nomadic trader got to do.


  • #49
    Riddle101
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,669 ✭✭✭Riddle101


    Roof-washing, now that's something i've never heard before. Definitely sounds shady just from reading it. Why would anyone want to clean their roof?


  • #50
    stuar
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 1,019 ✭✭✭stuar


    It's not roof washing, it's painting a rubber based load of crap on a roof and it's supposed to water proof it even more, looks crap, peels off, and the fat bastids usually break a few tiles/slates while up there.
    I used to work for a conman into this and other scams, he used to have a bucket of nests and tell people they were squirrell nests and the squirrells will eat through the roof, other days I was left on roofs while the boss fcuked off home and told to bang the hammer if I saw or heard anybody, then a big bundle of cash for the scamming bastid, a little scraping off the top of the pile of notes for me.


  • #51
    long range shooter
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,493 ✭✭✭long range shooter


    Father Damo wrote: »
    Every Finn I ever met was slightly odd and was into god awful death metal. Unlike the rest of the world death metal is not some marginal interest genre, they are all into it.

    You havent met many Finns then i guess:rolleyes:


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  • #52
    DEFTLEFTHAND
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 16,499 ✭✭✭✭DEFTLEFTHAND


    I suppose the scum are moving northwards now since their game has been outed in their traditional grounds.

    Shame that, Finland is a beautiful country with wonderful people. I had the pleasure of visiting on two occasions.


  • #53
    MadsL
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 20,299 ✭✭✭✭MadsL


    Traveller and Brit-bashing in one thread. Back in a sec, have to put the microwave popcorn in.

















    *ding*

    Ok, go......


  • #54
    Logical_Bear
    Closed Accounts Posts: 799 ✭✭✭Logical_Bear


    I was flying out to a christening in finland last summer and was surprised by the amount of piebalds on the flight.Always wondered why the fuk they were going there.Well now I know!!


  • #55
    Augmerson
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 6,162 ✭✭✭Augmerson


    IrishAm wrote: »
    Is there a Finnish equivalent of Pavee Point?

    They have the Saami, nomadic reindeer herders. However they don't leave rubbish and dirty mattresses all over GAA fields and are probably not afraid of Dogs.


  • #56
    mandrake04
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,435 ✭✭✭mandrake04


    They were running that scam in Australia as well until they got the boot.

    http://www.fairtrading.nsw.gov.au/pdfs/About_us/Stop_Travelling_Conmen_campaign_convictions.pdf


  • #57
    Duckworth_Luas
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,746 ✭✭✭Duckworth_Luas


    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8y2uIhbzxO4


  • #58
    AnonoBoy
    Closed Accounts Posts: 22,559 ✭✭✭✭AnonoBoy


    This scam has been going on for years. Sometimes I wonder will it ever finnish?


  • #59
    4zn76tysfajdxp
    Closed Accounts Posts: 27,944 ✭✭✭✭4zn76tysfajdxp


    Father Damo wrote: »
    Every Finn I ever met was slightly odd and was into god awful death metal. Unlike the rest of the world death metal is not some marginal interest genre, they are all into it.

    Not all of them. Even if they were, what's the harm?


  • #60
    biko
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 81,060 ✭✭✭✭biko


    Pottler wrote: »
    I've gotten banned for saying nicer things about Travvelers, mods appear to be having a moment on this thread.
    Then why don't I see any reported posts from you? Don't answer that, just start reporting posts if you have an issue with them.


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  • #61
    dj jarvis
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,485 ✭✭✭dj jarvis


    Bobby Acidic Beetle wrote: »
    Not all of them. Even if they were, what's the harm?

    hate all the crap !!! so what if they like metal music ???
    you sound like you would be the first to have a fit if the finn's started banging on about a Irish stereo type - the irish are stupid - the irish drink to much - poxy irish music bla bla bla ( not directed at Bobby Acidic Beetle , but previous poster )

    having been to Finland at least 30 times - married one , have to finnish kids , and many many finns as friends i can tell you they are a LOT more welcoming to me than the irish can be to them when they visit

    as its been, said so what ??? so you dont like metal , boo hoo , they do listen to other music FYI

    as for Finland - i have to say its cleaner , better run , less scum ( well that was till the irish scum arrived ) and IT LOOKS AFTER ITS PEOPLE from cradle to grave

    don't get me wrong it's not utopia, but in many many respects the fact that Ireland is so bad - it makes Finland look like heaven

    and to pove this - monty pyhton did not pen a tune about Ireland did they ?? :D:D:D


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