07-05-2015, 10:18 PM
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Not particularly looking forward to tomorrow morning. I've got the men from the subsidence firm coming out to dig down and investigate me bowing wall and cracks. If they are anything like the twits I've been dealing with on the phone - heaven help me!I've had about 5 phone calls from them, each telling me different arrangements!!! I got pretty cross with them in the end, mucking about, so Gawd knows what they will get up to in the morning here.
07-05-2015, 11:50 PM
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Originally Posted by Mups
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Not particularly looking forward to tomorrow morning. I've got the men from the subsidence firm coming out to dig down and investigate me bowing wall and cracks. If they are anything like the twits I've been dealing with on the phone - heaven help me!I've had about 5 phone calls from them, each telling me different arrangements!!! I got pretty cross with them in the end, mucking about, so Gawd knows what they will get up to in the morning here.
I nearly had a nervous breakdown with my kitchen leak last spring and 3 different builders giving a wrong diagnosis. Then the man repairing the patio doing what he wanted to do and not what I agreed with his boss and my having to remind him who was paying the bill 
Everything is a battle these days
08-05-2015, 08:23 AM
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Originally Posted by Meg
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Good luck Mups I nearly had a nervous breakdown with my kitchen leak last spring and 3 different builders giving a wrong diagnosis. Then the man repairing the patio doing what he wanted to do and not what I agreed with his boss and my having to remind him who was paying the bill Everything is a battle these days
Exactly how I feel Meg, exactly.
Well, I got up early this morning, had a shower, gave all the dogs their breakfasts, then made myself a cup of tea and waited for these bl**dy men to arrive. Did they? Did they 'eck!
They told me between 8- 9am. Now, at 8.20, the phone goes and its them, telling me they're not coming today!!!!!
They said the 'crew' had phoned in sick. WHAT? The entire crew?
That's got me off on all the wrong foot today now. I am fuming.
08-05-2015, 10:18 AM
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Originally Posted by Mups
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Exactly how I feel Meg, exactly.Well, I got up early this morning, had a shower, gave all the dogs their breakfasts, then made myself a cup of tea and waited for these bl**dy men to arrive. Did they? Did they 'eck!
They told me between 8- 9am. Now, at 8.20, the phone goes and its them, telling me they're not coming today!!!!!
They said the 'crew' had phoned in sick. WHAT? The entire crew?
That's got me off on all the wrong foot today now. I am fuming.
it's the same old story with so many of them 
The trouble is you can't just tell them to get lost and never to darken your doorstep because there is so little choice out there.
I must say I got pretty close to doing that last year and actually did that some years ago with Magnet and Southern who fitted my kitchen.
The problem is now I am older I can't cope with the hassle
Then people complain about 'foreign workers' but is it any wonder they get the work.
My neighbour's daughter lives on her own in an old house in London . She needed a new kitchen and repairs to a damp wall . A friend recommended a Polish man who turned up on time, did a great job in the time agreed and left the place immaculate.
I hope you don't have to wait too long for your builders
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08-05-2015, 10:53 AM
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Today we've had an agent around and we are taking the first steps towards, hopefully, downsizing.My nerves are frayed already so I can't imagine how you feel Mups!
The valuation we have been given was encouraging and the advice in particular was almost exactly what I have been trying to get my wife to agree on - we don't need to do anymore "tidying" apart from what he have pending. stevmk2
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