Re: Do You Hover When You Have Someone Doing Work In Your Home?

I always Hoover, but, only after the Tradesperson has finished and left the premises.

Re: Do You Hover When You Have Someone Doing Work In Your Home?

I leave them to it but usually stay in the house if workmen are around. Unfortunately, I have had items stolen in the past so now I think it's best if I don't go out but there is a decorator that I've known for years who I trust completely and I can go out for the day if he's doing work for me. They all get teas/coffees and usually a sandwich.

Re: Do You Hover When You Have Someone Doing Work In Your Home?

Ditto. One of us will usually stay in. The only exception to this was when we had a new boiler fitted and we would be without hot water for a couple of days. We give the plumber, a local bloke, a key, gathered up all our jewellery and stuff, and went away for a couple of nights. We returned home and he'd not touched a thing, just got on with the job in hand, cleaned up after himself, and, generally, did a brilliant job.

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Not since the court case.....

Re: Do You Hover When You Have Someone Doing Work In Your Home?

I have a nervious breakdown if almost anyone is working in the house having had a plumber working in the bathroom who went off for lunch, flooded the bathroom and the kitchen below ruining the expensive Lara Ashley wallpaper I had just finished putting on the kitchen walls, a roofer who charged me to put insulation in the kitchen cealing but didn't put any in and finally the subcontracted fitters (for Magnet and Southern) who were fitting my kitchen and after a catalogue of disasters had to be told to leave my house while I still had one and not to come back

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Blimey Meg! That was a lot to contend with.

I have my decorator returning on 6th August to paint the staircase walls, and woodwork, and walls top and bottom. Just a two day job, it’s reckoned. I say my decorator, I have only had him once before, when he did some rooms prior to my move in/prior to lockdown. I will be around for the first day, but not interfere, and will leave him while I take dog for a walk. However, I don’t know if it will be the one I had or his partner. But for the Friday I will have to leave either for Holly’s groom, so will just have to trust them.

The problem here is keeping the dog out of his way! She spends hours up on my bed and as he is doing the stairway, I will have to keep her away.

Unfortunately my doggy daycarer is not taking any in while she has the kids at home, the crèche is expensive, or there is the kennels, at £20 a day. I am hoping to find other dog walkers/sitters to keep all my options open so maybe I will strike lucky. I might have to put up a barrier at the foot of the stairs, but there isn’t much room.

Re: Do You Hover When You Have Someone Doing Work In Your Home?

but it's the crack appearing above the knicker elastic ... why do they do that?

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Seduction.

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Anyone with Laura Ashley wallpaper deserves all they get!

Can't beat painted magnolia or similar plain plaster with white ceilings and in our case exposed original wooden beams.

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Prevents condensation and mold?