Dry lining and skim

[nod]

A friend has four self build plots and has sold them with the promise of supplying trades with a small management fee 

To cut a long story short He brought a dry lining company in Quite expensive and tatty job As a favor I’ll pick up the last three 

I’m just done  the bill of quantities 

For them Each house is a reasonable size 360 m mostly block over  two floors Each with three vaulted ceilings He asked me to keep to try and keep 

labour and materials under 10k 

Hes got back to me today saying one has snapped his hand off The other two are going to look on check a trade 

All three want to be in for Christmas 

So not much time 

We will do one next week and the other two will have to wait If check a trade don’t work out 😀

 

[TonyT]

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[jayc89]

Never heard of a success story from people using Checkatrade, MyBuilder etc. 

[BadgerBadger]

12 minutes ago, jayc89 said:

Never heard of a success story from people using Checkatrade, MyBuilder etc. 

 

Care is required - and confidence to recognise good from bad - but I've had a couple of very good finds on MyBuilder.  Both when I got stuck finding trades from other routes and thought I'd post something to see what I got - so don't rule it!

[nod]

1 hour ago, jayc89 said:

Never heard of a success story from people using Checkatrade, MyBuilder etc. 

exactly 

There paying the plot seller to hand hold but ignoring his advise 

He’s probably forgotten more about building than I know 

Some people are beyond helping 

[dpmiller]

they don't know you from Adam, why should they trust you? You're just another trade and your mate is in it with you. Or so they likely think...

[nod]

2 hours ago, dpmiller said:

they don't know you from Adam, why should they trust you? You're just another trade and your mate is in it with you. Or so they likely think...

I wasn’t referring to me 

There paying the plot seller to guide them through there self build 

They should trust him 

Or perhaps someone from my builder 😁