is nobody bothered anymore? (trades people / companies)

[glenimp617]

Painters here, just putting the dust sheets down

 

[glenimp617]

Painter turned up still a bit light headed

Said he will email a quote within 2 days

 

[glenimp617]

Good luck with that

I'll cry

 

[glenimp617]

Painters quotes in

£1,897 for all four bedrooms (they supply paint for wood, I provide the paint for walls/ceiling which I already have)

 

[glenimp617]

Holy mother ******* how much!

I thought that was quite good considering. The days of £250 a room are long gone.

was speaking to another painter last week, he said he only started painting in Feb of this year and is booked up until October Said he's never known anything like it.

The ONE other painter who did contact me was £500 a room, all the others never replied back.

 

[glenimp617]

We paid 1.5k for our entrance and hallways to be done about 5 years ago so sounds like a bargin to me!

Iv just recently re-painted them and took me about 4/5 days labour and a lot of swearing.

Yeah, the thing is, I literally haven't the time. If you have a stress free job with plenty of time on your hands than fair enough.

 

[glenimp617]

Maybe you should spend the cash on a PRINCE2 course and manage your time more effectively and thus less stress?

/an actual conversation I had with HR once

haha, standard!

 

[glenimp617]

Bloody hell might give up being a spark and chuck some paint on the walls for a living

you sparkies are coining it in anyway, hows the porsche?

 

[glenimp617]

He's not replied with dates yet, yet alone actually turned up with his roller

 

[glenimp617]

We're also in the East Mids and they are small bedrooms

 

[glenimp617]

all trades are expensive here. My city seems to have a 'London complex' for some reason, even though we are nothing like London.

Cocktails in a pub are £20, fish and chips nearly £15, a pint is around £7 which I think is about normal these days.

We wanted the front of our house cleaned as it's rendered and that was a grand