I am asking this mainly for my mum's benefit. My mum likes getting jobs done in the house fairly frequently. This includes things such as renovations and repair work. Unfortunately, she doesn't have anyone reliable to do the work and has been repeatedly stung by cowboy builders doing shit jobs. Think shoddy workmanship, poor timekeeping, unpleasant attitudes and such. My dad is terrible at anything practical, so she can't rely on him. About 4 years ago, she had a new bathroom installed and has been having problems with it ever since. The original builder fucked it up completely, then she had to get someone else in to rectify the original builder's mistakes. There are still problems with it. There's a radiator that doesn't work, the toilet doesn't flush properly and the taps are rusty and severely scratched through normal use. Also, the water pressure from the bath tap is too low so the bath takes forever to fill up. My mum has been talking about having it redone again but she doesn't know anyone who she can ask to do it.
Aside from the bathroom there have been other mishaps. A couple of years ago, she got a builder in to fit new coving in the living room. The guy who came to do it showed up, literally did nothing for two hours, then left and never came back. There were a couple of plasterers who came to replaster one of the walls but did a lamentable job. She wants that redone again. A joiner came a few months ago to install new doors upstairs. The latch on the bathroom door is dodgy so it won't close properly. There are also loose floorboards upstairs which are a hazard. They've been that way since the builders who installed the central heating did a shoddy job putting the floorboards back in place. I wanted to ask how you find reliable builders/workmen to do jobs? Do you all have DP/DHs who are masters at DIY and thus you don't need to pay a builder?
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When you need work doing in your house, how do you find a reliable builder to do it (if you're unable to do it yourself)?
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Cirithelioness · 02/02/2016 23:09
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