Wanting a quote for work in my kitchen and they want my DP to be there too. The 1950's are still alive and kicking

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Pretty much as the title says. I am wanting a quote to get the cupboard doors in my kitchen replaced so not a major job and when I'm trying to organise a time I'm told they will only come if my partner is there too!! I was so taken aback I couldn't come back with any suitable feminist logic, so for that I am totally BU, though I did tell them I wasn't interested and put the phone down.

But I just couldn't believe in this day and age that any company would be so patronising as to assume that a woman needed anyone's permission to spend money. Its my house and my money!!

There are so many things wrong with insisting the 'man' was there! I am still fuming over 2 hours after the call which is why I'm posting, my cat really isn't that good a listener and my kids have all agreed with me and then sloped off, they are used to my rants!!

Alice that's shocking! I'm glad I'm not with BT anymore!

it's not because you're a woman it's because they need permission off of both home owners

not for cupboard doors! I can kind of understand it for windows as it's a change to the fabric of the house, but it's certainly not a legal requirement and I've arranged plenty of things for the house without DH being around. Sometimes he is there, sometimes he isn't.

We always check if there are two decision makers and if so only go to visit she. They are both available, simply because from experience it saves so much messing around for the reasons already explained

Bad luck if one person works full time then.

Even if both are at the quote meeting, it doesn't stop one or both parties having second thoughts later or having extra ideas.

Sorry I just don't get it. People don't sit at home all day waiting for tradespeople to call who may never arrive. It's bad enough if one of you wastes a day hanging around, but even worse if two do.

In our house my dh can be so difficult that they run away screaming! then wish they had just dealt with me....