Apologies if this offends, but this is my experience.
Lazy, useless, dishonest English "tradesmen".
Moved house last September.
We have needed so far, at least five separate tradesmen including, plasterer, plumber, heating engineer, chimneysweep and electrician. Not a single one has been able to arrive within an hour of the allotted time, do the work in less than 3 separate visits or do the work at anywhere near the original costs estimate or within a week of the completion time estimate. Without exception, each has had a pervading attitude that they are somehow doing us a huge favour by deigning to waste their apparently valuable time attending our home. Each piece of work seems to be universally met with lots of head shaking, air sucked into teeth and immediate negativity. This usually manifests itself in a worthy declaration that the make of boiler/gates/shower valve is so very rare/esoteric that parts will be impossible to locate. (These are lies as I have found everything we have needed within moments with just a scant search on Ebay). Furthermore, two of these tradesman have tried to mislead my wife into signing up for significant and entirely unnecessary work.
Henceforth, I plan to absolutely insist on good, reliable Poles for all other work including more major extension/rebuild projects I plan for our home.
You have my sympathy. As an electrician, I aim to deliver a top service and installation. I pride myself on doing the job properly, tidily, on budget. There's no grey areas with electrics, it's right or it's wrong and although a messy installation can work fine, I want it to look perfect.
I'm having my loft converted at the minute, shell only, I'll do the interior work. It's pretty much done now, but it's been a frustrating process. The boys couldn't have been more messy, I've never seen a broom on the job. The amount of clearing of crap I've had to do from between joists is ridiculous. The skip and pavement is a disgrace. Had to put a new tyre on my wife's car yesterday because of a nail in it. Pretty sure I know where that came from.
Veluxs undersized, timber structure around them form a shape with no current name.
Wrong sized joists in part.
Staircase strings overhanging doorways top and bottom.
Nogs fitted to walls and floors on angles and miles away from being a straight line.
White fascias fitted instead of black.
A company director who can't recall any conversation we've had except one which we didn't regarding money.
Not all bad, certainly redeemable, but frustrating.
If you want a job done...
There's too much average work and far from enough skilled work being done.
