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All the ones round near me either got rebuilt or the concrete got sprayed. I was going to buy one and there were enormous cracks in the walls

My opinion on this is people in the U.K. pay generally extortionate prices for labour. I’ve got a lot of friends who are tradesmen and they are doing pretty well for themselves and don’t answer to anyone. One of my great regrets in life is giving up my training as an electrician. Im not...

Didn’t explain this well. There were changes but he told me the costs as we went - his error, not mine. I was pretty chilled given the low price anyway, I know he’s scatterbrained

My wife comes from a hot country and it seems all their buildings go up very quickly and cheaply using concrete and steel poles. Currently in Greece on hols and it seems this is how it’s done here. Our poured concrete houses in U.K. all got either condemned or rebuilt. Is it because of...

So to let you know how this went down. This is a mate of a mate and I know him quite well. He did a superb job and went the extra mile. Bascially said he f’d up the quote because there were a lot of changes as we went. He was £5,000 cheaper than my nearest other quote. But on principe I...

Just had some work done. Final work is £900 more than quote. It’s a big job £8-9k so 10% more . I understand materials might have gone up but not that much. It wasn’t a signed written agreement but my feeling is if you quote a price that’s the price. Nobody said halfway through that x y...

I’d just add; the window guy suggested asbestos not plasterboard as he said there was a hex pattern in it. Not sure if you can see on the pics but it has a mesh look to it. Presume old PB has this in it

It’s quite annoying it’s so bad for one’s health as it’s an amazing material. Zero conduction, can’t burn….you can see why it was beloved before we realised it killed people. It was so popular in the 50s they actually created asbestos filters for cigarettes...

Got it. I’ve thought of another idea. If I sand it vigorously create a little cloud and smell it, I should be able to smell the asbestos right? (Just to clarify, joke. Don’t try this at home kids!)

So is it safe to grab a wee bit to feel? It LOOKS soft, look how it’s been torn up, doesn’t seem like cement. p3 mask, wet it, and have a little poke

Looks pretty chalky to me, not hard. I thought cement board was crumbly. I’d like to add I’m both a worrier and always have been, I don’t know my ass from my elbow as regards to building materials and I’m particularly scared of asbestos. Triple whammy. So cements board is like, well...

I thought plasterboard was white or pink. That stuff is the middle is grey. It’s an old house perhaps that’s how PB used to look?

Hi, Window fitters just took out a door for me. Guy said it might have exposed asbestos but didn’t know for sure. See pictures. This is in my ceiling basically. I don’t mean the white polystyrene, I mean the grey board in the gap which has a hex pattern on it. This is now open in my hall...

Thanks guys

Hi, I took a wall out and paid the fee. The council came and had a look and said send pics when painted and finished. Due to issues with money, and other work, I haven’t done the work and only completed it 18 months later and have realised I dont have paperwork. Searching my email the...

I am fairly surprised and my father (ex sparky, left the job in the 80s) was literally aghast at chucking strip connectors up into a void “what if there’s a nail? It’s a cowboy job” I was gonna get the floorboards up as I couldn’t seriously think that these days they think this is an...

So I either have to cut a hole in my ceiling or get the boards up to fit from above. This is a light fitting from Dunelm. You’d think for £100 they would include these things or build it in , but I have a really big job now, just seems lazy from their side. They should state “home circuit...

That’s literally all there is. The instructions say basically use a terminal block for the circuit. There is no base plate other than this. Do they expect me to fit this from above floorboard up in a JB or TB? Or just wire it from below and push it up in the cavity? Either way it seems very...

Hi, I am about to put up a new living room light but instead of a terminal block it has no space, just a L and N and says to just put an insulated terminal block above. How do they expect the wiring? Terminal block with tape shoved up or floorboards up and junction box above? Seems pretty...

The gutter guy is sending the close up pics tomorrow. Will post them