Tradesmen not interested

[CountryFan]

None of these were contacted due to a personal recommendation, they all advertised either online or in the free local business guide.
We are hoping to move to a different area in the next 12 months so we may well just give it our own annual hack and leave it for the next owner to sort out. It just puzzles me why no one even bothers to reply or turn up when they say they would.

Leaving the door wire open for negative reviews imo. Especially if they advertise as no job too small.

 

[endecotp]

politely turned it down.

There have been cases where I've needed three quotes - i.e. shared communal repairs - and getting a "stupidly expensive" quote from someone who really didn't want to do the work would have been more useful than a "no thanks" in those cases.

"No thanks" is still more useful than people who just disappear. I've had a couple of cases where I've found myself getting angry about a vanished tradesman, and then wondering if he's actually in hospital or dead or something.