Which trade costs the most?

[Building Contractor]

@mildmanneredjanitor



@Studders: I think you need to read through posts a little more through before you hastily respond in future

Oh I doubt there's anything much you can teach me about forums or how to use them, but thanks for the input. Perhaps you might choose a more valid analogy next time you decide to use one.

I don't think I need you informing me of what is valid or not. If you are going to give some input, try and be more informative instead of trying to become the man about town.

To using forums..tell me what version of bulletin board this is?

 

[Studders]

To using forums..tell me what version of bulletin board this is?

??? Why? Is it a quiz? Do I win a prize if I get it right?

 

[Building Contractor]

To using forums..tell me what version of bulletin board this is?

??? Why? Is it a quiz? Do I win a prize if I get it right?

Oh dear whats the matter...don't know?

 

[Studders]

To using forums..tell me what version of bulletin board this is?

??? Why? Is it a quiz? Do I win a prize if I get it right?

Oh dear whats the matter...don't know?

You sure it isn't your Dad who's the contractor? Or are you always this juvenile?

phpBB 2.0 ish at a guess. Whaddo I win?

 

[Building Contractor]

Awwww..getting up your nose are we

Anyway....wrong, it's VBullentin Version 1, old as the hills, and you said you've been around??

Now go and play and let folks work I can't be bothered to chat to smart assess!!

 

[Studders]

Anyway....wrong, it's VBullentin Version 1,

You quite sure it's vBulletin??

Can anyone else confirm this?

 

[David P]

Jeez... this is like watching someone with an over inflated ego work out some trauma from the playground.

But...
I never could bear to see the bigheads get away with it - so I went and got links to the homepages of
phpBB
and
Vbulletin

and I am delighted to say that the board appears to be a phpBB system (although without access to the cgi-bin there is no better way of telling) - the post reply buttons are the give away - as anyone who has ever tried skinning a bulletin board will tell you.

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I guess im in for a spot of bullying by the venerable B.C. now myself -

 

[Studders]

Jeez... this is like watching someone with an over inflated ego work out some trauma from the playground.

But...
I never could bear to see the bigheads get away with it - so I went and got links to the homepages of
phpBB
and
Vbulletin

and I am delighted to say that the board appears to be a phpBB system (although without access to the cgi-bin there is no better way of telling) - the post reply buttons are the give away - as anyone who has ever tried skinning a bulletin board will tell you.

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I guess im in for a spot of bullying by the venerable B.C. now myself -

Thank you for checking, I was 'fairly' certain it wasn't Vbulletin being used but wasn't entirely sure which system was.
Sorry if I came over as being egotistical, didn't mean to appear that way. Just get a bit peed off (hence carried away) with the superior attitude of a tiny minority of posters who appear to delight in 'point scoring'.

 

[David P]

Studders

Sorry if I came over as being egotistical, didn't mean to appear that way.

you don't come across the least bit egotistical - on the contrary you made a measured reply to a fairly provocative assault by one of the

tiny minority of posters who appear to delight in 'point scoring'.

 

[Studders]

Ahh right, sorry, I thought I'd maybe ****ed some folks off and appeared a bit big headed, which wasn't my intention. Thanks for the clarification.

 

[waran]

Building Contractor -

If I may take your surgical analogy a bit further.

Are you aware that there is a nurse practitioner who is training to do simple inguinal hernia repairs? Would you be less happy being operated on by her(or him) than a fully qualified surgeon? Fundamentally if she can do the job to a high standard and within her capabilities is she necessarily an inferior operator (in inguinal hernia repairs) to a general surgeon doing say a complicated liver resection. Indeed she may have much better results at doing these hernia repairs than more accomplished surgeons who do these hernia repairs infrequently.

Granted if there were difficulties and the procedure was complicated she would realise her limitations and seek more senior/experienced assistance.

I think that is not unlike the situation currently in the 'trade'. There is considerable expertise (and perhaps not always formally trained) around and whilst they may not be up to doing the million pound bathrooms, they can, and do, do an excellent job on the smaller projects which a builder such as yourself would not have the time to take on.

If they are capable at it and can do it to a high standard there is nothing stopping them from doing the job and there shouldn't be. But regretfully there may be a few who give the rest a bad name or maybe they have just made mistakes. But that goes for qualified people as well. Including surgeons...........(scissors in your abdomen anyone? Bristol?)

Oh BTW - Some surgeons are very good at fitting bathrooms actually!!!

 

[Building Contractor]

Whatever..whoever...I can not be bothered with this cr*p.There are some really nice people on here and there are the ones who go around with their heads in the clouds..well if it makes you lot feel any better..I'm off out of here, I've got better things to do in my life that argue with you lot.

 

[breezer]

..I'm off out of here, I've got better things to do in my life that argue with you lot.

sorry you feel that way

 

[mildmanneredjanitor]

Whatever..whoever...I can not be bothered with this cr*p.There are some really nice people on here and there are the ones who go around with their heads in the clouds..well if it makes you lot feel any better..I'm off out of here, I've got better things to do in my life that argue with you lot.

Speaking for myself, I never wanted to argue with you but merely responded to your provocative comments...

Personally, I think it would be shame to lose your valuable input from your extensive building knowledge.

(that was an olive branch BTW...)

P.S. I'm laying a patio next week