It is currently 29 Mar 2024, 13:02
Mike G wrote:Last summer I re-roofed a friends dormer.......two full days........and the payment I demanded was that they provide me lunch. No probs. Finished the job, packed everything up, and was just heading off when they said "do you want this old wood" stacked in the loft of their garage since they'd bought the house. It was nothing special, just some old construction pine. I hopped on a horse to take a look, and knocked one of the pieces off its perch. It crashed down straight through the windscreen of their car.
So fixing their roof cost me their insurance excess.......£75. I feel your pain, Steve.
flying haggis wrote:when I worked for a builders merchants, we watched a customer load a 4m worktop on the his little trailer(the sort of trailer that would struggle with anything heavier than 100kg)with about 1-1.5m in the back of the car through the boot with the seats folded forward and the rest on the trailer and hanging off the back!!!!
he tied it down to the trailer and left the yard. we all wondered just how far he got before it ripped the rope of the trailer and/or the lashings and fell off. how he expected to turn corners we didnt know either. being the ever so helpful staff that we were we just kept out the way!
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