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bridie54 Fri 10-Nov-23 15:25:18

Just that really, after an hour on the phone today, and more messages, txts etc over the last month I FINALLY yeeha, have a roofer coming to replace my roof slate.
It was brought down, thankfully unbroken, in the storm we had recently.
The roofer guy who did another 2 much bigger roof jobs earlier this year had not even acknowledged my requests for work this time. £££££ does talk
It has been soooooo frustrating. Any tips for future reference?
If I drank I would be heading for the cabinet and a large something, but I'll settle for coffee with a biscuit now.

BlueBelle Fri 10-Nov-23 15:46:24

Sending a big cream cake over 🤣 well done
My daughters been trying to get some inside work done and they all say ‘yes that’s fine’ then never get back, blooming frustrating isn’t it ?

Aveline Fri 10-Nov-23 16:01:05

Maybe hold back the celebrations until he's actually turned up and done the job?

bridie54 Fri 10-Nov-23 17:58:01

Oh Aveline. He’d better turn up. Only got to wait till tomorrow afternoon to see though.
BlueBelle, I actually prefer a nice crunchy plain biscuit with my coffee. But thank you for the thought.

Aveline Fri 10-Nov-23 17:58:56

Fingers crossed for you bridie54!

AreWeThereYet Fri 10-Nov-23 20:01:58

Fingers crossed for you too. It took over a year to find someone who would come and do our trees, fencing and relay the front path. When they arrived they were lovely and finished the fencing and trees in two days. Then they started the path and it started to rain. Two weeks later and they finished mortaring today. Come Monday the skip will be gone off the drive...

bridie54 Fri 10-Nov-23 20:21:11

You’ll be glad to see it finished AreWeThereYet. At least I haven’t waited as long as you did.
But it was just so frustrating trying to get a small job done. And you see these adverts No Job Too Small. Yes there is!

BlueBelle Fri 10-Nov-23 20:31:56

Oh spoilsport I thought we were going to have a big old cake never mind I ll bring the plain biscuits round 😂😂😂

bridie54 Fri 10-Nov-23 23:22:18

You enjoy the cream cakes BlueBelle. Mines a digestive 😋

bridie54 Sat 11-Nov-23 14:51:48

Well the job is done. Am a happy bunny.
Kevin turned up on time, but when he went up to replace the slate, he discovered that 2 other slates had just been pushed into place so he had to drill holes in them and nail them on.
He said the roofer who did the big job, £4k worth, would have been responsible.
But he wouldn’t take any more payment for the work than he quoted.
I wouldn’t hesitate to recommend him.

BlueBelle Sat 11-Nov-23 15:14:04

Sounds a good chap hang on to him 👏👏👏

Aveline Sat 11-Nov-23 16:16:43

Brilliant. So glad he turned up and turned out to be honest too. Enjoy your celebrations (and keep his number in case you ever need a small job done again)