Warning : Midlands Construction

Post: # 42379Post **seanandruby** Sat Oct 17, 2009 8:13 am

Of course you are right to blow the whistle on this abortion. If you dont want the guy to know its you, then just post him a letter pointing out that it is a rip off. It affects us all when these things happen because we all get tarred with the same brush.

Post: # 42380Post **Dave_L** Sat Oct 17, 2009 8:28 am

Perhaps all he wanted was a cheap black-it-over job? Well that's what he's got, for sure!

All compacted with a plate, too! :0

MBPM · Post: # 42389Post **MBPM** Sat Oct 17, 2009 12:15 pm

Well the poor bugger is probably going to have to rip it up anyway, as I very much doubt the council granted planning permission for 50sqm of impermeable surface with no drains.

Post: # 42396Post **Dave_L** Sat Oct 17, 2009 3:30 pm

And the lack of a vehicle crossover, making the driveway unusable!

rab1 · Post: # 42402Post **rab1** Sat Oct 17, 2009 5:41 pm

personally think you should leave this here, people should/need be warned about fools like this. college got conned like this before, new tarmac drive, they laid it on top of the weeds and broken tarmac from the original drive. it only lasted 2 weeks before it looked like his original drive, only darker and above his dpm.

ilovesettsonmondays · Sat Oct 17, 2009 5:55 pm

i wonder if they are going on the worldofpaving show. ???

rab1 · Post: # 42406Post **rab1** Sat Oct 17, 2009 6:01 pm

they might but dont think it`ll win

ilovesettsonmondays · Sat Oct 17, 2009 6:45 pm

what about britains got talent :p

Sat Oct 17, 2009 7:07 pm

they could go on the X factor as " the black and white tarmac crew" chances are there is 1 guy running the show,he would be the one in a hi-vis that sits in a shiny van shouting at the others. I know a couple of lads that work for the pikeys and they have to graft really hard for very little money,difficult for them to jack in as they are put up "free of charge" in a caravan
LLL

Post: # 42416Post **Dave_L** Sat Oct 17, 2009 7:47 pm

ilovesettsonmondays wrote:what about britains got talent :p

Talent at scraping tarmac on thinly, yes.....they could be winners!

MBPM · Post: # 42418Post **MBPM** Sat Oct 17, 2009 7:52 pm

Spoke to the chap and his wife this afternoon. Seems they new it was a cheap price, and the quality would be sub perfect, but more to the point the gypos hadn't even been given signed permission to start the work before they turned up with a digger and ripped up the old drive and garden. :O

Tarmac is supposedly permeable, and that is the hope they are clinging to for when the council come to inspect it.

Moral of the story: say no politely but firmly to anybody who turns up with a pushy attitude and a pikey accent. Cos once they've got a toe in the door, by poor workmanship or the threat of violence/vandalism, you're screwed.

Post: # 42420Post **Dave_L** Sat Oct 17, 2009 7:59 pm

Oh I see.....oh well, we'll see. Cheers for the update.

Local p1key driveway guys got suspended jail sentences handed out to them at Crown Court last week.....I'll try to find the article.

irishpaving · Post: # 42421Post **irishpaving** Sat Oct 17, 2009 10:50 pm

But i also think that the client that spends a few grand on a new driveway and allows work like this to progress to completion is also part of the problem. There has been enough tv shows, warnings in local paper and plenty of internet sites like the cabin giving time,money and a lot of effort to help advise and inform people about he do's and dont's... Yet to this day these dodgy trades still make a lot of dough

I take offence to the statement that anyone with a pikey accent should be avoided. Most people think that an irish accent is a pikey. This is why i struggle at times with winning work because this stereo type is the first thing to pop into peoples heads.

MBPM · Post: # 42427Post **MBPM** Sun Oct 18, 2009 12:50 pm

irishpaving wrote:I take offence to the statement that anyone with a pikey accent should be avoided. Most people think that an irish accent is a pikey. This is why i struggle at times with winning work because this stereo type is the first thing to pop into peoples heads.

Ah cmon now!

The Pikeys and the Irish are nothing alike.

One's cash flow is almost entirely based on selling over priced merchandise to foreigners that they don't really need... and the others are pikeys :p :laugh: :laugh: :laugh:

But in all seriousness, Pikeys sound nothing like the average Irishman, and only a small section of people would actually associate those anti-social cretins with the famously good humoured and friendly Irish.

Possibly because most Irish firms aren't over here cold calling homeowners, and if they are and they loose out to a more local company then so be it.

stav 75 · Post: # 42433Post **stav 75** Sun Oct 18, 2009 3:53 pm

The viynl road on the side of the van looks thicker than the tarmac on the drive!!