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Posted: Tue Nov 06, 2012 6:07 am
by cookiewales
well boyos the cookie man is twidiling his toes at home ten week job pulled on me . so if any one needs my services please give me a shout 
am doing some work at home at the mo could be stacking shelves in tesco soon :p
Posted: Tue Nov 06, 2012 6:45 am
by msh paving
I'm doing nothing too,gone quiet last 2 weeks MSH 
Posted: Tue Nov 06, 2012 7:19 am
by lutonlagerlout
the whole trade seems very quiet now
hope things pick up for everyone soon
1 phone call and it can all change
good luck
LLL
Posted: Tue Nov 06, 2012 7:59 am
by Carberry
Had a lot of my customers phoning me up last couple of weeks for some reason. Got 2 deckings to do, a few gardens to tidy up, wall to repoint, 1 small driveway to do. Put 2 bigger jobs off until next year, one is wanting front garden design, the other is wanting driveway and backgarden done.
Trying to put wall repointing off until next year, but it's a doctors surgery and an 8ft stone wall that has a tree growing in the middle of it. So I may have setup a tent and get cracking on that one.
Posted: Wed Nov 07, 2012 8:25 pm
by Dave_L
The phones have gone a little quiet but still a bit to go looking at - but we are BUSY, got more than enough work to see the year out and a little to come back to in the new year.
Posted: Wed Nov 07, 2012 8:44 pm
by GB_Groundworks
groundworks quiet but always is this time of year, but got 2 builds on the go that are gettign to the finishing off, dry stone walls going in on the the big house and be flagging soon. we find out about planning appeal on the large sunken dooble garage soon
got a few little jobs lined up as well day here and there but fitting them in is hard work,
hope it picks up for you two guys, cookie was it signed and sealed on just on the guys word??
cookie, we had Braam van Straaten play for our third team last saturday haha, he slotted 3 from the touch line and scored a try and had a beer hung around with all the lads. (he had 21 caps for the springboks for non rugby people)
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Posted: Wed Nov 07, 2012 8:57 pm
by lutonlagerlout
we had a fella from harpenden (rich town-nearby)
he was dead keen on his double extension,booked us in for february,60k job
I have a folder with 35 sides of A4 ,prices for steels windows,structural calcs,all sorts you name it
went past today and the job is plate high
I dont mind pricing stuff and not getting it but he has basically wasted a week of my life and didnt have the courtesy to ring and write and say he found someone else 
god love them
LLL
Posted: Wed Nov 07, 2012 10:02 pm
by Bob_A
Probably didn't have the bottle to ring you but there's no excuse for not writing to you.
What's the quality of the work like?
Posted: Wed Nov 07, 2012 11:12 pm
by lutonlagerlout
looks rough,but he has paid his money he can take his chances now
the last I heard he was waiting on planning due to a revision and then BANG up it went
onwards and upwards
LLL
Posted: Wed Nov 07, 2012 11:35 pm
by henpecked
lutonlagerlout wrote:looks rough,but he has paid his money he can take his chances now
the last I heard he was waiting on planning due to a revision and then BANG up it went
onwards and upwards
LLL
Oh dear
Posted: Thu Nov 08, 2012 6:55 am
by cookiewales
GB_Groundworks wrote:groundworks quiet but always is this time of year, but got 2 builds on the go that are gettign to the finishing off, dry stone walls going in on the the big house and be flagging soon. we find out about planning appeal on the large sunken dooble garage soon
got a few little jobs lined up as well day here and there but fitting them in is hard work,
hope it picks up for you two guys, cookie was it signed and sealed on just on the guys word??
cookie, we had Braam van Straaten play for our third team last saturday haha, he slotted 3 from the touch line and scored a try and had a beer hung around with all the lads. (he had 21 caps for the springboks for non rugby people)
it was on is word ??? top rugby player bram
Posted: Thu Nov 08, 2012 7:55 am
by GB_Groundworks
People don't respect themselves nowadays or the value of your word, I was brought up that your word was as good as a contract, something will pop up cookie your works to good not to.
Braam had been down using our pitches some rich dad had paid him £15k for 5 days couching his 17 yr old scrum half son
Posted: Thu Nov 08, 2012 9:24 am
by henpecked
True, Giles. I was just over Dublin way last weekend,it was dire over there. Last year it was bad ,but this time things on the building side were worse. We walked down the Quay side to see what to tower crane were building in 2006. Looks like there were building mothballed projects.
It was so quiet, the council had actually began litter picking, cleaning and painting the town centre. :p
Posted: Thu Nov 08, 2012 2:39 pm
by cookiewales
GB_Groundworks wrote:People don't respect themselves nowadays or the value of your word, I was brought up that your word was as good as a contract, something will pop up cookie your works to good not to.
Braam had been down using our pitches some rich dad had paid him £15k for 5 days couching his 17 yr old scrum half son
if his son is good enought 5 days wont make him better he will be head hunted if the other teams he plays get to know ???