Right mate, that's us done if you want a quick look?
We had decorators in. Not that I meant a euphemism for the Good Lady being on the moon cycle but genuine decorators.
It had caused a bit of an argument between myself and the lady wife but she had stuck to her guns.
Why? Why are we paying someone to do something like decorating? I can bloody well do it?
I had wailed plaintively at her when she suggested we spunk our money away by paying random men to come into our house and smear stuff on our walls.
Darling, we are both so busy. Wouldn't it be nice to just pay some professionals to take the burden off us and let us kick back a bit?
The Good Lady had beamed at this point as if she saw us sipping cocktails on some luxury cruise liner somewhere instead of running around still wiping the arses of our children.
Oh hang on... I know what it is...
I had stared at the Good Lady in horror.
I know what it is. You want someone else to do it because you think my DIY is shit?!?!
I had thrown my hands up in a state of discombobulation. Oh no, I really don't! I just think it would be nice to have some professionals do the work for a change. She said this with the sweetest of smiles and the sincerest of eyes. Therefore, I knew she was lying. This is how, some weeks later we had chartered the services of a small decorating firm to strip the bedroom of wallpaper, put up some new backing paper and paint it all. The day had come and they had arrived. There were two younglings with spots and protruding jaws supervised by Wagner - the head honcho. He had shaken my hand and assured me all would be well and it would only take two days. So I had left him to it and now had been called in at the end of the first day to inspect the results of the team's work. That's the stripping and papering done. Tomorrow the painting. What ye think then? Looks good eh? Wagner waved a hand at the room in which all the old paper had been stripped and new backing paper put up. I looked around. Hmm, some of the paper is overlapping? I pointed to a clumsily papered section of the wall. Ah that bit? Don't worry, once the paint is on you won't notice it. Wagner smiled condescendingly and nodded like a large dog having its chest rubbed vigorously. There is another bit over there and a gap? It looks really bad. That bit? Don't worry, I will get the lads to go over that bit. Wagner put his hands on his hips and surveyed the walls with an almost reverent wonder. It was a good job they did for you, I am proud. He turned as if ready to head for the door. Erm, did you move the wardrobe? The wardrobe? I don't think you asked us to move the wardrobe? Wagner looked puzzled as if finding one of those little black Hiroshima chicken shadows in the yolk of his hard-boiled egg. I walked over to the wardrobe and moved it forward. Jesus fucking christ mate? You didn't do behind the fucking wardrobe? What the fuck? Were we not meant to move it, ever? I slapped the wardrobe as hitting inanimate objects seemed to be my new thing. There is no need for the language. You never asked us to move your wardrobe! He looked at me sulkily as if he were 6 years old and I had told him that Santa was actually his fucking dad. And hang on, look. You didn't strip the old stuff off underneath? I pointed at what was blatantly the old wallpaper on show. Wagner pulled himself up straight and fixed me with a commanding eye. Listen. Are you saying there is a problem with the work that has been done? He lowered his brows as if they were about to charge at me in an attempted goring. I wandered over to another section of wall and fingered a part of the new paper that was already starting to peel off. Yes, I am not happy at all with the work that has been done. When were you going to tell me about the wardrobe? Look, you didn't ask us to do behind the wardrobe and that is that. Wagner made a dismissive chopping motion with his hand. There was a long pause. I gritted my teeth, loudly. Right, out. Job is off. I pointed at the door and waved dismissively with my fingers What? Right fine. I should be charging you for the day's work. Wagner's face was turning the reddish-purple of an anal prolapse. Try it and I will charge you a day's work for having to strip all this shit off. Out. I breathed deep and attempted not to leap forward and tit-punch him. Wagner opened and closed his mouth several times like a goldfish before turning heel and stomping out. I sighed and muttered to myself. Why would I pay someone to do a fucking shitty job when I could do a shitty job myself?
I always knew I would get to use that word. Now I can die happy.
If you suffer from Americanism, that would be a closet
The guy hasn't a clue! Don't let him touch another thing! I stripped one house that had wallpaper when it was bought. Grannie put little roses up and I think it must have come unglued because someone used superglue on it!
Superglue!
That stuff came off in 1/2-inch increments. I Had no fingernails left.
He didn't move the wardrobe??? What is wrong with help nowadays? Fifteen years ago, I paid for the wood floor to be stripped and finished again. They stripped it down to the wood and did a nice medium finish to it. It was gorgeous. Ten months later, I was cleaning and pulled out the refrigerator only to find the old finish still underneath it! I just don't have the right cuss words to cover that one.
Do you know how everyone is a photographer with digital cameras? Well, everyone is a painter/architect and home decorator with the internet now.
I am so over trying to find help. Although plaster work (not sheetrock), where you use plaster on old walls is a lot of work! I would rather have a baby than have to do plaster work. Tedious and exact. No thank you.
Did you really fire him?? And let me say, that was quite amusing unless I was standing in your shoes!
Yes indeed, you cannot get good people any more! The last bunch of people we have hired for various things have either been shit or entirely unreliable.
He is totally fired and gone. I am happy expecting a cheeky bill for his days work but if he dares that I will tell him where to go. The work was atrocious!!
I have stripped paper that has been glued on before. Apart from it being a nightmare you just can't get over why!? Why do people do such things?
I am still staggered that he thought it was cool to not move a bit of furniture!
I have another house that is 1869 Victorian that is livable, but a project at the same time. So this house needs no work and the other needs all the work! :)
Good people are impossible to find in the trades. Crap work! Every single time. But, I have found a way to get decent work done. I used to get people who knew people, people who advertised, or handyman types. No longer.
The shoddy workmanship is unbearable. A ten-year-old can do better than some of the work I have seen done. Some days a toddler might be able to pull it off.
I started using real companies that have been around for ages with great reputations. A little more sometimes, but, not always. I had the roof redone and the cost was much the same as these deals the internet is offering up. The workmanship has been better and I have been happier. I like doing things that I am capable of, but, honestly, I have earned the right to let someone else do it without guilt. You have to, get over it. I couldn't stand watching them BS around and expect pay.
I am not sure why people glue wallpaper, but, it has a lot to do with never intending on stripping it, so what the heck.
At dinner last night, I read the tale of not moving the wardrobe (yes people! there is such a piece as a wardrobe!) and I thought they would fall off their chairs. Each one knew that I was comparing it to the floor not being stained/finished in the new color.
Oh, you put a nickel in my machine, and now I just cannot stop. Sorry.Not sorry. Hope you are having a splendid weekend!
I wouldn't pay him either. I would send him a tissue to wipe his backside and that is all he would get.
1869 Victorian. I bet that will be a topper when it is done!
I used a will known company for a big roof repair I had done. I had to as they offered a guarantee and seemed much more legit to think of something went wrong that you would get something back.
They did actually come out a year later to fix something that went wrong too!
A nickel in your machine.. haha, that's a fab saying!!
I used a well known company for a big roof repair I had done. I had to as they offered a guarantee and seemed much more legit to think of something went wrong that you would get something back.
EXACTLY! That right there!
I did the roof on the Victorian and went with a good roofer and the warranty too. On work like that, I just won't compromise anymore. Get it done once and you won't have to keep doing it again and again.
Can you tell I am so OVER tradespeople????
I am over them too, they are so often shysters these days.
It is funny though, when you get a good one that you absolutely fasten on to them and almost cry when they can't do the work for whatever reason!
I'm a bit confused with this whole wardrobe/closet thing. How the fuck do you move a closet?
Then I see you have a, space, without doors. If that space had doors I'd call it a closet. So I assume there must have been some sort of furniture in that space, with drawers perhaps. But why have I been calling that a fucking dresser all these years?
So, okay, I googled. Everything's fine now except that wallpaper. People still use wallpaper? Man that sounds way easier than mudding drywall. So why have I been mudding drywall?!?!
What the funk is mudding drywall!?
It sounds painful!
Sometimes we use paper when we are too cheap to plaster it all. Which is now what we have decided to do. Now we just have to find a plasterer who can plaster flatly.
Don't closets move? Are they fixed in place? Damn, life just gets more complex all the time!!
Plaster, is mudding. Drywall is some annoying shit. Basically it's just dry plaster with wallpaper already applied, in sheets, that must be screwed on. Then one must go mud all the screw holes and gaps between sheets, then sand, then mud again, then sand, then paint maybe, if it doesn't need any more mud and sanding, and holy shit is that ever a pain in the ass. Best saved for the professionals.
And I suppose I could move my closets, but I'd have to pick up the whole house. Or maybe knock a wall down, make a new closet, and fill the other up with, a wall; but then I'd have to do frickin drywall again!
Ah drywall, its like palsterboard here! You put it up and have to fill in all the bits from the screws and the gaps between! One of my other rooms needed that fixing and it was a pain in the chuff.
Bring back wood panelling I say! That way yo can just get a beaver into do the work or something
I'm thinking spray foam for the inside of the walls, then a spray covering like that shit they put on ceilings but smooth, then spray paint. Done.
And yeah plasterboard/drywall. Why does a large expanse of water make words different? If I hire someone and he's got your accent, I'll say, "I need drywall in the closet" and he's going to be stuffing plasterboard in the dresser drawers.
Accents can cause a whole lot of issues! If someone told me they needed drywall I would probably be ages in the pharmacist arguing that I needed some, stat!
Spray things are good. If everything in life could be sprayed on I would be a happy man :O)
A happy man with a spray tan from a can.
You'll need to tape those joints and corners!
Down here, they call drywall 'sheetrock'. I don't mess with it anymore, and in fact I tell new painters to never learn how to hang sheetrock or float mud, and if they do I advise them "don't ever tell anyone that you know how to do this". A real genius doesn't know how to do anything, it turns out.
OMG I forgot the taping!
Growing up I heard my relatives calling it gyprock.
And you're right. I'm often dazed and confused for some reason...
Most hilarious! Although what is up with contractors these days, if an object is movable you need to move it and work behind. Logical.
I had the similar issue with the guys that did my mom paint work before we moved in..I now stare and peeling skirting boards that trigger me quite often. Good on you for sending them packing the first day!
Dont get me started on skirting boards! The ones that were in the place when we moved in were a joke. It is like whoever did them found lots of mismatched short lengths of wood and decided they would do. We are having to get them all done!
After we got the run around from various people before I now have zero tolerance fo shysters! :O)
Fuck man! We must be getting old to get triggered by quanking skirting boards! I mean look at the vulgarities im etching onto the blockchain.
My ball and chain is the worse though, his like leave it. It's chilled. Which is weird because his quite an outspoken person. But his like donte sweat the small things. I just wanna get what I paid for! Builders are the worst breed of people! Honestly! Quankers the lot of them!
I am normally quite chilled like that until I see appallingly bad work. Ours had bits jutting out and everything. Even then I was willing to let it slide but the missus, she is a different kettle of fish!
Skirting board warnings! Lol, defo an age thing
O my no 🤣. Some people neh just want to get payed for half ass shitty work. Hopefully you won't have to pay him!
I like doing things myself, then I know if it's done shitty it's my problem. But at least I won't have to pay some to do a half ass job 😂.
Next time prop a seat up and watch them work. That way you can tell them "fuck no, you missed a spot"
I bet I would get bored out of my chump but it would be a good way of making sure there was no shortcuts!
I never understand doing something in a shitty easy, I have pride and if it was my job I would make an effort!
Yes hell, I want to be proud of the job I do. Some people clearly just don't give a shit.
I know and that is only acceptable when you are mad drunk and someone suggested one more for the road!
😀😀😃😃Wagner almost fucked you up,, I which you had done your shitty job yourself.. thanks goodness it was not an unbearable one..
I wish I had done it myself too. Now I have to do more to do it myself!
Yeah , it would have saved you those stress you will face
Ach, one I bang on the time and dress up as a workman I don't mind so much. It's like play acting 😀
Lol. I could figure that out 😃😃..
Hehe :O)
Yeah, enjoy your day...
Howie is always saying this, there are no freaking so called blue collar professionals anymore. He Always ends up redoing their work, he said they should all be named G'nuff construction, at least you'd know what you were getting lol! But damn, we thought it was a US thing, apparently not huh? Crazy!
Okay so, huh, I did think wardrobe and closet were the same thing, after all the Wardrobe from the Narnia story did lead into a little room full of hanging clothes which Is our version of closet, haha, but I think in this instance it's a dresser? A big wooden piece of furniture with drawers? XD
CRikey, I dunno! Its a big wooden thing with space for hanging clothes and a couple of shelves at the bottom. Its a pure fecking cheap thing. It would be lovely if it had drawers. I am basing all of my Closet knowledge on watching episodes of Modern Family, lol!
Howie is right. They do a job that is barely passable then hope they can slop paint or something over it and hide all the shoddiness! Its like everyone is winging it these days
Laughs the fuck out loud...
The fact that he says you didn't ask to do behind the closet...What the actual fuck mate.... I would assume you didn't need to ask shit like that🤣.. Poor workmanship dude..
No... Pathetic actually...
You have a point... Rather do a shitty job yourself.. Then atleast you'd be content with it🤣🤣🍻...
Fucksakes mate... Did you pay him??
No way, no money for crap decorator man! Although I am fully expecting him to send me an invoice in the off chance I will pay. I can't believe he didn't do behind it. I specifically asked if the wardrobe was a problem as it was big and unwieldy and he said no!
Well Fuck broh sorry for the insane late reply....
Hmmm its been a while, have you gotten that invoice? or did he scheme nah fuck it?
You see the thing is that people have gotten lazy as fuck, but besides being lazy they have no more pride in their work. I have a different field in which I specialize of course but fuck dude if I can explain to you how much fuckups I have to fix of other technicians.. It's scary... I sometimes wonder how these fuckers are still in business?
No invoice so far. I suspect that is there is one to come he will wait a few weeks thinking he is clever. Lol, fump him! 🤣🤣
I would have glued all of them behind the wallpaper ( a Dutch expression ). Then again, you don't want them to stay inside your house. What a story haha!
Yeah, I wanted them out and fast!
It would have been a fine punishment though! :0)
I know what you are referring to here but this just sounds so wrong 🤣
Admit it, you added that bit in just for me didn't you?
Damn that's frustrating man. You really can't buy good help these days.
It does sound terribly wrong, lol!
Haha, I might have put it in there for you! ;0)
You really can't get good people anymore. We tried to get another guy but he kept not turning up!!
Haha good to hear 😄
Yeah that's common as well. You hear that a lot.
I think since covid especially they are in high demand and act like lords of the major now picking and choosing what they want to do.
Yeah for sure. That probably exactly what it is
They sure jacked up the prices during COVID and they ain't came back down!
Unfortunately they never seem to come back down after a hike up.
At least they didn't get your money... Hopefully now she just lets you do it!
Seriously, they thought you didn't want ALL of the room done?!?!
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I am absolutely baffled as to how they could think that I wanted some bits left out. They were patently at it and hoped to scam some money and run!
I am now hoping that they don't send any menacing comms for money!
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There is one remaining question that I believe requires an answer.
Is the Good Lady talking to you? Is she on their side? Enquiring minds want to know.
She is fully on my side which is quite astonishing. I think it was when she saw the crazy job of the papering they did. Not even counting not doing behind the wardrobe, the overlapping and happy bits is quite something to witness!
Unfotunately it means I am now IT for the job!
You are pretty darn funny, I like the big words like discombobulate.
That is a real shit job, I’m glad you stood your ground and didn’t pay for it.
Why thank you I like big words! And little ones :OD
You gotta stand up to these folk, they are outrageous!
What did the Good Lady have to say about the hired helps ”efforts”?
She agreed and thought I should have kicked him on the way out 😀😀
You did the right thing @meesterboom by not paying a dime Wagner is a tricky man, I am sure he knew what he did and he only wanted to do a quack job and earn a lot of money, I love the fact you sent him out of your home.
It was a quank job that he intended! Almost robbery I think. I am glad he thought to show off his handiwork before I paid him!
Lol, very true quank it is also robbery it is but in the case he wasn't with a gun LoL he wanted to rob you stupidly.
If he had a gun I might have let him carry on... :OD
LoL, I like that and that is you being realistic 😂.
Hehe, maybe only slightly!
Yea, why not? There are many DIY posts and videos 😁
That's pretty much how I approach any DIY job!
I get the same shit, she won't let me do anything! Granted.. I am quite shit at DIY.
I am fairly shit too. I especially cannot paper a wall but my god man, you think when it's your profession you might have a bit of skill at it!
The overlapping paper lol.., my dad papered my house years ago... and did that. It looked shit but didn't have the heart to tell him 😀
Even I dont overlap when I do it. Thats what amazed me, Granted they didn't have any bubbles like I end up with but the overlaps were monstrous. Fannies! not your dad, them! :O)
Professional.... hummmffff !
You just can't get good help these days.
Never trust a professional. It's the only way to get through life! :0D
Make sure the Good Lady sees how the professionals do it. Then remind her never to question your manhood or you DIY skills ever again. Banging the table with a fist helps make your point more clear..
It's funny you should say that. I am quite fond of a table fist banging!
She knows now never to doubt! 😀
I would have done an excellent job in fact I used to do it in my other house that if I removed everything absolutely everything from the space to wallpaper and paint, protect my floor and then get to work without throwing dust or make a mess like the one you are showing us.
Please, who would think of doing a wallpapering and printing job without removing all the belongings from the space!!!!
No wonder the color turned purple and blackened like an anal hemorrhoid.
Exactly. If you are going to do a job you do it right. None of this half hearted nonsense! :0)
Wagner looked puzzled as if finding one of those little black Hiroshima chicken.. 😂😂
Lol, they are the oddest things!! :0D
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Lol, friggin Wagner! I did some bunk shit at my house few years back. Learning curve.
It sure is. No matter how many YouTube videos you watch on how to do something it never quite works!