people?????

[Daveyboy]

Working on a site in Islington, London. chatting in the canteen with all the trades about recession, work etc. on the topic of getting work through good services/fair prices etc & painter tells me how a local electrician tried to rip him off and he told him to **** off out his house.
-Got the sparky in to quote for new cu. sparky said £300 new cu & upgrade bonding etc. This painter said told him to smeg off, "consumer units are only £50 in b&q, £20 fitting so shouldn't be no more than £70. do you think I look stupid"
The thing is this painter is not silly and i've worked with him for a bit and gathered that he's no fool & knows a bit about building.
When I hear things like this it really makes you think. I you go and quote for a job sometimes even if you quote a fair price, people think you are trying to rip them off.

 

[Newsome3]

i think £300 is too low anyway
i wouldnt even get my **** off of sofa for 70

 

[morph]

£ 400 is fair monies

 

[malcolmsanford]

I can buy a couple of tins of paint and a bit of polyfilla for 30 quid at wickes, bit of filling and painting, get a front room done is a morning, ask the tosher..................50 notes in his bin and Ill make him a few cups of coffee as well see what he says

 

[Gravid]

Thats the kind of carp i'd expect to hear from a painter, lets face it, it's hardly a proper trade there more like semi skilled.

 

[Bradzz]

Ive always said if you can **** you can paint.

 

[MvP Electrics]

give me the painters number ill get him in my house to give me a quote. £70 for repaint of house inside and outside. hes provides the paint. ill provide the tea.

 

[Electricalserv]

They are paying for your years behind the desk at college. The money comes from putting your name on the legal document. Could he do that? No. £20 fitting is he having a laugh. We pay 20 times that to be members of a scheme...as already said any lame excuse of a human being can paint a wall. Me an the mrs done the whole house cost us £350 in paint to a very good standard he'd probably want near 2 grand labour for that.

 

[JD6400]

Ive always said if you can **** you can paint.

I can assure you that they do not in any way like that one !
Got very funny with me , he did ???

 

[Rikki Barrett]

£20 to fit!!!!!!!!! Hahahaha!!!! Hes been painting too long, gone brain dead! Bet he wont work for £5 an hour or less. What about testing? No point in that I bet?!

Clued up plonker.

I take it he didnt ask you to do his CU!!!

 

[telectrix]

like MvP says, he can come and paint my fascias £ 20 labour, including hire and erection of scaffold front and rear ( over conservtory), PL insurance, van costs, and all the other costs involved. let's face it, he's spent 4 years at college learning which end of the brush to dip in the paint pot.

 

[paturback]

I blame the paint fumes..

 

[telectrix]

was better when paint had lead in it. painters were quiet then.

 

[ukpablo]

Some of those comments made me laugh I have to say!

 

[Guest123]

I'd have defecated in his gloss tin!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!