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Just did a quote for a friend of a friend in London because she wanted some1 she could rely on after having some1 dodgy in. Just got back to me saying I was way to expensive and that she had a room skimmed recently for £250? in London?

Wtf?

Makes me look like i'm trying to rip her off with my prices...its a f**king joke.

Also today went in to fix a job another plasterer had done. I'm going to have to redo the whole lot at a cost of about 1500 to the builder.

How do these guys continue to get work?
 
its very puzzling who gets and dont get work.i struggle big time yet have busted a gut trying to get it and after 35 years am ok at plastering.ive worked for spreads who have no van no tools no plant and no fcuking clue yet they get work.
 
unfortunatly a ot of it is who u no, not what u no. and then some people are good at blagging, come accross more appealing etc. iv met plently of well spoken idiots who can blag there way through stuff, and guys who no theyre stuff and are good, whos people skills arnt that great.

i think u have plasterers and businessmen. plasterers end up working for the business men

as for guys that are useless and leave crap jobs, im as baffled as you lol
 
I'm really struggling with this builder at the moment. He's got plenty on, but he's a fcuking idiot.
The customer has paid him a load of money upfront so he's the one I've gotta go to for mats. Idiot bought a load of bonding for me to float some blocks, told him to come and show me how to do it. That's not all, according to the others on site he tried to put in a piece of 6 by 3 as an RSJ. There's an RSJ there now sitting on some pad stones that look about an inch think. He also overbuilt the extension and had to knock it down. How on earth this prick gets work I'll never know. He's a prime candidate for rogue traders whatever it's called.
 
Had to ask him to get some cavity closures today. He point blank refused and told me to use plasterboard. Prick.

You wouldn't get your hat on with what else he's done. There's two windows on the side of the house facing nextdoor that face their brick wall. So there's no light coming in, there's also openers on the windows. He reckons it's for ventilation!
 
And to top it all the other lads reckon he's in with this guy who does the regs. Back handers all the way.
 
Well this guy blagged it proper, messed up a garage conversion render and told the builder that it was because didn't do much external work, and he should be given a chance to do internal...which he then proceeded to mess up. And got paid for both works. Crazy.
 
back to the original post, she paid 250 and got s**t job then moans at a proper price for a proper job

**** some people never learn
 
I used to know someone in sales, used to that is. They could have sold you anything and made you feel good about it. There's a lot of psychology to it - ripping people off and making them think they need something they don't.
 
I used to know someone in sales, used to that is. They could have sold you anything and made you feel good about it. There's a lot of psychology to it - ripping people off and making them think they need something they don't.

So true that mate, Guy i do a lot for is a wicked salesman but work is shocking, the stuff i been asked to cover up/skim is unbelievable, and hes expensive and gets all the work!

Me on the other hand is way way wayyy to honest for me own good, I couldnt sell a roast dinner to a starving child ffs, Wish I was more of a salesman, just aint me though!
 
I work with a load of builders that you cant justify what they do in a day, but they seem to earn good money brand new vans, top kit, holidays 3 times a year, its baffling how they get away with it? plus alot of them dont do any of they work just get subbys in.
 
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