The Home Improvements Thread (2)

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Anyone have a pool cleaning and a roofing specialist in Cape Town Northern Suburbs?
 
Dr Roof literally at my place right now. Hoping they do a good job.
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SAguy said:
I'm gatvol now. Thanks for screwing me around from day 1 with constant excuses @Smokey mcpot - now I'm left with a skew gate that I need to refit and a good couple of thousands worth of repairs to my lawn. You were worse than my previous builder, at least I didn't have to drive to his house and beg him to finish the job.
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Sadly I had a similar distasteful experience with him.
Won't be using him again for anything.

What is funny is that on the forum I always read good things about him/his work.
 
TheBadMadMan said:
Sadly I had a similar distasteful experience with him.
Won't be using him again for anything.

What is funny is that on the forum I always read good things about him/his work.
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wow. me too. was not expecting that .. hoping its not related to his health, think i read somewhere he was in hospital
 
Looks like I got lucky, asked him if he'd be interested in doing my office late last year , said he'd get back to me and never did.
 
I also got lucky - he quoted me to do my stack doors on my patio and luckily he got back to me only after I pulled the trigger with someone else. By the way, I can highly recommend Hughes Aliminium for Aluminium doors and windows. I’m going to get them to start replacing all my wooden windows with aluminium as well
 
I don’t want the guy to suffer or anything, I just find it very uncool to preach about your virtues and work ethic on a forum and then f up a job of a fellow forumite. It’s pretty sad, but as someone else said: there’s always three sides to a story.

that being said, I really hope @SAguy catches a break with any future contractors. Damn man you must have broken a few mirrors, walked under a few ladders and crossed many a black cat’s path…
 
ElixirCoder said:
I don’t want the guy to suffer or anything, I just find it very uncool to preach about your virtues and work ethic on a forum and then f up a job of a fellow forumite. It’s pretty sad, but as someone else said: there’s always three sides to a story.

that being said, I really hope @SAguy catches a break with any future contractors. Damn man you must have broken a few mirrors, walked under a few ladders and crossed many a black cat’s path…
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I think it's more like a mirror smashed into my face, while I ran under a ladder to avoid a rabid black panther.
 
SAguy said:
I think it's more like a mirror smashed into my face, while I ran under a ladder to avoid a rabid black panther.
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That sucks, would have thought the way the guy spoke he'd be better, but sadly had a few of those contractors myself :(
 
Not directed at anyone here but my personal experience from working with contractors over the past 2 years on renovations at home (roofing, windows, tiling, plumbing, carpentry) is that no one takes any pride in their work anymore.

From the little guys to the big companies they're all the same. They get away with this stuff because they know there's no real recourse.
 
chickenbeef said:
Not directed at anyone here but my personal experience from working with contractors over the past 2 years on renovations at home (roofing, windows, tiling, plumbing, carpentry) is that no one takes any pride in their work anymore.

From the little guys to the big companies they're all the same. They get away with this stuff because they know there's no real recourse.
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This is why I like using the guy we have on retainer at work. He does most things himself and what he can't do he finds someone and manages them on your behalf.

He's completely reliable and always on time.

Major plus point is that if he ****s up with someone's personal stuff he stands the risk of his retainer being pulled.
 
Just had a ton of demo, building, and painting done at my place. Two weeks of non stop work and not a single issue.
 
maxxis said:
Just had a ton of demo, building, and painting done at my place. Two weeks of non stop work and not a single issue.
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Oh man, I'm in week 10, we about to remove the props for the slab tomorrow.

Just a little more plastering and tiling...
Painting I do myself, these guy 1. Waste a lot of paint and 2. Mess everything.

Hopefully fully complete by next Saturday
 
It's tough finding reliable people, they can be great on one job and terrible on another. So inconsistent.

I feel bad for bringing his name up here, this forum should be a place to chill... But of you're going to take business from here then you should accept the good and the bad reviews. My decision to name and shame is probably gonna backfire on me though, knowing my luck.

His health played a role, and for that I'm of course compassionate but the problems with this job went far beyond that.
 
I've said it before, this industry is nothing but unpleasant.

Just about everything I've had done I could have done better myself given the time (and considerably cheaper)
 
TedLasso said:
wow. me too. was not expecting that .. hoping its not related to his health, think i read somewhere he was in hospital
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He's been in and out of hospital.

Recall asking him quite a while back, what's wrong? Was shocked to hear of his medical stresses.
 
xrapidx said:
I've said it before, this industry is nothing but unpleasant.

Just about everything I've had done I could have done better myself given the time (and considerably cheaper)
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this, i try do what i can myself as a result, a fraction of the price, faster and done right first time. I get tools in the process and learn at my own reasonable cost the hard way
 
damn and that gate looks super nice

(only from looking at the pictures) how can you do such a good job on aligning the paneling on the gates themselves, but such a crap job at actually aligning the gate :unsure:
 
SAguy said:
This gate has been a disaster from day 1... I should have stopped the project long ago.
After taking 3 months, countless issues, delays, etc it's finally installed and this is how out of line everything is

The brick paving is straight, everything else is skew. You can't see on the pic but the gate itself is completely skew too, at the top it sits behind the post it locks into, and the bottom it's in front of the post by about 20mm.

I'm going to have to take it all out and refit it again. At least there's a gate now, but I'll have to chop out all the posts out of the concrete footings and do it again. That's gonna be a fun weekend.

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put a nice tall pot plant there with a plant in it, right there on the center join by that white pipe.. that will hide the skew line, you won't even notice it. Much easier than taking everything down and doing it over again just to move it 10cm or so...
 
ricardo12 said:
put a nice tall pot plant there with a plant in it, right there on the center join by that white pipe.. that will hide the skew line, you won't even notice it. Much easier than taking everything down and doing it over again just to move it 10cm or so...
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Honestly, that's a lazy 'fix', if you could even call it a fix.. it would still be visible from the inside..

Moreover, just knowing that the gate is skew, without seeing it, would drive me up the wall..

Just fix it and get it done with.. things like this should not be hidden out of sight..
 
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