[shygirl]

thankyou so much.
its terrible having no knowledge of things like this ...lol. il go and have a look at travis perkins and see what they have. i hate going there, feel like a right female! 
 

[happygolucky]

My husband has no idea, I however used to be married to a plumber who had a builder  brother, my dad and brother were also plumbers that could mend anything and have great knowledge.....I sort of know what we want but forgot the proper names......when  you ask for something with the wrong name you get  blank looks.......its all thing that goes on that thing etc,

[Bramblecot]

thankyou so much.
its terrible having no knowledge of things like this ...lol. il go and have a look at travis perkins and see what they have. i hate going there, feel like a right female! 

I love going to builders /plumbers merchants - you can wind up the blokes a treat by acting daft and reinforcing sterotypes .  Probably very non pc - apologies if I've offended anyone.

[happygolucky]

I had a builder here but I needed some cracked glass replacing, now I know how simple it is for a joiner to put glass in, theses are small Georgian panes, anyway, the builder measured them and said, I will have to order that, it's hard to get.......At that point I knew he was talking cow poo as glass can be cut to any size and my window is just picture frame glass as its very old.........he gave me the quote for the other work, that was reasonable but said he could not get h glass for the window, so, as the glass repair is priority, I  did not take up his quote but I do wish people such as tradesmen, would not talk crap, thinking that they can fob you off, he should have said he did not do glass repair, his add did say ALL house hold repairs though......I now have a proper quote and am getting it done...

[shygirl]

how did your harling go happygolucky? was it easy?
iv been let down by the guy who was going to do it so i think i will do it myself this weekend.
its the last job left, and iv someone wanting to view the house even though we are not on market quite yet, so has to be done.
is it lime render or mortar? im more scared of falling off the ladder than anything else!
any cheap handymen in aberdeenshire?

[happygolucky]

how did your harling go happygolucky? was it easy?

NO , you have to get the mix just right to stick without it slipping down, although ours is all done  now its also difficult to get the stones to stick and it takes a while to throw handfuls of stones at the wall, although we have since found out you should wet the render when its stuck to the wall, then throw the stones, there are bits like above our gate that were very difficult, otherwise its all about the consistency, stiff not sloppy and good luck but no way would I go up any ladder.. We are going to paint it now like the rest then it should look OK.....we used render but a builder told us it did not matter.......buy the way, we have not had 1 viewing for weeks now, I think its due to the summer holidays, we do love the house and are currently doing some jobs with any spare cash!! Good Luck    

[shygirl]

thanks. iv hopefully got a builder coming out next week for a quote. its only an hours work but i guess it will cost a fortune.

[happygolucky]

We only had lots of small bits so not too hard, we had to get a builder in a few  years ago when the rendering was coming off at the side of the house,,,,we had lots of jobs done at the same time so forgot how much

[doganjo]

Can you get a couple of quotes, then you'll know if they are reasonable.  And how soon they can do it?  They always say if a tradesman is available right away its a bad sign, unless he can give you a good reason. 

[shygirl]

iv waited 2 months just for a quote! thats if they turn up, which isnt likely around here!
still waiting waiting for another to phone back 
there was a foreign chap who was available but i couldnt understand him very well so that put me off.

[doganjo]

Have you looked on ratedpeople.com or mybuilder.com?

[shygirl]

Have you looked on ratedpeople.com or mybuilder.com?

no, havent heard of that. will get onto it asap. thankyou

[honeyend]

We had lived in our house for 22 years so when we came to sell we de cluttered big time, bin it and if you really need to store it buy a cheap shed. The kitchen was old and really needed to redoing but I decide we would take less that put in a new one.
The thing I was most bothered about was the roof , which the surveyor who was there forever never even mentioned and the fact our garden flooded as we are the edge of the flood plain, but the people really wanted our house even when the garden was under a foot of water at one point.
They have stripped my old garden and are remodelling the back which includes the kitchen. I think they got the house they wanted a competitive price and we got to sell relatively quickly. If you think your house is likely to have problems have the survey and then get a few quotes for the work to be done so you can knock that off the sale price if needs be. There are now companies that do double glazing repairs but if you need a new door e-bay is great, we got a door supplied and fitted for half the price I was quoted locally.
If someone really wants you house and they offer less than you want, if you can afford it take it as I think if they really want it they will overlook problems which buyers who think they have paid 'top money' will not.