It's gripe day! I don't know if this is purely an Australian thing or a worldwide thing, but tradesmen in this country have quite a reputation for being dodgy, late or not showing up at all. As I wrote in an earlier post, we're having new fences put up. Our back fence backs onto a house and their property is wide and runs the length of three properties - ours being one of them and then we are having our side fence and gate done.
So today I got up extra early - because we weren't given a time that they would show up - typical.... They showed up around 9am. Then they discovered the fence plans they had were incomplete and they didn't have enough materials or workmen..... They then got in their vehicles and drove off without telling any of the neighbours where they were going or if they were coming back!
They eventually came back and got into a bit of a debate with one of the neighbours, as two of us have pools and in Australia it's illegal not to have a fence around your pool. The original plan was to do each section of the fence in three parts, so that each neighbour had their old fence down and new fence up in a day. So the new plan is pull the old fence down, put some posts in and 'try' and complete the job the next day.
As you can imagine, the other neighbour is not happy about this, as this was not what was originally discussed and her pool will be left without any fencing. She made it quite clear that should something happen, she will not be responsible.
Our side fence is supposed to be done towards the end of this week, when I spoke to the fencer about this, his response was "You've gotta be dreamin'!". So there you have it, I always try and give people the benefit of the doubt - I don't like tarring everyone with the same brush as we have had some very good tradesmen. However this lot are a bunch of louts. I honestly wish you could hear what I can hear while I type. A radio is blaring and they are doing more talking and laughing than work - they sound like a bunch of high school kids! Tomorrow has to be a better day!
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