So now I start the journey of investigating tradespeople to help me to do up my new house before I move in. I do appreciate that I have picked an awkward time of year to do this, but I remain hopeful that I will find someone who can start work before Christmas!!
I am starting with finding someone to strip the wallpaper, skim the walls and then paint. I suspect I may end up doing part of the process myself (eg the wallpaper stripping and/or painting) but I really need to get a quote first to see if I could afford to get a professional to do it all. Lord knows the quality of work would be better and certainly the job would progress a heap faster!
I am meeting someone tomorrow. When I rang his number to make the time, a guy answered and said in a tired voice: "No, I am not Robert, no I don't want to paint your house, and when you see Robert can you please tell him that for the love of God he needs to change his business cards to have HIS number on them and NOT MINE".
This poor fellow gets two or three calls a day for the painter, and has been for about two months. He now has his little speech down pat, and also provides Robert's real number.
He was really quite sweet and good spirited about the whole thing and it reminded me about the time in Aus when I forwarded my work phone to my mobile while I was out of the office. I was surprised that I received no calls for the whole day, until I got a call from reception saying that there was a tradie in Queensland that was fed up at getting my calls all day. Oops
I am starting with finding someone to strip the wallpaper, skim the walls and then paint. I suspect I may end up doing part of the process myself (eg the wallpaper stripping and/or painting) but I really need to get a quote first to see if I could afford to get a professional to do it all. Lord knows the quality of work would be better and certainly the job would progress a heap faster!
I am meeting someone tomorrow. When I rang his number to make the time, a guy answered and said in a tired voice: "No, I am not Robert, no I don't want to paint your house, and when you see Robert can you please tell him that for the love of God he needs to change his business cards to have HIS number on them and NOT MINE".
This poor fellow gets two or three calls a day for the painter, and has been for about two months. He now has his little speech down pat, and also provides Robert's real number.
He was really quite sweet and good spirited about the whole thing and it reminded me about the time in Aus when I forwarded my work phone to my mobile while I was out of the office. I was surprised that I received no calls for the whole day, until I got a call from reception saying that there was a tradie in Queensland that was fed up at getting my calls all day. Oops