Does anyone else find this annoying

[Will I Am]

they should have at least let you quote on the jobs?

 

[mz30]

The days of who you know are now in the hands of the bureaucrats! So it'd now who they know
Greggs the bakers - I did work for them in their own home, yet I wasn't offered any of their latest refits and that was after buying their pasties for the last 40 years.

I have done a couple of greggs in the past few months,but they don't have any tiling inside now just the entrance way,done one in chester a few weeks back took me 2 hrs ,but I got a parking ticket which cost me £35 quid wasn't worth the hassle.

 

[Rookery]

My local bunch of overpaid, over-rated, under-worked, under-achieving council officials thinks its good practice to give a tiling & re-furbishing job to a contracting firm from 30 odd miles away. None of the local trades got a chance to quote and I bet none of us would have charged 50% of what they paid. It wouldnt surprise me if someone was on a back hander.
Needless to say, the standard of tiling was shocking.

 

[Time's Ran Out]

Flood damage work is the one! I did a couple of Victorian floors in Morpeth, Northumberland, and the town was filled with white vans from 200 miles away!
They sent a tiler from Manchester to repair 1 kitchen tile. :mad2:

 

[John Benton]

I hardly ever work in my own town, not really sure how that happened but, that's how it is. I think it's quite common that people have to travel for work nowadays.

It could be because they've heard of you Bri

 

[Gazzer]

It could be because they've heard of you Bri

You mean, they have seen the pictures :yikes:

 

[peteablard]

I work all over the country and I've worked hard to get the contacts that give me these jobs! I regularly see vans from other towns round here but can't complain as they're just doing the same as me

 

[High Peak Tiling]

I work all over the country and I've worked hard to get the contacts that give me these jobs! I regularly see vans from other towns round here but can't complain as they're just doing the same as me

I have worked all over the country and cant say I have paid attention to the other tradesmens origin ..

 

[peteablard]

I have worked all over the country and cant say I have paid attention to the other tradesmens origin ..

As an example there's a new supermarket being built near where I live and all the vans on site have contact numbers from other towns/cities. Like a lot of guys on here I travel to wherever the work is and work on commercial projects nationwide. If someone else lands a job in my area then good for them, like me they've probably worked hard to get that contact/contract and deserve the job whatever part of the country it's in

 

[Peter]

Had another tiler working 3 doors from me one time, never got asked to quote :lol: