HomeBase metros.

[John Benton]

It also puts the fear of god in my bank manager.... I bought a bag of sand and a piece of guttering from my local one a couple of weeks ago just to finish off a job. It came to nearly thirty quid... Same stuff from my builders merchant would have been less than a tenner.... But it was Saturday pm so hadn't much option....

Like an old friend of mine who owned a fish and chip shop, had a customer come in and the following conversation took place:-

Owner (O) Evening Sir can I help you
Customer (C) Fish and Chips twice please
O Anything else
C Bottle of tomato sauce please
O Sauce is £2 a bottle
C I'm not paying £2 a bottle when Asda sell them at 50p
O Well get one from Asda then
C I can't they're closed
O Well my bottles of sauce are 50p when I'm closed as well!

Supply and demand haha

 

[Stef]

Haha good tale JB.
These metros weren't cheap, he reckoned that they were £18m2,
I told him to go to TG to start with..

 

[Mr Tiler]

I think its the homebase ones stef these were mentioned to be very poor quality in a post a few months back

 

[Qwerty]

I actually popped into Homebase today and see what you mean about the scratches and no protection :yikes:

 

[Stef]

I actually popped into Homebase today and see what you mean about the scratches and no protection :yikes:

Geoff they are truly shocking, I kicked up a stink years ago about black bricks through CTD & questioned the packing method of johnsons as the least they could do is pack them back to back etc, would save the bulk of them getting damaged.

 

[John Benton]

I actually popped into Homebase today and see what you mean about the scratches and no protection :yikes:

That's why you don't get as much as Deano done in a day Geoff, too busy worrying about how tiles are packed :sofahide:

If you got your head down you could probably do 3-4m a day then :lol:

 

[Qwerty]

Again, I was busy swinging the lead......pretending to do work at a rich old ladies house whilst telling her I had to visit every DIY shed and tile shop in the area for some rare tile spacers. Beats laying 37m2 for a living! :lol:

 

[John Benton]

Again, I was busy swinging the lead......pretending to do work at a rich old ladies house whilst telling her I had to visit every DIY shed and tile shop in the area for some rare tile spacers. Beats laying 37m2 for a living! :lol:

And getting paid the same I suspect

 

[Qwerty]

Yip

 

[Mr Tiler]

Tilechoice stock these for £18 m2 they are good quality too