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LM Ceramics

oh no council work i did a year of council work with a tiling firm working in salford all i can say is rough rushed work and some of the people you meet in the houses (well say no more) i went in houses had a knife pointed at me a pitbull sniff round my leg and the tenant shouts "dont worry he only playing" drug dealers you name it as for the walls that you tile on banana walls or what.

i used to be forced to tile on wall paper, corroded window cills etc. eventually i quit the firm april last year and the final straw i knocked on this door at 8am no answer so came back later knocked on the door at 3 pm the last kitchen before i went homethe tenant said can you come back later on about 5pm were still in bed

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Taz8130

Social Housing? - I've seen it from another stand-point.... I used to be a Housing Benefits Fraud Investigator. For an example of scroungers. 1 woman was 34 had 11 kids and was getting over £700 per week benefits!! Another guy bought a new build house costing over £300K and stated that his elderly parents,who were both on income support, were living in it and claimed rent. Had it been true it would have been legal, but when I investigated it they were living in Pakistan. The son was living in it and we were paying his ****ing mortgage.

And the best one... There a Housing benefits rule called the "13 week Rule". Basically so long a you stay in the property you are claiming benefits for, for 1 day in 13 weeks your rent will still be paid. This guy was claiming ground rent for a caravan pitch where he parked his motorhome stating it was his main residence. He would drive the motorhome to Spain, enjoy the sun, and then return on the 12th week to keep his claim going.

I quit the job and moved to the Isle of Man.
 
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