Been on a job this week as I went to my van a lady asked for my card and said the guy who was fitting her shower and towel radiator was not doing it right, she later rang me, she'd kicked him off the job, when I went round to look at it, shower tray wrecked by stanley knife and fitted wrong, the towel rad was the worst bodge I'd ever seen, so long as these cowboys are about it will keep us in work.
Your right but they always get work ;/, the thing i stick by now is, when asked to take out a toilet or radiator or a cooker etc, even know i know its kinda easy i just dont do it, tell them to get a plumber in or an eletricion to do it, as it aint my trade an if anything goes wrong it doesnt fall back on you, problem here where i live, there is to many people that think they can do everything, even know some people are really good, i always think people should stick to there own trade, for example a plumber has to do 5 years training to be a plumber and thats why they good at there job (not everyone) something i would like to learn more on is plumbing and eletic but even if i knew more on it i wouldnt touch it in other peoples houses as it aint my trade, i always think i still learning tiling and ive done it for a good few years now. There last week i was doing a consins hallway and it lead into there downstairs toilet and they was big porcelain tiles, told him toilet need to be took out as would be a better job and so on, well he got a friend in who was a joiner to take it out, and it prob cost him £10 or £20 or so to do it as a fav, but in the end the guy broke the system to flush it, dont know how in the hell he broke that, but he ended up having to pay £40 for a new 1 and then pay a plumber to put it in so ended up costing him alot more, this just an example of things that can go wrong, so like the guy i worked with good while back always told me, if it aint our trade why do it, u might think u doing good by helping them and they love it, but if anything goes wrong with it, who they put the blame on