Maybe you could get all 3 jobs done at the same time ?
That might tempt a builder more, make it worth while them going to your house.
a polish builder would have been round and done it the same day.
people may have views and not like them but i use a local builder who is polish because he is always on time and his work is good.
they want to work, want the money and dont care how they get it.
My neighbours are Polish, all 32 of them in 7 houses in the street, sadly they are all white collar workers not a builders bum in site
Would there not be any builders who attend the same swingers club as you ?
Send Sasha round the place with a tee shirt on which says "erection job req" and see if there is any response.
John
Do it yourself- tis quite easy!
I'm in the middle of rebuilding my bedroom complete with a new en-suite, ceiling, rewire, plaster and built in wardrobes, which required an 8ft non load bearing wall knocking down for the new bathroom. it took me about 3 hours to remove it (mainly because i was extra careful removing the bricks to stop them dropping on the floor and cracking the plaster on the ceiling downstairs. The only tradesman i've had in so far is a window fitter (FENSA requirement for building regs) and I might have it plastered to speed up the job. Having a fookin big SDS drill helps the wall demolition go quicker and is rather fun too ;-)
It might be too expensive to do it myself, it IS a load bearing wall and will require a support of some sort over the frame, I could hire the equipment to do it but simply do not have the knowledge to do it without risk of causing expensive and possible dangerous consequences.
I still think building control should have been informed, along with getting structural calculations for the stability for that area of the property, now an important supporting wall has been removed.
Again, you have purposely misread what I wrote....but hey knock yourself out.
So I finally got the job done a few weeks ago, I found a builder who agreed to do the job for the price I had been quoted by other builders ie £260
On the due date 2 guys arrived at 9am as agreed and worked like Trojans to get the job done and dusted by 6pm. Well perhaps not dusted, removal of a double brick wall does bring about a lot of dust.
Workrate .... excellent
Plastering .. excellent
Lintel/RSJ .. excellent
Overall satisfaction .. excellent
So did I finally find a local builder using all the standard methods of newspapers, recommended tradesman sites, the internet in general
Nah, I found him of Fabswingers and he lives in Chesterfield 2 hours from Stoke on Trent.
Damn my Oldtimers is getting worse can't even remember then on Thursday the girl from 15% is the normal discount at Coronation Streets Deidrie Barlow I think.