House renovation english or french builders
May 5th 2013 | 8:10 pm
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Re: House renovation english or french builders
Whoops; should have checked. Sorry dmu
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May 6th 2013 | 8:29 am
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May 6th 2013 | 9:26 am
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Re: House renovation english or french builders
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May 6th 2013 | 10:25 am
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May 6th 2013 | 5:52 pm
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May 7th 2013 | 3:34 am
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May 9th 2013 | 4:18 am
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Re: House renovation english or french builders
We watched as various teams of Artisans did up our neighbour's (French) house. They worked like trojans in all weathers, not even taking time to go in for a wee when nature called. However, when we asked one of the Chippys to make us a new oak front door they weren't interested. They just wanted to sell us a modern ready made job. In the end we used a Brit who did an excellent job at a very good price.
May 11th 2013 | 3:42 am
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Re: House renovation english or french builders
Book someone to prune your trees months before you need them doing!
Sep 24th 2013 | 1:35 am
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Re: House renovation english or french builders
We did extensive renovations on our home. Because we knew it would be our only home eventually (it has been for some years now) we used entirely local workpeople. We asked our local friends and neighbours to recommend people. No problems with language as we have good French.
With one, very swiftly resolved exception, they all worked hard and well and their prices were correct.
Several of them have since become really good friends and so were asked to help when daughter and son-in-law bought the house next door. They offered advice and suggestions willingly and were content to do the skilled work and leave the new owners to do what they could and wanted to do.
Recently we met an English couple who had employed a British team and left them to get on with it. They turned out to be real cowboys and the whole thing not only became a nightmare, but really put the local residents backs up so when they needed to find good workers to right the wrongs, they were quoted massive amounts if indeed they would do the work at all.
With one, very swiftly resolved exception, they all worked hard and well and their prices were correct.
Several of them have since become really good friends and so were asked to help when daughter and son-in-law bought the house next door. They offered advice and suggestions willingly and were content to do the skilled work and leave the new owners to do what they could and wanted to do.
Recently we met an English couple who had employed a British team and left them to get on with it. They turned out to be real cowboys and the whole thing not only became a nightmare, but really put the local residents backs up so when they needed to find good workers to right the wrongs, they were quoted massive amounts if indeed they would do the work at all.
I hope to hear from you soon. A.
Sep 24th 2013 | 1:40 am
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Re: House renovation english or french builders
These were a couple we met casually but I suspect if you made an enquiry on the forum you may well find many examples.
Sep 24th 2013 | 2:43 am
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Re: House renovation english or french builders
Blimey, this reads like cowboy English.
