Bahnhof Strasse
Met up with Hannah Courtoy a week next Tuesday
This guy seems linked to biker gangs and bear in mind the online skillz of yer biker twonk as displayed here... Biker gangs / "patch clubs"
New Sky woodworking show The Chop (with added white supremacism)
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This guy seems linked to biker gangs and bear in mind the online skillz of yer biker twonk as displayed here... Biker gangs / "patch clubs"
Zapp Brannigan
Built like a steakhouse, handles like a bistro
If you're a stud walls, skirting boards and doorframes for Barratt Homes kind of carpenter, completely agree. But if you're a one-off commissions, bespoke furniture maker* then surely you're better off with somewhere to showcase your work.
* I don't know that this is what the Nazi Woodman does, but it fits better with the theme of the show than a fella who'd do you an understairs cupboard.
TopCat
Putin fanboy
I like to think he was a SDS officer who had gone a bit far with fitting in with the other anarchists at the rougher end of the market.
strung out
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He claims to have done this: Interaction Case Study | Star Wars Cinema | Millennium Falcon | Bath
Presumably sub contracted by the design agency.
Cid
Proper break this time
I used to work above a guy who does some of the most high end interiors in London. 7/8 employees, couple of CNC machines... no web presence at all. It’s a bit of a funny one. For some types of work you get very little benefit from it. Particularly for interior fit outs and the like you would rely much more on connections with architects and interior designers. I would say most people I know still rely much more on word of mouth than web presence... that is probably changing a bit now, but yeah.
Smokeandsteam
Working Class First
I’d suggest it’s the other way around. There is often more competition in the former category. I often see adverts on Facebook etc for those types of services. I actually know a few bespoke crafts workers - working with steel and wood. In the case of the former his entire business is built on word of mouth. He doesn’t advertise anywhere. Has got a little lock up in the Jewellery Quarter that’s dead hard to find and he doesn’t even have any social media accounts. The middle class flock to him because their mates have used him and recommend him
Your post appears to be quite snooty by the way. Lots of the workers who build Barratt Homes are also highly skilled
Bahnhof Strasse
Met up with Hannah Courtoy a week next Tuesday
He did have a presence on Grindr though, fishing for men...
danski
"vibey"
We are but I know very few that have an online presence for work.
Subbies innit. You work with people over the years who are on different firms or working with other builders and that’s your network.
Zapp Brannigan
Built like a steakhouse, handles like a bistro
With apologies, not intended that way. I'm well aware of the skill involved - all I meant by it was someone who works on jobs sourced by others to build things designed by others.
Idaho
blah blah blah
The quality of joinery in the new builds around Exeter has been shocking (there are a lot of new builds round here). I know people who've worked on them and it's all done on the basis of getting as many jobs "complete" as possible. You get a particular stud frame up and move on. The dry-liners follow up as quick as possible, then finishing trim. Any issues or difficulties are swiftly bodged over/hidden/ignored and the next trade does the best they can. There is no paid time to get things right, just get your jobs ticked off in a mad rush to make as many items complete as possible and make it pay.
A crew of plasterers I had in said that on one site they had worked, one contractor had saved money by stuffing rubbish that they had been paid to remove into the wall cavities. The consensus from the people who have worked on them was that they wouldn't touch one with a bargepole and that they are the slums of the future.
two sheds
Least noticed poster 2007
My dad was painter & decorator in the 60s/70s, worked on a lot of council contracts. He saw the building contractor managers taking councillors out for expensive dinners. Then the contracts specified and charged for primer/undercoat/topcoat but he was told to slap on just the topcoat and move on.
He wrote to local/national papers about it for years with little joy. Eventually he went down the council offices and threw a brick through a window. He was charged with it, pleaded his own case on the basis that it's perfectly allowable to throw a brick through a window to bring attention to a burning building. He got off, remember the day he came back from court
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Nothing changed in the business then.
He wrote to local/national papers about it for years with little joy. Eventually he went down the council offices and threw a brick through a window. He was charged with it, pleaded his own case on the basis that it's perfectly allowable to throw a brick through a window to bring attention to a burning building. He got off, remember the day he came back from court
.Nothing changed in the business then.
Artaxerxes
Look out, he's got a gnu!
My dad was painter & decorator in the 60s/70s, worked on a lot of council contracts. He saw the building contractor managers taking councillors out for expensive dinners. Then the contracts specified and charged for primer/undercoat/topcoat but he was told to slap on just the topcoat and move on.
He wrote to local/national papers about it for years with little joy. Eventually he went down the council offices and threw a brick through a window. He was charged with it, pleaded his own case on the basis that it's perfectly allowable to throw a brick through a window to bring attention to a burning building. He got off, remember the day he came back from court
Nothing changed in the business then.
I swear this is literally a plot point in Ragged Trousered Philanthropists
But with lead paint in the former no doubt!
Sacks! With string.
I’m sat opposite a copy of it at the moment.
Smokeandsteam
Working Class First
Yeah, agreed. But since lockdown I have noted an increase in workers looking for work/advertising their services. I haven’t notice many bespoke artisans doing the same!
No sacks please, we’re socialists.Bet they were quoted for undersacks too
Smokeandsteam
Working Class First
Yes, heard similar horror stories about the flat and house building programme underway here as well. But these are issues unrelated to the skills and craft of the workers themselves. They will do what they are paid/told to by the contractor.
co-op
But....but cLoWnFiSh....
It was a reference to the old Wiccan Rede 'and it harm none, do what thou wilt' - ditching the 'and it harm none', just Crowley, already a well-known general all-round dickhead desperately striving for pre-internet edgelord status. Probably got him laid a couple of times.
Anyway, enough with the hippy bollocks.
Lucy Fur
Well-Known Member
Except Wicca began in 1954, and Crowley died in 1947, so probably the other way round
Idaho
blah blah blah
It's literally uneconomic for trades to do a decent job. And the main contractors don't care if you are good or bad, they just need to hit their targets.
Orang Utan
Psychick Worrier Ov Geyoor
Double Check: Did Lee Mack Interview A Neo-Nazi?
Sky HISTORY sparked outrage when Darren, a contestant on their new woodworking reality show The Chop was pictured with what looked like neo-Nazi tattoos. We looked into the facts behind the case.
Double Check: Did Lee Mack Interview A Neo-Nazi?
Sky HISTORY sparked outrage when Darren, a contestant on their new woodworking reality show The Chop was pictured with what looked like neo-Nazi tattoos. We looked into the facts behind the case.www.logically.ai
What was their conclusion?
danski
"vibey"
Greedy shareholders, incentivised contracts managers, pressured site agents, desperate/naive contractors.
From where I’m sitting anyway.
andysays
Love and solidarity
You won't believe what happened next...
Orang Utan
Psychick Worrier Ov Geyoor
Read it and find out
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