Things That Make You Go Hmmmm.

Granny Smith · **Posted:** Sun Jun 20, 2010 2:33 pm

Some of you may recall me writing about how parts of my garden flooded to about 10cms of water last winter. I put it down to a higher than usual rainfall, but have since discovered the culprit.

A tradie must have left the cap of a silicone gun refill on our roof which washed into the tank and became lodged in the overflow pipe, so instead of draining through the pipe into an irrigation ditch, the water flowed out between the wall and the lid of the tank (which is in the corner of my garden) and straight onto my vegetable patch and beyond! :anger:

Only discovered it when we decided to put in an extra overflow pipe because we thought the original one was not coping.

Jaymie · **Posted:** Sun Jun 20, 2010 2:34 pm

hmmmmm

veggie boy · **Posted:** Sun Jun 20, 2010 2:38 pm

hmmmm hmmmmm hmmmmmm

earthbound · **Posted:** Sun Jun 20, 2010 4:09 pm

HHHhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm.....

Don't get him back again.

Granny Smith · **Posted:** Sun Jun 20, 2010 7:34 pm

<Don't get him back again.>

I wouldn't - if only I knew who it was!

chillidude · **Posted:** Sun Jun 20, 2010 10:12 pm

I think I'd be saying more than Hmmmmmm - but if I say it here, Jaymie turn it into buterflies !

dufflight · **Posted:** Sun Jun 20, 2010 10:23 pm

There are some good tradies around. None of them live in my town tho. :swear:

chillidude · **Posted:** Sun Jun 20, 2010 11:25 pm

Yep, over the 18 months of our reno (so far) we found one good one - the cabinetmaker. The rest of 'em couldn't organise a beer in a brewery, topped off with zero pride in their work.

Big_Dave · **Posted:** Mon Jun 21, 2010 11:20 am

Hmmmmmmm indeed

chillidude · **Posted:** Mon Jun 21, 2010 11:51 am

Sorry if you're a tradie Dave - but that's been the experience here across much of WA.

The main problem is there is no checking of the work done before they nick off;

- spa has been installed, and then repaired once we told 'em it didn't work, and now it only works on one side :bat:

- fridges and freezers left with no power because they didn't check the new power points they installed nearby - had to run a extension cord through the house at 2:00am to stop losing $400 worth of food

- light switches (yes more than one) that have tripped out the sub board since the day they were installed - just turning these on once would have revealed the problem

- leaking roof because the idiots wanted to finish early on a Friday (before a predicted very wet weekend) and simply placed a piece of wood over the part they hadn't finished. This promptly blew off with the first front to come in leaving a large hole.

- there's more but it gets boring pretty quick.

All of the above compounded by a builder that was never on site. Statistically you were more likley to spot Elvis on our site than him.

earthbound · **Posted:** Sat Jun 26, 2010 1:01 pm

Thats reminding me of the show Grand Designs on the ABC, bloody good show that....

Faye · **Posted:** Sun Aug 01, 2010 7:39 pm

Just been playing in the garden and getting rid of a few weeds. I decided to take a close look at the work the lawnmower guy did when trying to tame other parts of my garden. Well the bark on my fruit trees and bottle brush look to be ring barked, geez I'v struggled with them for well over 5 years and someone does that huh! I remember where a correa was growing and it has been whipper snipped, is it my fault for letting things get overgrown or is he just another one on the long list of lawnmower guys I will have to give the sack. They just don't seem to have the respect my garden deserves and I reckon he was fairly well warned. Maybe it is just young people, I seem to be having trouble with them all around.

Big_Dave · **Posted:** Sun Aug 01, 2010 10:00 pm

Sorry to hear it Faye, I must say though, no matter how hard I try to not Ring Bark my tree's, the fact that my Ride on a two stubbie holders does not help.

This is no excuse for hired help though!

pistolknight · **Posted:** Mon Aug 02, 2010 12:56 pm

what's wrong with the JD faye, all i hear about from perth is "just sacked the lawnmower man" or "does anyone know a good lawnmower man, ours is useless"

Faye · **Posted:** Mon Aug 02, 2010 10:25 pm

Answer is they're all bloody useless Nocky, I've sacked a few previously. No one does a better job than me, cause they just don't care, makes me throw my arms in the air!
I just don't have a reel mower and edger.

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