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I have a shed that needs a roof and it seems the person who agreed to do the job has gone AWOL so I'm looking for someone else to do it. Can any of STW recommend anyone from around NW Hampshire?
Shed is approximately 3700mm x 1500mm and I'm looking to have a shallow 4" pitch and to be finished with felt.
Help me STW, you're my only hope.
I can't help, but I am intrigued as to why you have a shed without a roof - didn't it come with a roof ? 🙂
How long has your chippie gone AWOL btw ? Perhaps you shouldn't give up hope - Jesus disappeared off the face of the earth for three days, and yet he still reappeared. Carpenters do that sometimes - you've just gotta keep the faith.
But Jesus also disappeared to the desert for 40 days - if he had been my chippy I would have been most upset.
if he had been my chippy I would have been most upset
Oh that's nice........a hard-working builder can't take a well-earned holiday ? 😐
That's a pretty easy and cheap DIY job
Hard working builders can, it is chippies I have a problem with.
I am intrigued as to why you have a shed without a roof
Because it's a brick built shed.
He was supposed to come a few weeks ago to take the final measurements and do it this week. I am now getting pressure from SO to get the bikes out of the house.
I can't contact him as he only has my phone number at the moment and he's finished the job he was working on down the road. I've also called at the house he was working on but there's been no reply. In hindsight it was probably foolish not to get his number when I gave him mine.
it's a brick built shed.
You gonna need a door hung and ironmongery as well ?
Maybe your best bet, if you've got a building site near you, is to pop down during 10 o'clock break time and ask if any chippy wants to hang a door and do a shed roof for cash. Building trades aren't earning good money on pricework these days - someone might be pleased for a bit of extra cash over the weekend. The good thing about tradesmen off a site is that even though you don't know them they should be of a reasonable standard - site supervision soon weeds out any that are crap. A phone number from a newsagent's shop window tells you nothing about the person. Nor does seeing one working on a private house. Don't pay any deposit btw, until at least the materials have been been delivered to you. Better still get them to tell you what is needed and get it yourself - they would probably prefer that anyway. I hate privates and nearly always refuse to do them, unless it's for family, one of the main reasons but not the only one, is that I can't be arsed to waste time and effort sorting out materials.
Everything Ernie said in the above + 1. There is usually a reason why somebody is having to advertise in a window. If you find the idea of actually walking into a site hut a bit daunting ( They often look like a cross between the blue oyster club from police academy and the black hole of Calcutta) just catch one of the smokers outside, they should be able to point you in the right direction. I still do a bit of plastering during holidays and we get asked to do jobs quite a lot,so doing as Ernie suggested is not at all uncommon.