Builders - What's the problem - I need a job doing and no one is interested.

A couple of years ago I quoted for a concrete base,person turned me down because I like to thicken the edges of a base deeper 200mm - 300mm, about six months, same person came back to me & asked if I could relay a concrete base that had been laid, as it had cracked up, I politely refused.

 

Is it worth changing your enquiry spec to your builders and handymen then?

Instead of asking for a shed base, try heavy duty workshop base, or similar? So they know its a bit more than a basic base?

 

Dead lifting 140 kilo, your concrete base needs to be thicker than 100mm.

 

Hello, everyone seems to be in South Yorks! I didn't read all the posts so apologies if I have missed something. Is the site accessible for a 'ready mix' delivery ? If so, I would personally shutter up the area, source some hardcore, order the concrete and screed it off using the shuttering as your guide. Make sure all is level of course, and lay the bricks yourself! I'm only DIY but acquired the skills over years - a 19th century barn conversion and a listed building, plumbing, stone coursing, built three bespoke kitchens (anything else??) etc. Learn the skills yourself and have a go and save loads of cash - knowing YOU did it. Seems a bit beefy simply for a shed base but if that's what you want then go ahead. (plenty of concrete in Donny and Spinks have a brick library!!!)

 

There are ready mix concrete lorries around UK,with on board concrete pump & 60 mtr hose, (mixamate is one firm) or with conveyor which reaches 50'.

 

Perhaps the gentleman is too intimidating to the builders, they turn up to view the job and see him in a leopard skin leotard pumping iron growling for a quotation and run for the hills

 

Could try asking at shed or log cabin places as they may know people who do exactly this for them

 

Get on gumtree, run an add.

 

Dig and mix by hand. You won't need the 140 kilo weights then. You should be able to do it all in a day - nice and hot at the moment so a free tan also.

 

Emailing don't work, in my opinion! Get on the phone, ring around.

 

He's the only one that's bothered to turn up, listen to what you want, provide you with a quote, and doesn't live far away, so should get in and out in a couple of days. With all respects, whether his quote is high or low, there doesn't seem to be many others knocking down the door to quote. Unless he's a dribbling incoherent buffoon, I'd probably go with him.

 

Or a traveller

 

What say, a pikey? In this politically correct world we live in they are termed Caravan Utilising Nomadic TravellerS, sometimes abbreviated when your van or tools have gone....

 

Yeah I admit to being PC

 

see my earlier post - not too much hard work

 

He got a bad back and a cold

 

Wait until the summers over and everyone starts going quite, save yourself some money.
Probably only a couple of weeks to wait

 

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We too in staffs having real problems, doesn't help you but very frustrating just want to get jobs done we have been landed with