Why I'll NEVER Hire Another Tradesperson
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- I needed to install some channel drains in our front garden which I will be running to a new soakaway to hopefully resolve the issues we have with pooling water during heavy rainfall. And while I'm at it, I'm also going to be laying some fresh concrete on our driveway to replace the failing and crumbling concrete that was laid by a professional a few years ago with the help of some family members.
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Just received the tubs, there was a delay but that was entirely my error. Exceptional quality, been carting hundreds of kilos of concrete up my tiered garden this afternoon and can testify that they are apparently indestructible. Don’t mess about, buy some today. Big thanks to you Keith and the lads at The Building Works. 😊👍🏻
@@MattBerryCustom Sorry to hear that Matt, I'm sending this to my point of contact now and will get back to you
@@MattBerryCustomdropping you an email... 👍
It may not be perfect, but it's miles better than it was before. Considering it's not your trade, you should be proud of what you achieved.
Thank you!
As always, inspirational and helped motivate me to crack on with the DIY tasks I keep thinking maybe I should pay someone. Thank you 🙏
Absolutely agree with that, especially bearing in mind, doing perfect concrete work is a trade that takes years to build up the skills and the feel for the tools, so with that result, I would not stress out about minor imperfections at all.
Earlier today a friend of mine asked me why I'm insulating my garage DIY instead of hiring someone. I told them almost word for word that "I will never hire another tradesperson" as well. The simple fact that I actually care about the quality of the result means that, 9/10 times, I end up doing a better job than a hired tradesperson - despite having little/no experience.
This video really resonates with me. I have had several awful experiences with contractors recently, and I've been using YOUR videos to learn the DIY skills in order to fix them. I'm so grateful that people like you go through the effort to create easy to understand educational videos and put them up on RUclips so that I don't have to be stuck with half-assed jobs by tradepeople who just don't care.
Last year, I didn't even know what concrete was made of. This year I have:
- Installed my own drains.
- Poured a new garden path.
- Cut out, fit and glazed new French Doors.
- Added a new downpipe.
- Put down new garage flooring.
All thanks (very directly) to your videos. Massive, massive, massive thank you.
♥️ thank you so much
You are bob on. Especially with insulation where the quality of fit and attention to detail makes or breaks the performance of all those expensive materials.
Not only will you learn a new skill, you'll pick up some tools, and likely have more money to spend on better materials.
It's important to remember that poor DIY jobs aren't the end of the world. You'll usually get a good story out of it. You shouldn't expect perfection, and you're rarely getting perfection from the "professionals"
" I have had several awful experiences with contractors " - Haven't we all, completely agree with the sentiment here.
Stunning achievement - well done!
As a 'tradesman' who has done groundwork for 25 year's i can say that our trade is ruined by scammers and halfwits.
There is a lot more that goes into things than people realise from the skills to the knowledge to the tools and other things.
Hate it when people get ripped off.
Happy to advise anybody that wants to reach out.
That's a fair comment. The skill to do it right shouldn't be underestimated - something that's 'Pretty on the eye' isn't necessarily going to last. The vast majority of customers don't want or really can't pay what a proper job really needs, so that's where the chancers step in.
@@TAH1712the trades men want money,so they agree a price then without consulting you work out a way thats cheaper and less bother to them..
Could be just the overordering scam…where they van off with the excess materials you’ve paid for..
We had a good £200 switch disappear which they said needed replacing…but they seemed to find value in it..one minute it was there the next it was gone…if they take something off and you want it ,hide it before they do abracadabra with it…
where are you based Beeftitans? Im on a confusing slope and need some professional advice !
@@CharlieReZa based in Manchester.
Happy to try and help you.
@@TAH1712Indeed, most of them want champagne work done for cider money. Miserable bastards! 🙄🙈
It's a driveway, you're not plastering your living room wall. A few trowel marks don't matter. That's a great job Keith. Well done too to your dad n bro. Bet they're more reliable than a fair few tradies. 👏🏻
The smooth border around the driveway definitely makes it look more professional, good call on that one!
Thanks
I feel the same way about tradesmen. I rather do the work myself and learn something in the process.
The learning to adapt to all the problems unveiled as you proceed is the most rewarding aspect to DIY. Hardwork never killed anyone but don't forget your hardhat!
I like it when men and women know how to get things done by themselves in different ways. Well done
You did a great job. Great that you have a brother and your dad !
People like your channel because you are open and honest about your experiences. 😊
Thank you!
I recently spent untold hours online researching contractors for a patio, walkway, landscaping project to finally get to work on some deferred maintenance projects which were put on hold while we were raising the family. We no longer have the physical ability to DIY large projects. Competent, responsible people are out there but it's definitely like finding the proverbial needle in a haystack. I have no idea how we would have found the two excellent, local, family owned companies we hired without the internet on which they could showcase their own, legitimate work. The search is much, much longer than the duration of the job.
Your project turned out great! You are very resourceful and have accumulated a lot of knowledge which is your most valuable asset when you attempt these projects. You are slowly turning your property into a valuable asset.
Thank you
That looks great! I am impressed with your variety of skills and determination to carry them out.
Thank you!
"Professionals" cut too many corners from my experience. Unsure if cutting costs, don't care, or incompetent. I once had a fridge repairman leave wet towel in our freezer, repair people decide to not complete work that was in the contract, people argue what the numbers from insurance mean when they are clearly labeled, etc. That's why i do most of my own work, so I can learn, more care is put into work, and cheaper.
That concrete slope is an embarrassment to the tradesman who fitted it. My dad ( who has worked as a brick layer and laborer in his early life) did a ramp in our back yard when i was just a wee baby (so almost 40 years ago now) so my mum could get the pram with me in it to the back door. We ripped that up oo has to be at least 10 years ago now and that concrete was almost impossible to remove the sledge bounced off it hit after hit after hit for about 20 mins before it finally started to crack.
EDIT. What you have done looks amazing, i am sure it will last decades.
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Yes the professionals use a few less bags of cement than is needed…3 bags times £20 thats £60 extra in his pocket..
And you’ve got no idea hes done it…or 3 free bags for his next job..courtesy of you..thanks Governor..
And you get a big crack in your drive for the frost to work on a few years later…then you employ another cowboy to fix it..for a kings ransom..
Great video Keith! I love watching all the different projects you undertake. Well done!
That was a bucket load of work! Thanks to family and friends. Take care & stay safe Keith and family.
That looks wayyy better than I was expecting from the disclaimer before the reveal! And from the complexity of the job too. Well done, Keith!
To my critical over-judging eyes that driveway looks really good, it has the 60's California bungalow driveway look about it.
Thank you!
Good work. Feels good to DIY, and you even revitalized the gravel (oh, the tedium!). Keep us posted on the ‘big rain’ test.
That turned out pretty good considering the circumstances Keith, it's quite a tricky space and slope(s) to manage, what a great family turning up in your "hour" of need, of course we know you've helped them out too !
Despite all the hard work fitting the soak away, digging up the old surface and mixing and laying all the concrete, of course you then still take on a load of extra work riddling and washing the gravel - I applaud you Keith !
Proper job, mate. I'd be very proud of that.
Something extra satisfying about fixing drainage.
yep - water torture can be very cruel!
Don't let perfection be the enemy of good. A good job, well thought out and well executed. You'll probably be the only one that ever notices a trowel line here or there!
Looks amazing!! So neat and tidy, can’t believe how easy the old cement came up so easily, so that speaks volumes! Great video as always 😀👏
Finding good tradespeople is hard, but there are definately those out there that are both great, and that care. That said, I've now done 3 bathrooms, 1 kitchen, decking, fencing and a shed after watching videos on RUclips from makers like yourself. Keep up the good work 👍
Great vid - thanks. I have also turned to doing nearly all my own jobs instead of getting in tradesmen. With so many excellent RUclips videos and the ready availability of tools and materials, all you need is the time and willingness to learn and give it a go. Over the years I’ve saved tens of thousands of pounds, have confidence the job has been done properly, have a great collection of tools and enjoyed a lots of good workouts away from my desk job.
Everything ended up being amazing! Very good job, Sir!
Looks great! Hope it is successful with the drainage.
Great job. Fair play to you for undertaking it yourself and well done to your brother and Dad for jumping on board to lend a hand. I've learned so much from this video as I usually do in your videos. Great also to see Mickey making good use of the catio. It's looking great too. We haven't even started ours yet. Trying to save up for the materials but every time we get close something happens like the washing machine or the fridge packing in.
Always DIY has an extra feeling that become more value than hire someone to do it. Really like your job. Keep doing like that.
Good on you for having a go. Looks like a pretty decent job
Thanks for this. Clear and detailed so less daunting. I have a big (for me at least) project ahead of me removing 2 big sheds, laying a level concrete base on top of the current sloping one then building a garage/garden-room.
I love your videos! I’m fortunate enough to buy my dream home as my first property but my biggest regret was not buying a house with loads of potential and doing it myself, the amount of trades people I’ve had that has done a shoddy job or not finishing it is unreal, but like you said. When you find the right tradesman you need to keep hold of them.
But from now on I think I’ll do it myself because like you said, sometimes the care that you put into a project is more and it’s more satisfying because you know you’ve done it!
Looks absolutely immaculate to me Keith awesome job done. Looked like hard graft as well, family to the rescue!!
Brilliant, excellent job Keith. Well done.
Job looks great to me - well done to you and the team!
Great timing on the trug bucket link - just broke the handles off one last week! Neighbours are growing veggies in it now.
Refreshing to see content like this, thank you for sharing
Well done under the circumstances. Being an old ex tradie (carpenter/builder) I have done many jobs like that single handed due to financial limitations. The difference when I have engaged a good reliable concert e.g. was so nice. Now I am medically retired, my wife will nor let me take on the big jobs around home, just the more or less manageable ones. It is still hard to pay someone else for what I used to be able to do. Good on your brother and Dad for being able to help. 2 of my sons have helped me a lot but they have their own families and lives deal with. I love your RUclips channel, keep it up.
Beautiful. Love the channel drains
Really love this kind of "around the house" work, you come with some good and doable ideas for the average diy-er. Cheers! 👌
I really feel your pain. I've had my own catalogue of trade person related issues whereby I'm left with very substandard or incomplete work that has cost me more in both time and money. I've vowed to DIY everything possible going forward. You and the Aidenproject have my deepest sympathy and empathy.
'Done is better than perfect'
That's how I see it, I'm a perfectionist and would probably die before I complete some projects so sometimes I need to bite my tongue, push on and get it finished! Great job you did there 👌🏻
Amazing job well done!
Great job! I really share your frustration with tradesman - though in my case it's mainly in just getting then to call me back when I'm just trying to hire them. So frustrating how hard it is to find someone who will take my money. And of course, some are less reliable and skilled than others. And your point about how so many tradesman simply will never care about the quality of the work like you will is so true and has a very real impact on what the end result is. Like you, I end up doing almost everything DIY.
The driveway looks like it came out great. The only thing I might have done different is maybe to add some rebar, especially to the long narrow pour along the drain. That might crack on you if a heavy vehicle goes over it - definitely let it cure for months before you put any extreme load on it.
It looks fantastic! Well done!
Thank you! Cheers!
Lovely video, and good on you to plough through to the end.
Thank you! 😊
Hi Brownie that’s helped me a lot buddy, thanks for sharing! 👍
Love your work, keep up the awesome content
Awesome work, Keith! You guys did a heck of a job there! 😃
And it looks pretty good!
Stay safe there with your family! 🖖😊
Sorry to hear you had a bad experience with tradesmen. Your work looks fabulous and your family have really helped out. Great to see and awesome video
Thank you so much!
Looks really good, totally agree with your remarks on trades and will always do it myself if its safe to do so. Even if it takes twice as long, you can be sure its done right and save a lot of money to put towards your next job. Well done to dad and bro🎉
Nothing is perfect and it doesn't have to be. Good enough is fine.
You took on a big challenge with this one and showed tenacity and resilience to see it through. It's your driveway, you made it and if it needs maintaining in future, you will be able to do it. Great job! 👍
Thanks 👍
Looks awesome! Great job
Looks great mate , im the same i got a driveway done 15k and it was a bit of a disaster, ended up having to fix loads of it and a retaining wall myself , im hetting windows and doors in at the end of the month , fingers crossed everything runs smoothly with that .
Lovely work!
Wow! That looks great!
I am loving the consistency with which you have been posting new videos recently. I just wish they were longer!
Job well Done! Keep the videos coming. I have noticed here in the States, in general, the tradesmen don't care as much as the homeowner. They make the project look good to get paid, but long term, it's shotty work. That's why I have tackled all of my own projects.
Nice work. Well done
Lovely job Kieth 👌
Wow that looks fantastic.Awesome job. I agree it is so hard to find good professionals that care about quality work. I am retired so when I do have to hire someone I am there watching over their shoulders and asking questions.
Thanks 👍
Great Job Keith. I came to a similar conclusion a while ago, about trades people. Unless there's a law stopping me like gas fitting, I'll have a go myself.
And surely it should have been a TRUG of war😂😂
Perfect for a DIY, well done mate!
Good job and plenty of hard work. One easy detail when concreting is to use a 10-20mm triangular fillet nailed to the top of the shutter as a guide to give the finished level and to produce a chamfer to stop the edge breaking up. Thin layers of concrete can debone and break up so use a bonding agent between layers and some rebar studs (with 3cm of cover). The screws you used can also be done by drilling a hole and bashing in the same diameter rebar, this gives a longer anchor length (30 to 40 times the bar diameter works)
It is light years better than it was before! You did the best you could and it turned out just fine!
Greetings from Croatia 😊
Great content, great presentation!
That looks really good!
Don’t worry about it mate it will all wear in nicely in a year or two done an excellent job there and it’s good to get hands on the tools your teaching yourself and others so keep going thanks for the video
I'm sad to say I too have had terrible experiences with 'builders' and other tradesman, and feel just the same as you. RUclips channels such as yourself and Robin have been a huge help in learning how to when my own knowledge has reached its limits. Keep up the good work.
Looks nice. Well done.
Great job pal and as a tradesman myself I know the pain a lot of them can be and like yourself I try do as much as I can myself
Turned out great and no doubt looks better than if the tradesperson had ended up doing it. My favourite thing about DIY is that you always know what lies beneath the surface, both literally and metaphorically. If I cut corners I know where and why. If a tradesperson cuts corners (99% will), you usually find out the hard way when it's too late.
Very true
It looks absolutely great
It's always a labour of love when you DIY and you're bang on that tradesman are likely to not care and just want to get in get paid and get out.
I've learned so much over the last few years and now take on jobs I wouldn't have dreamt of at one stage, and it's down to watching channels like this giving me the confidence to have a go. It might take me 4x as long to complete but I get there eventually and the results are often not bad at all tbh!
I have no use for learning about concrete, but I still clicked as soon as I saw it pop up. Excellent video as always Keith. Even though this is more of a diy than your woodworking videos you still did an excellent job
Fantastic project Keith. I echo your sentiments - have had some terrible work done by 'professionals' in the past, so I end up doing everything myself too!
Thank you!
Always admire your go do it attitude in front of hard work
Great work.
👍👍👍. Thank you for the link for the trugs
No problem 👍
Great job! The most self-critical people are skilled/experienced DIYers. You'll know this already, but no one else will see/notice all those tiny imperfections your eyes are immediately drawn to 🙂
Totally agree with the sentiment that no one else is going to care as much about the standard as you are. It's such a shot in the dark when you employ an 'unproven' tradesperson, and you just have to keep your fingers crossed that they're one of the good ones!!
Great work as usual. You have a great understanding of processes required for just about any project, what you don't already know you learn. So you've no need to pay to be disappointed by tradespeople. I'm sure you get a better feeling of success completing a job than writing off more cash to a poor trades let down!
End result looked great to me. As always you have done a thorough job to the best of your ability. Sure it’ll be solid for years to come.
Thanks 👍
You’ve done. Great job better than the so called professional. It’s good you got help from your family it’s good to see especially your Dad well done to him . I had a tradesman lay my patio within 6 months the pointing fell apart and the patio came loose so I will have to lift and relay myself with the cost of all Sotheby’s cement etc to pay out again stressed out
Jeepers Keith, it looks a million percent better, and it has to be more durable than the shoddy job before! It is so frustrating when you are trying to do up or keep up your home, and you are let down. We are lucky, in that a neighbour and friend is a brilliant and conscientious plumber, so he did a really neat and well thought-out job of installing a whole new heating system for us. A previous plumber had talked about needing to rip out walls and install a huge unit in our main hallway - it wasn't necessary, just the least considered way of doing it. We found a great electrician as well, through word of mouth - again, we were told floors would need to be ripped up, trenches dug, etc - nope, the work could be done safely and neatly without ruining our house. Every other experience though....put it this way, our DIY skills are forever expanding!
Keith, amazing job. You should be proud. It’s such a shame that there’s trades people out there that bad who give customers that sort of experience but also the good ones a bad name. Well done.
I’m impressed, well done.
That looks sound mate. Well done
Well done Keith I do enjoy your videos
Been subscribed for a while but haven’t been watching much diy stuff lately. Forgot how much I love this Chanel. Concrete looks great. And you are 100% correct most tradesman stopped giving a 💩 a long time ago it seems.
You've done an amazing job there. Well done.
Thank you! Cheers!
I thought it looked good. Massive improvement on what was there before. Well done!
Good stuff! Loved it.
Looks good mate
As long as you’re happy with it, no one’s opinion matters and for DIY, and for the savings you made great job love your videos
A big thumbs up for doing it yourself. I'm in the middle of a fence repair myself.
Looks like a good job to me! Totally agree with trades people had a plasterer in recently and didn't expect to have to do so much patching after. Only use people you have worked with before and know the quality!
Great job Keith, don't be so hard on yourself.👍
Really interesting video! Feel I could have a go myself now.
My motto as well. Fed up with paying for things that need to be re-done any way. Well done, it looks amazing.
Looks great! Yeah, it sux when the "professionals" do a lousy job for no other reason than they were cutting corners. Job well done . . .
Concrete is such hard work, hats off. And that’s another excellent video as well. There’s a funny balance of good enough, honest, real, choice of content, likeable, trustworthy that prompts me to comment and you do it every time. Since the compressor shed carbuncle. May the force be with you.
Thanks so much! 👍
great job Keith