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Can anyone recommend a good carpenter/handyman who would do jobs around the house conscientiously and well with pride at a decent price. Or am I niaive to think such people exist.

Forum: Homes & Garden

Topic: Handyman

Replies: 3

by DIMA

Sun Feb 28, 2016 10:29 am

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We recently used an apparently Quality builder to do our basement and the finished product was appalling. It was v expensive and the work botched in many respects. If you are thinking of having a basement done please let us know and we will let you know who to avoid and why. If you have had a bad ex...

Forum: General Chat

Topic: Basement

Replies: 0

by DIMA

Wed Dec 02, 2015 9:02 pm

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Re: Basements

It looks like we are not the only ones to have had a bad service from Qualitas. Their finishing in particular seems to be an issue. If you would like to have more details on this do let us know.

Keep the comments coming through on this.

Forum: Chat Here

Topic: Basements

Replies: 8

by DIMA

Fri Nov 27, 2015 1:50 pm

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Re: Yet another builder request

We used Qualitas in the past and would not recommend them. We found them expensive and the work product poor in our opinion

Forum: Homes & Garden

Topic: Yet another builder request

Replies: 15

by DIMA

Fri Nov 27, 2015 1:03 pm

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Re: Basements

We used Qualitas. They were very expensive and, in our view, did a poor job. We would never recommend them to anyone (save perhaps our worst enemy!)

Forum: Chat Here

Topic: Basements

Replies: 8

by DIMA

Fri Nov 27, 2015 12:59 pm

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Re: Threatening Builder

Thanks for this. Just to clarify the nanny and our boy were upstairs at the time and only came out of the bedroom to see what the commotion was when the builder started shouting. We also did not expect the meeting to be confrontational as the outstanding points were all reasonable issues requiring f...

Forum: Homes & Garden

Topic: Threatening Builder

Replies: 5

by DIMA

Thu Jul 23, 2015 10:20 am

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Threatening Builder

We have been having building works done at our house for the past year. The building company sells itself by reference to the quality of its work. Unfortunately we have not be impressed by the level of finishing so my partner had a meeting recently with the director of the company to review the outs...

Forum: Homes & Garden

Topic: Threatening Builder

Replies: 5

by DIMA

Thu Jul 23, 2015 9:56 am