Client vs Builder latest score? 1:0

[Nigel Watts]

I quite like my current builder. He is stripping years of accumulated oil based and other non breathable paint from my 1840 stucco facade and repairing it with lime. But when he announced to me this afternoon that he had reached the final, irremovable lime layer I knew something was not right. He told me that his paint stripping chemical and high temperature stream jet wouldn't shift it, so it must be lime. A year ago I had done some exploratory stripping myself and had managed to get down to a lower level than this.

I brought out my heat gun. "If this melts it, it's paint not lime", said I. He couldn't disagree. He and his team gathered round. The gun was switched on. It melted. "Try this bit here, it's different" he suggested. That melted too. I am pleased to say he conceded defeat gracefully and said he would try a different chemical on that final layer..

They say a little knowledge is a dangerous thing. If so, no knowledge must be fatal.

 

[middi]

Little or no knowledge is meaningkess. As long as people that share one or the other are on the same wavelength it makes for great understanding,

As in the case of the two poor chaps in the mental institution.
Fed up with a high rise block recently built in front of their window, spoiling their vacant thoughts and view, one of them had a moment of inspiration and suggested to the other chap they should go outside and push the building block further down the road and out of the way. The other chap thought it was a brilliant idea but suggested, as the building would be heavy, they would sweat too much. After further deliberation as to how they should avoid sweating too much, another brilliantly inspired idea was put forward, and seconded. They would have to take they coats off.

Off they go to push the b/block. They removed their coats, put them on the floor close by and as soon as they started to heave against the building, unbeknown to them, an opportunist thief on a bycycle makes off with their coats.

10 minutes later, and totally saturated in sweat, one of them turned around and shouted " STOP !!!, STOP !!!, god knows how far we have pushed this building, our coats are out of sight"

It all makes sense in the right environment :wink:

Middi

 

[Penners]

Yet again we benefit from Middi's sage observations on the zen aspects of building renovation.