Getting money back from cowboy builders

Butti

Ey up Maty,

I am back from the Beer Festival :beer: and seeing Mike and the hoose. He looked well, made me lunch and the house looked pretty damn good too.

Forgot to sign on that week :mad: I was so excited about everything so they've stopped my claim and I have to start a new one (They ask you the same questions over again!) I'm also tiling like crazy ready for the letting agent coming on Wednesday - half way through my mosaic tiles behind the sink, went back for more and the supplier has gone bust so I'm making some adjustments ( a few in a few out!)

Had a brilliant week Mike, thanks for your bit in it.

Right off to find my adhesive!

B

mrstreacle

DIY SOS starts Thursday next week so only a little while to wait now.

Love Lesley
:j:j:j

Happytogetdebtfree

Thanks mrs treacle xx

gocompare

Just been reading through the old thread - the most amazing and heart-warming thing I've read for a long time. There are some very special people on this board! Does anyone know when they will be showing the episode?

savingmummy

Is there a date as yet for mikes house on diy?
I am getting impatient now LOL!

Hope everyone in Mikes mob are well and of course Mike and family x

MatyMoo

savingmummy wrote: »

Is there a date as yet for mikes house on diy?
I am getting impatient now LOL!

Hope everyone in Mikes mob are well and of course Mike and family x

I think the new series starts this coming week and I seem to remember them saying this would be the series finale - but what do I know :rotfl:

This particular member of Mike's mob is fine thanks Hope all others are too

psychopathbabble

lisawaters wrote: »

Where's the fun in that? Abuse and retribution? There's websites for fans of that sort of thing.

I can recommend one or two.

x

Indeed. Whatever floats your boat Mike


Hope everyone is ok... has anyone heard from SB recently? I know she said she wasn't able to get on as much for a while but still a bit concerned.

Hope you and the boys are enjoying the summer x

MatyMoo

psychopathbabble wrote: »

... has anyone heard from SB recently? I know she said she wasn't able to get on as much for a while but still a bit concerned.

I haven't heard anything for a while Hope she is OK. We MISS YOU if you are lurking

niccatw

Hello strangers! I'm back at work now so it eats up all my time and I hardly ever get the time to catch up on MSE But this week I'm doggy-sitting for my folks so in between hosing down the pup for rolling in something yucky, chasing after the pup when she takes off, breaking up fights between pup and big brother, when they've tired themselves out and are snoozing, I might get more of a chance to pop in and find out what you've all been up to!

I'm beginning to think I might do a runner and make sure I'm not in the country when the programme airs! Not sure I want to see myself on telly! Mike, fancy a trip to Wales? Camping in the wilderness away from from civilisation, TV, internet, phone connection.... (Obviously abroad and sunny would be better but I'm aware we're both on budgets!!!)

lisawaters

Hi all!

I had no idea messages were still flying around on here. I thought I got an email when that happened! So have been looking through everything and it's lovely to see the old crowd still in there.

I'm OK, although it's true that one doesn't 'recover' overnight from years of carp. I hadn't realised this but someone kindly PMd me and it all suddenly made sense. The weeks have flown by and it's been good to see people, most recently the lovely lady who donated the painting in the big plastic thing and the old garage space. I've been inviting friends who saw the place at its worst and then will get onto people who hadn't seen it at all and wondered why I didn't talk to them any more - because I was so ashamed of having got into such a carp situation. The boys have been here on odd weekends but their lives are elsewhere and they're doing stuff like getting full-time jobs and part-time jobs, and starting college They're fine and we've had some brill weekends just like the ones we were looking forward to three years ago. How one decision can change your whole life forever!

I don't really yet accept what has happened - it's all too big for my weedy little brain. I've had some bad days with the old depression and I have felt ungrateful and undeserving of what I've had. I've watched other shows and felt nothing, then it sinks in and I feel very emotional. I find it very difficult watching makeover programmes and definitely anything about people being ripped off.

I'm happy to see that the show may be aired soon. It seems most unlikely! I can't imagine what it will be like seeing it all. I have watched the show since it started and never seen an episode that wasn't funny and sad and happy and emotional and to be up there going through it all and seeing the team messing about in my own house will be too weird for words!

I'm sorry I haven't been able to appear on here much of late. It's all felt too much and there's only so many things I can say. I hope a bunch of us have become good friends and will keep in contact, although maybe not on here. I feel very close to the people who helped me through the past months. PM me for my e-mail address if you haven't got it and want to keep in touch.

I'm eating better (freezer and oven=good) washing things that are barely dirty, and getting used to passers-by making comments about the house and pressing their noses against my kitchen window to have a pipe at the inside. I'm going to be very happy here. It's all so well done and everything works and that's too much to accept in one go. I probably won't understand how huge all this has been until after the show goes out. I must have got used to steeling myself against each new bit of trouble. It's difficult to accept things have been good for so long.

x