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I wish there was a website where you could exchange services for another service...
Kinda destroyed my bathroom taking flaky paint off and a chuck of plaster board followed.... So now in need of someone to basically turn my bathroom into an amazing bathroom...
Can bake cakes, let you use my bathroom on social media etc   |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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You'll have plenty of offers for sex in return instead of cakes.
I mentioned my washing machine was playing up once and my inbox exploded with individuals who'd take a look at it in return for sexual favours.
Had they been the kind of person I would have met anyway then I might have accepted, alas, they weren't
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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I have heard of places that do that, but not for a long time. People used to bank points for helping people. Babysitting equated to so many points, fixing a fence etc. You banked the points, and traded for something you needed. |
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Love how it's mostly ladies who have responded!
I'd love a website where you build up points and trade in for other services. I remember when I was a kid, my dads mates would come over and give dad a hand with the DIY task he was dong and he'd go to there and lend a hand, I am sure everyone is in it for the money these days and no one wants to help anyone.
Hmm as for services that is a very open ended question. Think it would depend on the person |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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"Fuck that, plastering means sanding, nothing is worth the exchange!
Sanding....why would you have to sand after plastering?"
This bloke knows, dab some plaster board on, skim over the top, job done. |
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over a year ago
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"Fuck that, plastering means sanding, nothing is worth the exchange!
Sanding....why would you have to sand after plastering?"
To make it all nice and smooth? |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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I think being able to ‘DIY’ is becoming a lost art.
I admit, I have a very limited tool box and very limited experience on how to actually do DIY.
Plastering and doing a bathroom?! Ok stick to ikea, sorry! |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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"Fuck that, plastering means sanding, nothing is worth the exchange!
Sanding....why would you have to sand after plastering?
To make it all nice and smooth?"
That’s why you have plasterboard. |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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"I wish there was a website where you could exchange services for another service...
Kinda destroyed my bathroom taking flaky paint off and a chuck of plaster board followed.... So now in need of someone to basically turn my bathroom into an amazing bathroom...
Can bake cakes, let you use my bathroom on social media etc "
Have you tried self help or a college course? It could be a handy skill to learn. |
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By (user no longer on site)
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"Fuck that, plastering means sanding, nothing is worth the exchange!
Sanding....why would you have to sand after plastering?
To make it all nice and smooth?
That’s why you have plasterboard. "
Oh yeah right, you leave all the drywall screws and joints exposed...silly me... |
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"I wish there was a website where you could exchange services for another service...
Kinda destroyed my bathroom taking flaky paint off and a chuck of plaster board followed.... So now in need of someone to basically turn my bathroom into an amazing bathroom...
Can bake cakes, let you use my bathroom on social media etc
Have you tried self help or a college course? It could be a handy skill to learn."
TBH my bathroom is so shot, walls uneven, holes also know as caves and cracks in the walls, if I did it I'd be laying in the bath looking at the uneven tiling and being annoyed to hell with it all  |
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"Fuck that, plastering means sanding, nothing is worth the exchange!
Sanding....why would you have to sand after plastering?
To make it all nice and smooth?"
Should get a smooth finish with the plaster, no need for sanding unless you don't have much experience at plastering. It is a skill plastering  |
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By (user no longer on site)
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"Fuck that, plastering means sanding, nothing is worth the exchange!
Sanding....why would you have to sand after plastering?
To make it all nice and smooth?
Should get a smooth finish with the plaster, no need for sanding unless you don't have much experience at plastering. It is a skill plastering "
Try and getting it done first time when the house is older than your great great grandma and the ceiling is uneven by couple of centimeters. |
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There was a small town near us that did something like the op speaks of some years ago . Even a few shops and cafes enrolled .
Problem was there was a massive overload of what they called Lets points for people offering popular services ( like the cafes and shops ) , which simply couldn’t get used .
So it would only work if there was a parity amongst users and you didn’t end up accumulating stacks of owed jobs that you couldn’t use up .
Why not put something up on Facebook ?
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"There was a small town near us that did something like the op speaks of some years ago . Even a few shops and cafes enrolled .
Problem was there was a massive overload of what they called Lets points for people offering popular services ( like the cafes and shops ) , which simply couldn’t get used .
So it would only work if there was a parity amongst users and you didn’t end up accumulating stacks of owed jobs that you couldn’t use up .
Why not put something up on Facebook ?
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I have tried facebook, all my builder type friends or friends hubby's want to charge a small fortune.
Ok I don't expect anything for free, happy to muck in help in what ways I can and be tea lady get all the materials reuired. Alas they want money |
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"Fuck that, plastering means sanding, nothing is worth the exchange!
Sanding....why would you have to sand after plastering?
To make it all nice and smooth?
Should get a smooth finish with the plaster, no need for sanding unless you don't have much experience at plastering. It is a skill plastering
Try and getting it done first time when the house is older than your great great grandma and the ceiling is uneven by couple of centimeters."
Yea I know what your saying mate, went to knock tiles off in my bathroom and the full wall of tiles and all the plaster came down on top of me, didn't use plaster board years ago it was all Browning, ended up having to gut the entire bathroom and start it all from scratch again. Old houses are a pain to do work in. |
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"Fuck that, plastering means sanding, nothing is worth the exchange!
Sanding....why would you have to sand after plastering?
To make it all nice and smooth?
Should get a smooth finish with the plaster, no need for sanding unless you don't have much experience at plastering. It is a skill plastering
Try and getting it done first time when the house is older than your great great grandma and the ceiling is uneven by couple of centimeters.
Yea I know what your saying mate, went to knock tiles off in my bathroom and the full wall of tiles and all the plaster came down on top of me, didn't use plaster board years ago it was all Browning, ended up having to gut the entire bathroom and start it all from scratch again. Old houses are a pain to do work in."
That happened to my dad in their Kitchen, the whole wall of tiles fell off and he had to do more work than initially planned.
He has passed over so unless he comes back as an amazing ghost I cannot ask him |
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"Fuck that, plastering means sanding, nothing is worth the exchange!
Sanding....why would you have to sand after plastering?
To make it all nice and smooth?
Should get a smooth finish with the plaster, no need for sanding unless you don't have much experience at plastering. It is a skill plastering
Try and getting it done first time when the house is older than your great great grandma and the ceiling is uneven by couple of centimeters.
Yea I know what your saying mate, went to knock tiles off in my bathroom and the full wall of tiles and all the plaster came down on top of me, didn't use plaster board years ago it was all Browning, ended up having to gut the entire bathroom and start it all from scratch again. Old houses are a pain to do work in.
That happened to my dad in their Kitchen, the whole wall of tiles fell off and he had to do more work than initially planned.
He has passed over so unless he comes back as an amazing ghost I cannot ask him "
Ots a nightmare when that happens especially with the amount of dust it causes too!!
Sorry about your dad passing and I'm sure you will find someone willing to sort you out at mates rates too |
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By (user no longer on site)
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"Fuck that, plastering means sanding, nothing is worth the exchange!
Sanding....why would you have to sand after plastering?
To make it all nice and smooth?
Should get a smooth finish with the plaster, no need for sanding unless you don't have much experience at plastering. It is a skill plastering
Try and getting it done first time when the house is older than your great great grandma and the ceiling is uneven by couple of centimeters.
Yea I know what your saying mate, went to knock tiles off in my bathroom and the full wall of tiles and all the plaster came down on top of me, didn't use plaster board years ago it was all Browning, ended up having to gut the entire bathroom and start it all from scratch again. Old houses are a pain to do work in."
Especially in the summer when it's 30 degree outside and you're working from the ladder where it's even hotter.
Fuck sanding is all I'm saying |
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"I wish there was a website where you could exchange services for another service...
Kinda destroyed my bathroom taking flaky paint off and a chuck of plaster board followed.... So now in need of someone to basically turn my bathroom into an amazing bathroom...
Can bake cakes, let you use my bathroom on social media etc "
We have a tread in wales called "Trades", start one up localy works for us lol. |
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"I'm a tiler op but there's no amount of cake (or sex) in the world that I'd exchange my work for, they don't pay the bills last I checked "
Do you have many customers that request a glass backsplash?
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"Could do with a plumber to look at a leaking bathroom tap ln Wakefield lol"
That's a pretty easy fix....just probably needs a new washer inside the tap, just as long as you know where your stop cock is  |
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"I'm a tiler op but there's no amount of cake (or sex) in the world that I'd exchange my work for, they don't pay the bills last I checked Do you have many customers that request a glass backsplash?"
No |
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"Could do with a plumber to look at a leaking bathroom tap ln Wakefield lol"
I think I could fix a leaky tap. You turn the water of via the stop cock and undo the leaky tap, change the rubber or are they metal? washer thing and put back together...
I have actually got to change the rubber seal on my cars petrol tank, similar principle, that I can do not need to go to a garage...
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By *AYENCouple
over a year ago
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"There was a small town near us that did something like the op speaks of some years ago . Even a few shops and cafes enrolled .
Problem was there was a massive overload of what they called Lets points for people offering popular services ( like the cafes and shops ) , which simply couldn’t get used .
So it would only work if there was a parity amongst users and you didn’t end up accumulating stacks of owed jobs that you couldn’t use up .
Why not put something up on Facebook ?
I have tried facebook, all my builder type friends or friends hubby's want to charge a small fortune.
Ok I don't expect anything for free, happy to muck in help in what ways I can and be tea lady get all the materials reuired. Alas they want money "
Cheeky buggers, their van only cost them £20,000, and a mere £100 pounds per tank of fuel - and they expect more than a cup of tea! What is the world coming to?! |
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"Could do with a plumber to look at a leaking bathroom tap ln Wakefield lol
I think I could fix a leaky tap. You turn the water of via the stop cock and undo the leaky tap, change the rubber or are they metal? washer thing and put back together...
I have actually got to change the rubber seal on my cars petrol tank, similar principle, that I can do not need to go to a garage...
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Yup that's all you need to do, it will be a rubber washer more than likely but some modern taps are like a ceramic washer. All the chain diy merchants should have them both in stock aswell. |
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