Just remembered this one
About 5 houses ago, I was sat in my kitchen looking at my double doors and thinking to myself that something looked wrong. Took me a couple of days to figure that the people who owned the house before me and who 'did up' the house hung the double doors, upside down.

The stripey forrest green paper in the lounge was wonkey, and the conservatory was something that my insurance company wouldn't touch with a long sharp stick.

Never trust a builder's job, when they are or aren't builders.
(Catomiagi is in with a chance, Sat 12 Mar 2011, 23:53, 4 replies)

The Conservatory
That reminded me of when I had blinds fitted to mine. The guys who fitted them told me about another new conservatory they had fitted blinds to. Within 18 months they were back to take them all down again. The owner of the house had reported the "builders" ( for want of a better term )of the thing to the trading standards people. They had made a total balls-up of laying the foundations, consequently the whole thing was twisting out of shape and the windows were literally falling out!
(Mackeson_drinker, Sun 13 Mar 2011, 0:05, closed)

Crikey.
You would think that if you were a builder, even if you didn't have formal training, that you would go and find out how to do something.

Apparently not.
(Catomiagi is in with a chance, Sun 13 Mar 2011, 7:58, closed)

Not if not going and finding out is cheaper,
and if you're a bit of a crook.
( .Yeti. El amor en los tiempos del cólera, Sun 13 Mar 2011, 12:14, closed)

There was a chap "featured" on cowboy builders last week
Set up his own building firm after 20 years' experience as a forklift driver. Promptly got given £40k to build some family an extension which he plainly couldn't do (foundations out of line, walls not level etc).

I'm not sure who was the bigger idiot...
(WillI'mNot logs in twice a year, every year, Wed 16 Mar 2011, 10:29, closed)