After an honest view on this lot.

[waddycall]

You’re right - that’s shocking

 

[angellonewolf]

yea ask them to collect items dangerus kids around to get hurt they need collecting asap as storage is a problem safely

 

[northwest]

I should have gone with my gut and just made the stuff myself.

Sometimes though, as I think you have alluded to, you have to just go with the flow in the interest of domestic harmony.
As some of you know, in 2019 I suffered a serious injury to my right hand, it was pretty bad and stopped me doing quite a lot that year. One of the things still outstanding on the house "to do" list was the patio. She decided to get someone to do it.

I cannot begin to outline the incompetence of the Ar*eh*le that did the work. One thing that winds me up was I left three foot of spare steel armoured so it could be buried properly, he has it stretched taught because he didn't realise until he got to it. I see it every day (you just know it is coming up) but the thing that really winds me up is the footpath. Every slab is loose. It is just dangerous. I am going to have to take it up and re-lay it. It is a good fifty foot.

 

[mtt.tr]

Dont blame malice for what can be explained by ignorance.


Honestly i don't think these people know any better

 

[arther dailey]

its just money grabbing on the back of the industrial style , as it not industrial or old they get away with anything by calling it rustic and or vintage , architectural salvage the proper stuff is really spendy due to current fashion , as it gets thinner on the ground you get every one in a shed knocking out "rustic" , no doubt it wont be long before they go back to white mdf or duck egg blue units...

 

[Bryan Williams]

This is just someone watching 'Money for nothing' on telly and a lightbulb flickering to life in thier head.

 

[mtt.tr]

This is just someone watching 'Money for nothing' on telly and a lightbulb flickering to life in thier head.

Or the fix it flog it nonsense.

 

[jimbo84]

I always pay with CC just for the S75, although I think they could try and wriggle on the bespoke etc, and it being the style they haven't even fitted doors that stay shut, It is also a million miles away from what there advertising . I do not believe they really have a leg to stand on.

The trouble with replace is A they produced that and have the QC to send it out like that and B it took them 5 months to come up with that.....

I

Interesting they've turned the review feature off on their page...I wonder why

 

[pedrobedro]

I think they could try and wriggle on the bespoke etc, and it being the style they haven't even fitted doors that stay shut,

That reminded me of my uncle. He used to say "when one door closes another one opens". He was a grand chap but a terrible cabinet maker.

 

[brightspark]

its got character a posh word for sh..ite or dodgy

 

[snowcat]

its just money grabbing on the back of the industrial style , as it not industrial or old they get away with anything by calling it rustic and or vintage , architectural salvage the proper stuff is really spendy due to current fashion , as it gets thinner on the ground you get every one in a shed knocking out "rustic" , no doubt it wont be long before they go back to white mdf or duck egg blue units...

Dont I know it, I end up doing a fair bit of conservation work, and have to match new and old getting decent donor stuff to modify that someone hasnt snapped up to make into a seat is like the proverbial rocking horse ........

Had to make this up for a customer few appreciate just how hard it is to mix and match new and old and make the whole lot look 100 years old without looking like carp..... A good 100hrs plus to get it right with 3 days just splitting and cleaning the original work. ......

 

[bigegg]

Was it described as “Rustic”

Is that what the forum software censors "piece of faeces" to?

 

[Munkul]

few appreciate just how hard it is to mix and match new and old and make the whole lot look 100 years old without looking like carp.....

I thought all you had to do was throw enough coats of paint on it

seriously though, that takes effort, nice one. I hope your bill reflected the work...

 

[Kayos]

My wife likes a specific style of furniture, wooden top with old English white legs or bottom half. I have taken to buying high quality furniture and giving it to a trusted restorer, he strips everything down, replaces what is no good paints or oils as required and rebuilds how she wants it.

A friend of hers set up an upcyling shop, one ruined table and chest later she is back to the restorer I found

 

[mtt.tr]

My wife likes a specific style of furniture, wooden top with old English white legs or bottom half. I have taken to buying high quality furniture and giving it to a trusted restorer, he strips everything down, replaces what is no good paints or oils as required and rebuilds how she wants it.

A friend of hers set up an upcyling shop, one ruined table and chest later she is back to the restorer I found

its an art, im good at the woodwork but polishing and refinishing is a whole different skill. Requiring a good chemistry understanding

 

[Kayos]

its an art, im good at the woodwork polishing and refinishing is a whole different skill. Requiring a good chemistry understanding

This bloke is top notch, he sells stuff for top money, can tell he only buys quality and does a good job

 

[mtt.tr]

This bloke is top notch, he sells stuff for top money, can tell he only buys quality and does a good job

its another underated skill set, a random orbital sander does not make a cabinet maker lol

 

[grim_d]

I do quite a bit of "rustic/industrial" style stuff but I like to do it properly, there's a bit of an art to making reclaimed stuff look good much like @snowcat mentioned above, I agonise over details like squareness, I'd be mortified if anyone was ever disappointed with my stuff.

That lot in the OP is only fit for the scrap pile or fire.

There are loads of people throwing complete crap together and hoping for the best....and it makes it mega hard to compete because people only see pound signs a lot of the time.

 

[mtt.tr]

I do quite a bit of "rustic/industrial" style stuff but I like to do it properly, there's a bit of an art to making reclaimed stuff look good much like @snowcat mentioned above, I agonise over details like squareness, I'd be mortified if anyone was ever disappointed with my stuff.

That lot in the OP is only fit for the scrap pile or fire.

There are loads of people throwing complete crap together and hoping for the best....and it makes it mega hard to compete because people only see pound signs a lot of the time.


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That's partly why i didnt stick with cabinet making, im traditionally trained all joints no screws or biscuits.

Planks jointed by hand with a no.7

Traditional pearl glue veneeering.


Far too exspensive for this world

 

[grim_d]

That's partly why i didnt stick with cabinet making, im traditionally trained all joints no screws or biscuits.

Planks jointed by hand with a no.7

Traditional pearl glue veneeering.


Far too exspensive for this world

It's hard enough getting people to get the cash out for timber that's worth joining never mind the labour.