Just a couple of weeks ago I installed all new gutters, soffits and facias - not the sort of thing which is easy to miss really, no matter how poor your your eyesight. I mean they are sort of very long and very white and very obvious really from even a good distance, unmissable really.
Well tonight we had a couple of guys touting for work knocking at the door and offering to do our gutters, soffits and facias. Not much you can say really, is there?
offering to do work. For years we've had double glazing salesmen round, when we've said that all our windows were double glazed they said they couldn't be, they were timber-framed. We've tried to explain that glazing about glass not frames but they don't understand ...
As you say, not much you CAN say really!
Mary
Reminds me of the cavity wall salesman doing a street of teraced houses, which if they knew what they were doing, could have noticed the houses are all flemish garden wall bond (i.e. 9" brick walls). I did wonder how many people signed up!
Still, not as good as the conservatory for someone on the twenty- something floor of a tower block.
Amazing how many people with no CWI & no loft insulation believe the DG salesmen than you "lose 50% of your heat through your windows". DG reduces the heat loss through the windows typically by 50%, which is not the same thing.
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A lot of old walls with the old fancy solid wall type bonds turn out to be cavity walls with snapped headers.
NT
snipped-for-privacy@googlemail.com was thinking very hard :
Mary, welcome back :-)
Ours are wooden framed too and we also get a stream of them knocking at the door offering to replace them - well they are only salemen and they wouldn't need to be salemen if they could be trusted to do a 'proper job'.
new guttering.
He asked my (now ex) wife "is your Mum or Dad in?" when she answered the door.
She hit the roof.
Adam
Quite. When you do the sums (amount of money spent on heating - only heating) and the saving from DG, you never get your money back. The savings is less than the interest the money would earn. At least it used to be when savings rates were > 4%.
I managed to keep some roof-related insurance claim chap busy for at least an hour earlier in the year before he finally went away (I was doing some work out front, so just wasted his time while I got on with things). Nice enough bloke, but I wouldn't give work to someone who just happened to stop by either.
cheers
Jules
In article , ARWadsworth writes
. . . and fixed the guttering while she was up there :-?
Years ago my uncle (who's in the window trade) was up a ladder, putting in a new window at my parents' house - a double glazing salesman stood next to his ladder and rang the doorbell before launching into his spiel!
SteveW
Actually, these were, with about a half inch cavity, insulated over the following 100 years by spiders' cobwebs. I haven't pulled enough of it apart to be sure, but I guess about 1/2 or 2/3rds of the headers are snapped, the remainder forming the wall ties.
Many years ago when I was asked that question I thought to myself "not good sales technique". It might work these days!
Andy
Many have much bigger cavities too, with no consistent cavity size as far as I know. Last time I checked supposed solid walls on a house there were 4 different cavity sizes used on the one house!.
NT
OMG! You are Adam Wadsworths ex wife?
It is reported that in one town, the cavity wall people kept badgering a terrace and offering a great deal if they all went in together. The home owners knew, but didn't let on, that they had solid walls and finally got the guys round just so that they could get someone's front room redecorated at the insulator's cost - "do you know your drill's just come through my living room wall?"...
Yeah well on the honeymoon we discovered something about each other...
Andy
We were somewhere around Barstow, on the edge of the desert, when the drugs began to take hold. I remember "ARWadsworth" saying something like:
Schoolgirl Uniform night, was it?
Bouncy. Cut down on the trampolining.
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