Omg contractors!!!! Or tradies, as we call them. You have to be on their back constantly. I thought they were experts and professional but they cut corners and leave messes and unless you spell it out for them precisely and remind them, they seem to just do what they want. Like, the sparkie (electrician) who, when asked to put two sockets and either end of a lounge wall, didn't even THINK to line them up evenly so each was same height. And it's worse if it's just me home - apparently women speak an unintelligible language??? My Dad used to practically hover over tradies and never accepted it if they didn't do EXACTLY as asked. Now we understand why.

I remember my bro in law having an argument with a tradie who swore blind he'd insulated a particular wall. Mat was on the phone to him saying 'mate, I'm right here looking inside the wall. There's nothing here'. Tradie got annoyed he was being called a liar.

Then the scaffolder last week putting the rail up round the house to get the roof done, playing music so fucking loud the whole street was thumping. He got annoyed at me for asking him to turn it off.

But there's awesome ones too. We have an amazing plumber who loves two streets up. He just did our roof (plumbers are also roofers here) and was right on the ball.