Laborer vs Tradesman vs Craftsman

[stouricks]

1 hour ago, worgeordie said:

Old man,shaky hand, what do you expect, I would have just done it myself,

And still have the job done by an old man with a shaky hand.   LOL

[Robin]

if you think that Thai painters are bad, just wait until you get to the Electrics.  My experience is that main 'qualification' for Thai electrician is to own insulated wire cutters and be able to tack wires to the wall in a straight line.  

There are competent tradesmen in Thailand, but they are few and far between, and usually in demand.  Many do not like to work for farang as farangs are troublesome. (i.e. want a proper job done.)

 

Main qualification for any Thai is for him to think hat he knows what he is doing.

if your worker does not have all the tools he needs to do the job, he is not going to be any use at all.

[CanuckThai]

I would ask a couple of reputable interior designers/architects if they have, or know decent a crew looking for work.  It's not like back home, where a painter has been through an apprenticeship or "licensed".    If a reputable interior person/specialist hires someone, it's probably a solid team (protecting their reputation)...

[bodga]

17 minutes ago, trucking said:

The sort of person who would take a radiator of the wall so that he could paper and paint behind it before putting it back. 

id  say that was normal, but i am a fussy bstard and my reasoning is well youre  gonna  be looking at it for the next 5-6-7-8- years and it would nag at me if it  looked  <deleted>............its  lessening slightly with age but not enough to "normal"  people.

[bodga]

12 minutes ago, Robin said:

main 'qualification'

the ability to stick it  all together with insulating tape..............badly wrapped using the wrong  colour/size  cables all on a  500 amp breaker, sorry correction,  I meant one of those goddamn awful  knife style switches that went out of use when they made the 1930's  Frankenstein films

[Airalee]

7 minutes ago, bodga said:

id  say that was normal, but i am a fussy bstard and my reasoning is well youre  gonna  be looking at it for the next 5-6-7-8- years and it would nag at me if it  looked  <deleted>............its  lessening slightly with age but not enough to "normal"  people.

Wouldn’t life be great if we could aspire to mediocrity?  It would be much less stressful. ???? 

[bodga]

1 hour ago, Airalee said:

Wouldn’t life be great if we could aspire to mediocrity?  It would be much less stressful. ???? 

yes  i  just sometimes  wish I could  not see all this  stuff,  like the man with x ray eyes  who could never go to sleep????

[faraday]

3 hours ago, bodga said:

57yr old eyesight, glasses  are a pain in the rse

Mate, you're meant to put the glasses on your nose. ????

 

We're having a house built at the moment, everything so far so good, but my gawd the mess they leave around is astounding!

 

The interior painting is being started this week.....

[bodga]

1 minute ago, faraday said:

Mate, you're meant to put the glasses on your nose

now  you  bloody  tell me, thats 4  years wasted and the glasses  stink as  well!!!

[johnray]

Just find a nice place or cafe and ask who did.  Then hire the same guy.

 

The small coffee shops here are so nice they are like works of art.

[trucking]

2 hours ago, bodga said:

id  say that was normal, but i am a fussy bstard and my reasoning is well youre  gonna  be looking at it for the next 5-6-7-8- years and it would nag at me if it  looked  <deleted>............its  lessening slightly with age but not enough to "normal"  people.

 

Well, anything visible to the eye always gets my best effort but with radiators I just paper down behind about 6 inches and hope visitors don't make a bee line for them to stare behind and pass judgement. Until now this shortcut has been known only to me and my maker but I wanted to get it off my chest before I die , say a few hail  Mary's and sleep easy.

[Orton Rd]

3 hours ago, bodga said:

dont! I do tiling as  well if  youre  talking tiles and what I see here is  pretty grim also, many condos there are  no expansion joints and they bed them on a semi dry  mortar by the looks of it, come "winter" time these  contract slightly and  "BANG"  your  tiles  will explode  as they burst off the floor. Walk into many condos tap the floor tiles  sound hollow = <deleted>  job, theyve  not  long started using thin set  mortar which is way better.

Tenting they call it, happened in our house last year and sounded like an earthquake. Bloke who redid it used cement and a trowel, never heard of special trowel or leveling pegs, he did have a bit of string though! Kids could do a better paint job that that, shocking

[Airalee]

3 hours ago, johnray said:

Just find a nice place or cafe and ask who did.  Then hire the same guy.

 

The small coffee shops here are so nice they are like works of art.

Yeah...that thought came to mind when it was too late.  I know there are people out there who are “artists” and as you say, some of those little boutique cafes and coffee shops are done up quite nicely.

[Airalee]

4 hours ago, faraday said:

The interior painting is being started this week.....

Fingers crossed