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Mad Hatter · 14-07-2008

I started a job today refurbing Social Housing and I have been shipped out to Moss Side, Manchester. Despite my doubts on the way driving to the job I have been made welcome and had a good laugh all day long and it has turned out a lot better than I thought it would. Too many people get tarred with the same brush is what I've learned today from what I saw in the people I met. It's Goat Curry for dinner tomorrow from the local Carribean Cafe that has been recommended to me.

So where's the place you lot have felt most at unease whilst your van was parked up on the front?

CJ · 14-07-2008

Edinburgh

faithhealer · 14-07-2008

Council house, 10.00 at night fixing a leak which had fused all the lights so, thankfully, couldn't see what was making the smell!! all the doors were hanging off the hinges. So Glad I had my (big) dog in the car!

14-07-2008

HMP strangeways the week before the riots
talk about a powder kegg

Mad Hatter · 14-07-2008

I bet that was interseting. Was it really a sh't hole inside? Wasn't that the reason for rioting, that and overcrowding?

Are you glad the job didn't get dragged out for an extra week? There was plenty of work for the local roofers after that anyway.

15-07-2008

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Originally Posted by Mad Hatter

I bet that was interseting. Was it really a sh't hole inside? Wasn't that the reason for rioting, that and overcrowding?

Are you glad the job didn't get dragged out for an extra week? There was plenty of work for the local roofers after that anyway.

we were doing the new showers in a wing needless to say we didnt finish the job
over all it wasnt that bad as far as prisons go

**enduro** · 15-07-2008

Mental health hospital, tiling a shower i had to be escorted in with my tools to the room and locked in, and if i need to go to the van they had to come and let me out, and i had to remove anything that a patient could harm themselves on....So that was nearly all my tools..BLOODY NIGHTMARE.
At least i know what it will be like when when i go mad

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CJ · 15-07-2008

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Originally Posted by pjtiler

HMP strangeways the week before the riots
talk about a powder kegg

Maybe That was the reason they went on a riot?............they didn't like your tiling

**sWe** · 15-07-2008

Some guy's cabin, which he was converting to a year round dwelling. Everything was rotten, and I made the misstake of needing to go number two there once. I simply couldn't use his WC, it was that putrid.

Doesn't compare to what a fellow tiler told me about two occasions when he layed some floors in a mental institution though. Some lunatic snuck up on him while he was drilling in concrete with a hammer drill, and chewed off the power cord... And some little old lady walked by him as he worked, ****ing as she went... Etc etc...