People are sharing what to do when a tradesman’s in your house and it’s the most awkwardly British thing you’ll read this week
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In my experience, being the wife of a tradesman you stay the hell out of their way, deliver the tea and disappear.
— Princess Jammie Royal (@jammierooroo) July 4, 2024
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I hate it. We’ve just had men in – denim clad legs flat out on the floor in every room.. the angst of remembering you have no biscuits…. the worry they may poo… awful times. ☹️
— Mandy Tither (@AmandaTither) July 3, 2024
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Do I stay and chat, do I ask them how they’re doing things and sound impressed, do leave them alone and risk them thinking I don’t like them, it is an emotional minefield.
— Jamie Smart (@jamiesmart) July 4, 2024
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My dad loved following tradesmen around!!
— Melissa Wood (@mwoodpen) July 4, 2024
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Everyone I think. Few ideas.
Do not hover, let them know where you’ll be if they need to ask a question but leave them to do the job you’re paying them for.— Sheila (@MrsLScotland) July 3, 2024
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My brother, a plasterer, and three tradesmen friends working in a fancy house were told by the lady owner she’d be out for the day and to help themselves to anything. She returned to the 4 of them in her bathtub, drunk, rowing happily, singing oopsupsideyourhead
— Joe McNally (@steeplechasing) July 3, 2024
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Accuse them of being a builder from hell like Jen on IT Crowd?
— Space Cat (@raderje) July 3, 2024
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Haha. I have no such problems.
I love chatting to workmen. They often have amazing stories to tell.
— Miss Jo (@therealmissjo) July 4, 2024
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Don’t stand there talking and watching and definitely don’t ask them if you could have a go.
— Garry Sibbald (@garrysibbald) July 4, 2024
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Haha absolutely. Tradesmen who work outside are a different breed. I like having a window open and listening to all the rubbish they talk.
— Richard Ralph (@Therichardralph) July 4, 2024
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As a tradesman, it is very much appreciated if we are just left to it. It feels like you don’t trust us if you linger in the room we’re working, unless it is vital that you need to be in that room
— JNolanUTV (@fobl11) July 3, 2024
And finally, a most important lesson for us all …
My brother, a plasterer, and three tradesmen friends working in a fancy house were told by the lady owner she’d be out for the day and to help themselves to anything. She returned to the 4 of them in her bathtub, drunk, rowing happily, singing oopsupsideyourhead
— Joe McNally (@steeplechasing) July 3, 2024
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