Have you scaffolded the rong house b4????

marra watson

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Aye scaffolded the rong house this morning, street down form the house we ment to erect when putting top hand rails on gaffer turns up ranting and raving saying we were on the rong street.this is how ti goes

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course were on the right street you said number 15 and theres only fukin 11 houses on that street.

Gaffer (shaking his head trying not to laff and be all p1ssed off lol )
they go up in fuking 2's ya daft c@nt

gaffer goes and shows charge hand the right house 1 street up number 15

when we take the van round and puts it up sharge hand had whent down 1 2 menny stacks with the scaffold when basing out (layher 1 bay 3 board hopups on toplift) but when owner of the houses come out while were drilling in and tell us were at the rong house ..... Nar its ort marra its for that stackon the right so need to be here for protection he agrees we go 4 ours l8 we get a fone call of the gaffer askign what fukin planet were on we had only scaffolded the rong house again number 11-13 not 13-15 so ahd a good larl day to day boys lol
 
Yer brings back some memory's had about a year of roofers giving the wrong house numbers some were my fort but mainly the roofers still funny when the people come home and see there house is full of scaffolding ha ha ha leant my lesson now after many years allways check and check again could go on all night about this one had some wars with people over this.
 
done it a few times , one phoned the police and tried to get us charged with tresspassing ,all the gear had to go over the garage as well fooking nightmare. 2 streets with the same name in the same town . on another one a certain member on here had actually been to the same wrong address and taken photos so we couldnt be blamed , i think she phoned the police as well . iv also done it on a back when working with the owner of a firm we put the front on the right house then mis counted the chimneys for the back of the terraced house . that was really funny as usually he would of kicked right off
 
Ive not done that... yet. ;)

But i was on a site years ago and a new Scaff turned up and bit late and started mucking in with the rest of us, chaining 13ft Boards up.
It got to about 9:30am - breakfast time and he casually asked my mate something like: "Say mate, how long you worked for Ramport Scaffolding?"

Me mate replied: "Ramports? Never worked for them, the gaffer on here looks after me too much to want to leave..."

The new Scaff said: "Erm - is this Ramports???, if not im on the wrong job!"


Turns out that he was on the wrong job and should have been working on the site a few hundred yards up the road, lol.
He'd chained up Boards all morning too - free of charge, lol.
 
Can remember doing a job on a private house in huddersfield years ago.Job sheet gave the address (obviously)and where scaffold was wanted ie,front elevation for pointing.Just boarding it out and ready for sticking the handrail on when the old dear came out asking us would we like a pot of tea,and then informed us that she hadnt ordered any scaffold but she thought next door was having work done.WTF you couldnt make it up,cant really remember who fcked up,but yea we ended up stripping it and re-erecting it next door.
 
Done it once, the contracts manager gave us the wrong address. It should have been church rd but he said it was church st.
 
haywards heath mental hospital turned up in the lorry chap in overalls came out and showed us the job .... 7m x 2 lifts up found out he was a patient and sent us to the wrong place
 
Used to Happen on Hadleys almost everyday! due to there incompetent management.
 
:laugh::laugh::laugh: TIMTHUMB BELTER OUR FRIM HAD A BIT OF THE SAME PROBBLEM WHEN THEY DID A MENTAL HOSPITAL 1 OF THE RESIDENTS /CLIENTS ACTUALL CLIMB OUT OUT OF HIS WINDOW DOWN THE SCAFFOLDING AND PICKED ALL THE FITTING UP BAGGED THEM AND STUFFED THEM UNDER THE EBD SCAFFS CAME NEXT DAY ADN WONDERE WERE THEY WETRE UNTIL THE MAN SHOUTS HE HAD THE METTAL THING JUST INCASE SOME 1 WAS GOING TO PINCH THEM LOL
 
my mate turned up at an address ( written on back of fag packet) happy to find the garage door open to walk gear through, even happier when they saw sofa opposite telly and video (many years ago). gaffer not so chuffed when he turned up to check on progress and found 2 scaffs in wrong property watching porn
 
Happened Once When Working At Sunnyside Hospital In Montrose,Which Is Used Mainly For Alchoholics And Drug Addicts When They Start Drying Out And Rattling, Anyway Me And Lou Duncan Were Doing A Support Job For GKN, So When The Joiner Opened Up The False Ceiling A Bat Fell Out And Landed On The Floor, It Wasnt Till It Flew Out Of The Window That Anyone Said They Saw It In Case It Was Dts.Not Sure Who Was More Relieved Us Or The Alchoholics.
 
we done a job in the town centre one sunday 80 ft 4 lifts fully boarded n sheeted in, with stack to do aswell but only when we went bck the next mornin t do stack we had gone 80 ft wrong way from when we started boss was with us aswell.... god the labourer didn't half get a mouth full for layin fittings n base plates wrong way!!!
 
many years ago was working on the front of a terraced house in Reading and there was a jack russel barking like mad in the window so we didn't really torment him...much when we went around the back counted down five houses looked over the back wall to see the same dog in the garden barking at us so shoo'd it back into the house via the catflap we assumed he came out of and propped the patio table up against the flap to stop the little fuuucker from coming back out and taking a bite - he was going mental in the kitchen out of frustration trying to get at us ,he had all the stuff off the kitchen sides and as we erected the rear, the more we wound him up the other side of the glass the more mental he was going- as we left he'd started to chomp down on the settee.....we got back to the yard to report job well done, when the gaffer took a call from the owner wanting to know why we'd scaffolded the back of his house,and why we'd shut next doors nutter dog in his house to shiit.piiss and destroy and who was gonna pay for the damage.......quick exit and new start on another firm was promptly arranged lolo
 
I think we have just about managed to avoid this one but more down to good luck than good management. It took a couple of worried neighbours to put us on the right track more than once but that is what happens when you get some of the vague requests that we get.

I would say that one of the worst ones we had was when pricing a job and we were on an island all week and coming of the ferry looking like we had been fighting the Taliban I decided it would be a good idea to take the boy's with me as it was a right awkward job and I just wanted their opinion. I thought I was doing well parking the truck well away from the hotel and walked round and informed some wee lassie who we were and what we were doing. About 5 minutes later the owners wife turned up and obviously thought we were casing the joint and gave us a right mouthful and against my natural instincts I told the boys to say nothing and leave quietly as I didn't want to startle her any further than she obviously was. That was another mistake as she took that to mean we were guilty and called the cops who were waiting for me a mile down the road. It took me ages to prove who I was and even why we were there as it was a new customer I didn't know and was responding to a voice message on the machine at the office but even I thought it sounded dodgy as I was trying to explain it all to the big copper who thought he got me with the old DOB question but turned out he just couldn't count as well as he thought he could. All in all a fekin nightmare.
 
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