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Of course it would be a good thing, if she’d listen. Unfortunately if you try to help, she doesn’t want it and the story just spirals into a load more nonsense. Ref recent threads on her new sink and kitchen for a start. The work she pays for and posts on here is a very poor standard but if it’s not all just fiction then I suspect her approach to the people she employs is the main issue and any tradesman who doesn’t complete the job has probably just had enough and walks. They shouldn’t keep her money but there’s so much work around currently that most can afford to pick and choose their clients.

I’d save your breath with the various possible scenarios to be honest. The OP has a history of hilarious posts about tradesman and posting pictures of the godawful work that they do. I love them and a large part of me thinks she makes them up for something to write. If the issues are as many as stated then you have to assume she’s either the unluckiest boater in the kingdom of boatdom or she’s the common denominator. Either way they’re my favourite thing on here and long may they continue. 👍 I’ve never issued or been asked for a receipt in years of working. I send an invoice. Client pays. End of process. If they message me with an ‘all paid’ I’ll send them a many thanks. That’s it really. So far HMRC have not locked me up for using the thumbs up emoji as a receipt. 😂

Don’t think paying is an issue. Getting it back is. 😂

They don’t HAVE to do any of that though. They have to submit their tax return honestly at year end, a year in arrears and be prepared to justify their submission if HMRC take an interest. You’re making a load of assumptions about their ability to run their business and their honesty.

Not always. Sent a regular client a price for building some steps in reclaimed brick and stone. £2.5k. Didn’t have it done for a while and then asked for an updated copy. Somehow I managed to send it with a price of £895. Did the work and when they queried the price I pointed out the original was clearly the correct one and the latter one a typo but my error and to pay the one they felt was correct. They live in a £6m property…….and paid me £895 for the work. C’est la vie. 😂😂

And too late now but you should know what a job is going to cost you up front. If a job is an estimate then ask for notification at the point it changes from that estimate. Either say you’ve had all the work done you intend to and ask for the balance to be returned or suck it up and write it off.

You don’t appear to be asking a question or for advice so I’m not sure what you’re after. For what it’s worth HMRC will have no interest whatsoever. Why would they? Company has a responsibility to submit their turnover and pay the relevant tax. They cant have done anything wrong in HMRC eyes as they won’t have declared their info until the year after it’s happened? if you believe you have been wronged then you need to decide whether you have a criminal or civil case. On the info provided you have neither. You have willingly paid more money up front than work completed and they have not YET done the work. Answering the phone or emails isn’t yet a crime.

Doubt it was anyone on here. 😂😂

👍I know if it was a client of mine I’d far rather be bothered by them than find they’d used the wrong product or god forbid I had to undo their work and charge accordingly.

Id definitely just ask him again. Not really worth the worry of accidentally using the ‘wrong’ one. Too much time and money involved.

Get over yourself. It’s not all about you dear. 😂

No idea what that means but it sounds like a pointless comment to me. Just trying to add something useful to the forum when I can. Unfortunately there’s a handful of ‘regulars’ whose only purpose seems to answer everything regardless of any knowledge and to spiral every thread into nonsense. Ah well. It’s a hobby I suppose. 😂

Proves nothing other than labouring a point that is misleading to people looking for useful info. MDF in general is the least appropriate material for anywhere near moisture. The fact that it’s possible to find exceptions is like me claiming birds can’t fly and then producing a penguin as proof. 😂 Still….another possibly useful thread hijacked by pedantry by people who can’t be wrong. Well done chaps. Keep it up. 👍

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So all we learn here is that a couple of the usual forum pedants would rather trot out a load of nonsense to ‘prove’ a point than provide any genuine useful information. Would love to see how much MDF is on your boats. There certainly won’t be any on mine. 😂👍 Time doesn’t teach people anything. A great misnomer generally peddled by old buggers with more self-importance than knowledge . 😂

🙄. There’s always one. I’ve already mentioned water resistant MDF and other waterproof options. They’re out there but for the benefit of anyone less knowledgeable reading this forum for info it’s daft to state that ‘MDF’ can be soaked without harm and that it’s more stable than ply. For the products that Jo Bloggs is going to find at his local builders yard it’s just wrong. Hope you didn’t spend too long trying to find that to make a worthless and unhelpful point just to confuse people further 🙄 Basically for anyone reading this use WBP / marine ply as a default and if you want to investigate more technical products then there are plenty out there and Google and a fat wallet are your friends. Just because some bod on a forum tells you ‘MDF’ is waterproof doesn’t make it true and you’ll find out later to your cost and disappointment.

😂😂😂. Probably best. Keep it between us though. If the ply industry finds out about your magic MDF you’ll be on their hit list. 😉 🤫

Read it exactly thanks. Presumably the stuff in your yard didn’t get wet and nor did the stuff in your boat. If it got wet and isn’t fricked then it’s not MDF. It’s definitely not ‘more stable than ply’. 😂

Yep. That’ll stand up to anything. Tanking solution is key. We use Wedi board AND tank it. Pointless overkill really but not much extra spent, clients like to see the extra effort, and you can never be too waterproof. 😂 I’ll do similar in our boat. Wedi do a nice thin 6mm board which although it’s a bit flexible so needs extra support gives a few mm extra space. Important if your shower is as small as ours. 😂 it’ll be fine if it doesn’t get wet. Slightest moisture and it expands

Moisture resistant is the green stuff. It’s still not great and certainly not for exteriors or shower enclosures. WBP / marine ply is fine. Far better to use one of the modern waterproof systems like Wedi. When we build clients bathrooms we treat walls and floors as if it’s a wet room even though 99% aren’t. Peace of mind, though expensive.

Not aware of marine MDF. There is a green MDF that is for moist environments but I’d still never use it as there are much better options available. That said for decades people have tiled over plasterboard which is utterly useless when it gets wet. Trick is not to let it get wet of course. Pics attached are what happens if you let water get through. Yes. That’s the neighbours apartment ceiling and the structural joists you can see through that hole where the floor used to be 😂

I would have thought if you didn’t want to go back to the guy that told you then a call to Jotun is your best bet. Contact details on their website.

Please don’t let another build thread get side-tracked with pointless pedantry. Perhaps it’s more obvious to others now as to why I said the best course of action is to get a copy and check for yourself.🙄 None of it is complicated.

Cheers. I’ll have a look at those. Not one I’ve used before. Many thanks.

Because that would be rude. You can Google most things that are asked on here but that’s not why people come on forums. Equally the advice given isn’t always correct. On safety stuff it makes more sense to confirm directly. What a strange question. 🙄