Since the first lockdown we've had a chappy here to mend a washing machine and another to do the annual maintenance on the CH boiler. Both wore masks, as did I. We have a packet of disposable masks in each car, just in case we forget our own, and I would have no hesitation asking someone I don't know to wear a mask while in my home.
Vendée - 20kms from Atlantic coast.
"The price good men (and women) pay for indifference to public affairs is to be ruled by evil men (and women)."
I would have no hesitation asking someone I don't know to wear a mask while in my home.
I admit I hestitate, as I know workmen around here will take umbrage, esp if works are going on for days and they don't want to ever wear a mask at any time. I have big house works coming up, so need to take a line on this. I feel like I get a lot of mansplaining, eye rolling, evasion and tutting from workmen - it's hard enough to get a decent job done at the best of times. Adding in bad temper in to the mix feels exhausting. Opening all the doors and windows feels like some kind of compromise.
Yesterday was freezing and I ended up with a wall full of holes drilled in the wrong place. Yeay. 🙄
OH has been doing surveys on building sites and in people's houses since the end of lockdown#2. He always wears a mask. It would be rude to go into someone's house without it. Stand your ground @Fire and insist. You're paying them, they should work to your rules. Claim vulnerability if it helps.
Gardening on the edge of Exmoor, in Devon
“It's still magic even if you know how it's done.”
The tradesmen that have had here - the boiler serviceman and a kitchen fitter, both arrived with masks. Respect!
Same here!
Mind you, when I made the arrangements over the phone I explained that we would be wearing masks and that we expected them to do the same. The reply was ‘of course’ and they were perfectly pleasant about it.
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
That would certainly put them off drilling more holes in the wrong place.
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This event takes place 15 Dec 2021 - 3 Jan 2022 near me. How it isn't a disease soup is beyond me: a drunken, singing, dress up, cheering, yelling three week party. God knows the venue needs the money and the event is terrific fun, by all accounts - not that much to do with darts - but does it really make any sense? Now?
People say, "well, hospital numbers aren't that high at the moment."
Workmen have been a mixed bag here. Our regular plumber wears a mask when he comes, the Vaillant engineer who came wore a mask but pulled it down so it didn't cover his nose, the electrician and his apprentice didn't bother with masks and didn't have any to put on.
If you can keep your head, while those around you are losing theirs, you may not have grasped the seriousness of the situation.
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“It's still magic even if you know how it's done.”
Mind you, when I made the arrangements over the phone I explained that we would be wearing masks and that we expected them to do the same. The reply was ‘of course’ and they were perfectly pleasant about it.
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=H4lZTyr796s
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
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