Self Builder - Other trades

As we chose a good brickie - with him came the other trades too. I couldn't recommend this enough. As we were not local people we did not have contacts to use and it would really have been a matter of sticking a pin in the ads and choosing some-one - we learnt our lesson with the groundworker!

The advantages of this was that all the trades worked at a team even though they were employed separately. They communicated with each other, as well as me, which saved an awful lot of hassle. The only trade which we chose that was not recommended by our brickie was the plasterer - which in hindsight we shouldn't have done. Even though he was good at his job the lack of communication between him and our electricians caused us problems and very nearly a great more expense.

I am sure the team of trades weren't perfect as we had some teething problems with them too but the build did progress efficiently.