I passed by the New build 2 months after we left. How has it progressed?

[@jbclassics]

So many people criticising the colour of the mortar. He was getting the materials supplied by the developer. If he was getting the sand and cement from different suppliers it is impossible to keep the finish consistent. Unfortunately Darren made the mistake of trusting the developer! I am sure if he was responsible for ordering the materials everything would be fine. I would have loved to be a fly on the wall listening to some of the conversations. I bet they would have got heated at times and been very entertaining!! I bet Darren has learnt a huge lesson on this job and will never be so trusting in future! Wishing you and your team a very productive, prosperous and Happy New Year❤

[@jbclassics]

@@AlbertJackson-h9k Hello Albert, My comment only related to the relationship that Darren had with the developer and a possible explanation for the slight variation in the colour of the mortar.(which will in time probably weather out) I made no criticism of anything else. The point you make about the scaffold I think is a bit unfair! Part of the reason Darren walked away from this job was the working conditions. This included the scaffolding. The incident you refer too was part of the problem. Darren was just trying to keep the job going. He would be the first to admit the situation was not ideal. However Im sre you will understand that when you are so far into a job and responsible for paying your staff. Surely you can see the pressure he must have been under! When you criticise the workers not feeding him with materials correctly. This was also unfair. Darren has taken the responsibility to train these young men. They are inexperienced apprentices and trainee's. They are learning and have to start somewhere! Darren is always tutoring and correcting them. I'm sure if you watched more of his video's you would see the great attitude, willingness to learn and work ethic they have. They weren't born with all the knowledge to become tradesmen they have to learn it and it takes time! I have no affiliation to Darren and am certain he is more than capable of looking after himself. However as a retired Plumber with over 50yrs experience in the UK l have nothing but respect for his attitude to work and training his staff. I can see from the comments you have made that you are obviously an experienced tradesman. However sometimes you just need to chill out and look at the overall picture. I have been watching Darren and his team for a few years now. It is clear to me that he is a skilled man with a good work ethic and respect for his customers. Some of the reasons Darren left this job are the same reasons you yourself are highlighting. Anyway don't wish to offend, have a good and prosperous New Year 👍👍

[@AlbertJackson-h9k]

@@jbclassics Sir, I humbly respect and appreciate you taking the time to share your firsthand knowledge of Mr.Darrens skill set.I admit I like most tradesmen are critical of the next mans work. He mentioned showing the good the bad and the ugly. I can see how my comments only focused on the latter. We have all faced challenges with the jobs we take on. Your response was the wise and reasonable outlook. You are correct it is much better to be kind than cruel. Thank you for your insight and level of maturity. You helped one person start the new year with a more positive attitude.Best regards, Albert

[@jbclassics]

@@AlbertJackson-h9k Hello Albert what a lovely reply! You sound like a thoroughly decent chap and I'm sure anyone reading this would take your original comments the way they were intended. I suspect you were just trying to make sure everyone stays safe! There are enough injuries in our industry as it is. If you do watch more of Darren's video's I'm sure you will see he is just an honest general builder trying to do his best. Anyways have a great day. We both seem to have had a similar background like you my Dad took me to work when I was a child. He was a Plasterer and through him I experienced how important it is to have a good work ethic and to stay safe.

[@cheds1]

The whole lots a shambles. Top to bottom.

[@johnr1992]

You dodged a bullet on that one Darren!

[@AlbertJackson-h9k]

I humbly respect and appreciate you taking the time to share your firsthand knowledge of Mr. Darrens skillset. I admit I like most tradesmen are critical of the next mans work. He mentioned showing the good the bad and the ugly. I can see how my comments only focused on the latter. We have all faced challenges with jobs we take on. Your response was the wise and reasonable outlook. You are correct it is much better to be kind than cruel. Thank you for your insight and level of maturity. You helped one person start the new year with a more positive attitude. Best regards Albert

[@paulmccarthy424]

Let’s hope the developers are regretting how they treated you guys. That site now looks like chaos

[@HoshiaHoshia]

Shabby additional work...lol....Loved to see it finished to your quality standards.

[@SteveAndAlexBuild]

Dodged a bullet walking away from that one Darren 😮‍💨🧱👍🏽

[@maxwellmc9734]

Yeah you made the right decision let them have the stress now. 🎉

[@Lord-Brett-Sinclair]

Hope you all recover quickly, horrible colds and bugs going around. This client is a classic on how not to do it. 12mts behind 25% + over budget, huge loss of rent, it all could have been avoided by listening to someone who knows that they are doing. Well done walking away from this.

[@Phil.I.Am1]

Thanks Darren. Interesting to see the outcome of a client who knows best 😂😂. Makes me wonder if they employed the builders from next door 🤔, might explain the lack of progress on both jobs. As you say, not your problem now. As long as you didn't lose out too bad 👍🏼👍🏼

[@DsoundsOfficial]

Before you go back in the summer Darren, check the local authority building control register and see if it has been signed off. If it hasn't, then it is definitely worth going back for a follow up video!

[@kevingeorge9727]

You dodged a bullet there, mate.

[@TooMuchInfoSir]

Happy New Year! Appreciate the update! Bet they’re missing you now 😂

[@shanicarter7637]

I'm sorry to hear that you and your family were ill, and I hope you all feel better soon. Thank you so much for the update on the house. I'm not surprised that contractors don't want to work for that developer. Surely, the developer will lose at least 5,000 per month on rent starting from today (when you would have finished the build), so his overall costs will probably be 50,000 to 100,000 more than they would have been if he stuck with you. Some people just can't see the forest for the trees.

[@ada-zionezukanma8275]

Happy New Year, Darren.

[@richardsedorski1206]

Pity the future buyers.👍🍺🏍️

[@karlsacher9054]

Hope that you got paid for the work you had done Darren up to the point of leaving. Looking forward to the cowboy build coming back again😊

[@heyj1james667]

Thanks for the update D, one less stress for you. Take care bro.

[@daverichardson5861]

Really, its amazing how you controlled that build just in the footings alone, to see it go nowhere, sad that. May be the people next door are completing the job, but who knows, back to your normal jobs with more experience and don’t forget what the lads learned out of it. Stay well.

[@goldenineke]

HNY Darren, family and team. Shame the new build you left hasn’t progressed - bet you feel less stressed not having to deal with that client though.

[@EuhxfvVvvhgf]

If i was the client i would not be happy with that brickwork Darren and .his team built, should have got a gang of proper brickies, would have built that in no time

[@darrenthebuilder]

The same gangs that don’t turn up when hired? Or the ones that would off walked off after two days of the clients time wasting unlike us who perceived with them for 5 months? Stop talking nonsense.

[@garymckeon5410]

happy new year darren and team

[@DavidJohnson-dc8lu]

The mess on that tells you how they are operating, damn.

[@Onhere6381]

Enjoyed that - thanks Darren - brave thing to do

[@EuhxfvVvvhgf]

Client chose the wrong builders, he was paying for all of them to learn on his project , the builders next door showed them up building the shell of the extension in 2 days qaulity work too!

[@darrenthebuilder]

Builders next door started small extension and renovation 2 months after we started foundations and they are still Not finished their work. They had a bigger crew than us and am yet still ain’t done. So who is really slow? Their build was SIMPLE, cut corners everywhere, no BC on their loft. Ours int he other hand much more difficult project, much larger, client changes constantly as well as a lot of wasted time on lack of or wrong materials and we still would have finished before them. Atleast speak about what you know otherwise don’t.

[@phelimoneill2813]

I wanted to know if it was done, but I'm not one bit surprised it was in the shape it's in.

[@kevinmccormack5192]

I’m certain they regret not coming to a mutual agreement with you Darren 🤷‍♂️. Happy new year to you and the boys 👍

[@MB-qj8fd]

Holy shit yeah the developers make a mistake not acknowledging a good Builder to start with and intervened too much you done the right thing and left after all their messing about. am having building work at the moment and I respect even jobs through the process like window seals and all the plastering etc always. Be thankful and caring to tradesmen and what they do after all they are building your home.

[@davidtuffin6993]

Cheers for video . Looks like you got out at the right time .What a shambles and disgusting site that really is even if the sites not moving much at least have it looking presentable the whole place inside and out looks like a skip shocking

[@davec1704]

HNY Darren good to see u back,e pointing/fiberglass/copings stones look terrible.

[@Mike-hx7yn]

Morning Darren Did you get paid up for the job?hope so you did a bloody good job there

[@lestercranmer2631]

they didn't bother using once weathered corner coping stones

[@nickdrury4931]

I sincerely hope you didn’t get stung on this one.

[@Lcwill72]

Thanks for the update

[@timearp8185]

There's some scafolders i know in Birmingham that are travelling to London as they're available and local ones aren't.

[@fiestygemini2379]

😮 for customers who are getting the price

[@simonwaterhouse7323]

How come the pointing is all diffrent colours and darkness?

[@mp3bbb]

It looks a mess

[@alanpayne8857]

Not guaged

[@darrenroberts6376]

@@alanpayne8857 Absolutely. They just chucked in random measurements of sand😮

[@darrenthebuilder]

@darrenroberts6376 nope always 4 x 1. Ask the developer where he was getting the sand from. We didn’t supply it

[@larryholland1466]

I’m glad you got out that one. Jobs like that will make you loose your help by running too long to pay them

[@mal6297]

Well Darren I love your channel and i'm a subscriber but the disagreement with your client could have been alleviated had you employed a proper bricklayer. You spent so long on briclaying that it must have far more than expected just build the shell of the house. Ypur client must have started to question his choice and this was compounded when the brikclayer crew next door showed up. As a builder the total clearing of the space should also have been your priority then the foundations and so on but using your crew for at bricklaying was a big mistake. So in short Darren even if you had the total control over spending you would have failed to keep within budget. You have a great crew but none of them is yet up to tradesman standard. Maybe every time you have a big job get a proper tradesman who can show the ropes to one of the guy showing affinity for that specific trade . I applaud your effort to form the guys but like everyone you have your own limitations. Darren the progress on your jobs are to slow to be efficient and not every customers appreciate what you're trying to do for the lads. I do. I wish you all the best. May the force be with you skywalker!

[@davidreilly1031]

The chaotic appearance tells you all you need to know. The order of trades has broken down, now all sorts of random traders will be brought in to do bits and bobs. Some time they've got to pay to have scaffolding put back up to clad the dormer. That timber on the gable end is a joke, clearly employing unskilled people. After giving notification I no longer wanted to work for a developer, months later he was texting me to come back because he had realised how trustworthy I was. Pity he didn't show his appreciation at the time. An old builder told me: "some of the best jobs are the ones you don't get." Meaning you'll never know how lucky you were not to get involved with a terrible client.

[@Ldw1665]

ROUGH!

[@darrenroberts6376]

How come the steel and padstone show on the front elevation. I thought that was meant to be covered by the bay roof

[@michaelanderson2689]

Hopefully you won’t get charged with trespassing! 😱

[@JayEFC1969]

What odds they have messed subsequent tradesmen about ?

[@smitcher]

I hate to walk away from a project and then see it go to ruin but I think too that you dodged a bullet here Darren. The guy sounds like he was a nightmare to work for and obviously didn't know a good builder when he had one...

[@carolinetaylor5594]

OMG so close to 100,000 subscribers!!! YAY

[@robertswan4674]

Darren I think you are better away from that job it looks like the developer has run out of money it was a good move together away from that job good luck in the future Bob

[@normanboyes4983]

Looking at the overall site I do not think the developer has found a builder to take on the whole contract to finish. It looks like he is getting guys in on day rate to progress as directed - hence no one interested in getting rid of waste and keeping a tidy site.

[@RKhanux4zo]

How many flats was this build for?

[@TomChapman-wv9iq]

Think you dodged bulletthere lol

[@thomasbroker69]

What a messy site, dam.. how can people work like that.how they gonna finish that loft without scaffolding?

[@AndrewWestall-q4l]

Cheap scape clients who expect the job done on a shoestring but expect a palace, hope the job is never finished for your sake Darren, and hope they've learned an expensive lesson.

[@stephenweston1807]

At least they've got some site toilets 🚽 installed ( 15:40 ) which is more than you had! 🤣🤣🤣

[@Jonesp-u5p]

Get an update in July Darren 🤣🤣

[@Alite2012]

Send me Location...... Maple Close....😂

[@mikefriend7570]

Seems like you did well to walk away from this build. It’s a real pity because it would have been good to see from start to finish. My guess is the project has run out of money, is employing a ‘cowboy’ thinking that this is a means to keep costs down. I’ll bet this won’t be finished this year! If at all

[@jagracershoestring609]

Perhaps you got caught by a developer who works by not paying his Contractors. I remember what happened at Canary Wharf, when the main Contractor sub-let the the job, and the tradespeople did not get paid for their work.

[@grahamlees4394]

I didn't see the bin bags containing the asbestos from next door's roof on your walk-round. Maybe someone fingered the developer and they issued a stop notice until it was properly cleared (or they just illegally dumped it).

[@martin-s-66]

You’re well shot of that mess. Surely building control won’t sign off on those faults

[@lv9569]

Never go back to an ex bro just move on I for one didn't care how that building progressed at all

[@reggiedixon2]

Chances are that the clown client has messed about everyone they brought in.

[@pm1104]

They have probably fallen out with the client …….again….! 😢😢😢😢😢

[@keithkench9432]

What a fkin mess !!!!!!

[@Onhere6381]

Developer - PM me if you wanna sell

[@PM-wg8bz]

Darren you can’t be peeping in the windows lol 😂 border line stalker behaviour. I can only imagine the police report, ex builder on private land looking through the windows.

[@darrenthebuilder]

😂😂

[@woody9052]

I bet they ran out of money, too bad

[@markpearson1682]

That site looks a complete mess and the quality of work is shocking

[@pm1104]

The whole site is an absolute toilet….🚾……..! 😮😮😮😮

[@456Brian]

the developer is mad to get someone else in why didn't they work with you mad

[@eddjordan2399]

just looks a mess.

[@chincracker7735]

Bro u stalking the job after getting booted off. Then u criticising on top of that after loosing the job not a good look bro

[@mohammedrashid1056]

Disappointed

[@patrickstewart43]

Not sure why you ate bothering- move on if they don't recognise your worth it's the developers problem.

[@Auprivaveproducers]

Let me give you an analogy as an ex shooter/cameraman. Weddings were a nightmare. Yes its there special day but if you want the memory on vid to last forever. Trust the cameraman, if he's shown you a vid from before, then cater to him... coz the truth is trying to cut corners, ends up costly. Plans are made by professional, when you go off script, professional have no choice but to leave