On 2007-07-02 23:06:04 +0100, ":Jerry:" said:


"Andy Hall" wrote in message
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This was partly my point. If you are going to go to the trouble
of laying a floor requiring significant labour input, you might as
well do so with good materials. Otherwise it's the same false
economy as cheap wallpaper.


Not if it gives a couple of years (or more, laminate looks crap but is
hard wearing) and it would have meant living in a '**** hole' for even
longer

What nutty logic. There is something very wrong with a scale of values
that suggests that putting down crappy flooring just for a couple of
years. Better to wait and buy something better. The problem is
really that people expect instant results and aren't willing to wait.

, sorry Andy but you are obviously completely out of touch with
the reality that many live

Oh, I'm very in touch with it. I began with very little indeed. The
difference is that I did what was required to change it - tough
decisions, taking calculated risks, sheer hard work and with socially
inconvenient arrangements and waiting to obtain the right things. Some
people feel that a 40 hour working week, going to the pub and to
football on Saturdays is where things are. For them it may be. I
don't recall ever having a 40 hr a week job.

You were saying?



- just as you fail to understand that (IMO)
most people are doing DIY not as a hobby but as a necessity to get an
affordable, half decent home.

Of course. However, that does not mean that the standard of the
results has to be compromised by poor purchasing decisions.