We were somewhere around Barstow, on the edge of the desert, when the
drugs began to take hold. I remember sm_jamieson
saying something like:

Anyone see bobski the builder last night on ch4 ?
The pebble dashing was shocking from the British builder, but I was
wondering what was supposed to be wrong with the floor in the Polish
build - they said he used the wrong type of insulation ? Any guesses ?
Simon.

I've seen this before - apart from it being the usual media commentator
mis-understanding ******** - it was likely he'd not buried the CH pipes
enough and the screed was cracked. A minor thing, easily put right, but
hear the husband, Mark, go on, you'd think the end of the world had
come.
I was impressed by the Polish bloke's work and the amount of give and
take (mostly give on his part) he was prepared to live with. The young
couple were a right pair of arses, but I suspect the woman would have
been easier to deal with on her own if that arsehole Mark hadn't been
there - he was just a plank.
I was glad the sparky saw the quality of the work and gave the Poles his
extension to do - so, not in vain after all.

As for the British builder - what a ****ing cowboy. Ok, the delays at
the start weren't entirely his fault, but he didn't do much to shorten
them and the end result was a ****ing joke.

If the Polish guy had the British builder's customer, every body would
have been happier and the young couple, by taking on the British builder
could have sampled real British craftmanship at its finest, just as they
wanted for next time, the arses.