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Hello, I am cnsidering South London Carpenters Ltd to do some built in wardrobes for me. I can't find many reviews on line so wondered if anyone had used them and can recommend or show photos of their work? This is their website: https://southlondoncarpenters.com/. Many thanks!

Hello, please can you post some pics of the work you have had done by Rafal? Many thanks.

Hi, I need some new internal doors and can't find anything of the peg that I like. Can anyone recommend a joiner who could make some panelled internal doors for me? Many thanks!

Can anyone recommend a structural engineer who doesn't charge for an initial visit. I need a wall moving in the hall which I do not know if possible so I don't want to pay for someone to tell me it can't be done. If it can be done I will pay for drawings. Many thanks, Tracy

Hi, Can anyone recommend someone to fit a wood burning stove including the liner? Thanks, Tracy

Hi, Can anyone recommend someone to fit a wood burning stove with chimney liner? Thanks.

Hi, We have a load of concrete rubble to be removed from our back garden to the front drive (via the house) and thrown into a skip. There is at least one skip's worth, maybe more. I am based in West Norwood close to West Dulwich. Can anyone recommend a labourer? Thanks.

Hi, we have just been left in the lurch with a big mess by our landscape gardener. Does anyone know someone good who can do some fences, lay some steps and render walls? I used Russell Hughes from Rightways Driveways from Croydon. They were truly awful. Made a mess of everything. Steps falling off and wonky, drive way with a huge bulge on the middle. Got them off My Buoldet but despite good feedback please beware I have been left out of pocket and very stressed. Anyway if anyone can give me a recommendation that would be great. Many thanks Tracy

Can anyone recommend someone to lay a herringbone parquet floor that doesn't cost ?100 per metre just for the labour! Thanks

Hi, please could you tell me how much you paid for your door with crown joinery. London Door Co quoted me ?4k! which is a bit much. THis is for a 30s door with stained glass and side window also stained glass. What sort of door did you get? Do you find it cuts down noise from outside and drafts? Any extra info would be greatly appreciated, as I am having a huge dilemma whether to pay 4k and get a great job or try and get something cheaper. Thanks for posting helpful info. Tracy

Hi, Thanks for posting useful info on your front door. Can I ask what you paid with Crown Joinery? I had a quote from London Door Co for 4k! So was looking for something a bit less? I think sound reduction and no drafts are super important and the reviews for the London Door Co sound like they meet these criteria. Do you feel your door is draft free and reducing noise? SO tough to know whether to bite the bullet and pay 4k or shop around. Many thanks, Tracy

Can I ask what you paid for the door? I had London Door Co round today and the chap was lovely and helpful and the doors looked great, but it came to ?3700! It's so expensive. Not sure I can cope spending this much on a door. It seems that there is no in between. It's either this much or ?600 which i don't trust. I can't find anything in between! Did you shop around at all?

GinaG3. Are you going to the forum drinks thing in the Mag tomorrow night at 19:30. There is another post called family room drinks or something. Lots of people seem to be going, so a good opportunity to meet new people. I am planning to go. There is a space reserved in the name of Heidi. lubcA thanks for the Small Saints info, will definitely check it out.

Hi, I am pretty new to this forum lark (despite having a 3.5 and 1 year old - I think I was temporarily insane after the birth of my first so never went on the forum, oh the regret, oh the stoopidity). Anyway, I would love to come along and meet some new people, so long as I'm not a fraud just diving on in then bottoms up for me. Snowboarder, your very user name fills me with happy memories, have you been of late having baby/babies/toddlers and all. Sob, I miss it.

GinaG3, what a great post. So brave and articulate just like the other posters say. I was just looking around the forum for this sort of post as I find playgroups painful. I'm always looking around desperate to befriend anyone and have a proper chat, rather than building yet another tower and doing another puzzle with no adult conversation. I always think most people have made their baby friends when their children were younger. I did too but people are often working on my days off or have family around etc.. I was thinking how great it would be to just post asking for people for a play date, but I chicken out mostly. I find at play groups you end up having the odd word here and there but I find it never really develops into anything more than the odd chit chat, rather than becoming more of a friendship - partly no doubt due to fear of being perceived as desperate. It's very hard to make friends particularly when you are thrown together with a group of people you don't even know if you have anything in common with (apart from children obviously), and as most people are probably in their thirties and above, I can see how you would have felt alienated. I love my two boys to bits but it can get quite lonely sometimes spending all day alone with them. lucyA - What age group is Small Saints for? I go to the Conker Club on Monday mornings at All Saints in West Dulwich. My boys are 3.5 and 1 and I know some groups only go up to 18 months or 2.